Comedian Jon Stewart has built a career skewering the rich, the powerful, and just about everyone else on his late-night satirical news show but he doesn't like interviewing politicians, he tells Mo Rocca in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD to be broadcast Nov. 9, 2014 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
In fact the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" tells Rocca he despises interviewing politicians, "as most sentient creatures I think would." "Imagine having to interview salespeople," Stewart tells Rocca of politicians. "They're salespeople. They live in a world of denial and conjuring. It's very strange to talk to people who have lost their awareness that that's what they're doing. At least with a salesperson, they'll every now and again, they go, 'Look, I shouldn't be telling you this. This is a piece of crap.'" Rocca, a former correspondent on Stewart's show, talks with the comic about his unique brand of satire and about "Rosewater," the new feature film drama he wrote and directed about a very unfunny subject: the imprisonment in Iran of Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari. Stewart also opens up about his wife Tracey and their two children. Asked where he'd be without her, Stewart says he'd be "much unhappier."Videos