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Speaker 3: It's the Daily Tone with your hosts.
Speaker 2: Dursdy Lneck and Jordan Clapper.
Speaker 4: And I'm Jordan Blepper.
Speaker 5: We got so much to talk about tonight. The White
Speaker 5: House is at war with the media, Donald Trump tries
Speaker 5: out social distancing, and we find out who's going to
Speaker 5: win the black vote.
Speaker 4: So let's get right into the headlines.
Speaker 6: Let's get things off with the big story of the
Speaker 6: past week, A national crisis with global implications. Somebody shitting
Speaker 6: in Gwyneth Paltrow's guest house.
Speaker 1: According to The Daily Mail, a house guest of Gwyneth
Speaker 1: Paltrow's Hampton's home suffered quote catastrophic diarrhea in bed. The
Speaker 1: house guest then blamed the disaster on ozempic before fleeing
Speaker 1: the property.
Speaker 6: Wow, is one of the side effects of ozempic. Not
Speaker 6: caring about cleaning up the diarrhea you get from ozembic?
Speaker 4: Why would you run out after that?
Speaker 6: If there's anyone who would be sympathetic, it's the woman
Speaker 6: who tells you to squirt coffee.
Speaker 4: Anema's up your butt.
Speaker 6: And pardon my word choice here, but I want to
Speaker 6: sit in this mess for just a minute because it
Speaker 6: brings up an interesting question. When you shit the bed
Speaker 6: as visibly and as nationally as this guest did.
Speaker 4: Should you stay in the house or is it time
Speaker 4: to leave.
Speaker 6: I know that some people would say that the guests
Speaker 6: just had a bad night. He's a decent man with
Speaker 6: a lifetime of service as a house guest, and he's
Speaker 6: earned the chance to stay and clean up his mess.
Speaker 6: But the thing is, we all know he shit the bed.
Speaker 6: We can't unsee him shitting the bed, and now every
Speaker 6: time we see him, we're gonna be wondering, is he
Speaker 6: gonna shit the bed again?
Speaker 5: Are we still talking about the house guest?
Speaker 6: All I'm saying is Gwynneth has every right to be
Speaker 6: skeptical about inviting this house guest to stay over again
Speaker 6: for the next four years or so.
Speaker 5: I mean, it might be too late in the summer
Speaker 5: to get another house guests.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of time to get another house.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, But who's to say that another guest
Speaker 5: might not shit the bed even worse. I mean, sometimes
Speaker 5: the bed shitter, you know, is better than the bed shitter.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe, but we should at least be honest about
Speaker 6: the bed shitting instead of pretending that the bed was
Speaker 6: never shut in. Otherwise, we're gonna delude ourselves into thinking
Speaker 6: that this is the best house guest we can get.
Speaker 6: And now all of a sudden, it's January and there's
Speaker 6: a house.
Speaker 4: Guest that nobody wanted.
Speaker 6: And nobody in the house is allowed to get a
Speaker 6: goddamn abortion.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm almost certain we're not talking about the house guests.
Speaker 5: We're back, gotcha. So Joe Biden shit the bed, and
Speaker 5: now this campaign is trying to desperately change the conversation
Speaker 5: back to Joe Biden's opponent.
Speaker 7: New reporting today on a plan for President. Joe Biden
Speaker 7: has a plan to tie Donald Trump to Project twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five and focus on what a second Trump presidency
Speaker 7: could look like.
Speaker 8: Democrats had been shouting from the rooftops of this Project
Speaker 8: twenty twenty five is a blueprint for Trump to gut
Speaker 8: democracy if he wins.
Speaker 3: The DNC purchased five new billboards in Miami Trump to
Speaker 3: Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Today, the current president, Joe Biden, just tweeted Google Project
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: He wants us to google it, kind of phoning in
Speaker 5: the attack. There aren't, did Joe, Although I'm not entirely
Speaker 5: convinced Biden wasn't trying to just google Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: His next tweet's gonna be alexa.
