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Speaker 4: We've got huge breaking news out of Italy tonight that puts.
Speaker 5: The holy and holy ship. Let's get into the headlines.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: You've been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about
Speaker 4: that resume you sent in bad news.
Speaker 5: The position has been filmed.
Speaker 7: And I think we see it, sorry and certain it
Speaker 7: looks like smoke and white smoke.
Speaker 8: Oh whit.
Speaker 1: We have smoke and it is white smoke.
Speaker 9: It would appear to be a white smoke, white smoke.
Speaker 4: We have a pope we are watching, and everyone to
Speaker 4: breathe it in.
Speaker 5: The white smoke, breathe it in.
Speaker 4: I didn't know we were supposed to hot box the
Speaker 4: pope smoke.
Speaker 5: But white smoke means there's a new pope. And way
Speaker 5: do you get a load of where he came from history.
Speaker 4: At the Vatican, the first ever American pope.
Speaker 5: We have the first American pope.
Speaker 4: And let me just say, as an American, are you
Speaker 4: sure about this? We don't really have the gravitas that
Speaker 4: you associate with popiness. We're less somber procession and more
Speaker 4: monster truck rally. I just think it's a little bit
Speaker 4: weird that the holiest man in the world probably knows
Speaker 4: all the words to the Chili's Babyback Rid song.
Speaker 5: Kind of weird.
Speaker 4: In fact, I was trying to come up with a
Speaker 4: way to explain why the idea of an American pope
Speaker 4: feels like such a contradiction. But I think the way
Speaker 4: the news broke here kind of sums it up.
Speaker 7: What is going on here?
Speaker 10: Your son was sleeping with your fiance and your fiance
Speaker 10: was leaving with your son.
Speaker 5: That is correct. When I found that out, I confronted Andrea, she.
Speaker 11: Is a Fox News special record.
Speaker 5: Wait what happened with Andrea? Go back to the gross
Speaker 5: love triangle?
Speaker 4: I love that stuff, But the votes are counted and
Speaker 4: the Vatican doesn't have a January sixth, so there's no
Speaker 4: going back. Let's find out more about this American. Excuse me,
Speaker 4: Pope Americano.
Speaker 5: Born in nineteen fifty five in Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost
Speaker 5: has been a cardinal for only two years.
Speaker 7: He's big into tennis. He's effectually known as.
Speaker 5: Father Bob, A Cubs fan. He loves to cook.
Speaker 9: Italian media has referred to him as the least American
Speaker 9: of the Americans because of his quiet, humble wig.
Speaker 5: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me that you think all Americans are
Speaker 4: loudmouthed jackasses, Well fuck you, humble humble, I'm the most
Speaker 4: humble bitch.
Speaker 5: You've ever seen. Let's get back to the pope.
Speaker 4: Of course, the first job of every new pope is
Speaker 4: to pick a pope name, which we all know is
Speaker 4: supposed to be the name of your first pet in
Speaker 4: the street you grew up on.
Speaker 5: And he went a different.
Speaker 9: Way, Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago taking on the name
Speaker 9: of Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5: Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 4: Did he choose it the way we pick a new
Speaker 4: email address? Does he dot lightick has taken?
Speaker 5: Okay? What about? Does he dot LIGHTIK two? Really? Three?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 5: Four?
Speaker 6: Fine?
Speaker 5: Does he dot LIGHTIK fourteen?
Speaker 4: But yes, Robert Prevot's new name is Leo the fourteenth,
Speaker 4: which sucks for him because he just got his real ID.
Speaker 6: D it.
Speaker 4: Because now I've always found this odd. The church is
Speaker 4: so conservative on gay issues. But then they turn around
Speaker 4: and make its leader choose a drag name and make
Speaker 4: it quick. We got to get you to your gown fitting.
Speaker 4: You're gonna look so fierce woo. But after he picked
Speaker 4: his pope name, he came out and gave his first
Speaker 4: speech in both Italian and Spanish about the need for
Speaker 4: unity and peace on earth. So q peace and unity
Speaker 4: in three two one, And.
