Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's begin with some shocking news about the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four presidential election. It turns out that the guy
Speaker 2: who has spent his whole life wanting to be president
Speaker 2: now wants to continue being president.
Speaker 3: We do have real breaking news this morning, as President
Speaker 3: Biden is officially announcing he is running for reelection. The
Speaker 3: President launched his campaign with a video that took aim
Speaker 3: at Republicans over abortion, social security, and culture wars.
Speaker 4: When I ran for president four years ago, I said,
Speaker 4: we're in a battle for the soul of America, and
Speaker 4: we still are. This is not a time to be complacent.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm running for reelection.
Speaker 2: That's right, Joe Biden is running for reelection. Well, not
Speaker 2: running exactly. The man is eighty years old. Let's say
Speaker 2: he's stairlifting for reelection.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if Joe, If Joe Biden does win, he would
Speaker 5: be eighty six years old when he reaches the end
Speaker 5: of his second term, hopefully, which is one reason my
Speaker 5: seventy percent of Americans don't think he should run again.
Speaker 2: And to be fair, eighty six is old, not just
Speaker 2: for a president, but for any job. If my lift
Speaker 2: driver rolled up and was eighty six years old.
Speaker 6: I'd be like, do you need health getting home? But
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it would be good to have an old man president,
Speaker 2: you know, if the economy collapses, he could just find
Speaker 2: never ending supply of quarters behind your ear. But there
Speaker 2: is one thing Joe Biden has going for him, Donald Trump. Shockingly,
Speaker 2: polls show that most people don't want him to run either.
Speaker 2: And in Trump's case, it's only partly about his age.
Speaker 2: It's also about his tendency to steal stuff like classified
Speaker 2: documents and the election. Not to mention, this guy's in
Speaker 2: court every other week, hush money, tax money.
Speaker 6: He has a new.
Speaker 2: Trial starting in New York today and you barely even
Speaker 2: knew about it. Trump is in so many different types
Speaker 2: of legal trouble. He can be in every spinoff of
Speaker 2: Law and Order. The guy's going for a crime, egot.
Speaker 2: So those are America's choices. A guy who's in his
Speaker 2: eightieth year of life and a guy who's facing eighty
Speaker 2: years to life. It's guts, But unfortunately America only has
Speaker 2: two people, although there is one person who suddenly has
Speaker 2: a lot of time on his hands. Tucker Carlson, Yeah, yesterday,
Speaker 2: Carlson got fired from his job at Fox News, and
Speaker 2: it was a huge surprise to everyone, including Tucker. Apparently
Speaker 2: they only told him ten minutes before announcing it publicly,
Speaker 2: which is so cold. That's barely enough time to pack
Speaker 2: up all his Nazi memorabilia, not to mention he was
Speaker 2: Fox's most popular anchor and they still fired him. That'd
Speaker 2: be like if MSNBC fired well, imagine if there was
Speaker 2: a show people watched on MSNBC, it would be like
Speaker 2: firing them. And look, I know people love making fun
Speaker 2: of Tucker, but just put yourself in his shoes.
Speaker 6: Say you're this massive piece of shit.
Speaker 2: With no real friends, and you got to giggle like
Speaker 2: a tickle me Elmo and a dumb, floppy haircut, and
Speaker 2: you always have your your mouth hanging open like you're
Speaker 2: dry in your teeth. I forgot where I was going
Speaker 2: with this. Oh, Tucker's an asshole. Now we still don't
Speaker 2: know exactly what got Tucker fired. Maybe it was election
Speaker 2: liies that cos Fox News seven hundred and eighty seven
Speaker 2: million dollars. Maybe it was insulting his bosses in private texts.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was his overall vibe of creepy dad driving
Speaker 2: the babysitter home, or maybe it was this.
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast reports that Tucker's repeated use of the
Speaker 1: sea word was a key factor in his demise. According
Speaker 1: to text messages from the dominion lawsuit, Tucker referred to
Speaker 1: Trump lawyer Sidney Powell as the sea word, and a
Speaker 1: former producer at his show alleges she heard the word
Speaker 1: around the office constantly.
Speaker 6: Female politicians who came on the show were mocked.
Speaker 7: There were debates about who they'd rather sleep with seaword
Speaker 7: all the time?
