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Speaker 2: Wow, Hey, everyone is Mark Paon.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna editor, I I love it.
Speaker 1: You can have started that smoothe.
Speaker 3: I've been at the show since nineteen ninety seven. Wow,
Speaker 3: pre John Stewart. That's right, Craig Kilbourne. Today I'm here
Speaker 3: with mister John Oliver.
Speaker 1: It's a misplace.
Speaker 3: Missed of its of HBOS last week tonight yep. Former
Speaker 3: TDS senior British correspondent.
Speaker 1: Fact.
Speaker 2: And you've been gone what ten years?
Speaker 1: Ten years? Yeah? You were here for eight O say
Speaker 1: for eight? Yeah? Right. I left at the end of
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen with my tile firmly between my legs, right right,
Speaker 1: and now I'm back.
Speaker 2: Right And you and I worked on many pieces.
Speaker 1: Again, we worked on many pieces. I would go so
Speaker 1: far as to say you taught me how to do
Speaker 1: field pieces by yelling at me. Your voice was in
Speaker 1: my head when I was on field chair.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I did your first piece, because
Speaker 3: I don't think Jen used to try to get every
Speaker 3: correspondent to have their first piece with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did not do mine, right, I'm pretty.
Speaker 3: Sure your first one was not the broken nose one, right,
Speaker 3: all that infamous broken nose.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been or was that your first?
Speaker 1: I think it was the first one. I think it
Speaker 1: was the first one because I think it was an
Speaker 1: immigration story and for some reason it ended up with
Speaker 1: a yes, that's right, righter. John Oliver had come face
Speaker 1: to face with the true face of war. I think
Speaker 1: I've broken my nose. I broke my nose, the ultimate
Speaker 1: break in. Yeah, the tape. The tapes were sent back
Speaker 1: ahead of us because I had to be taken to
Speaker 1: the hospital for them to check my shattered nose out.
Speaker 1: And I have a large nose to shatter, so there
Speaker 1: was a lot of break there. And I remember getting
Speaker 1: back here and hearing laughter echoing down through the edits
Speaker 1: as you kept playing it back, going that's funny.
Speaker 2: Yep, I remember. But I did not cut that one.
Speaker 1: No, that wasn't That wasn't you.
Speaker 3: One of them that really stands out is the Wisconsin fourteen.
Speaker 3: Oh do you remember that one?
Speaker 1: That was the runaway senators right right, And we tried.
Speaker 2: To try to avoid voting.
Speaker 3: They went into Illinois, the Democratic senators because they did
Speaker 3: they didn't want to vote. I remember on something that's
Speaker 3: the Republican governor.
Speaker 1: That's right, and so they ran over state lines and.
Speaker 3: We treated it like it was like you were going
Speaker 3: into Afghanistan or whatever.
Speaker 1: One of them was hiding at a tilted kilt the
Speaker 1: Scottish Hooters. Yes, Scottish Hooters. Possible, and then you found
Speaker 1: one of them. We found one of them, and we
Speaker 1: interviewed him outside the Scottish Hooters. And you know who
Speaker 1: else we interviewed in that piece, Rod Blickyvi.
Speaker 3: No, but the other guy because I watched the piece recently,
Speaker 3: because I was showing something how the entire piece was
Speaker 3: done in a very serious tone. Yes, that's a completely
Speaker 3: full on yes.
Speaker 1: With the Afghanistan theme.
Speaker 2: Was the way we had.
Speaker 3: We had like the map of you going through we
Speaker 3: used like whatever the something passed that it was.
Speaker 1: I think I remember I remember rolling up on some
Speaker 1: kids and handing them candy through the wind.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it was like American, American American feel like
Speaker 3: all screaming, like literally or like like refugee.
Speaker 1: We pressed on deep into the infamous I ninety pass.
Speaker 1: We began to see local children unaccustomed to mid size
Speaker 1: the dams. If it's so inspiring, America here, American candy,
Speaker 1: American candy. Don't be radicalized.
Speaker 2: When you found a guy and you interviewed him in
Speaker 2: a in a.
Speaker 1: Hotel, that's right, you're right in a hotel.
Speaker 3: We started filming in with your with your with like
Speaker 3: either it was your phone or with a small camera,
Speaker 3: and like like just pretending to translate. He's speaking English,
Speaker 3: but you're pretending to translate.