Speaker 4: How do you win a debate?
Speaker 6: But yes, if you haven't googled it yet. Project twenty
Speaker 6: twenty five is a nine hundred page blueprint for Donald
Speaker 6: Trump's second term. It's basically conservative fan fiction, which could
Speaker 6: very well become fan reality, and it's full of terrifying
Speaker 6: proposals that range from burning more fossil fuels to outlawing pornography,
Speaker 6: which is bad news for people who like to masturbate
Speaker 6: and horrible news for people like to masturbate to our
Speaker 6: flourishing coral reefs.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's just me.
Speaker 6: The people behind Project twenty twenty five were some of
Speaker 6: Donald Trump's top aids, but apparently it's getting a little
Speaker 6: too controversial for Trump now because he's running away from
Speaker 6: it like it's a disabled veteran who wants a selfie.
Speaker 9: Donald Trump chose today to try to distance himself from
Speaker 9: Project twenty twenty five. One truth Social Today Trump wrote,
Speaker 9: I know nothing about Project twenty twenty five. I have
Speaker 9: no idea who's behind it. I disagree with some of
Speaker 9: the things they're saying, and some of the things are
Speaker 9: saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I
Speaker 9: wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.
Speaker 5: Really, you expect us to believe Donald Trump didn't read
Speaker 5: a nine hundred page Okay, now that I'm saying it,
Speaker 5: I hear it.
Speaker 10: Yes, I hear it.
Speaker 4: I do. Okay, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, let's look at this. Okay, this is textbook Trump.
Speaker 5: He hides his dog whistles next to some plausible deniability.
Speaker 5: Every tweet is like a cheesecake factory menu. You know,
Speaker 5: there's something for everybody. He doesn't mind if it's full
Speaker 5: of contradictions. He hasn't read Project twenty twenty five, but
Speaker 5: he likes parts of it. He has no idea who's
Speaker 5: behind it, but he hired most of them. He thinks
Speaker 5: it's abysmal, but he wishes them luck. He's got one
Speaker 5: hand in his pocket and the other one's giving a
Speaker 5: high five. By the way, if Trump's saying, I don't
Speaker 5: know who these people are, but I wish them luck.
Speaker 5: Sounds both odd and oddly familiar. It might be because
Speaker 5: of this.
Speaker 11: President Trump was asked late today about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged
Speaker 11: co conspirator, Gallainne Maxwell.
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I haven't really been following it too much. I just
Speaker 10: wish it well.
Speaker 5: Frankly, here's here's here's a tweet idea for Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: Google Gallaiine Maxwell.
Speaker 6: But yes, the Biden campaign would love the media to
Speaker 6: start talking about Project twenty twenty five so they can
Speaker 6: stop talking about things like this.
Speaker 11: News broke today that a military doctor specializing in Parkinson's
Speaker 11: visited the White House eight times in eight months.
Speaker 4: Eight times and eight months. That is shocking.
Speaker 6: I can't get one doctor's appointment in eight months. I
Speaker 6: had to go to the CBS Minute Clinic to get
Speaker 6: my tubes tied. Now, as it turns out, this doctor
Speaker 6: only examined Biden during his annual physicals, and the other
Speaker 6: visits were for other people at the White House, So
Speaker 6: this story might have blown right by until this happened.
Speaker 13: The White House today facing repeated questions about President Biden's
Speaker 13: medical history.
Speaker 12: Has the President been treated for Parkinson's?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 12: Is he being treated for Parkinson's. No, he's not. Is
Speaker 12: he taking medication for Parkinson's No.
Speaker 13: But the Press Secretary refused to confirm that doctor Kevin Kinnar,
Speaker 13: expert on Parkinson's disease, visited the White House eight times
Speaker 13: from last summer to this past spring.
Speaker 12: Hold on a second.
Speaker 5: You should be able to answer by this point.
