Crossfire Quote
Co-Host: Which candidate do you suppose would provide you better material?
Jon Stewart: I'm sorry?
Co-Host: Which candidate do you suppose would provide you better material if he won?
Jon Stewart: Mr. T. I think he'd be the funniest. I don't...
Co-Host: Don't you have a stake in it that way, as not just a citizen, but as a professional comic.
Jon Stewart: Right, which I hold to be much more important than as a citizen.
Co-Host: Well, there you go.
Co-Host: But who would you provide you better material, do you suppose?
Jon Stewart: I don't really know. That's kind of not how we look at it. We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the theater of it all, you know, which, by the way, thank you both, because it's been helpful.
Jon Stewart: I'm sorry?
Co-Host: Which candidate do you suppose would provide you better material if he won?
Jon Stewart: Mr. T. I think he'd be the funniest. I don't...
Co-Host: Don't you have a stake in it that way, as not just a citizen, but as a professional comic.
Jon Stewart: Right, which I hold to be much more important than as a citizen.
Co-Host: Well, there you go.
Co-Host: But who would you provide you better material, do you suppose?
Jon Stewart: I don't really know. That's kind of not how we look at it. We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the theater of it all, you know, which, by the way, thank you both, because it's been helpful.
TV Show: Crossfire