Speaker 2: They use the sea word all the time, Like, how
Speaker 2: do you use the sea word at the office all
Speaker 2: the time? Oh, Susan's taking lunch orders. Tell me, I'll
Speaker 2: just have a salad.
Speaker 6: Hold the cop you know what, do you want to
Speaker 6: share a cup for the audience at home. I know
Speaker 6: that just got bleeved. I just said the word cut.
Speaker 6: But you know what, you know what, It's okay.
Speaker 2: Tucker's allowed to say the sea word because he is one.
Speaker 2: Let's begin with an update on former Fox News grand
Speaker 2: Wizard Tucker Carlson. Last night, Tucker re emerged for the
Speaker 2: first time since he was fired, recording a personal video
Speaker 2: from his business Sanna Good Evening.
Speaker 8: It's Tucker Carlson. One of the first things you realize
Speaker 8: when you step outside the noise for a few days
Speaker 8: is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country,
Speaker 8: kind of decent people. The other thing you notice when
Speaker 8: you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid
Speaker 8: most of the debates you see on television are. They're
Speaker 8: completely irrelevant, They mean nothing. In five years, we won't
Speaker 8: even remember that we had them. Where can you still
Speaker 8: find Americans saying true things? There aren't many places left,
Speaker 8: but there are some. And that's enough. As long as
Speaker 8: you can hear the words, there is hope, see you soon.
Speaker 6: Wow. Good for Tucker.
Speaker 2: Even though he's isolated in a remote cabin somewhere, he's
Speaker 2: still getting his message out, just like the unibomber. And
Speaker 2: you know what, you know, let's give Tucker credit for
Speaker 2: not saying the C word once during this video. Vo Tucker,
Speaker 2: I know, I know that was really hard for you,
Speaker 2: Although it is funny how he said, when you step
Speaker 2: outside the noise, people are actually pretty nice, buddy.
Speaker 6: You are the noise. You are entire your.
Speaker 2: Show was you being mean to people, trans people, immigrants, women,
Speaker 2: Lady emin ms Tucker complaining about people being mean is
Speaker 2: like Guy Fieri complaining about how there are no salad shows. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: CNN's female expiration date checker, Don Lemon, was also fired
Speaker 2: this week, and he's handling things much differently.
Speaker 9: Don Lemon spoke for the first time at a star
Speaker 9: studded event, appearing on the red carpet at the annual
Speaker 9: Time one hundred gala in New York City.
Speaker 6: What is next for you, Don, I don't know. Sitting
Speaker 6: on the beach with this gentleman all summer and having
Speaker 6: a great summer and I'm gonna have the summer of
Speaker 6: a twelve year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Don Lemon's gonna have the summer of a twelve
Speaker 2: year old. So I guess getting horny while reading the
Speaker 2: Harry Potter books, I like how Tucker's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do whatever it takes to fight for the truth, and
Speaker 2: Don Lemon's like, I'm gonna go boogie board. Don listen,
Speaker 2: you don't need to go back to being a twelve
Speaker 2: year old to live your best life.
Speaker 6: Don't let anyone tell you your pastor prime.
Speaker 2: In the last few decades, women have made big strides
Speaker 2: in the workplace. We're no longer getting harassed while wearing big,
Speaker 2: ugly shoulder pads.
Speaker 6: It's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Now we're getting harassed while wearing super cool big shoulder pads.
Speaker 2: Needless to say, corporate women still face challenges.
Speaker 10: When it comes to the CEOs of the largest companies,
Speaker 10: women are still vastly underrepresented.
Speaker 6: There are currently.
Speaker 10: Thirty eight female CEOs at the S and P five hundred,
Speaker 10: and women CEOs are forty five percent more likely to
Speaker 10: be fired than their male counterparts. There's also evidence that
Speaker 10: women who are appointed to the top job aren't necessarily
Speaker 10: set up for success. High level women are often during
Speaker 10: a time of crisis. It's a phenomenon called the glass cliff.
Speaker 7: Women who negotiate our sixty seven percent more likely than
Speaker 7: women who don't receive feedback that their personal style is intimidating,
Speaker 7: to aggressive or bossy.