Speaker 1: Torture batman. How long are you prepared to hide out
Speaker 1: in this cave. That's not a cave, not a cave
Speaker 1: at all. We have college, we have a bad We
Speaker 1: can relax. It's a hotel room, not a cave at all.
Speaker 1: And his message to America was chilling. What are your demands?
Speaker 1: Please look strangers of this camera. Oh it's not a
Speaker 1: demn it's just really attention American pigs. Renounce your Western
Speaker 1: way of life, or we will lay waste to your country.
Speaker 1: We will never stop. We're just asking the governor to
Speaker 1: please sit down into fire. No, no, that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I kill you. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is please governor want.
Speaker 1: Your Wisconsin cheese will run red with blood.
Speaker 3: That was that was the other thing about you, Okay,
Speaker 3: Stephen Corbert always said that his first advice, because he
Speaker 3: was one of these. He came around when I did
Speaker 3: the second year, and his advice to all the new
Speaker 3: correspondents was leave your soul at home.
Speaker 2: Yes, when you go to a few peace you didn't
Speaker 2: have to do that. That's right, you were all in.
Speaker 1: That's my response. That was, what's this soul you're talking about, Stephen, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would need to find that to be able to
Speaker 1: it at home. Yeah. I never minded the tension.
Speaker 3: I think that's what I loved about working with you,
Speaker 3: because I'm kind of the same way. If you're a fool, like,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to feel sad here. If you're idiotic
Speaker 3: enough to go on camera, I think, make a fool
Speaker 3: of yourself. Like, I'm not sympathizing with you at all.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let it.
Speaker 1: Definitely part of it was I think there was some
Speaker 1: side of me that came out when a camera's on
Speaker 1: that wasn't there the rest of the time. I might
Speaker 1: be more inclined to be more pleasant to people when
Speaker 1: cameras aren't rolling, but it just seems to remove that soul.
Speaker 1: But I will also say what you taught me was
Speaker 1: in the pain of sitting through some of those edits
Speaker 1: and watching you watching yourself make a mistake, or watching
Speaker 1: yourself not say the thing that you wish that you
Speaker 1: should have said, for either that you weren't listening properly,
Speaker 1: or that it was get in two tents and you
Speaker 1: weren't comfortable in.
Speaker 4: It, or you're thinking about the next question exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: So I think those, yeah, those were the heart Those
Speaker 4: were the best. Hardest lessons. Were sitting in an edit
Speaker 4: thinking I wish I could go back four days and
Speaker 4: be in that room again now because I would behave differently.
Speaker 4: That really got the learning curve up, because then when
Speaker 4: I'm in that room talking to someone, half of my
Speaker 4: head is in the edit already thinking am I getting
Speaker 4: what I need? What am I going to want myself
Speaker 4: to have said four days from now, as I'm sitting
Speaker 4: on your leather couch.
Speaker 2: That's no longer here, by the way.
Speaker 1: Finally, class that was an absolute classic, the L shaped
Speaker 1: couch that everybody napped on, That's right.
Speaker 3: I think a few people myles kind of thing, slept
Speaker 3: on it a few times.
Speaker 1: He unnecessarily slept overnight, thinking he was exactly when he
Speaker 1: could easily have been done by eight thirty. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was a bit big, big learning curve
Speaker 1: was realizing that you should try and put your head
Speaker 1: in the edit because then you're not really emotionally present.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would. I would always say that
Speaker 3: to you guys, like, if you're screwing something up, just
Speaker 3: stop and start over. Yeah, definitely, you're not doing this live.
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember once you spinning around to me
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, you know, what would have been great?
Speaker 1: And I said what? And you said, if you'd said
Speaker 1: something funny then, And the thing is you were right.
Speaker 3: Like when they when they open up a hole for
Speaker 3: you to drive a joke through, and you don't, You
Speaker 3: don't say anything. Yes, yeah, yep, that would happen a while, Yes,
Speaker 3: with everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know it's a blunt lesson, but it's
Speaker 1: a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You have to be listening, not thinking about other shit. Definitely,
Speaker 3: what was your favorite piece? Do you think you had
Speaker 3: to pick one at the Daily Show?
