Check in with The Daily Show hosts as they connect with the studio audience after the cameras cut. Except for the part about the cameras cutting. They never cut. We're always watching... Jon Stewart shares about the humiliation of losing a Super Bowl bet. Ronny Chieng is visited by Bill Murray to celebrate getting American citizenship. Michael Kosta explains why he's hobbling around the set, and opens up about his road to hosting The Daily Show. Jon bleeds for comedy... again. Jordan Klepper talks about finding common ground with Trump Supporters. And Jon digs in on why the F-word (fascism) matters, and offers some words of wisdom from his years at the desk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What humiliating bet did Jon Stewart lose?
He was open and vulnerable about the things and the weaknesses he saw in Donald Trump. There wasn't a middle ground that we found, but there was a softening in those relations. And I'd like to tell you that, like, Brick Suit Guy was crazy, and he's not. He was a smart guy. He was an ideological guy. He was a conservative guy, more libertarian, loved to be a shit poster on the internet.
But he wasn't an idiot. We talked for three and a half hours. And as we walk, we literally get on the plane. We walk. We're talking all the way up to get on the plane. And I show my ticket to the ticket taker. And she goes, oh, you're in an exit row. And I'm like, oh, and I'm like, she says, do you accept the responsibilities of being the exit row? And I say, yes, I do.
And then I turn to Brick Suit Guy and I say, I hope this freaks you out. And then you know what happens? He laughs. And to me, that is the whole thing. Like, he wasn't offended. He didn't take it personally. He found humor in that moment. And I'm like, I find optimism in that. I don't know how to recreate three and a half hours in a Green Bay airport with a nemesis of yours.
But I know that there's a softening when you remove the cameras. when you move the fear that this conversation isn't just transaction for a got-you moment, but an actual conversation about the things that you care about and things you're unsure about.
I think that kind of vulnerability, that kind of uncertainty is paramount in any kind of situation that you hope to find any kind of humanity or common ground. And so I think that is there. I don't think we live in a media environment that cultivates that situation, but I think we are humans that necessitate it.
And so that has not been erased by Donald Trump, but it has been pushed to the sides of the conversation. And so if we can find a way to allow that conversation to not exist only on the periphery, but somewhere in our own lives, I think we're going to get through that. Cool? Let's do some Zen. Yeah.
critics who are saying that you're being light on the fascist message recently oh i tell my critics shut up you're a fascist no so i do appreciate that because i understand the desire but like i'm very big on and i know it's annoying but specificity and nuance and i think if you cry fascism at
every administrative overreach, even the ones that are constitutionally okay, you will find yourself out of fascism bullets when the time really comes to remind people of, because you will, I think what the media has done over the last 10 years is cry wolf to the point where they numbed everybody. It was an anesthetic.
And it got to where, what was the thing they litigated throughout this campaign? He's a fascist. He's a terrible person. Democracy is on the ballot. Guess what lost at the ballot? If you told us democracy is on the ballot, well, democracy got its ass kicked by a majority vote. So I'm very cautious about when to know. Yeah, hopefully I won't do it the night after Kristallnacht. I'll get it.
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Chapter 6: How does Jordan Klepper find common ground with Trump supporters?
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So, I made a bet with a gentleman by the name of Jalen Brunson. He's a basketball player for the, we call him the New York Knickerbockers. He's a point guard for our New York Knickerbockers. He and I made a bet. about two months ago. His bet was, if the New York Giants lose to the Philadelphia Eagles in the regular season, I have to wear a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey to Madison Square Garden.
I accepted this bet, even though this bet is an inevitability. Like, the Giants suck. Like, the Giants won three games this year, and the Eagles earned the Super Bowl. And it's not like that surprised me. It didn't sneak up on me. Like, when he asked me, I was thinking in my head, like, but the Giants suck. But I didn't say, like, give me points. I just went, like, okay.
And so Saturday night, this Saturday night, I went to the Knicks game in a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey and an Eagles bucket hat. And I was, in my home arena, booed relentlessly. And by the way, like, not just in the arena, on the street. Like, walking by pretzel guys who were like, you f***ing chug! So that was my weekend. So, good luck in the Super Bowl.
A question over here in the back, yeah. Over there, yeah. How did you find your interview character? Some guy just skid on the floor when you were singing.
What did you say? Oh, what are you doing? This never happens, by the way.
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