Jordan Klepper
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
I am, Ronny Chieng. I'm Jordan Klepper. This is Sports War, the show where we are legally not allowed to agree with each other. So if I say the Super Bowl should have fewer commercials... Then I say all the players should be dressed like Flo from Progressive. Oh, come on. No one wants to see Travis Kelsey in an apron. Yeah, tell that to my Pornhub search history, Ronny.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Now, Sunday officially marked the end of the football season. We laughed. We cried. Ronnie tried to kiss me after every touchdown. And we crowned the Philadelphia Eagles our new champions.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
That was the worst Super Bowl in history. The Eagles dominated the entire evening. And just like Ronnie, after eating dairy, the Chiefs shit the bed. You know what? I think I speak for everyone when I say no more Super Bowls. NFL, you had a good run. You ended racism, cured breast cancer, and found a woman under 30 who wants to see Bill Belichick naked.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
You look like Ronnie out there, completely lost with the terrible haircuts. The Chiefs were my ticket out of this hellhole. And now I owe a lot of money to a very, very bad man.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Now, while Philly dominated the big game, it's important to remember, the Chiefs weren't the only ones getting dragged all over the field on Sunday.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
I've had it with these motherfucking Drakes on this motherfucking plane! Hey, Kendrick, the world's on fire, the president's in the stands, and you're using the biggest stage on the planet to go after Drake again? We get it. You don't like him. Save your petty beef for the group chat. Like Ronnie's fake accent, you're overdoing it.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
And finally, let's not forget about a huge update rocking the world of gambling.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
It's with a C, you dipshit. And you keep my mother's maiden name out of your mouth. See, this is my point. Gambling shouldn't be about hurting the people closest to you. Whatever happened to doing it the old-fashioned way? Making dogs fight each other. As someone who had their identity stolen by a certain Japanese coworker, this is a disgrace.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Well, I know you can't be talking about me because I'm Malaysian. Oh. Stop making up new types of Asians. It's offensive. Which brings us to my Jordan's big dinger, bed of the night. Which Malaysian celebrity will go to jail next for Otani's gambling? As always, brought to you by gambling. Gambling. It got Pete Rose into heaven. Why not you? Well, that's all the time we have for Sports War.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
52 makes the most sense.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Donald Trump is reaching across the prison yard aisle. The military gets half-woke. And we'll tell you how New York's mayor stays smooth as a dolphin. But first, let's get into another installment of the second coming of Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump has been imposing a lot of tariffs since he took office.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an Academy Award-nominated actor who wrote, directed, and stars in the Oscar-nominated film A Real Pain. Please welcome Jesse Eisenberg. Beloved, Jesse.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
No, no, no, no.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
That's respect right there, right?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
This is what a career in the arts gets you in America.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
God bless you. The movie is great. Thank you, thank you. Were you thinking like, oh... Thank you. Were you thinking, oh, I'm going to do a Holocaust film, but with humor? Were you like, oh, that trope again?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Well, this film really dissects grief and how we deal with grief, how we internalize it. But it also places grief next to historical grief.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Is that something you were grappling with early on in the writing process? Is that sort of the nugget you wanted to unpack?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
And so after going through this process, you still have that lack of meaning and clarity.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. Is that what your next film will be about? Like, ambition and the emptiness there and the confusion you have? Exactly, exactly, exactly. It's called The Abyss. The Abyss? Yeah. Oh, I got bad news for you. That movie might exist. Does it really?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, make something completely different. I really, I love this. I want to talk about a scene. I don't think it's a spoiler. Okay. There's a scene in this movie where Kieran Culkin is a complicated, difficult person. And he says goodbye to the tour guide after some time with this tour guide.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
And there's this beautiful scene where the tour guide sort of explains to him how meaningful he was, even though he was so difficult. And then he says goodbye to you in a heartbeat and walks away. And we left. I was in the theater. Everybody laughed. It was a very funny moment. And I talked with my wife about this afterwards. I was like... who do I want to be in this moment? I'm curious.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
