Jon Stewart spends a lot of time on The Daily Show making fun of softball news interviews - and ironically mainly does softball interviews on his own show. He very rarely argues with his guest - at best he does a "it's obvious you don't like me and I don't like you" kind of oppositional satirical softball - but only rarely with any real intent of winning the argument. The other day when he was talking to Tal Ben Shahar he did something odd: The friendly softball-looking interview, but with a constant undercurrent of "But...you're full of shit. This is just self evident, self pleasing self help drivel". It was odd to follow.