Speaker 12: I would have loved for the first pope from America
Speaker 12: to say something in English.
Speaker 13: I was a little surprised that a Chicago native did
Speaker 13: not say a few words in English.
Speaker 12: He's talking Spanish. He's an American and he didn't even
Speaker 12: speak in English.
Speaker 13: He's spoke in Latin, Spanish and Italian.
Speaker 6: Did not speak He.
Speaker 12: Did not speak in English. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 12: how you claim that this is an American pope if
Speaker 12: you won't even speaking in a native tongue, That to
Speaker 12: me was very disturbing.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, how dare you?
Speaker 4: If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough
Speaker 4: for the pope.
Speaker 5: Shame shame on you. Come on, does it really matter
Speaker 5: what language he speaks? It's church. You're going to be
Speaker 5: sleeping through it.
Speaker 4: Anyway, And besides, there's going to be plenty of other
Speaker 4: stuff for conservatives to throw a tantrum about.
Speaker 9: There's some tweets that when the Pope is still a
Speaker 9: cardinal that are getting a lot of attention online that
Speaker 9: are politically charged.
Speaker 4: This one is directly rebuking jd Vance.
Speaker 6: The new Pope.
Speaker 5: Hope we are the fourteenth said jd Vance is wrong.
Speaker 4: The new Pope is not like jd Vance. He really
Speaker 4: is an everyday American. Be careful, though, father, if you
Speaker 4: piss off jd.
Speaker 5: Vance, He's going to pay you a visit. We want that.
Speaker 4: For more on the new Pope, let's go to the
Speaker 4: Vatican with Michael Costa.
Speaker 5: Michael, let's be analysis.
Speaker 13: I'll tell you my analysis.
Speaker 14: Usa, usa, usay.
Speaker 5: I take it. You're excited. The Pope is American?
Speaker 13: Is the Pope Catholic? An American?
Speaker 6: Yep?
Speaker 13: We won the conclave, baby, suck it. Rest of the world.
Speaker 13: Who the Pope's from?
Speaker 5: Chicago?
Speaker 13: America's number one in terms of mustard consumption. Now let's
Speaker 13: shotgun this communion wine.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, body of Christ to calm down.
Speaker 5: I don't think it was a competition between countries.
Speaker 13: Oh sure, Now that we won. They'll say it wasn't
Speaker 13: a competition. They said we couldn't do it. They said
Speaker 13: our cardinal roster didn't have the depth, that we'd have
Speaker 13: to rebuild for years before we got a pope. Well
Speaker 13: guess who's kissing our ring now? Mother f is Okay, yeah, hey,
Speaker 13: Cardinal Matteo ZUPI tell me how my ass tastes.
Speaker 5: Michael, you're at the Vatican. Stop swearing.
Speaker 13: Oh you're right, my bad, shit, so sorry, I'm so
Speaker 13: so pumped.
Speaker 7: I'm so pumped.
Speaker 5: Are you even Catholic?
Speaker 13: Am I Catholic?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 13: But I'm American, Okay, which means I get really excited
Speaker 13: when we win stuff Conclaves, space races, Toyotas, Academy Awards. Hey,
Speaker 13: Bong June Hoe, tell me how my ass taste?
Speaker 4: All right, look, I appreciate your patriotism, but this could
Speaker 4: have been a chance to have a pope from underrepresented countries.
Speaker 4: There's never been a pope from Africa or Asia.
Speaker 13: Oh oh yeah, well you know there's never else you
Speaker 13: know where else? There hasn't been a pope before today? America?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 13: And what country is less represented on the world stage
Speaker 13: than America? Do you know, there's never been an American
Speaker 13: queen of England. Think about that.
Speaker 4: Okay, can you actually give me some analysis here? What
Speaker 4: is Pope Leo going to bring to the papacy?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Well, you know, the pope has very important responsibility. He's
Speaker 13: got the hat, he rides in that car that you
Speaker 13: can see through. He's got that magic scepter and he's like,
Speaker 13: you shall not pass.