There is this character who is complicated, but consequential, and in a lot of pain. And this other character who lacks consequence in other people's lives, but in some ways, less pain. It's stable. It's somewhat stable. Yeah, exactly. When you are writing that and working through that, like, where do you project yourself in? Who should I be in that situation?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
And if the nature and scope of these tariffs confuses you, don't worry. You're not the only one.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, I mean, when you originally were conceiving this, you imagined yourself playing the other character, correct?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, and so you find yourself flipped and playing this character. How would this movie be different if you had flipped? Would you be happier?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah. But you're also wearing, you're a director, writer, and actor there. Yes. You feel like somebody who's thinking through every moment there.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
And do you see that as, like, part of his genius, or is he just sort of being a dick to you and unprofessional?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Are you open? Is there improv in a process like this? Does it start with open space to, like, find and discover, as somebody who wrote this and sat with this for quite some time?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
No, but I just... You weren't doing a Holocaust movie, right? You know what I mean? Well, we got some, you know, we got some pretty risque suggestions back in the day.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Give us a location. Okay, well, maybe a new location. Yeah, exactly, okay. Well, no, so with this- It feels like Kieran is a, if not an improviser, is loose in his performance style.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Oh. This film is very thoughtful, a lot of very deliberate choices. One choice I was curious about. You, throughout the film, are wearing a shirt that you button, one button. That's right. Not at the top, but the second button, and none of the bottom buttons beyond that. That's right. What is that choice all about?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
I need to watch these things closer. You've sat in this movie. You've created this film. It's now out in the world. People really enjoy it, so much so that you have Academy Award nominations. Yeah. I like you for that. Thank you so much. With that comes promotion for Academy Award nominations. So you're on shows like this. You're doing all of this publicity tour.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
How does that sit with someone like you? Do you like doing publicity for a movie like this?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Stick on this one.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
It's about time. It's a truly remarkable film, and it feels like an adult film about grief that has so many entrance points for people who are sitting with these conversations in their own hands. So thank you for making that.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
A Real Pain is in theaters streaming now on Hulu. Jesse Eisenberg. We're going to take a quick break. Right back after this. Thank you so much. Jesse Eisenberg. That's our show for tonight. Now, here it is, your moment of zen.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Do you understand what that means? I mean, why don't you tell me, President of the United States, what this means? Explain ad valorem to me like I was a child. This is Trump's own policy, and he's so bored by it. And you can tell, because at one point, he gets so bored, he just starts peeking into a random folder on the desk. Like, what's in here? Candy? Picture of boobs? What do we got?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, oh, oh, just more falters. Why is this guy still talking? Trump's not the only one making moves. Yesterday, there was a big announcement from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Trump's top cabinet member, if you go by blood alcohol level. Now, Hegseth got the gig by promising to go to war against woke, and yesterday, he won another decisive battle.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yeah, suck it, libs! You didn't want this military base to honor a traitor to America? Too bad. Woke is dead, and Confederate General Braxton Bragg is alive.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
You renamed Fort Bragg after a different Bragg? So after all that bitching about not giving in to woke history, you're basically admitting that we shouldn't name military bases after Confederate generals. Well, it's a good thing woke is over because I think I can say this now. That's a pussy move, Hank Sandler. Just to be totally clear, Roland Bragg is not a famous figure in military history.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
