I have often said that Jon Stewart is one of the most gifted and serious interviewers on TV or radio.  In this clip, he goes back and forth with New Jersey’s Governor, Chris Christie.  Whether you like Christie or not, he and Stewart engage in a lively debate in which honest differences of opinion are discussed in an intelligent way without the name calling so typical of today’s politics.  And he (Christie, that is) had me laughing so hard I cried.

If the link does not work, just go to Stewart’s web site and click on the “Extended Interviews” portion.