Speaker 12: Wait no, no, no, no, no, no, worry about it. No,
Speaker 12: wait a minute, come, Ed, Please a little respect here,
Speaker 12: Please it is you're asking. Can I also said to you, Ed,
Speaker 12: I also said to you for security reasons, we cannot
Speaker 12: share names. We cannot share names.
Speaker 6: Look, I know she's trying to protect people's privacy, but
Speaker 6: anytime you're being that cagy with information, it just makes
Speaker 6: it look like you're hiding something. It almost would have
Speaker 6: been better to just make something up like Joe and
Speaker 6: Jill are and doctor Parkinson's are in a throttle.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you want the youth vote or not.
Speaker 5: For more of the questions over Joe Biden's health, we
Speaker 5: go live to the briefing room with our senior White
Speaker 5: House analyst, Michael Costa.
Speaker 2: Michael, Michael, why.
Speaker 5: Is the White House being so cagey about the President's
Speaker 5: health guys.
Speaker 11: I'm talking to White House officials, and it turns out
Speaker 11: the media is blowing this way out of proportion. You know,
Speaker 11: soa Parkinson's doctor visited a few times, big deal. An
Speaker 11: SDD doctor has been here every day for a week,
Speaker 11: and no one's asking if the President has an STD.
Speaker 5: Does the President have an STD?
Speaker 4: That'd be pretty cool. Huh No, No, does he have
Speaker 4: an STD or not? Answer the question?
Speaker 11: Guy's calmed down. He definitely does not have hepatitis A.
Speaker 11: If that's what you're asking.
Speaker 5: Does he have hepatitis B or C D?
Speaker 11: E FG sounds like a preschool in here.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is.
Speaker 11: What the White House is talking about. The media needs
Speaker 11: to calm down.
Speaker 6: No, no, the White House can't drop concerning information and
Speaker 6: then be angry when the media tries to report on it.
Speaker 11: There's nothing to report on Biden's fine. But even if
Speaker 11: he isn't, which he is, the White House has a
Speaker 11: great medical staff with tons of spare organs.
Speaker 4: I thought, did Biden need organs?
Speaker 11: No one said anything about getting organs from pigs. Why
Speaker 11: would he even need that. Biden's in great shape. He's
Speaker 11: got the heart of an ox.
Speaker 5: Wait, okay, are you are you are you talking? Are
Speaker 5: you talking figuratively or literally?
Speaker 12: I know?
Speaker 4: Right answer curiity, hey.
Speaker 11: Hey, hey, hey, a little respect?
Speaker 4: Please a little respect? Okay, sorry, good, thank you. Continue.
Speaker 4: Let's be calm and let this family grieve.
Speaker 11: What you can't share names about which family's grieving, Which
Speaker 11: sitting president of the United States, which they're not, but
Speaker 11: they could be one day, which might be today?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Michael.
Speaker 6: Michael answered this one question clearly without raising any further questions. Okay,
Speaker 6: where is the president right now?
Speaker 11: The President is at the NATO summon?
Speaker 14: Great?
Speaker 11: Great, okay, and he's in all of our hearts. What no,
Speaker 11: we hate you?
Speaker 6: Okay, geez, Michael cost everyone.
Speaker 12: When we come back.
Speaker 8: Josh Johnson bins out with black.
Speaker 4: Voters, thinks the don't.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: If Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: Has any hope of winning the presidential race, he'll need
Speaker 5: the support of black voters, which means responding to their
Speaker 5: interests and not calling them all barack.
Speaker 6: But it raises the question, what do black voters think
Speaker 6: of the presidential candidates our own? Josh Johnson went to
Speaker 6: find out.
Speaker 15: What a world's Josh Johnson Full Time Daily Show correspondent
Speaker 15: and full time black guy.
Speaker 3: But more than that, I'm also a part time voter.