He's just someone who worked for this weird name switcheroo idea. Pete Hanks has basically said, find me a guy named Bragg who served in the army and didn't own slaves. I mean, he didn't even have a Wikipedia entry until today. Today, today, do you know how obscure you have to be to not even have a Wikipedia page? There's a Wikipedia page for cats that look like Hitler.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Hegseth, look, I say either commit to honoring a Confederate general or don't. But trying to find some kind of name loophole is just silly. I mean, why do I get the feeling Pete's going to try to pull this with his wife? Baby, baby, I didn't cheat on you. Her name was also Susan, okay? I'm restoring greatness to our marriage.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Now, with all this tariff imposing and Fort renaming, you might be wondering, is there anyone who's benefiting from Trump's actions? Yes.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Curious. What was it about Adam's case that convinced Trump to drop the charges?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Oh, God. Trump really loves getting his ass kissed, doesn't he? This probably explains why all his suit pants have that little trap door on the butt like old-timey long underwear. Now, to be fair... Now, to be fair, the Justice Department didn't say they let Adams off because he kissed Trump's ass. They had an even dumber reason.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Yes, yes, of course. Trump didn't drop the charges so he could hold them over him for the rest of his term. Trump did it so Adams could focus on enforcing Trump's immigration policies. And now that Adams has the time, I'm sure he's bringing a new laser focus to the job.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
You don't have to do an interview right now. I mean, should we go? This feels like a private moment for you. I mean, I thought I wanted more transparency in my government, but now I'm thinking, perhaps some secrecy is for the best.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
So while Eric Adams might waste his workday getting pampered at local businesses, we're doing the hard work to get to the bottom of this story, starting with our very own Grace Kulenschmidt. Grace. Grace, what's the latest?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
I'm sorry. Grace, are you getting your hair done when you should be working?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, yeah, I guess. It just doesn't seem very professional.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, I mean, I am due for a balayage. I mean, let's get more analysis now from Troy Iwata. Troy, come on. I mean, come on. Troy, what's going on?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
I'm sorry.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, forget it. Let's go to Michael Kosta. Michael, look. Okay, good. Thank you. I'm glad someone's taking this seriously. What's your take on the Adams situation?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Woo! Jordan? Michael, can you please not get your anus waxed during your report?
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
No. No, you can't put your spa services on the show's credit card. That's embezzlement, Michael. That's a felony.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Grace, Troy, and Michael, everyone. That's totally useful. We'll come back. We'll decide who won the Super Bowl. Stick around.
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Trump's Tariff Boredom, Hegseth Goes Diet Woke, Sports War: Super Bowl | Jesse Eisenberg
Welcome back to The Daily Show. I think I speak for everyone when I say politics drools and sports rules. For a full recap of the biggest stories in the world of jocks and straps, we turn to Sports War.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
People have no sense of there being a gray area or being unsure of how something should play out. And it doesn't mean you shouldn't be strong in your convictions, but I think you need to leave space to be wrong and to be curious. And so I think with a total amount of certainty and a lack of uncertainty comes a lack of curiosity, in which case we just become these people lost in those silos.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And so... I think my job as a dad, how I see it, in terms of, like, what am I supposed to do? I'm supposed to feed and water it, right? I think I got that. You can water this child. But I think I need to instill and maintain a sense of curiosity, a sense of confidence to walk into the world, and a sense of finding virtue in uncertainty as opposed to certainty.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And then from there, he needs to walk his own path. But that's simply because I can't afford it past 18, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
We're so many talented people here at The Daily Show, and a day or two before we go out into the field, we're watching the news. We're having the same conversations you're probably having at home about people are talking about this. I hear the arguments on the right are this. I see hypocrisies here.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And we sort of have almost debate prep among producers and writers here where we sit down in a room, we're like... Where do you see holes in these arguments? We start to find the humor in those holes, the obvious hypocrisy in those arguments. And when we go out there, we've kind of talked through, like, where we see these holes that you could sometimes drive a pickup truck through.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
But then I'm an improviser. That's where I came from. I'm not a standup. I spent 15 years doing improv in Chicago and New York. And the big thing about improv is when you get out there, you let it all go and you let go of your preconceived notions and you listen and you listen hard. And so in those moments,
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
