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Chapter 1: Why is Jon Stewart's return significant?
And this building is made to comment on the news, talk about it, find humor in the bullshit, and call out the BS wherever you see it. And John invented it. He built the foundation of this place. And when he walked back in that door, like, we had... We had a great year without a permanent host, and it was really fun getting to hear so many different voices and so many talented people.
But I think John came in and was like, I'm gonna do this one day a week. And I think the rest of the news team was like, hell yeah, we got your back. We are honored and excited to be here. There's no better place, no other place I'd rather be than right here at this desk. And I think, like, you have a team that has got eyes focused on this next election and ready to go.
No.
What if somebody actually wanted to audition to be on the show as a correspondent?
Chapter 2: How do correspondents get hired on the show?
Let me see. What happened with me was I was doing shitty open mics in Australia, and then Trevor asked me to audition for it. So if you can find Trevor, I think he can help you. Anyone else got any questions? Anyone else have any questions? Questions that are not like job offers, please. Yeah, in the back there. Yeah, move it.
If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you choose? What the ?
I'd rather you ask me for a job. I don't know, potato peeler. What's the least, most useful? Over there, yeah.
Do you think that you coming to New York affected your comedy and everything rather than going to LA or something?
Chapter 3: Why is New York important for comedians?
Oh yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah, definitely, for sure, New York. I actually, when I first got my visa, I went to L.A. My agent told me to come to L.A. and do pilot season. And that's an industry term for everyone. There's one guy in the industry laughing already. Yeah, my agent said, hey, come to L.A. Do a pilot season.
Pilot season means you go into audition room with 20 Asian dudes who look like you. Who all went to, like, Yale drama school. And they were auditioning for, like, you know, Sidekick 2 on whatever. And I was in that. I was in that for one... I did that one time. And... As in, I was in that season one time. And I knew, like, man, I'm not gonna out-act all these actual trained, talented people.
The only thing I can do with my limited skill set is go to New York and be a huge asshole. And so... And it worked out a lot better. So New York, definitely. New York is... Yeah, New York for life. Thank you.
Chapter 4: Who are the most memorable guests on the show?
most memorable guests like so far in conversation that you've had over the years because both of you for a really long time so kind of for both of you it's a question.
The most memorable.
I right when I started the show we had Gloria Steinem on. And she was walking through the hallways. And for whatever reason, she didn't know where to go. I don't know. She was just walking around by herself. And she popped into the edit that I was in. And she goes, does anyone know where I'm supposed to go? And I was like, I do. And I just started the job, so I didn't know where to take her.
And then there were just the two of us aimlessly walking around back hallways. But it was just so, it was such a cool moment to actually get to see her and meet her in person. Who's yours?
Well, I remember that moment that I, as a man, stepped in and was like, you ladies look lost. Follow the dude, Gloria Steinem. Come over here. I would say one of the fun, like, it is, it's such a small little building, and you see guests wandering around all the time. I remember Paul McCartney was here, and I know, have you heard him? From the Eagles, great, great musician. Love the Eagles.
But he came on, and he was one of the few guests where we were sort of told internally, don't be in the hallways. Yeah. Because sometimes you can find yourself in the hallway bumping into people and be like, oh, hey, President Clinton. I want to say hi. And so McCartney, they're like, stay in your edit bays. And I remember hearing Paul McCartney walk through the hallway singing as he does.
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Chapter 5: What are the major issues for the president-elect?
We get it. We get it. And nobody interrupted with him. He went out. He did his piece. And I was editing a piece in an edit bay. And he came off the show. And he walked through. And I saw, out of the corner of my eye, the door was open. I saw McCartney walk by. And then he came into our edit bay. He turned around, walked into our edit bay. And he was like, so what's this?
What are you guys playing with? What are you fucking around with here? What is this? What are you doing? What are you doing? Did he give notes? Well, immediately we jumped into bits. Like, I don't know. This music in here sucks. What do you want to do? And he started playing the game of making fun of everything in there.
And you realized, I realized in that moment, it was like he just wanted to play. Like, he shows up to places, this creative, fun guy. And the world, like, shuts down around him, not to bother Paul McCartney. But he was just like this element of joy that walked through the space that just wanted people to play with him. And so we told him to get the fuck out, and that was it. Yeah.
Never call him again. Haven't heard from him since.
What do you think are the three to five biggest issues facing the president-elect, and what should we be looking
Well, I mean, the biggest issues... I mean, obviously, we... What I would love... I'd love to do some boring things. I think term limits would be amazing right now. I think I'd like them to functionally focus on ways in which we could break this divided quagmire we are in. You can talk about the big issues, like, we're a divided country, all this. All that stuff is true.
I think a big problem we have is the way we are set up is a... problem. And you have people trying to get into office and stay there forever. It's not a lifetime job. People should be doing that job for a couple years in the House. Do it for six years, get the hell out. Supreme Court, do it for 12, let somebody else come in. I think we should be...
We should talk about ways in which we can rework this that is more a reflection of the modern political environment that allows more ideas to come in and less stagnation. So whatever we can do to focus on that, I think, is hugely important. And then secondarily, I'm always...
always so flabbergasted that we can't do anything about gun violence in this country and you watch the news today before we come out here there's another goddamn shooting and I think yet again we know what we're going to see and so I think there's issues like that that are so if there is ever a need for a government to step in and protect its citizens
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