Speaker 11: When women have a child, their earnings decline for each
Speaker 11: child by four percent. Wow, Whereas men there's a fatherhood
Speaker 11: bonus and they actually earn more when they have children.
Speaker 11: It's called a motherhood penalty.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 2: It's it's really hard to be a woman in the
Speaker 2: corporate world. And they didn't even mention the fact that
Speaker 2: the office is always so freaking cold, So no wonder
Speaker 2: women have to work harder. It's the only thing that
Speaker 2: will keep us warm. With all the challenges women are
Speaker 2: facing in the workplace, I thought it was important to
Speaker 2: offer some mentorship to the next generation of female leaders.
Speaker 6: Take a look. Hi, everybody. Hi, my name is Desi
Speaker 6: and Day.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you how to climb your way
Speaker 2: to the top of the corporate.
Speaker 6: Ladder, just like the boys.
Speaker 2: And sometimes that means playing dirty, and sometimes it's going.
Speaker 6: To be an uphill battle.
Speaker 2: All right, look to the person to your right, now,
Speaker 2: look at the person to your left. Okay, we're still
Speaker 2: learning rights and left. By the end of today, only
Speaker 2: one of you will remain.
Speaker 6: Doubly.
Speaker 9: Yes, we don't want to be boys, but we should
Speaker 9: be like the boys. Not in a way that we're
Speaker 9: like the boys, but we're going to be like empowered
Speaker 9: women and we're going to get extreams accomplished. Then we're
Speaker 9: going to get money. Then when we're going to put
Speaker 9: in our bank account and get more money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you worked for it, And I think, what
Speaker 6: did she? What is the key takeaway is.
Speaker 9: That we want to beat the boys?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but what we.
Speaker 2: Want to fill our pockets with mine? Okay, who here
Speaker 2: knows what a CEO is?
Speaker 9: No, nobody knows Europe.
Speaker 6: You want to be a CEO? Sure, do you know
Speaker 6: what a CEO is?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Chief executive officer?
Speaker 9: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: The dross.
Speaker 2: So like you're like, you know how a teacher is
Speaker 2: the leader of the classroom. Oh yeah, and they're in
Speaker 2: control of everything happening in the classroom.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's just like that.
Speaker 2: Except they don't have to pay out of pocket for
Speaker 2: office supplies.
Speaker 6: So okay.
Speaker 2: Part of making it to the top of corporate America
Speaker 2: is knowing how to negotiate for yourself.
Speaker 6: Do you know what that means? No? What does it
Speaker 6: mean to negotiate? Oh? Okay?
Speaker 2: The most important thing about negotiating for a raise is
Speaker 2: that you're touting your accomplishments. What chores have you been
Speaker 2: doing lately? Have you been adding value to your family?
Speaker 2: Have you been saying helping her brother tie his shoes?
Speaker 2: That's mentorship.
Speaker 9: I don't know how to tie his shoes.
Speaker 6: Do you know how to slip on a pair of pumps?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, and it doesn't matter. Okay, do any of you
Speaker 6: want to be Mommy's, Mommy's mommy wonderful.
Speaker 2: That'll be forty thousand dollars up front. Oh, it's called
Speaker 2: the mommy tax.
Speaker 6: Nobody has that.
Speaker 8: Kind of money.
Speaker 6: What about nine thousands?
Speaker 2: I like the attempt to negotiate, but no, it's a
Speaker 2: hard and fast forty grand No. Okay, there are two
Speaker 2: types of CEOs. Has anyone here heard of Elizabeth Holmes
Speaker 2: or Anna Delby?
Speaker 9: Is Anna Delby the Persian who has pretended to be
Speaker 9: like the Russian heiress or whatever?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 6: Yes she is. You are my prize student. Here's the
Speaker 6: lesson we learn.
Speaker 2: You only know the names of the women who have
Speaker 2: done illegal things. Okay, Belle, congratulations, you are now our
Speaker 2: new CEO.
Speaker 6: You now get to clean up the mess of the
Speaker 6: previous CEO.
Speaker 9: Mate, My life the the CEO school.
Speaker 6: Yes it is, but it's not always fair and keeping
Speaker 6: the bag.
Speaker 9: I'm not paying a night out, and that is.
