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Okay, first things first: This space is going to be a ‘cackle’-free zone. No poking fun at irrelevant personal characteristics or foibles. At least not this week. That's why this writer didn't pick up on the “Chucklegate” story yesterday, which referenced “The Daily Show” and Jon Stewart. I’m just not going there.

But that doesn’t mean Stewart’s off-limits altogether, right? Last night, Jon Stewart had one of his best jousts with a TV talking head since the immortal “Crossfire” “I’m not going to be your monkey” segment where he slashed and burned the cable news argumentation format.

His guest was MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, who was on to plug his new book “Life is a Campaign.”

It was a gleeful wincefest, with Stewart himself lapsing on a few occasions into some weird cringe posture at his interview desk. The segment even began awkwardly, as Matthews walked on-set with his arms crossed, and some godawful synthesizer music played that made me think I was watching an ‘80s game show like “Card Sharks.” (Pat Gavin slapped the video of the segment up on DCFishbowl, if you’re not in a reading mood.)

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