Bill Gates On The Daily Show: 'No Topless Photos,' Jon Stewart Tells Gates (VIDEO)

Bill Gates' second appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart yesterday night was far smoother than his first, strained cameo on the show in 2007, which ended with Gates' "abrupt/awkward departure from the set."

This time around, Stewart, who joked he was disappointed that Gates wasn't going to bring him a car, probed Gates' recent foray in Twitter, robots 'that can love,' and Gates' work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which Gates says is "as much fun as any job I've ever had."

Gates discussed his decision to start tweeting earlier this month. "The idea is to take things I'd send email on--where I've met an interesting scientist, or been on an interesting trip--and just take that and put it on that format," Gates explained. "I'm new to it. So far, so good."

"No topless photos," Stewart warned, "I don't want to see that."

There was, of course, the requisite Mac vs. PC barb, Stewart asking Gates, "You feel unburdened now not having to deal with Microsoft? Now you can have an iPhone? Do all the things you could never do before?"

Gates retorted, as was to be expected, "I'm a very loyal Microsoft user."

The Microsoft chairman managed to poke fun at Stewart before the end of the segment. Stewart queried the tech guru, "Do they have robots that can love now? Will that happen?" to which Gates, replied, "Love who? Love you? Now that's asking for a little too much."

See the Daily Show interview from last night below, as well as Gates' 2007 interview with Jon Stewart:

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Comments

[MurrayAbraham]

08:23 AM on 01/27/2010

Bill Gates actually did quite well. What he said about education makes sense.

[StansDad]

04:51 PM on 01/26/2010

iPad commercial leaked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtzTNvcM7qM

[PenguinLinux]

05:01 PM on 01/26/2010

I hear there is a supped-up version that is bleeding edge called the Max iPad ;)

[arrgh]

07:09 PM on 01/26/2010

arrrrggghhh!

[PenguinLinux]

07:14 PM on 01/26/2010

Is that bad? I didn't check the link out as I couldn't care any less what Apple does.

[lightbulb10]

02:29 PM on 01/26/2010

Zune's ARE great

[Uosdwis]

12:30 PM on 01/26/2010

I noticed the "richest man in the world" still buys his shirts from the Talking Heads collection.. You know, the music video where David Byrne's suit is way too big for him?

[EagleFliesInSky]

03:19 PM on 01/26/2010

No kidding! I thought he'd gained about 80 lbs. but I rather think the shirt was 4 sizes too large for him. How strange!

[drumz]

04:56 PM on 01/26/2010

Once a nerd always a nerd

[PenguinLinux]

05:00 PM on 01/26/2010

ahhhhh but therein lies the difference... there are nerds, and then there are rich nerds (Matt Zuckerman for example), and then, there is Bill, Master of them ALL when it comes to making the most greenbacks.

[ecoalex]

12:16 PM on 01/26/2010

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[evonet]

12:15 PM on 01/26/2010

Looks like Bill has been doing some bicep curls.

[Guytar]

12:07 PM on 01/26/2010

I have so far spent eighteen years of simultaneous frustration and elation as an early adopter of Windows and related Microsoft products. If Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is turning some Microsoft money into a future cure for malaria, or a better education system, I can forgive every single hair-tearing problem I ever had on computers. Except for printers.

[Eris23]

11:18 AM on 01/26/2010

This is the best video clip of Bill Gates ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGQsBDSEpk

[katooom]

10:39 AM on 01/26/2010

Pretty lame segment/interview.

[DG3]

10:18 AM on 01/26/2010

What's up with Bill's giant shirt in the first clip?

[Cryostatic]

10:43 AM on 01/26/2010

Like most men who are worth stupid amounts of money, he doesn't exactly care what you think of his appearance.

[gal416]

12:26 PM on 01/26/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1Ro_wPGIU

[nyckid]

09:31 AM on 01/26/2010

Stop the Windows monopoly. Use Linux.

[nicainmiami]

09:48 AM on 01/26/2010

Let it go dude, it'll never happen. It's a Windows (and, to a degree, an OS X) world.

BTW I'm guessing everything you own was free? (How do you own it then?) Or is it that only OSes should be free?

[crayola 08b]

10:01 AM on 01/26/2010

the interesting thing is that in the future people who watch any movies or other entertainment from our period will probably think most everyone used a mac because apple has been really good at product placement regarding the entertainment industry.

[Tyrione]

10:08 AM on 01/26/2010

75% of the Linux Kernel is coded by paid professionals of Corporations. So it's not exactly Free, just free as in the right to leverage the code in your own products as long as you adhere to the GPL.v3.

[Cryostatic]

10:41 AM on 01/26/2010

I'd be willing to wager that there's more cell phones running Linux (Android) than there are PCs at the moment. Perhaps, like the iPod did for Apple, these phones will help bring their desktop OS counterparts back from the abyss, at least to some extent.

[HensonFan]

09:29 AM on 01/26/2010

What we're already seeing are a bunch of oh-so-smart people saying, "Wow, just getting into Twitter now? Way to stay with the times, Bill!"

They just don't get it. Gates is incredibly smart, and some people (like myself) aren't especially inspired by a platform that lets millions of people pretend their mundane, everyday details are being eagerly consumed by an imaginary audience.

I've been in web development for more than a decade and could run circles around 90% of the Twitter population with that technology. Does that make me smarter than Twitter users? Nope. Does the fact that I choose NOT to use Twitter make me less technologically inclined? Absolutely not.

[philko]

09:58 AM on 01/26/2010

Good point. I think I'll tweet it...

[freddiefranks]

10:48 AM on 01/26/2010

It'll never fit. Probably the most debilitating (and not stressed enough) component of the whole Twitter idea.

[PenguinLinux]

11:04 AM on 01/26/2010

I agree with you. I've been using computers in both my personal and business lives for 31 years, and I don't use ANY social networking sites by informed choice. I no longer use Windows or Mac OS X, also by informed choice.

Twitter especially, as well as the other social networking sites, do more to dter from humanity than add to it.

[lobos]

11:41 AM on 01/26/2010

Twitter is different than facebook, myspace, etc which are ego-driven
Twitter truly has capacity to share info.,discoveries, etc very quickly
and without the voyeurism of the other social sites
and users get to determine the content - how silly or how profound
is up to user -

[KIVPossum]

12:33 PM on 01/26/2010

After 25 years in IT I finally signed up for facebook last month