Speaker 7: Haasa haasa.
Speaker 5: That's Gandalf.
Speaker 4: You don't know anything about the papacy.
Speaker 5: Much less what an American will bring to it.
Speaker 13: Look, I don't know what he's going to bring to
Speaker 13: the papacy, but the thing about US Americans is that
Speaker 13: we're not sticklers for the rules. So it'll be nice
Speaker 13: to have a pope who's not going to be a
Speaker 13: hard ass for every single little commandment. You know, I mean,
Speaker 13: this whole can't say the Lord's name in vain. Jesus Christ,
Speaker 13: give me a party.
Speaker 5: Michael, stop swaying.
Speaker 13: Cares. Okay, I'm getting into heaven no matter what. You
Speaker 13: want to know why because I know a guy.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, Michael, everybody, Oh my god, make the.
Speaker 16: Latest culture Wars about away.
Speaker 4: Show the US military is the fiercest fighting machine to
Speaker 4: ever exists, not counting Andre the Giant. But now the
Speaker 4: Trump Anddministration is banning a select group of soldiers from
Speaker 4: entering combat.
Speaker 5: Jordan Klipper has more.
Speaker 11: The US military the most powerful and respected organization in
Speaker 11: the entire world. Few have what it takes, the discipline,
Speaker 11: the strength, the bravery, the sacrifices made to serve our country.
Speaker 11: But according to the Trump White House, there's an enemy
Speaker 11: with him. Everything's transgender.
Speaker 13: Everybody transgender.
Speaker 7: That's all you hear about.
Speaker 15: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to.
Speaker 9: Begin enforcing a ban on transgender service members.
Speaker 5: No more pronouns, no more dudes in dresses.
Speaker 1: We're done with that shit.
Speaker 11: And I had some hard hitting questions, so as the
Speaker 11: Daily Show senior war correspondent LEI had the guts to
Speaker 11: a paper cuts ah once recovered. I met with some
Speaker 11: transgender individuals to hear their unqualifications.
Speaker 5: My name is Lieutenant Ray Timberlake.
Speaker 15: I'm in the United States Navy and I've been serving
Speaker 15: for about seventeen years.
Speaker 17: My name is Clayton, and I've been trying to go
Speaker 17: for Pair Rescue PJ in the Air Force and it's
Speaker 17: a special warfare career field.
Speaker 9: I'm Second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot with the United States Army Reserve.
Speaker 9: I've been in for a little over a year.
Speaker 18: I'm Joe Allis. I'm a Chief Warrant officer too, and
Speaker 18: the Virginia Army National Guard. I've served for fifteen years
Speaker 18: the U sixty years as a Blackhawk.
Speaker 11: I don't want to twelve war stories, but I've flown
Speaker 11: Spirit airlines twice, so I no danger. They seem qualified
Speaker 11: to me, But there are others who think they're weakening
Speaker 11: are military.
Speaker 12: They can't go to sea, they can't fly airplanes in combat,
Speaker 12: they can't deploy with the army into combat areas.
Speaker 18: We should never allow anyone in the military to undergo
Speaker 18: transition surgery, which would make them medically unqualified to deploy.
Speaker 15: This idea that we spend years of being non deployable
Speaker 15: is just simply undrewe I've never missed a deploy I
Speaker 15: can fight tonight.
Speaker 18: They've paid for nothing for my transition. I paid out
Speaker 18: of pocket because I wanted to be mission ready as
Speaker 18: fast as possible. In six weeks, I was deployable again,
Speaker 18: and I'm deployable today. They spend many times more on
Speaker 18: biagra than they do on gender firming care.
Speaker 11: If we don't have viagra in the military, then who
Speaker 11: is going to take care of Pete haiksas whiskey Dick.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's not how I want to serve my country.
Speaker 11: Turns out, the US military spends eight times more on
Speaker 11: viagra than gender a firming care, over thirty seven million
Speaker 11: more to be exact, And on top of that, replacing
Speaker 11: transgender troops could cost an estimated nine hundred and sixty
Speaker 11: million dollars in recruiting and training, which ain't easy.
