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Fans Were Annoyed By The Audience’s Reaction To Bill And Melinda Gates’ Rare Interview With Stephen Colbert

Highlights

  • Colbert’s audience interrupted Bill and Melinda Gates’ interview with constant clapping, frustrating fans.
  • Gates defended billionaires’ existence despite Colbert questioning the system; viewpoints clash.
  • Melinda Gates announced her divorce from Bill just two years after the interview, citing painful reasons.

We’ve seen this in the past, Stephen Colbert’s audience can hijack any interview. Colbert has stuck up for his guests in the past when boos started to accumulate. That included during his chat with Ted Cruz, someone Colbert himself didn’t see eye-to-eye with.

In the following, we’re going to take a closer look at Stephen’s time alongside Bill and Melinda Gates, and how the audience reacted to the interview. Things weren’t derailed because of boos in this case. Instead, it was due to the constant interruptions.

We’ll take a closer look at what took place, and the topics of discussion during the interview. We’ll wrap things up by taking a closer look at why Bill and Melinda Gates went their own ways a couple of years after the interview.

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Fans Felt That Stephen Colbert’s Audience Ruined The Bill And Melinda Gates Interview With Their Constant Clapping

Bill Gates has a history of appearing on late night talk shows. Over the years, his preferred pit stops have been the Late Show with David Letterman, along with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

However, five years ago, he agreed to an interview with Stephen Colbert, and it was a rare one considering it also included his wife at the time, Melinda Gates. It was an entertaining chat between the three, and one that has over 4.5 million views.

However, it is the comment section that is especially significant. Over 13K fans voiced their displeasure over the interview. It had nothing to do with Colbert, Bill or Melinda. Instead, fans were upset by the constant clapping during the interview. Fans did not appreciate the fact that Colbert’s guests were constantly interrupted.

It was clearly an issue, as the most liked comments related to the clapping.

Fans wrote, “Time to fire the guy who operates the applause sign.”

“Bill gates: so taxes Audience: thundering applause whoo!!! Gates: like I said, we should get taxed Audience: thundering applause whoo!!!!! Gates: breathes Audience: enormous applause whoop whoop!!!!! yeah!!”

“This would be a super interesting conversation if the crowd wasn’t clapping like seals.”

You be the judge below.

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The interview resurfaced following Melinda and Bill’s unexpected divorce. Applause aside, it was an entertaining chat that touched on some controversial topics.

Bill And Melinda Gates Defended The Existence Of Billionaires During Their Interview With Stephen Colbert

During the interview, Bill Gates defended the existence of billionaires. Colbert asked if the world would be a better place without them, and Gates didn’t seem to agree.

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates laughing
Via: Instar

Colbert asks, “There’s a lot of talk right now that maybe billionaires shouldn’t exist, have you heard some of this talk?”

The host continues, “Maybe the existence of billionaires is a failure of capitalism, because the capital gets too concentrated with too few people. What would you say to those people who say billionaires shouldn’t exist?”

Bill replies, “I think you can make the tax system take a much higher portion from people with great wealth. These great fortunes were not made through ordinary incomes. So you probably have to look to the capital gains rate and the estate tax if you want to, you know, create more equity there.”

“So I think that’s a great debate,” he continued. “I think if you go so far as to say that there’s a total upper limit, that might have more negatives than positives. But, you know, I may have a distorted view of this.”

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Melinda also shared her own perspective, stating that inflation and higher tax rates in other countries isn’t always the way to go.

“In fact there have been many times when you’re in France and they’ll say, ‘Gosh, we wish we could have a Bill Gates, we wish we could have such a vibrant tech sector,’” she said. “But the taxes have been done there in such a way that it doesn’t actually stimulate good growth. So we believe in a good tax system that should tax the wealthy more than low-income people for sure.”

Bill And Melinda Gates Separated Shortly After The Interview With Stephen Colbert

The interview took place in 2019. Two years later, in 2021, Melinda Gates announced her divorce from Bill, calling it “unbelievably painful.” The settlement was worth billions in the end, but it also caused lots of emotional pain behind the scenes.

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates looking distant standing beside each other
Via: Instar

“I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,” French Gates said in the interview.

“But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do.” She added, “It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.”

Melinda added that the children’s well-being remained among the most important parts of the separation.

Source: NewsFinale

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