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Jim Cramer’s appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Mar 13, 2009 – permalink

While some Google searchers seem intent on finding out the definition of a 30 Rock reference “hot richard”, the other news that’ll be heating up today will be the reaction to CNBC pundit Jim Cramer’s appearance on The Daily Show wih Jon Stewart.

Except for a few jokes at the top of the show referencing the upcoming guest, the entire show was devoted to Stewart’s interview with the bombastic Mad Money host. In fact, Comedy Central indicated that the interview — or was it an execution? — went even longer and an excised additional eight minutes would be available online.

Cramer didn’t even seem to have any fight in him. He sat there taking it and offering quiet responses as Stewart took on the mantle of Everyman U.S.A. and railed against the financial situation and what he suggested was CNBC’s total failure as a news organization to investigate the financial collapse before it happened.

The video of the Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart interview will surely be flying into inboxes around the world today. Cramer seemed to almost be a willing lamb to slaughter. How will he react on his show tonight? Perhaps he actually wanted to use this watershed TV moment as an out for a change in the way he acts on his show. We’ll have to see.