Speaker 1: In my whole time here, I really liked how the
Speaker 1: three part gun special came out the Australian one. Oh right,
Speaker 1: But to learn how to do that that piece that
Speaker 1: we did on gabone. Do you remember that we do
Speaker 1: with Tim Greenberg when he and I went to Africa.
Speaker 1: It was about their membership in UNESCO. I think it's
Speaker 1: very simple. America cannot change its laws with his bad.
Speaker 2: Laws, why can we change them?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. This actually made perfect sense when
Speaker 1: I was back in the United States. Someone please explain
Speaker 1: to this woman that our laws can't be changed.
Speaker 2: No Congress could overturn this life it wished.
Speaker 4: Wait, what of course it could, right.
Speaker 1: We could do it easily. Yes, but we're not going
Speaker 1: to do that because we're dicks.
Speaker 5: No, we didn't create this problem.
Speaker 1: That's the headline. We didn't create this problem, although we
Speaker 1: did create the law. Although we did create the law. Right,
Speaker 1: got me confused again. We're the good guys. We're the
Speaker 1: good guys here. We're the good guys.
Speaker 5: And don't forget that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to forget that. We are the good
Speaker 1: guys for sure.
Speaker 2: For short.
Speaker 1: Yes, and when those programs are getting shut down, we
Speaker 1: still feel like the good guys because.
Speaker 2: We are.
Speaker 1: We are because we are. It is just that simple,
Speaker 1: that's right. And that was the first time that we
Speaker 1: were actually slightly changing the way that we normally did
Speaker 1: feel pieces because previously that we were so very much
Speaker 1: following that Colbet model of embodying the counter argument, whichever
Speaker 1: room you were in is completely perfect way of doing things.
Speaker 1: But we would, yeah, exactly would. Then we started trying
Speaker 1: to stretch it and structure them differently, and only because
Speaker 1: of that bone piece will be able to set up
Speaker 1: that three part Australian gun special.
Speaker 3: We had a massacre at a place called Porta.
Speaker 2: Seventeen years ago and there have been none since.
Speaker 1: Zero gun massacres. Hold on, did gun control actually work?
Speaker 1: Zero mash English?
Speaker 5: What they Australia has still has murders, rapes and robberies.
Speaker 1: Last I checked. Unless you can get rid of one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of crime, it's not worth doing at all.
Speaker 1: We'll put it this way.
Speaker 2: It's illegal to have crack cocaine anywhere in the United States.
Speaker 1: Do you think if somebody really wants it, they can
Speaker 1: get their hands on crack cocaine in America? So unless
Speaker 1: we can completely get rid of drugs, there's no point
Speaker 1: in having drug laws at all.
Speaker 2: Then you think about that for a minute.
Speaker 1: That I am proud of that came out right.
Speaker 2: I got an my for that too.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh good for him. Yeah he cut the whatever it
Speaker 1: was part two or yeah? Yeah, yeah, those were great.
Speaker 1: I forgot they were really good and.
Speaker 3: I got to edit all yeah, which I'm assuming must
Speaker 3: be dear to your heart.
Speaker 1: The World Cup, the World Cup ones, they were good.
Speaker 2: With the hooligan, Yes, the English Hooligan's pieces.
Speaker 1: Yes, a classic Doctor Danny Jordan CEO of the entire
Speaker 1: World Cup committee? Who would you be supporting during the
Speaker 1: World Cup?
Speaker 2: But finma fun South Africa? You?
Speaker 1: Who are you guys here supporting Australia. I was back
Speaker 1: the Netherlands. You guys like two lips, right, yes, right,
Speaker 1: read these two lips go yourselves. I also really liked
Speaker 1: and I think I did that with you the Herman
Speaker 1: Kane inside the Actors Student. Do you remember that? Didn't
Speaker 1: you do that? Like three D Yeah, but we did
Speaker 1: the first one.
Speaker 3: I did one of them. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 3: remember which one. Yeah, no, I did one of them.