Speaker 15: Now, black voters have been the backbone of elected Democrat
Speaker 15: president since Bill Clinton went on our Senio. In fact,
Speaker 15: ninety one percent of black voters vote for Hillary Clinton
Speaker 15: in twenty sixteen and ninety two percent vote for Joe
Speaker 15: Biden last election.
Speaker 14: So why does this year feel different?
Speaker 15: New Poland shows twenty three percent support among black voters
Speaker 15: for former President Trump.
Speaker 16: That's up nineteen points since the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 15: Contrary to popular believe, not all black people know each other.
Speaker 15: So in order to find out how all black people
Speaker 15: felt about Trump, I got six from the tri State
Speaker 15: area to ask, do we see the Trump?
Speaker 14: Okay?
Speaker 15: So who will you be voting for in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 14: Darrel? Do I have to see his name? I don't
Speaker 14: want to, but more than likely it's gonna be Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I called.
Speaker 14: Biden and then Victory. I'm with her.
Speaker 15: Oh, Biden, okay, Trump, Eric Trump's Biden Biden Trump?
Speaker 14: Okay, we're an even split, which did Yeah? I didn't
Speaker 14: see that coming. So do you think there's gonna be
Speaker 14: a big shift, any sort of change?
Speaker 16: I think He's gonna be a big shift me too,
Speaker 16: really okay? For me, I've always been a Democrat, and
Speaker 16: it's like for the for the most part, with the
Speaker 16: Democratic Party, they always make a bunch of promises that
Speaker 16: they can't deliver.
Speaker 8: You know, they use the issues of the African American
Speaker 8: community as a soapbox to stand on and make promises,
Speaker 8: you know, just to get us to come out and vote.
Speaker 8: And then once we vote and everyone's in place, it's like.
Speaker 17: What happened?
Speaker 14: Would you say?
Speaker 15: It's anything like somebody's in your dam and they're really
Speaker 15: laying it down and take you over here, girl, I'll
Speaker 15: take you to the top, you know what I mean?
Speaker 14: And then you finally go on the date and it's
Speaker 14: Burger King.
Speaker 15: And if the polls are right and Trump is going
Speaker 15: up with black voters, what changed?
Speaker 12: I wish I knew.
Speaker 4: I am not a huge fan of Trump.
Speaker 14: He don't respect the black.
Speaker 8: Person and Biden does. Has Biden issued an apology for
Speaker 8: the things that he's been caught saying.
Speaker 14: He said, if you don't vote for me and you're
Speaker 14: not black, not black? What is that?
Speaker 8: They have both said that were questionable, unsavory. Yes, but
Speaker 8: when you start looking at facts. It's like Biden, you
Speaker 8: don't drop the ball.
Speaker 14: Brother.
Speaker 15: Okay, So some black voters feel let down by Democrats,
Speaker 15: but I wasn't sure if they knew about how Trump
Speaker 15: liken himself to Black Americans. So I showed them some
Speaker 15: footage of Trump at the Black Conservative Federation.
Speaker 10: Gallup, I'm being indicted for you, the black population.
Speaker 15: I want to play a little game, all right now.
Speaker 15: The game is going to be either fists or finger.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 15: If you like what's happening, you're going to put up
Speaker 15: your your black fists.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 14: If you don't like what's happening, there's a finger you
Speaker 14: all ready, you're right?
Speaker 5: Okay, good.
Speaker 10: These lights are so bright in my eyes that I
Speaker 10: can't see too many people out there, but I can
Speaker 10: only see the black ones. I can't see any white ones.
Speaker 10: Just saying that's how far I've come. That's how far
Speaker 10: I've come.
Speaker 15: Your answers, I'll play the next clip.
Speaker 14: For you real quick.
Speaker 10: Black conservatives understand better than most that some of the
Speaker 10: greatest evils in our nation's history have come from corrupt
Speaker 10: systems that try to target and subjugate others. You understand that.
Speaker 10: I think that's why the black people are so much
Speaker 10: on my side now because they see what's happening to
Speaker 10: me happens to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first question, the first and then he messed up.
