Comedy Central king Jon Stewart probably seemed like a good choice to emcee the Magazine Publishers of America panel at Lincoln Center in New York featuring Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair), Jim Kelly (Time), Kate White (Cosmopolitan) and Dave Zinczenko (Men's Health).
From all reports, he wasn't - at least for the magazine folks.
Page Six reports:
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The "Daily Show" host was derisive and insulting. "He went to a dark place," said one magazine exec.
And Stewart, apparently unaware he was being paid by magazine publishers ($250,000 supposedly) to perform for magazine advertisers, confessed he didn't have time to read and found the entire industry "irrelevant."
Said one witness, "They all couldn't get off the stage fast enough - and I overheard Graydon Carter saying, 'Never again!' "
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Gawker attended the "show" and compiles a list of things learned including 'Jon Stewart is really funny and magazine editors are not.
They add, " Jon Stewart is an even bigger lefty than you think,' but don't elaborate.
The list is here.
Highlights included Stewart asking Dave Zinczenko of Men's Health," Do all the men on the cover have to be - what's the word - glistening? ... When I read it, I don't know whether to go to the doctor or rub my nipples ... Why is your magazine so gay?"
He slams Time, and ripped Vanity Fair's recent topless Paris Hilton cover.
I'm thinking Jon Stewart won't host another one of these.
--Cris Bergman
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