Speaker 9: It's it's very physically intense. After going through a pretty
Speaker 9: extensive medical exam to even get into the military, going
Speaker 9: to basic training, it's a lot like what most people
Speaker 9: think it is. It's like it's pretty Yeah, it's boot camp.
Speaker 8: I did theater camp. It's tough. My tour duty was
Speaker 8: South Pacific. Ellie wise calling RELLI Hi? Is that hotwood?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 17: All the trans people that are serving go above and
Speaker 17: beyond the standards and they do their job every day.
Speaker 18: But it's interesting to hear that we are too strong
Speaker 18: for sports but too weak for the military.
Speaker 11: Being too weak for both, I was curious why anyone
Speaker 11: would want to kick out these dedicated individuals.
Speaker 14: If I'm in a foxhoul, I don't want to know
Speaker 14: whether this guy next to me is wondering if he's
Speaker 14: a woman or a man, or flip back and forth.
Speaker 11: Because everyone knows when you're fighting on the front lines,
Speaker 11: the real enemies are the preferred pronouns of the person
Speaker 11: next to you.
Speaker 18: So I go by rank and last name. If someone
Speaker 18: uses a pronoun that I don't prefer, I really don't care.
Speaker 18: To me, it's a distraction. Like my job is to
Speaker 18: fly the helicopter.
Speaker 11: I'm curious what the reaction has been to you being
Speaker 11: trans in the military.
Speaker 15: I received an outpouring of support when I came out.
Speaker 18: They're my family and at my back.
Speaker 9: At the end of the day, nobody cares about is
Speaker 9: whether I can perform my job when I have that
Speaker 9: uniform on.
Speaker 8: Lucky nice to have respectful co workers. I work with
Speaker 8: this guy running. He's a total dick. He's just a dick.
Speaker 11: So if the people in the military itself don't care,
Speaker 11: then why do the administration impose an executive order stating this.
Speaker 17: An adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual
Speaker 17: sex can float with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful,
Speaker 17: and disciplined lifestyle.
Speaker 9: I was named an honor graduate at Basic training, so
Speaker 9: I would say, you know, at least someone out there
Speaker 9: agrees that I have some honor and some discipline in me.
Speaker 11: Would you leak war plans on signal?
Speaker 8: Are you that disciplined?
Speaker 9: I don't have any plans to do, so.
Speaker 8: Good to know.
Speaker 18: If more people met trans people like us, then there
Speaker 18: would be no issue.
Speaker 11: If the world's on fire. These are the folks I
Speaker 11: want in the fox hole. But would they want me?
Speaker 11: Do you guys think I would be an asset in
Speaker 11: the US military?
Speaker 7: How many push ups can you do?
Speaker 11: It's sort of like jazz. It's all about the push
Speaker 11: ups you don't do. And right now I'm not doing
Speaker 11: a million.
Speaker 9: How fast can you run two miles?
Speaker 8: Well, I can drive it in under forty seconds.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I was at Fortsville, Oklahoma for Basic training. It
Speaker 9: was about one hundred and twenty degrees fahrenheit most days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's not going to work for me.
Speaker 11: If I'm in the sun for more than seven minutes,
Speaker 11: I get heat rash.
Speaker 8: Just like that.
Speaker 15: Have you ever tried an MRI?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, and it told me that it was just a
Speaker 11: little fracture in my foot.
Speaker 18: I think what you're talking about a MRI. No MRI
Speaker 18: is a meal that's ready to eat.
Speaker 8: Yeah, military ship.
Speaker 11: While lawsuits are still pending and the fight's not over.
Speaker 11: I imagine these troops have lost the appetite to fight
Speaker 11: for a country that refuses to acknowledge they even exist.
Speaker 18: President Trump is my commander in chief, and I will
Speaker 18: gladly answer the cough he calls me up to active duty.