Speaker 8: At the end.
Speaker 14: So okay, keep can we get our signs up? So
Speaker 14: the same. Okay, let's go on to the clip real quick.
Speaker 10: But I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,
Speaker 10: And a lot of people said that that's why the
Speaker 10: black people like because they have been hurt so badly
Speaker 10: and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I'm
Speaker 10: being discriminated against. It. It's been pretty amazing, all right.
Speaker 15: So kind of still along the same party lines. Now,
Speaker 15: do you think Trump is being discriminated against?
Speaker 3: Not at all.
Speaker 14: It's not one side. It's the legal system.
Speaker 15: No matter who you are, if you do these things,
Speaker 15: you get charged for it.
Speaker 12: That's it.
Speaker 18: There are two systems of justice. We cannot get away
Speaker 18: with the same thing white folks get away with.
Speaker 15: But with this different sort of accountability system. Does it feel.
Speaker 14: Like Trump is bad at being white? That is nine one.
Speaker 18: I noticed how when I was incarcerated, right, how the
Speaker 18: white incarcerated people seem to be more angrier than the
Speaker 18: black incarcerated people. Trump is like the same thought that
Speaker 18: it ain't supposed.
Speaker 14: To happen to me. I'm not supposed to be indicted.
Speaker 18: People are not supposed to tell me I committed a
Speaker 18: crime because I am privileged.
Speaker 15: Damn, I had no idea the appeal process for incartraated
Speaker 15: white people's gas. Like, but Trump is fighting close to
Speaker 15: one hundred felony charges. How much of a criminal is
Speaker 15: too much of a criminal. If more charges get racked up,
Speaker 15: maybe things that start to become a bit more egregious.
Speaker 15: Is that going to start to weigh on whether or
Speaker 15: not you're going to change your vote?
Speaker 8: Now you start, you pay attention, you listen to the facts,
Speaker 8: not the fluff, and then you actually have to start
Speaker 8: doing some research to make sure that what's being presented
Speaker 8: to you is actual facts. And it takes some digging.
Speaker 15: Okay, So if you dug and you did your research
Speaker 15: and you found out what Josh just said was true,
Speaker 15: that you're folk.
Speaker 8: Probably not.
Speaker 15: I definitely, you know, did not sit down with this
Speaker 15: panel to change any minds, and I clearly have not. So, yeah,
Speaker 15: I guess some black folks do Trump, But was there
Speaker 15: anything I could get this panel to agree on?
Speaker 8: Can we keep these the soul.
Speaker 14: I think.
Speaker 3: We come back.
Speaker 17: I come Monday.
Speaker 3: Will be joining us on the.
Speaker 6: Welcome Back the Daily Show. You may know our guests
Speaker 6: to night as a former Daily Show correspondent who currently
Speaker 6: stars in the Paramount Plus series Evil Please.
Speaker 17: Welcome back, awesome Monday, boy boy, oh boy, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Really eating it up over there with that entrance, you know,
Speaker 3: it was the entrance I always wanted when I worked here,
Speaker 3: I never got.
Speaker 4: Yes, So here we go, there you go. You did
Speaker 4: it beautifully. Thank you.
Speaker 6: We missed you around here. No quick question. How many
Speaker 6: hosts did you have while you were here?
Speaker 14: Yeah, we used to.
Speaker 3: So there used to be the show called The Daily
Speaker 3: Show with John Stewart and you know that old that
Speaker 3: does it on Mondays now. He used to do it
Speaker 3: every day every day. He was he was a young guy,
Speaker 3: and he used to do it every day. And he
Speaker 3: was the only host for a long a long time.
Speaker 3: And then another guy took over for a long time,
Speaker 3: a guy named Terry Trevor Trevor, and and now it's
Speaker 3: just whoever's free.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 12: I think you guys, you guys.
