Bill Gates made an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, resulting in one of the more entertaining interviews with the Microsoft chairman in recent memory. Obviously, Gates was there to promote the launch of Windows Vista, and Stewart was there to do his usual duty of making things funny. View the Daily Show segment on YouTube.

At the end of the segment, Bill Gates shook Jon Stewart’s hand and promptly walked off the stage – something that’s rather unusual for talk show guests. Normally, the guests stay seated until the commercial break, but Gates took off immediately (presumably in a hurry to catch a flight to Europe for his Vista world tour). This surprised Stewart, who decided to make fun of the incident at his next day’s show. See the follow-up Daily Show clip.

Now that’s comedy, folks.