Speaker 1: I think the one that we were kind of James
Speaker 1: Lipton and he basically committed to everything. Yes, and it
Speaker 1: was slow. Again. What I liked about that was the
Speaker 1: rhythm was very choppy, right, it was fast and choppy,
Speaker 1: like you get the bits out cut cut, cut, cut, cut,
Speaker 1: with the with the herman cane peace. It was really
Speaker 1: nice to be able to just sit in that room
Speaker 1: long pauses. I spoke really slowly, and he just committed
Speaker 1: to everything. There was nothing he wouldn't do, including that
Speaker 1: one speech at the end where I said, right, if
Speaker 1: aliens of invaded Earth, look down the camera and give
Speaker 1: a speech, start the speech with people of Earth. And
Speaker 1: he just turned and.
Speaker 2: Immediately that's the one I cut.
Speaker 1: Earth is being attacked by aliens. You are standing on
Speaker 1: the smoldering remains of what used to be the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: You have thirty seconds to address the Earth's inhabitants, to
Speaker 1: inspire them to rise up and repel their alien invaders.
Speaker 1: Look into that camera and.
Speaker 5: Action, citizens of Earth. It was the spirit of humanity
Speaker 5: that built this planet. It is that same spirit of
Speaker 5: humanity that will allow us to defend ourselves against unknown enemies.
Speaker 5: It is that same spirit of humanity that will allow
Speaker 5: us to destroy the aliens.
Speaker 1: After that, he kept coming back because he would do anything.
Speaker 2: And then while I was like, can we just stab
Speaker 2: he ran.
Speaker 1: He ran the joke into the ground like he ran
Speaker 1: a presidential campaign into the ground. I think you've already
Speaker 1: answered this one.
Speaker 2: And they want to describe the experience of working with me.
Speaker 1: I would say, how I made you. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: you sculpted me out of clay, but not not like
Speaker 1: a potter, who know, like using their hands gently. You
Speaker 1: were like thumping the clay saying why are you not
Speaker 1: a vase yet? That was your pottery style.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else.
Speaker 3: Give me something, doctor, we'll talk about your evolution. But
Speaker 3: like I feel like you regressed so English women and left.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the what the what I would
Speaker 3: describe it gentleman.
Speaker 1: Is yeah ruffian scamp, yeah, scamp yeah, yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the only the only evolution that had was eventually getting
Speaker 1: confident in field pieces to the point that we could
Speaker 1: stretch it a bit. The thing I liked about that
Speaker 1: Herman Kane thing was we hadn't really done anything like
Speaker 1: that where you just sit with one person in a room,
Speaker 1: no other tricks. Well then one person.
Speaker 3: I don't remember if it was before or after Herman came,
Speaker 3: but we did the the.
Speaker 1: Oliver's travels that would that was almost ambassadors. That was.
Speaker 1: That was one of the first things I did because
Speaker 1: I like the idea of just sitting in a room
Speaker 1: with one.
Speaker 2: Person, and those are really funny because they.
Speaker 1: You would just be mean to diplomats who as usually
Speaker 1: deserve it well. And also it's because their skill set
Speaker 1: is also their weakness, which is engaging in diplomatic language,
Speaker 1: which means you can be as rude as you like
Speaker 1: one of them and they're not going to react. Ambassador,
Speaker 1: as a long time residents of the Middle East, what
Speaker 1: is Qatar doing to destabilize the region.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, Kappa is a moderate country playing
Speaker 3: a good role.
Speaker 2: And the international you.
Speaker 1: Think you'll find it pronounced Qatar, It's op Qatar, Kappa Qatar.
Speaker 2: That's the classic Arabic.
Speaker 1: Your nation has given us the forty fourth President of
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Congratulations, well you know that,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: We are we are. We are very grateful that he
Speaker 2: has come onto the scene.
Speaker 1: You know when he when when he did? Who else
Speaker 1: have you got?
Speaker 2: Words?
Speaker 1: Are we got? We need some financial gurus, we need
Speaker 1: a banking zar, a cars are and we need a
Speaker 1: new American idol.
Speaker 2: Tell you what we could bring you. A Massai. They
Speaker 2: are the warriors, the traditional warriors of the of the Masai.
Speaker 1: People and can they sing?
