Brian Williams And Jon Stewart Talk Socks, Halloween and Protests on First 'Rock Center' Show

10:15 AM PDT 11/1/2011 by Lauren Schutte

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"When thing's ready for air and they put you at your real time slot, I think it's gonna be bang-zoom," joked the Comedy Central host of Williams first episode of the NBC program Monday night.

Brian Williams debuted his weekly NBC newsmagazine program, Rock Center on Monday night

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And while viewership for the inaugural show was low, the anchor did start his run with a well-liked guest: The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

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Sitting in Rock Center's "Conversation Pit" the pair discussed a wide range of topics, including their preference on sock length, the set's decor, warm beer and also celebrating Halloween in New York City.

"I'm a 48-year old man, I have enough candy," Stewart joked when Williams asked if he went out trick-or-treating on Halloween.

"Are we really doing this? We had a guy just talking about anchor babies, about Syria, about emerging technologies in North Korea and you and i are gonna talk fun-size candy?" He quipped mid-way through the interview referring to Williams' first guest, Richard Engel.

They did eventually get to serious topics, discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement, which turned into a bit of a heated debate on the issue.

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Williams asked the Comedy Central host if he believed the country was entering an "permanent era of protest here, semi-permanet for the next couple months, years? When does it end?"

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"When did it stop," Stewart replied citing the Tea Party as a prior example.

"Oh this wasn't our society. We were kind of cruising along at 50 thousand feet. You didn't see public demonstrations like this," Williams responded.

To which Stewart, a little heatedly replied, "You're a news man! Go back to the Iraq war, there were a million people in the streets. Do you have tape here? Do you have Tivo?"

Watch the interview here