Speaker 6: How we negotiate.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight is the creator and star of the
Speaker 2: hit Netflix comedy series Working Moms. Wa Welcome my good
Speaker 2: friend Katherine Rightman. Oh my gosh, be goodness, look at this.
Speaker 2: So Catherine and I met how many years ago? Just
Speaker 2: a few two three, We're so young and Lee fresh
Speaker 2: and young.
Speaker 6: We met doing a hidden camera prank show. That's right
Speaker 6: that I believe NBC.
Speaker 2: Called their worst primetime ratings in history.
Speaker 6: There's something like that. I think they might have said that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: but you know what we say that about all the shows,
Speaker 6: that we were very special. We really were. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: we really were.
Speaker 12: And this was my first big break, the real wedding crashers,
Speaker 12: and I think it was yours too.
Speaker 6: So we really cut our teeth together.
Speaker 2: We did for ten weeks in Vegas, and we somehow
Speaker 2: made it out alive.
Speaker 6: I don't know how. I mean, by the skin of
Speaker 6: our teeth.
Speaker 12: I slapped bitch, slapped me, True Tristorian, True Brad, who
Speaker 12: was in.
Speaker 6: On it, just five fingered me right across the front. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a rough day. We didn't we couldn't
Speaker 2: even afford a medic The budget was so low.
Speaker 6: You just had to like granted and held a coke
Speaker 6: can to my cheek. And now has that ever happened
Speaker 6: on Working Moms? Got slapped? Yeah right.
Speaker 12: Danny Kind, who plays an on the show, loves to
Speaker 12: slap a bit.
Speaker 6: She'll get in there. She's very physical I love her
Speaker 6: for it. I love it. Oh my god. So you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're one of those actors who has always
Speaker 2: been the total standout and everything that you've been in
Speaker 2: you're so damn funny.
Speaker 6: You're constantly working, steal every scene.
Speaker 2: But now suddenly there's this baby of your seven seasons.
Speaker 6: Isn't that crazy of working moms? Oh? Like eighty three episodes.
Speaker 12: Yep dropping on Netflix this Wednesday, April.
Speaker 2: You created it, you star in it, you direct it,
Speaker 2: you executive produce it.
Speaker 6: What is it like seeing your baby all grown up
Speaker 6: like that? It's wild? You know.
Speaker 12: I mean I entered the show thinking it I'll probably
Speaker 12: get one season and I'll just try to be as
Speaker 12: authentic as I can tell all my stories, cram it
Speaker 12: into one season, and each season that we got picked
Speaker 12: up for another one, I was in disbelief.
Speaker 6: I still am so good. It's so funny and genuinely
Speaker 6: I know you.
Speaker 2: You're a friend, like it feels like you. You can
Speaker 2: tell that you put so much of yourself into it.
Speaker 2: You cover just in this. I may have snuck a
Speaker 2: few episodes of this last season because I.
Speaker 6: Got a friend. You got a hook them, I got
Speaker 6: a hook up. Don't be asking me.
Speaker 2: And just in this season you explore so many themes
Speaker 2: and issues that are so important. You have an entire
Speaker 2: storyline on the male birth control pill, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you explore destigmatizing shame in female sexuality, marriage ruts, the
Speaker 2: complexities of female friendships.
Speaker 6: How do you get ideas for these stories? I guess
Speaker 6: I just live, you know what I mean? Yeah, just
Speaker 6: a day in the life of a woman. I mean,
Speaker 6: and I'm sure your audience can speak to this.
Speaker 12: It's like having a kid, and I mean just watching
Speaker 12: this incredible show tonight and seeing all the horrifying statistics
Speaker 12: of what it means to go back to work, knowing
Speaker 12: that you're going to be looked at differently for being
Speaker 12: a mother was so paralyzingly terrifying to me, even know
Speaker 12: I had postpartum depression when I started the show and
Speaker 12: getting through it out a three month old when we
Speaker 12: started shooting, and when we wrapped the show, and I
Speaker 12: all of a sudden realized, like I feel like I
Speaker 12: white knuckled through it, Like I don't think I took
Speaker 12: a breath until they said cut the last time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that was part of the inspiration for the show. Right.