Speaker 5: Know well, you know I got to work with you
Speaker 5: for a little bit we were here together, and I
Speaker 5: wanted to go back and watch some old pieces because
Speaker 5: I really remember so little of your work, just not
Speaker 5: not memorable in any real, real sense.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: And they took down the Daily Show archives online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so now nobody, Yeah exactly. The young kids are
Speaker 3: now like, have you seen this new show?
Speaker 15: It's called the Daily Show?
Speaker 3: They have no idea that it does.
Speaker 6: Existed for you know what if they don't say show,
Speaker 6: they say content, content, they say there's new content.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yes, I was able to find a little piece from
Speaker 5: a field piece you did with then Governor of Florida,
Speaker 5: Rick Scott.
Speaker 4: Yes, do we have that piece?
Speaker 5: You had a simple request for the governor at that point,
Speaker 5: who I believe it was making similar requests to constituents
Speaker 5: of his own at the time.
Speaker 4: We play that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Governor, you benefit from hundreds of thousands of taxpayer
Speaker 3: dollars every year, So would you be willing to pee
Speaker 3: into this cup to prove the Florida taxpayers that you're
Speaker 3: not on drugs, You're not using that money for drugs.
Speaker 14: I'm doing plenty of times, you would, I'm done plenty
Speaker 14: of times.
Speaker 5: Did you task the spoil to the governor begging a
Speaker 5: politician for their urine high point low points.
Speaker 11: Honey.
Speaker 3: You know what, I loved that moment because we were
Speaker 3: actually at Rick Scott's press conference, and so all of
Speaker 3: the report from the entire state of Florida were in
Speaker 3: that room, and when I asked him to pee in
Speaker 3: the cup, you could see there was just this silence
Speaker 3: that when nobody being entired you and people were like,
Speaker 3: who is this? What is happening? And nobody knows it?
Speaker 3: And then you know, you see the piece and he
Speaker 3: doesn't do it, and we and I passed the cup
Speaker 3: down and the poor guy in the front row, he's like,
Speaker 3: he's left holding the cup and then he just kind
Speaker 3: of puts it on the floor. And but then when
Speaker 3: we left that room, every reporter from the state of
Speaker 3: Florida came up to me afterwards and was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, we wish we could do it.
Speaker 11: They were so jealous.
Speaker 4: And I got to do that. I mean, did you
Speaker 4: like that part of it?
Speaker 5: It's so funny being where we're all come from the
Speaker 5: correspondent background, which means sometimes you're sitting in poorly lit
Speaker 5: rooms interviewing people, but sometimes you're.
Speaker 6: Taking a bur working bathroom to go into talk to
Speaker 6: some yes, and sometimes it is run and gun.
Speaker 4: You don't have I actually.
Speaker 3: I actually uh did a piece once where I went
Speaker 3: into a bathroom in the bodega in uh In, d C.
Speaker 3: And came out in the Batman costume. And so I
Speaker 3: went in in my suit and then came out like
Speaker 3: a few minutes later in a Batman and you could
Speaker 3: just see people in in in the book just being
Speaker 3: like is that is that real? What is happening?
Speaker 15: Like?
Speaker 3: Did that guy just go in?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was what it was. Arrested, right, I
Speaker 3: did almost get arrested in Boise, Idaho. At the ep
Speaker 3: we walked into the e p A offices. The e
Speaker 3: p A is something that won't exist soon.
Speaker 4: Go away.
Speaker 3: But back then we walk into the e p A offices.
Speaker 3: I am dressed in a two headed fish costume. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because as of the pollution, the fish in the river
Speaker 3: were turning up with two heads. So this is what
Speaker 3: the peace that we were doing. And so there we are.
Speaker 3: I walk into the EBA office. The poor man who
Speaker 3: works there comes out from behind, and I've got a
Speaker 3: crew with me and and our producer Brennan, and we're
Speaker 3: all staying and the guy comes out and he said,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you know you can't. You can't be here,
Speaker 3: and I said, no, I have a I have a complaint.
