‘The Drawback with Jon Stewart’ [Apple TV+]
“The Problem with Jon Stewart” host says that it was over one specific interview that he knew his present was not going to slot in at Apple TV+.
Jon Stewart did initially say that he parted methods with Apple TV+ as a result of the corporate “didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.” He later expanded on that to speak about Apple being uncomfortable with a skit about AI.
Now in a brand new interview with the podcast The City with Matthew Belloni, he says that the cut up was a very long time coming, however there was a selected second when he realised that the connection was not going to work.
“When I realized it was [going] south was, there was an interview with [economist] Larry Summers,” stated Stewart. “And I had had the idea that using the Fed to whip inflation was ignoring the fact that so much of inflation is corporate profit.”
Stewart’s argument centered on the concept that companies have been benefiting from the COVID pandemic. Summers got here prepared with figures to point out that Apple was profiting vastly on the time.
Summers requested Stewart if he subsequently believed that Apple was gouging as he had claimed different companies have been. Stewart stated sure, however then stated “let’s flip that around.”
The place Summers believed companies ought to have the ability to cost no matter they’ll get for his or her merchandise, Stewart talked about Apple’s staff.
“You’re [Summers] saying Apple should utilize their strength in, if the market conditions lend it that way, to get as much money as they can,” Stewart reviews saying. “I’m saying, why can’t workers do the same?”
The interview was prerecorded and performed again to the present’s studio viewers to nice applause — “they explode like we just a three-pointer at the buzzer” — after which there as a gathering.
“The Apple executives walk into the dressing room afterwards with a look on their face,” says Stewart, “and I was like, oh my God, did the factory explode? Like what happened?”
Apple reportedly requested if Stewart was going to make use of the Summers interview within the aired present. “We went back and forth for a couple of weeks before the show aired that particular moment,” says Stewart.
“It was then that I realized, oh, our aims do not work [together],” he continued. “We’re trying to make the best, most insightful execution of the intention that we can make, but they’re protecting a different agenda.”
Within the full podcast interview, Stewart is frank about what he sees as his personal failings with the primary season of “The Problem with Jon Stewart.” He is additionally analytical about Apple relatively than blaming it, to the lengthen that he explicitly denies that he was censored.
“Even at Comedy Central, the deal is I get to do what I want until they think it’s gonna hurt their beer sales or whatever it is that they wanna sell,” he stated. “And that’s the deal we all make — nobody is owed a platform.”
“And when you’re in somebody’s house and they want you to take your shoes off,” he continued, “you take your f****** shoes off or you go to somebody else’s house, right?”
Apple TV+ is “almost a sideline” for Apple
Stewart additionally says that he was used to working in a state of affairs the place what he was doing was central to what an organization was attempting to do. His present could possibly be a part of the corporate’s goals and its identification, whereas with Apple and another giant streamers, tv is sort of a sideline.
“Apple isn’t just a content company, they have a whole other side business making, I think, adapters,” he stated. “So if you think about it, content for them, and I don’t wanna say it’s a lark, but it is not core to their brand identity.”
Then almost about making content material, Stewart additionally stated that Apple had “a very challenging content environment,” in attempting to arrange Apple TV+. “Imagine starting a content company, you have no IP, you literally have no IP, there is no Marvel Universe, there is no Star Wars.”
Apple has not commented on the brand new interview.