Speaker 9: America's my home, this is my country, this is you know,
Speaker 9: where I want to be and who I want to
Speaker 9: fight for.
Speaker 17: I'm willing to serve. I'm able to serve, and I
Speaker 17: can get the job done.
Speaker 15: I'd say, come to the fleet, come to the field.
Speaker 5: Comes to you.
Speaker 15: What the thousands of transgender service members do every day
Speaker 15: in support of our nation's defense.
Speaker 11: Sounds like patriot isn't for me.
Speaker 6: But what do I know?
Speaker 11: I didn't serve because of post.
Speaker 4: And when we come back, Michelle, you call will be
Speaker 4: trying on the.
Speaker 19: Show, Go go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 19: My guest.
Speaker 4: Tonight is an actor, writer, and comedian who created in
Speaker 4: stars in the Netflix series Survival.
Speaker 5: Of the thickest. Please welcome Michelle.
Speaker 6: You to.
Speaker 10: Oh this is nice, it's nice.
Speaker 5: I feel like we need more dance breaks.
Speaker 6: We do with times. We gotta get it.
Speaker 5: We gotta get it in twins.
Speaker 10: Yes instead of magic Mike, it's like magic Michelle.
Speaker 5: Is this a tear away suit?
Speaker 9: Not yet?
Speaker 5: Mine is really I'll show you later. They're like, no,
Speaker 5: don't do that. You're beautiful, Come on now, you stop it.
Speaker 7: And you're so funny, So just everything.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: I am such a fan of yours, and I'm so
Speaker 4: happy that you're here. Congratulations on the second season.
Speaker 5: Of your show.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, season two, you have recent special out You're about
Speaker 4: to go on tour.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're the mother of twins. Yes, first question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Would you like to go take a quick nap in my.
Speaker 7: No, you know what, I'm sleeping right now. You wouldn't know.
Speaker 7: You bought the moments.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a nice part about like not being on
Speaker 10: your phone all the time, to take those breaks, you know,
Speaker 10: to actually see your children living in the world, crossing
Speaker 10: a street, being like just so cute and grown, having
Speaker 10: time to be creative. I'm just you guys, put your
Speaker 10: phones down and start like you pick a book up.
Speaker 7: Yet I can't say it enough. It's like, really to
Speaker 7: create stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, killing advice, especially when they're little like your's. You're
Speaker 4: you have six year old, they're six, right, Yeah. I
Speaker 4: love the way you describe your daughter, Hazel, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: having the vibes of a fifty three year old woman
Speaker 4: who works with a.
Speaker 6: D m B.
Speaker 7: Yes, a fifty three year old black woman that works
Speaker 7: the DV.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, because you know, you know who.
Speaker 10: This fuscificity, because she rolls up at the playground and
Speaker 10: she's like, is this what y'all.
Speaker 7: Meant to do? I'm like, hey's hole, it wouldn't be nice.
Speaker 5: I love her, you know. I love that, and I
Speaker 5: love it.
Speaker 7: To I mean, I want them to be honest, just
Speaker 7: not with me all the time.
Speaker 5: Yes, hold back a little bit.
Speaker 7: Just a little bit. She told me my elbows look old.
Speaker 7: I was like, girl, eat your peace.
Speaker 5: What does that even mean?
Speaker 10: I mean, my elbows look a little haunted. They're a
Speaker 10: little gray at the top of a pigeon's head. We
Speaker 10: don't want to get into it.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the show.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about the show. I do want to talk
Speaker 5: about your show? This is season two? Yeah.
Speaker 4: You Your character Mavis explores dating all kinds of relationships,
Speaker 4: building this beautiful budding career. You're now in a phase
Speaker 4: of your life where you have this booming career, married,
Speaker 4: you have kids. Is this is this your opportunity to
Speaker 4: go back and get a do over, do some things
Speaker 4: differently kind of?