Speaker 12: I have two.
Speaker 3: Heads now and I did not start out this way.
Speaker 3: And he was like, no, you got you really you
Speaker 3: can't be here. And I kept playing the role of
Speaker 3: the fish, to which he finally said to me, sir,
Speaker 3: you are not a fish that.
Speaker 2: You have to leave.
Speaker 3: And then they called Homeland Security because apparently like trespassing
Speaker 3: in a federal EPA is a federal office, so the
Speaker 3: Homeland Security. So we walk out and it's to the
Speaker 3: parking lot and it was like these Homeland Security guys
Speaker 3: show up, they get out and they you know, they're
Speaker 3: ready to arrest us, and uh my producer Brennan was like, listen,
Speaker 3: you know with the Daily Show. And it was literally
Speaker 3: a good cop backcop because one guy was about to
Speaker 3: arrest us and the other guy was like.
Speaker 14: I love the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: He's like, you guys have been the Daily Show and
Speaker 3: I was like and at that point, at that point,
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, and I can get John Stewart
Speaker 3: on the phone and he can explain to you what
Speaker 3: we're doing we do, and so while he's like, I
Speaker 3: love so I'm pretending because I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't have John's.
Speaker 3: Number, so I'm pretending like I'm going to try and
Speaker 3: get John on the phone. And Brennan is sweet talking
Speaker 3: the other guy, trying to be like, listen, you know,
Speaker 3: we can get your tickets to the show. So they
Speaker 3: eventually let us go, but it was it was touch
Speaker 3: and go for a minute, and Brennan is like, I
Speaker 3: can't be in jail because because his wife was pregnant.
Speaker 3: I remember the time. And he was like, I got
Speaker 3: to get home. She's going to kill me if I
Speaker 3: end up in jail tonight. Like you know, So it
Speaker 3: all worked out, but it was there was a moment
Speaker 3: there where we actually really thought we were.
Speaker 4: Going to go to jail.
Speaker 6: Terrifying you You have gone from battling demons in d
Speaker 6: C to now battling demons on Paramount Plus with your
Speaker 6: show Evil. Yes, it's such a good show. It's so
Speaker 6: fascinating the' it's a horror dramedy. But the Kings who
Speaker 6: created the show, brilliant writers, are are known for really
Speaker 6: exploring political and societal issues.
Speaker 4: Is that what interested you in working with.
Speaker 3: Them, well, I mean many reasons. You know, they're incredible
Speaker 3: writers and incredible creators. They created The Good Wife and
Speaker 3: The Good Fight. A Good Fight was one of my
Speaker 3: favorite shows before I even you know, it's just their
Speaker 3: take on society issues and politics and the absurdity and
Speaker 3: the satire that they use in their in their shows.
Speaker 3: And so when I got this script, it was just
Speaker 3: a great script and a great premise. And it's turned
Speaker 3: out to be such an amazing experience. And we've gotten
Speaker 3: to tell such great stories and have so much fun.
Speaker 3: And you know, where's the show that you get to
Speaker 3: go and and like actually interact with demons, you know.
Speaker 10: Like.
Speaker 5: You've been to.
Speaker 3: There's very there's very there's very fine, but uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we it's it's great. There's amazing Uh writers and the
Speaker 3: actors are great that I get to It's just been
Speaker 3: a treat and and uh, it's just you know, I
Speaker 3: can't say enough about it. It's just been like one
Speaker 3: of those shows where you get there's a coalition of
Speaker 3: like sort of great writing, great acting, great storytelling.
Speaker 4: All that stuff.
Speaker 3: It happens rarely, and I feel like we kind of
Speaker 3: hit the jackpot with this show. And if you get
Speaker 3: a chance to watch it, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: It's so good and you're phenomenal and and I feel
Speaker 6: like you get to explore so many different layers with
Speaker 6: your character.
Speaker 4: It's a comedy, it's a drama.
