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Jon Stewart has spent the last six weeks making fun of the routine stops of Hillary Clinton’s book tour: the softball questions, the ritualized responses, the visit to an Arlington Costco.

But by the time Clinton came to “The Daily Show” last night, for one of the last appearances on her Hard Choices publicity tour, Stewart had slipped out of his barbed-commentator mode and into his gentle interviewer persona.

In the interview, which took up half the episode’s running time (you can watch the full video above), Stewart repeatedly returned to the same topic: Clinton’s refusal to declare her candidacy.

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“I think I speak for everybody when I say, no one cares [about the book], they just want to know if you’re running for President,” Stewart joked when she first sat down. And Clinton, with a practiced affability, responded with her usual tactic: laughter.

Clinton’s trademark belly laugh became a brief point of controversy during her last campaign, subject to sexist labeling—“cackle”— and accusations that it was calculated.

Stewart himself devoted an entire “Daily Show” segment back i

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