Jon Stewart Says Apple Had “Totally different Agenda” For Canceled Present

Jon Stewart is opening up about the issue with Apple.

After his present affairs present The Drawback with Jon Stewart was canceled in October following two seasons, the Emmy Award winner defined that he “knew we have been in bother.”

“They didn’t censor me, it wasn’t free speech,” mentioned Stewart on The City podcast. “If you work for a company entity, that’s a part of the deal, even at Comedy Central. The deal is I get to do what I would like till it’s going to harm their beer gross sales or no matter it’s they need to promote. And that’s the deal all of us make.”

He recalled an interview with economist Larry Summers, who requested him if he thought “Apple was someway gouging, or doing one thing mistaken.” On the time, Stewart responded with a right away “Sure, after all!”

“We play the interview for the viewers, they explode like we simply hit a three-pointer on the buzzer,” Stewart recounted on the podcast. “The present ends, we go downstairs in full Rudy mode. The Apple executives stroll into the dressing room afterwards with a glance on their face and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, did the manufacturing facility explode, what occurred?’”

Stewart added, “It was then that I noticed, ‘Oh, our goals don’t align in any approach.’ We’re making an attempt to make the most effective most insightful execution of the intention that we are able to make, however they’re defending a unique agenda. And that’s once I knew we have been in bother.”

The comic doesn’t maintain any arduous emotions in opposition to Apple, explaining: “There’s a mantra all of us have to recollect: Firms are pussies.”

“They’re now, they usually all the time have been. They’re not trying to trigger issues,” Stewart continued. “I labored on Comedy Central, their attorneys have been continually underneath the specter of advertiser boycotts. Comedy Central’s model was provocation, to some extent. And in order that was for probably the most half optimistic for them. Most content material firms don’t need that smoke.”

In October, The New York Occasions reported that Apple canceled the comedy present forward of its third season attributable to artistic variations and execs’ considerations over Stewart’s protection of matters resembling China and AI.

Stewart has since quickly returned to his former submit on The Every day Present, the place he had Federal Commerce Fee Chair Lina Khan as a visitor in April after Apple allegedly “requested us not” to have her seem on The Drawback‘s accompanying podcast.

“They actually mentioned, ‘Please don’t speak to her,’” he advised Khan a month after the U.S. Justice Division and greater than a dozen state attorneys basic sued Apple, claiming the tech big holds an unlawful monopoly over the smartphone market, which may lengthen to the leisure business and different elements of the economic system.

The Drawback with Jon Stewart, which earned an Emmy nomination for Excellent Writing for a Nonfiction Programming in 2022, is obtainable to stream on Apple TV+.

The Every day Present airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central, with Stewart on Mondays.