Speaker 3: That's the great thing that that intersection of comedy and horror,
Speaker 3: which is so delicate. And you got and you know,
Speaker 3: there's one there was our show has these demons, like
Speaker 3: I said, And then there's one episode in season three
Speaker 3: I remember, and this sort of tells you the sort
Speaker 3: of DNA of the show where I'm in bed with
Speaker 3: a demon. You should watch them anyway, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: as we are. You know they and she's about to
Speaker 3: like bite me and uh and but she pulls out
Speaker 3: her retainer before she does, and so and I remember
Speaker 3: just thinking like, oh, this is that's the show.
Speaker 4: This is the show.
Speaker 3: Like our demons have retainers, you know that they have
Speaker 3: to take out before they can actually be demonic. So
Speaker 3: that's kind of God. It just tells you right there,
Speaker 3: that's the sort of absurd horror comedy sort of you
Speaker 3: know fence that we run.
Speaker 5: You talked about playing your your character Ben. You had
Speaker 5: a quote that I thought was really interesting you said
Speaker 5: that in an interview when you're playing Ben, you like
Speaker 5: playing him because playing Ben is especially rewarding because he
Speaker 5: gets to be intelligent, funny, and more importantly for me,
Speaker 5: he gets to be physical and sexual.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: I thought, like, as a as a married man with
Speaker 5: a child, is is that what you get out of
Speaker 5: this ship is having?
Speaker 15: Is it not?
Speaker 13: Why is it not?
Speaker 3: Why we're doing it? No? You know it's so look
Speaker 3: as a as a brown actor in Hollywood, right, this
Speaker 3: is right? Uh, we often historically have not got to
Speaker 3: play like super sexy characters. A lot of there's a
Speaker 3: lot of doctors on my resume, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot of cab drivers, a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: the occasional terror, you know what I mean, like but
Speaker 3: but not like a guy who gets to fix things
Speaker 3: and be sexy and sort of wear drive a pickup
Speaker 3: truck and all that. So there was a sense of like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is a character that I've never gotten to be
Speaker 3: on television before, you know, So it was kind of
Speaker 3: fun to sort of play that mcgiver guy. You know,
Speaker 3: my wife, for example, is in love with Ben. She
Speaker 3: thinks he's super sexy. Because he can fix things, you know.
Speaker 4: And do you ever go home and role play as Ben?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I took a lot of the clothes from the
Speaker 3: show just so that I could wear them, you know,
Speaker 3: in the bedroom.
Speaker 4: I remember. It's interesting.
Speaker 5: I remember we did a piece on the show called
Speaker 5: the Stack. We have a picture of it here where
Speaker 5: we were all sitting in a chair behind the desk
Speaker 5: in the front.
Speaker 4: That's me at the back.
Speaker 5: You're tall, Yeah, there I am. Were you exercising your sexuality.
Speaker 4: On this one?
Speaker 5: Did you did you get your demons out there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That was that.
Speaker 11: I have no memory of.
Speaker 6: That, but really that was before we had hr right
Speaker 6: right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was was that like when John was leaving,
Speaker 3: we were doing that.
Speaker 5: It was I think I think that we were we
Speaker 5: were lampooning the setup on it. They had so many
Speaker 5: people around a round tables, so we said what we
Speaker 5: just put everybody into one chair and built it all up.
Speaker 4: It was very low that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have good times.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd love to say you should come back any time,
Speaker 5: but I've talked to people around here and that isn't
Speaker 5: the sentiment. But this has been fun, really fun.
Speaker 4: The last time we ever see each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, you spoil it speaking here, you know, and
Speaker 3: that's it lovely, just see you. I have a great life,
Speaker 3: Yeah you as well.
Speaker 5: The final season of Evin was streaming out. That's a
Speaker 5: show for life.
Speaker 11: I don't care if he's pooped his pants.
Speaker 14: I have poopy days all the time, all the time.
Speaker 18: I step in so much pool you can't even imagine.
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