Published April 13, 2011

Gov. Deval Patrick continued to tour in support of his newly-released memoir, “A Reason To Believe” by appearing on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart last night.

During the eight-minute segment, Patrick mostly played Stewart’s straight-man, but managed to get through some of his talking points.

“I got in [to politics] because I wanted to show you could run being willing to lose,” Patrick told Stewart. “That you could put on the table exactly what you believe and trust the American people to have an adult conversation and either take it or leave it.”

Cool, calm and collected, Patrick looked natural on TV. His book, however, didn’t emerge from the show unscathed.

“My first question is: Will it get bigger when it gets older?” Stewart joked of the thin tome.

To be fair, one has to assume at this point in the governor’s fairly young political career that this won’t be Patrick’s final memoir.

Patrick is scheduled to appear on Radio Boston next week.