Speaker 2: Can they do?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Could they sing? I'm just thinking can they do that
Speaker 1: the dream Girl songly? No, no, no, no, wait, I
Speaker 1: am not sure they can't do You strongly agree or
Speaker 1: strongly disagree with this statement Death to America. Strongly agree
Speaker 1: or strongly disagree. Definitely strongly disagree. Yes, disagree, Yes, I'm sure, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm putting it down.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, they were fun, but I liked to
Speaker 1: put those who were akin kind of Daily Show choppy like.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of running, run and gun bits
Speaker 1: was what I liked with Herman Kane was just letting
Speaker 1: that play out going.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I find character. It was easy because it was
Speaker 6: so controlled. Yeah exactly. Yeah, but it ended up feeling
Speaker 6: different than what we normally did.
Speaker 1: Oh wait before we have to get.
Speaker 3: One second that I loved and like a lot of
Speaker 3: people loved in the building, especially US sports fans. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's the Daily Show Sports desk. Oh yeah, and John
Speaker 3: Well there was you did a couple of them.
Speaker 1: We did one you down in Philly when the Giants
Speaker 1: were playing the Eagles on the same day.
Speaker 2: As the Yankees were playing the Phillies. In the world series.
Speaker 1: That's right, And so it was who has the biggest
Speaker 1: gumbay fans?
Speaker 2: Oh my, you and Jones were like the sports center guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, wait all, I want to stike JJ nothing short
Speaker 1: on the title of American sports dude. She is fans And.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, joh this atmosphere is absolutely electric.
Speaker 2: Let me hear you, Ju.
Speaker 3: And then you did another one for do we there
Speaker 3: was a guy who wanted to start at basketball league
Speaker 3: of only white players.
Speaker 2: In the middle of it, they cut.
Speaker 3: Away to like commentary from like the sports desk guys,
Speaker 3: and it's you and this one it's you and Wyatt
Speaker 3: and why and Whyatt does like a full sharp You
Speaker 3: guys had like the suits with like the ape buttons.
Speaker 1: His suit was so good, but you had the same
Speaker 1: kind of suit. Was so funny. I couldn't look at him.
Speaker 1: Thanks Josie boy. Oh boy, the moose has been on
Speaker 1: fire today, running his mouth all over the court. He's
Speaker 1: burning up like a cross in my grandma's yard. I
Speaker 1: got you. That's because when it comes to the fundamental,
Speaker 1: moose is the best. Let's take a look at that
Speaker 1: last comments again.
Speaker 3: It was so funny and like we were like this
Speaker 3: needs to be a regular thing. Delis show sports sets.
Speaker 3: We couldn't get enough of it. And then John just
Speaker 3: just like not interested in.
Speaker 1: I remember those Philly fans. I remember being absolutely amazed
Speaker 1: at how many fans never made it into the stadium
Speaker 1: just because they passed out totael Gate. There was just
Speaker 1: bodies everywhere.
Speaker 3: And I think the original intent to that piece was
Speaker 3: you guys were gonna go and like actually do like
Speaker 3: man on the street. Yes, but instead they kept you
Speaker 3: in the like director's chairs. There was no weight again,
Speaker 3: and they just had the people. They just went to
Speaker 3: people to the They just took the cameras to the people.
Speaker 1: Yes, just be douche because that was the thing. There
Speaker 1: was no way to control the atmosphere, so you just lose.
Speaker 2: So you just sat there and had comments in the.
Speaker 3: And Jones was JJ, I remember the line, JJ, you're
Speaker 3: a former douche and He's like, yes, I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, J I've always wanted to ask you this as
Speaker 1: a former douchebag yourself, Okay, how do you motivate yourself
Speaker 1: for a day like today? I'll tell you tell you.
Speaker 5: It all comes down to the fundamentals of being of douche.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. Where normally you have to kind of
Speaker 1: ask people if they want to be interviewed with Philly
Speaker 1: sports fans, all you need to do was take a
Speaker 1: camera out of the bag, and like moths to the flame,
Speaker 1: they just emerged and started Just.
Speaker 2: Tell them, what do you think about? What do you
Speaker 2: think about New York?
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter asked that question. That's the first
Speaker 1: thing they're going to tell you was what they think.
Speaker 2: Me and Berger watched that piece a little while ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a disappointment to me because I was
Speaker 3: like this Jones and why there are all three of
Speaker 3: you guys, just like should have been a regular thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, doctor, pleasure, always a pleasure, always a pleasures pleasure.
Speaker 3: Never sure to have you back in the building, Flanks
Speaker 3: Mite all right, alright bye.
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