I caught Bruce Willis on The Daily Show on Tuesday night, June 26, in support of Live Free or Die Hard, just in advance of its Wednesday release. He and Jon Stewart spent about half of their allotted time talking about Salem County, and other municipalities of southern New Jersey — it was kind of bizarre. It reminded me of this post I wrote about selling a turd, inspired by a talk show appearance by Sandra Bullock (also on The Daily Show, actually) while stumping for  the utterly dreadful Premonition. I don’t think that’s the case here, though (e.g., that Willis thinks he has a piece of crap movie on his hands), but even if it were, the key difference is that ol’ Bruno knows how to keep it light with grade-A banter. Willis possesses a unique combination of self-effacement, guile, cool emotional distance and great anecdotal savvy; he had Stewart in stitches with offbeat stories about his work as a security guard at a nuclear power plant during its construction.