Speaker 2: You having gone through that and thinking like there aren't
Speaker 2: shows out there that really dive into these topics.
Speaker 12: There sure are more now. Seven years ago it was
Speaker 12: a wasteland. I mean I couldn't find any a storyline,
Speaker 12: meaning the main plot point of the show about a
Speaker 12: woman who happened to be a mother and work. I mean,
Speaker 12: look on Work in Moms. The actual amount of time
Speaker 12: where you see the female characters with their kids is
Speaker 12: like five percent. This is about women being something outside
Speaker 12: of the nursery. It's a woman in the workplace show.
Speaker 12: And yeah, they've got to juggle it all and try
Speaker 12: to have it all, whether that's possible or not.
Speaker 6: Do you think it's possible?
Speaker 5: Yeah, rightly, I'm sucking at all.
Speaker 6: I say, you can have it all, but not all.
Speaker 6: At the same time, I said, what's why.
Speaker 12: I said, it's a different for each person, right, we
Speaker 12: all have our ways of sort of working it out,
Speaker 12: of making sacrifices.
Speaker 6: The guilt is real. Guilt is real. Guilt.
Speaker 2: Is said something about mom guilt that really stuck with me.
Speaker 2: You sounds like, yeah, very profound. You said something in
Speaker 2: regards to the way that you talk to your children
Speaker 2: about going to work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't say I have to go to work.
Speaker 6: I get to go to work. And I just flipped
Speaker 6: that tone.
Speaker 12: I go, like, before I flew to New York to
Speaker 12: do this lovely thing with you, I told my kids,
Speaker 12: I'm so excited you guys. I've never gotten to do
Speaker 12: this sort of thing. I'm so happy with it. And
Speaker 12: they feel the joy rating off of me. And then
Speaker 12: tonight they were like, we're so excited for you.
Speaker 2: And that shift's great, so beautiful because you are you
Speaker 2: are following your passion and you're clearly meant to do this,
Speaker 2: and you bring so much joy to so many people,
Speaker 2: and you're teaching them that they can one day do
Speaker 2: that too, and that's really important.
Speaker 6: That's really powerful. Or marry a woman that takes care
Speaker 6: of them. Yes, yes, yes, also one, we're all so
Speaker 6: very powerful.
Speaker 2: You work with your husband I do show. He plays
Speaker 2: your actual husband. He also is an executive producer and
Speaker 2: directs on the show. How does this work? Because there
Speaker 2: was a very brief time during the pandemic when we
Speaker 2: were filming from home and I one time asked my
Speaker 2: husband to hold the camera and we almost got divorced.
Speaker 6: How do you navigate that it's triggy.
Speaker 12: I mean, we've definitely had some serious fights. There's a
Speaker 12: but then you also find ways. I mean, look for
Speaker 12: those of us who work in separate places on our
Speaker 12: husbands or wives, you get to come home and try
Speaker 12: to share what happened, and there's sort of like a
Speaker 12: lack of can because you can't talk about what you've done.
Speaker 12: When I get home, Phil knows exactly what I've done, right.
Speaker 12: He witnessed all my wins, but he also witnesses when
Speaker 12: I fail, so that makes it really complicated. Lucky for me,
Speaker 12: I got a guy who's a serious cheerleader, you know,
Speaker 12: he's Yeah, he's.
Speaker 6: Had my back.
Speaker 12: It was his idea to push me into writing this
Speaker 12: thing in the first place.
Speaker 6: So thanks Phil. Where you're lucky to have each other,
Speaker 6: you're lucky to have each other. I am.
Speaker 2: I am so grateful for you making this show because
Speaker 2: I finally feel like there's a show where working moms
Speaker 2: are seen and it means a great deal to me.
Speaker 2: And it's such a joy to see you do your
Speaker 2: thing and shine your light because you are just You're
Speaker 2: You're a total inspiration. So I'm really happy for you,
Speaker 2: and I'm proud that I get to be your friend?
Speaker 6: Can I return the favor real quick?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 12: Oh, how amazing is it that we broke our teeth
Speaker 12: on the first Real Wed and Crasher show, which was
Speaker 12: a hit. Maybe not, but it was a really real
Speaker 12: critical darling total, So we're doing some really cool stuff there.
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