Speaker 10: So, you know, Mavis is the name of my grandmother,
Speaker 10: and she was my person, she was my soulmate. I
Speaker 10: think you could have more than one sold me and
Speaker 10: you don't know how they're going to come to you,
Speaker 10: you know, And so it's so nice hearing her name
Speaker 10: on set all the time. But you know, I wrote
Speaker 10: this book, Survival of the Thickest, And when I brought
Speaker 10: the twins home, I'm like, I'll have time to write
Speaker 10: a book now. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah,
Speaker 10: And my husband was just like, are you gonna finish
Speaker 10: this book? I was like, that feels like a lot
Speaker 10: of question. And he found Joan Rivers old desk at
Speaker 10: Housing Works or some sort of like place. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 10: some sort of vintage shop, and brought the desk home.
Speaker 7: I wrote the book on the desk.
Speaker 10: There was like legit energy in this desk wrote the
Speaker 10: book and I'm like, I did this like artist thing
Speaker 10: where I was like, who's going to read this book?
Speaker 10: Why I should I even write it? And I'm like,
Speaker 10: write it for you, just to get something done. And
Speaker 10: I couldn't have ever imagine that it would turn into
Speaker 10: two seasons of a show.
Speaker 7: And so what was.
Speaker 10: Really fun was working with my co career and showrunner
Speaker 10: Danielle Sanchez Witzel, who's done The Carmichael Show and he's
Speaker 10: worked on New Girl, and so she has like amazing
Speaker 10: experience with the unique voices, and it was pulling these stories,
Speaker 10: these essays from like.
Speaker 5: Fifteen to thirty five, forty.
Speaker 7: Two and.
Speaker 10: Putting them in a world that I wanted to see
Speaker 10: on television, you know, in New York that reflects my
Speaker 10: New York with fat, black, brown, queer, non binary voices.
Speaker 10: And I feel like we've done a bang up job
Speaker 10: doing that. This season, we have you know, spoiler alert.
Speaker 10: If you haven't seen it, you need to see it.
Speaker 10: If you've seen it, episode six, agree the categories love.
Speaker 6: We have a.
Speaker 7: Beautiful trans wedding.
Speaker 10: You know Peppermint, who's a beautiful black dress woman who's
Speaker 10: also a drag reformer gets married, and it's just it
Speaker 10: is not only the New York that I live in,
Speaker 10: but it's also the America I want to live in.
Speaker 6: What a lot of what.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about the fact that you are
Speaker 4: wearing all the hats on this show you mentioned.
Speaker 5: You created, you write, you produce, you star in.
Speaker 4: What does it feel like to have that kind of
Speaker 4: creative freedom and also responsibility?
Speaker 7: Gosh, I mean it feels damn good. Yeah, it feels
Speaker 7: really good.
Speaker 10: And I will say, you know, I've been doing stand
Speaker 10: up comedy for over twenty years, and you know, doing
Speaker 10: projects with a lot of friends, including a producer on
Speaker 10: your show, Devin, Like, We've done a lot of stuff together.
Speaker 7: And the thing is, we do like a lot of.
Speaker 10: Stuff for free for so long. And so when people
Speaker 10: come to me and they ask me, how do I
Speaker 10: start making money? How do I get to the next level?
Speaker 10: I just say, keep doing it.
Speaker 7: Be so good.
Speaker 10: By the time you get in that seat, by the
Speaker 10: time you get that job, you can't mess it up
Speaker 10: because you've done it for ten, twelve, fifteen years for free,
Speaker 10: So you already know all the things that could happen.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean? And also like, emit what
Speaker 7: you don't know?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: You know, yes, and tell that.
Speaker 5: To the administration. One take that up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's this Season two is real steamy when it
Speaker 4: comes to the sex scenes.
Speaker 6: Did you see it?
Speaker 4: Yes, very steamy, very And I'm just wondering, was that
Speaker 4: your call?
Speaker 6: And how do you want.
Speaker 5: As it should be? How do I push for more
Speaker 5: sex scenes here at the Daily Show.
