Jon Stewart Explains Apple Had “A Different Agenda” For His Canceled ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ Show: They “Don’t Want That Smoke”

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Jon Stewart is opening up about the problem with Apple. After his current affairs show The Problem with Jon Stewart was canceled in October following two seasons, the Emmy Award winner explained that he “knew we were in trouble.” “They didn’t censor me, it wasn’t free speech,” said Stewart on The Town podcast. “When you work for a corporate entity, that’s part of the deal, even at Comedy Central.

The deal is I get to do what I want until it’s going to hurt their beer sales or whatever it is they want to sell. And that’s the deal we all make.” He recalled an interview with economist Larry Summers, who asked him if he thought “Apple was somehow gouging, or doing something wrong.” At the time, Stewart responded with an immediate “Yes, of course!” “We play the interview for the audience, they explode like we just hit a three-pointer at the buzzer,” Stewart recounted on the podcast. “The show ends, we go downstairs in full Rudy mode.

The Apple executives walk into the dressing room afterwards with a look on their face and I was like, ‘Oh my God, did the factory explode, what happened?'” Stewart added, “It was then that I realized, ‘Oh, our aims don’t align in any way.’ We’re trying to make the best most insightful execution of the intention that we can make, but they’re protecting a different agenda.

And that’s when I knew we were in trouble.” The comedian doesn’t hold any hard feelings against Apple, explaining: “There’s a mantra we all have to remember: Corporations are pussies.” “They are now, and they always have been.