Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, any questions before we
Speaker 1: move on anything? Or yes, yeah, yeah you do that
Speaker 1: like you don't believe in your hand you do this?
Speaker 1: And I said yes, and you're like, what what it works?
Speaker 1: It works. I'm a real boy. It works. Um, very
Speaker 1: very sad. Um A good question. I was like John
Speaker 1: Stars and handing it over to you. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a whole process. There was so much going on with
Speaker 1: the whole process. I'm be part of what the process
Speaker 1: is gonna be. Candidates, what are you doing? So it's
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for being sad, but I
Speaker 1: would honestly employ you to be. To be it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's like it's happy. It's like uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know those funerals where people are dancing,
Speaker 1: you know, I think of it like that. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in the coffin, but I'm still alive, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know what I mean is like it's you know,
Speaker 1: I truly believe this. I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: any goodbye at a good time is a good good
Speaker 1: but there always gonna be. That's why people cry at
Speaker 1: airports when they say good bye to their families. So
Speaker 1: it's like you're you're said, but you're also happy, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: so thank you for that, um, And yes, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're right. You know, any time, whether the transition in
Speaker 1: a show, there's a huge process, and I am aware
Speaker 1: of that because I you know, I took over from
Speaker 1: John Stewart, which was a monumental task, and I understand
Speaker 1: how hard it was for myself and for the people
Speaker 1: who helped make this thing happen with me, because I
Speaker 1: don't do this thing alone. You know. There's so many
Speaker 1: people who helped put the show together, so many people
Speaker 1: who make sure you're seeing everything that you're seeing, so
Speaker 1: many people who helped me, you know, put my vision
Speaker 1: on the page, people who give me great ideas, people
Speaker 1: who inspire me to create cool things. So it is
Speaker 1: a huge process. And so that's why I tell you
Speaker 1: that I am going to leave, so that it's not
Speaker 1: like an Irish goodbye, you know, because it would be
Speaker 1: weird if I was just like on a Thursday, just
Speaker 1: like bye everybody, and then Monday comes back, where's Trevor?
Speaker 1: And then you just see me on Instagram sipping something
Speaker 1: on the beach. Who's like, who are no, so so
Speaker 1: so yeah. So the goal is that you know, none
Speaker 1: of us are left in a place where we feel
Speaker 1: like it was instant or we feel like it was
Speaker 1: it was a surprise, you know what I mean. The
Speaker 1: initial word is always a surprise, the initial announcement or
Speaker 1: I guess any any moment like that is a surprise.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I think the joy in life is,
Speaker 1: you know, finding ebbs and flows. You know, it's the
Speaker 1: moment when kids leave home. It's it's the moment when
Speaker 1: they have to move back in because they think didn't work.
Speaker 1: It's maybe I'll come back because my student diad will
Speaker 1: kick my ass. You never know, um no, but for real,
Speaker 1: I and I think that's that's going to be. The
Speaker 1: joy is is finding out how we do it, how
Speaker 1: best we do it, and then you know, and I
Speaker 1: just hope that you will keep coming back, you know,
Speaker 1: because I remember the big thing that kept me going
Speaker 1: was how many people who came and supported me who
Speaker 1: either didn't know me or knew me from other countries,
Speaker 1: who gave me love, who with a propulsion that helped
Speaker 1: me to create a show. And it was really hard
Speaker 1: to do it. And so I hope, I hope you'll
Speaker 1: come back, and I hope you'll support the next person,
Speaker 1: and I hope you're so thank you for that. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Yes, sir, what have you missed out
Speaker 1: doing for the last seven years? They were looking forward?
Speaker 1: What have I missed out on doing that I haven't
Speaker 1: done for the last seven years. It's weird because I
Speaker 1: don't think of the last seven years as one time period,
Speaker 1: you know. I there was the beginning of the Daily Show,
Speaker 1: which was taking over after John Stewart, which was insanely difficult.
Speaker 1: I'm always going to be grateful for that period because
Speaker 1: of the opportunity I was given, the the amount of
Speaker 1: learning I got to experience, um, the skills I had
Speaker 1: to hone and craft, and so that period is very
Speaker 1: different to me too, for instance, like the Trump years
Speaker 1: that followed, you know, because when when I was taking over,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is so this is so crazy,
Speaker 1: Oh what what? Who? John Bayna? Who's this person? What
Speaker 1: is what was happening? Who are these people? And then
Speaker 1: Trump came I was like, oh, I know this, you know,
Speaker 1: And then that period was different. And then and then
Speaker 1: COVID hits and then we're all locked in our apartments
Speaker 1: or our houses, and then that felt like a different period.
Speaker 1: And then we had the being out of covid per
Speaker 1: that felt like a different Pierce. So for me, in
Speaker 1: a weird way, I feel like I've been on four
Speaker 1: different daily shows, you know, and now we've gotten back
Speaker 1: to this point. But to answer the question, I think
Speaker 1: the thing I've missed most, and it happened most in
Speaker 1: the pandemic. No, I'm not alone in this is like
Speaker 1: I missed people. I missed two years of people's lives.
Speaker 1: You know, I missed two years of eating food in
Speaker 1: South Africa. I missed two years of um, you know,
Speaker 1: traveling with my family and friends. I missed two years.
Speaker 1: You know. There's one thing in life you never get back,
Speaker 1: and that's time. You can you can never get it back,
Speaker 1: you know. People say things like, oh, time is money. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Time is time. That's all time is. You
Speaker 1: can't get more of it, you can't cheat it, you can't.
Speaker 1: No one has figured out how to do. It's time.
Speaker 1: And so what I really lost during that seven years
Speaker 1: was time now, not to the daily show, but to
Speaker 1: what happened in the world. And so because of that,
Speaker 1: I now find myself excited at getting back to doing
Speaker 1: a few of of you know, the things that I
Speaker 1: did around the world which I really loved. I would
Speaker 1: spend like a week in Toronto, Canada, I would spend
Speaker 1: two weeks in Germany learning how to speak German and
Speaker 1: doing shows. You know, Like I said, I went to
Speaker 1: India recently and I loved it, just learning how to
Speaker 1: speak Hindy and you know, and I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back and try and learn more. And those are
Speaker 1: those are the things that are a little bit harder
Speaker 1: to do, and so I I wanted to be in
Speaker 1: a place where, you know, I think it's cool when
Speaker 1: the host of the shows like here, and I think
Speaker 1: it's fair to use an audience, fair to me to
Speaker 1: to to to believe that. So those are the things
Speaker 1: I missed and um and I think, like everybody post pandemic,
Speaker 1: I started asking myself, all right, what am I trying
Speaker 1: to do more of? What is my alignment? What am
Speaker 1: I trying to experience? It doesn't mean I'm ungrateful for anything,
Speaker 1: but there there is something that we have if we
Speaker 1: are lucky enough to have it, and it is the
Speaker 1: time to do and if you do have that luxury
Speaker 1: and if you do have the opportunity, then then why not?
Speaker 1: And so yeah, so I'm looking forward to living a
Speaker 1: little more, expressing a little more, growing a little more,
Speaker 1: and uh and trying new things. That's probably it. Yeah,
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