I have a great team behind me that we've done the prep work, and then you just, you try to engage and be present because the things that you find, the moments of humor or the moments of revelation of a point of view that you haven't heard before, but you see somebody now spouting this at me, they come from that person feeling comfortable in the conversation with me,
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
They come from that person saying something unique and me being open enough to actually hear it and to try to spin it. So I think it's a skill set that you use in improvisation. It's a skill set that you use in being a good husband. And it's basically like, get out of your head and listen to what that person's saying. I'll tell you this, though.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
A skill set that doesn't help being a good husband is finding that weird thing they say and try to use it against them. Now that... I will say, my wife might say that that is, it's a double edged sword, if you will.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
The legacy I want to leave to my audience? Oh, my. I got to tell you, I haven't been here long enough for that. Give me some time to accrue some legacy, and then we'll move on. I'll tell you this, though. Perhaps... I was a fan of The Daily Show before I was a worker at The Daily Show. I used to watch it in college. It was one of my first forays into being interested in news.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
In fact, I watched it before that. I watched Craig Kilbourne host the show when I was in high school, and I loved it. I thought it was so funny. I love Craig Kilbourne. He looked great in a suit. We were the same height. It was perfect. In comes Jon Stewart, and he's so insightful, thoughtful. And at college, it was like, oh, he makes the news compelling.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
I understand that he's not kowtowing to one side. He's just calling out bullshit. And I like this guy. And I was a fan before ever getting a chance to ever audition and be a part of the show. And so the legacy that it left in me was like, be interested. Don't be afraid to challenge bullshit. Um, uh, and always look somewhere for more.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And, uh, and I think, like, that-that thirst and that hunger to know more, and I think that, um, that basic idea of call out bullshit where you see it, I think it's sort of built into the institutional legacy of this show. And so that-that is what I'm most proud of here.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
Oh my gosh. What advice do I tell my child? He's three and a half, so I keep him away from all news. I truly do. And even PAW Patrol, which is just teaching him, indoctrinating a love of police and authority. So that's a problem as well. You see it seep in. To me, I think exposure is the first step. Expose yourself to kids. Is that what I'm telling you?
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
Yes. That's my fam. I got my parents, my sister, my brother, my aunt, my uncle, my other uncle up there. Am I nervous? No, I'm f***ing excited to do it in front of my family. I will say this. As cool as it is that my parents are here, it is not surprising Because they came to every gosh darn show I've done and that they could come to.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And... And a big part of why I am here is because I got into improv at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Kalamazoo College. And I... I got on the improv team Munkapult and we did shows in a little black box theater for 95 college students and two 50-somethings. 40-somethings, sorry. My parents would come and they would support me.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And I was a math major at the time and I was spending my time doing improv and then traveling to the Improv Olympic here in Chicago. And then I came to Chicago and I found another family at places like the ImprovOlympic. I think Sharna Halpern is here tonight as well. There she is. Founder of the ImprovOlympic, gosh darn, long form improvisation, Sharna Halpern right there.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
She gave me a space to fail and to succeed and to fail and fail and fail again. And more often than not, my parents would hop in the car and they would drive over to Chicago and they would watch these shows at weird times with their son who wasn't making any money. He was a substitute teacher at Chicago Public Schools making a little bit of money during the day, not a lot.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
And my parents wouldn't judge it. They would just support it. They would love it. And I look back on that. And when I look back on it, frankly, I think it's irresponsible. Not a smart move to let your child just do improv in Chicago for a decade. Getting paid peanuts. But I loved it.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
She let me find, my family let me find my people, the things that I loved, be surrounded by people who were interested in the things that I loved and the things I liked to do. Supported me when I went to New York and got to try out for fun things like this. And then, a long 17 years later, no, a long...
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
24 years later, I get to come to the Athenaeum Theater where I used to do improv for the Chicago Improv Festival, and I get to do a great show on The Daily Show with you guys. So thank you. Truly, thank you.