Speaker 7: I'll talk to the administration.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I this is a body positive show,
Speaker 10: you know, and I'm positive we all got a body
Speaker 10: And it was really important for me to show my
Speaker 10: silhouette and other silhouettes being loved down, you know, because
Speaker 10: we are worthy of love at any size or shade
Speaker 10: or shape, even down to like you know, not even
Speaker 10: down to like not wearing a lot of makeup, to show,
Speaker 10: especially young women, you are beautiful the way you are.
Speaker 7: You deserve to be.
Speaker 10: Loved however that looks, you know. So it was so
Speaker 10: important too to work with a very diverse casting crew,
Speaker 10: and you know, seventy percent of the heads of our
Speaker 10: department are female, and because you know, we get some done,
Speaker 10: and so it was really important as a plus size
Speaker 10: actor to be you know, working with women who know
Speaker 10: how to light you know, the biscuits.
Speaker 7: And it's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 5: Gotta light those biscuits. You gotta light them good.
Speaker 10: The bucket of chickens, they gotta be seen, the legs
Speaker 10: and the thighs.
Speaker 7: What am I talking about?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 10: I don't know who I am, but.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about your your stand up And
Speaker 4: first of all, you were the first female comedian ever
Speaker 4: to film a special at Radio City Music Hall. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it does to break that beautiful glass ceiling.
Speaker 7: My goodness.
Speaker 15: That was.
Speaker 10: I think if it's if it's not a little scary,
Speaker 10: then like, why then why are you not doing it?
Speaker 10: Does that make sense? Like it should be a little scary.
Speaker 10: You should be a little excited. You should push yourself,
Speaker 10: you know, no matter what you have on your resume,
Speaker 10: or what you have in your bank account, or what
Speaker 10: you think you can and cannot do, just try, you know,
Speaker 10: because you're just gonna end up in the same position
Speaker 10: anyways if it doesn't work out. And so I thought,
Speaker 10: you know what, let's see, it's really crazy that a
Speaker 10: woman has not filmed there. And I'm like, this isn't
Speaker 10: even about me, It's about them, you know. And the
Speaker 10: only reason why I even thought I could play Radio
Speaker 10: City Music Hall is because years ago I opened for
Speaker 10: Jonathan VanNess, you know. So that's that should be the
Speaker 10: name of the game. We should be helping each other up,
Speaker 10: you know, uplifting, divers, fat.
Speaker 7: And so a beautiful mind.
Speaker 5: That Rady sitting was a call was it.
Speaker 7: Was really it was so special. I was like more
Speaker 7: excited than my wedding.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, you should be, Yes, your husband, but that's
Speaker 4: a huge accomplishment. Yes, And you really are inspiring to
Speaker 4: so many women out there. One thing that strikes me
Speaker 4: as so special about you is that you infuse so
Speaker 4: much joy and positivity in your comedy and in.
Speaker 5: All of your work.
Speaker 4: You you are so excellent at these like hard, assertive,
Speaker 4: very funny, powerful jokes, but you never lose touch with
Speaker 4: your humanity. Do you ever find that challenging when times
Speaker 4: are tough, Like how do you channel that energy asking
Speaker 4: for a friend?
Speaker 10: No, it's it's I'm a joyful person, you know.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 10: Not only my mom and my Grandma may Is and
Speaker 10: my great Grandma Hays, like all these women in my family.
Speaker 7: Everybody in my family has had.
Speaker 10: To really fight for their joy and their peace, and
Speaker 10: they thought so I could be here, and so that's
Speaker 10: not wrong on me. And you know, when you start
Speaker 10: from a place of like, let's have fun, you know,
Speaker 10: how can we find comedy on the other side of pain?
Speaker 10: Then I do believe that I will always be okay,
Speaker 10: you know, because sometimes it is perspective and we have
Speaker 10: to be aware that things are happening and there is injustices.
Speaker 7: But like, how do we like, how do we find
Speaker 7: our joy in the day? You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Because then if we're not happy, then they've won.
Speaker 5: Right, that's right. You are so entired and such a
Speaker 5: joy to be around me.
Speaker 4: Thank you for being here.
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