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After the Cut | Correspondents 2024 - Part 2
I mean, it comes from meeting other people, talking to other people, and staying curious enough to understand where they come from. I think I've talked about this a little bit before, but when I go out in the road and I talk to people at rallies, and it's rallies, MAGA rallies, and even rallies on the left as well, I think the thing that I find... least appealing is certainty.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Welcome to The Daily Show. I am Jordan Klepper. We got so much to talk about tonight. Trump gets horny for the performing arts. Russia and Ukraine agree to couples therapy. And things are finally looking up for the measles. You know, congrats, guys. So let's get into another installment of the second coming of Donald J. Trump. I'm gonna come.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Thank you, Josh. When we come back, Randy Corbett will be joining me on the show. Don't go away.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is a writer and director whose film The Brutalist is currently up for ten Oscar nominations. Please welcome Brady Corbett. Brady, I loved it. I loved the Brutalist. I really did. I thought, what a beautiful piece of art. Thank you so much.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Here's the thing that also I love. When I start talking to people about The Brutalist, more often than not, people come up to me like, did you know Laszlo Toth, the main character, is not a real person? Like, there seems to be a confusion. A lot of people think that it's based on a real Brutalist architect.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Let's start with the big news from Donald Trump's cabinet. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee for health secretary and guy currently fighting a vulture for his lunch, has been officially confirmed. Now... I know. They said it couldn't be done. Excuse me. They said it shouldn't be done. But now it has happened. So you can now add employment to the list of things he's tested positive for.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
And I can't tell whether that's a compliment for the world building that you do or just a commentary on American ignorance.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Yeah, yeah. When you started creating this story, what was the nugget? What was the thing that got you interested?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Yeah, well, I mean, you connect it also to the story, like the immigrant experience, right? I mean, one of the most evocative moments is that first shot, which is sort of someone coming forth upon Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Right. How do you tie for somebody who doesn't? I mean, I'm as experts in brutalist architecture.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
How would you tie for the layperson how, like, how brutalist architecture is connected to sort of the immigrant experience and what that says about sort of an American experience?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Now, it's interesting. This film, there's so many wonderful performances in it. There's a scene that really stuck with me. There's a scene when Adrian Brody gets off the train and he sees his cousin for the first time. And his cousin lets him know that his wife is still alive. And... They embrace, and the whole scene is shot so close, and there's so much physicality between the two of them.
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They're touching each other's face the whole time. It's so intimate and real and emotional, and frankly, I'd never seen such a physical, intimate scene contextualize something like that. I'm curious, how do you direct something? Was the physicality and the closeness intentional in your direction there? How are you working with actors on something like that?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Is it true you didn't audition the actors, most of the actors, for their roles?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
But let's move on to a big development in the war in Ukraine. And remember, during the campaign, Donald Trump made some big promises about how quickly and easily he was going to end that war.
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They usually give me the one or two line parts. They're like, if you could just sip this Pepsi and say this one line, we'll see if you're right for the role. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Or maybe people you've met for the first time and have sort of a rapport with.
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Absolutely. It happens. You made this movie. I mean, this movie is up for 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay. And rightfully so. It feels like a film. It's beautiful. You made it for $10 million? Yeah. My understanding is to make a film that people go and see, you have to spend $80 million to make something like that.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
But this is a massive honking film for $10 million. What are these other films doing wrong?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Oh, yeah, totally. Classic 1950s misdivision.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Tell me more, Brady, about VistaVision and brutalist architecture.
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We could never book Ariana Grande. You know what? It's funny. You joke about this, and it is true. This movie, I will say, I say this. I truly love this film. I hope you have nothing but success at the Academy Awards. On paper, nobody sees this film, right? Sure, yeah. It's three hours and... It's three and a half hours? Yeah, it's three hours and 35 minutes. There's an intermission in it.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
It's about brutalist architecture made for under $10 million, right? It's a great pitch. It's a great pitch. LAUGHTER Shot on VistaVision, inspired by 1950s melodramatic cinema. This, up against the latest Marvel movie, is a tough pitch. But I would say what is fascinating is the experience, it feels like such an experience to go to it.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
We had Francis Ford Coppola on this show, and he talked about his most recent film, and he really wanted to eventize It's like so many people are watching this at home now. And going to see it in the theater, experiencing the intermission with people at the theater, hearing people talk about it as they're getting popcorn, using the restroom. Like, it's changing.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
It feels different than watching it at home. It feels different than watching just a regular hour and a half Marvel film. Do you think there might be some trend towards things that are a little bit longer, that intermission might be something that more?
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I'm gonna do it back to the future and end this war before it even starts. Go back in time, kiss my mom, maybe have sex with her. What am I talking about? What was I talking about? So here we are, one month into that first 24 hours, and Donald Trump is finally ready to negotiate.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Thank you for being here.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
But it's going to be tough, which is why he started out with a quick warm-up negotiation first, an old-fashioned prisoner swap with Russia. Let's see how it went.
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What? You traded a cybercrime kingpin for public school teacher Mark Fogle? This is like if the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic for public school teacher Mark Fogel. I mean, at least the teacher we got back is the cool teacher. He smokes weed and he's been to jail. I mean, you know, you know he's showing movies in fourth period. Also, Americans, stop smoking weed in Russia.
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If you need to relax, try not being in Russia. Okay, now that Trump got all warmed up, it's time for the main event.
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I'd like to know what those various other subjects were. I mean, it's a tad suspicious. It's like a husband coming back from a Vegas bachelor party saying, yeah, we ate some great food, we saw the sphere, did various other things. Anyway, you should get a prescription for Valtrex. So, Trump has now set the stage for face-to-face negotiations with Putin on the future of Ukraine.
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But Trump won't be going into this alone. He also has Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a man who does not take no for an answer, according to police reports. So, get ready, Putin, because you're about to face the toughest negotiations of your life.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Okay. So, before negotiations even start, America gave up the two things Russia most wants? I mean, how do Hank Seth and Trump not know how to negotiate? Between the two of them, they've been divorced 97 times. I mean, if your opening move is giving away the house, the car, and the kids, best case scenario, you're leaving court with half of a golden retriever.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
I mean, no one's gonna be happy with that, except for maybe RFK Jr. But... I guess there's still plenty of stuff to negotiate. For example, you know, which animal will Zelensky be fed to once the Russians take over? Probably a lion, but could be a shark, you know? There's room there. Whichever animal it is, it'll probably fall out of a window.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Regardless, Trump is not going to go driving a hard bargain on Ukraine's behalf, and that's fine. But as long as Ukraine is an equal member of this peace process, they'll get some of what they want.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Yikes. That's like when my dentist asks if I floss. That's an interesting question. I gotta go. Okay, so this is not looking good for Ukraine. Imagine not even being invited to your own peace negotiations. It's like if your wife told you she wanted a threesome and then asked what night she'll be away on business. Have so much fun, sweetie. I'm strong enough for this.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
It's okay, I had it coming after Vegas. Now, you might think it's unfair to put Ukraine in this position after they were the ones invaded, but that's not exactly how Trump sees things.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Not a good war to go into? They were invaded. It wasn't their idea. Little advice for the back of Abraham Lincoln's head. Don't get hit by a bullet. Not smart. Look. Here. Clearly, this is going to be a complex negotiation, and it couldn't have come at a worse time for Trump, because he's also busy with his second job.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Last week, he declared himself the chairman of Washington's Kennedy Center for the Arts, the government's premier arts institution. And if you're thinking, wait, Trump is completely unqualified to think about art, don't worry. He brought along an equally unqualified board to help him out.
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Okay, okay. First of all, what's up with this photo? Oh, you need a headshot of Mr. Scavito? Unfortunately, the only picture that exists of him is from when he walked in on his parents bumping uglies. But hey, Donald Trump loves arts and entertainment, and you could hear his genuine passion in a phone call he had with the board.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
I'm sorry. Hot? Only Trump would look at a building and go, eh, un- Yeah. Performing arts centers have gotten very wokey. Like that theater that kicked out Lauren Boebert for giving one little tug job. F***ing blocking it over the khaki jack session. Not in my America. You heard Trump, though. No more woke theater. Only plays written by straight men like... Tennessee Williams? Damn it! So close.
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Okay, so what will Trump's new role mean for the Kennedy Center? We at The Daily Show just got our hands on an exclusive look at what we can expect. The Kennedy Center, America's most prestigious home for the highest arts, is about to get hot. Hot!
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Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller. When we come back, Josh Johnson ruins the most important meal of the day. Don't go away.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show. Donald Trump campaigned on lowering egg prices, but he's been president for almost 14 years now, and eggs just hit their highest price yet. Which raises the question, how are New Yorkers handling the expense? Josh Johnson hit the streets to find out.