Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. How many people celebrate news
Speaker 1: resolutions here? You seem like a news resolution guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I'm gonna miss when the pandemic ends.
Speaker 1: Is like, like, I'm enjoying that now news resolutions are
Speaker 1: attainable things. Before we just used to say ship that
Speaker 1: would depress us after like a month because we couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, do you know what I mean? But now,
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic, all your resolutions have to be
Speaker 1: shipped that you just can do. You can't go to
Speaker 1: the gym now, there's not like I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: the You can't go to the gym. I mean you
Speaker 1: can try, but you can't really. You never know. They'll
Speaker 1: stop you. And then you're like, I didn't you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like the pandemic shuts your ship down
Speaker 1: for you, which I'm gonna miss, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Now I make all my resolutions things that I would
Speaker 1: wouldn't do normally, like as a resolution, but are achievable now.
Speaker 1: So now I'm like, I need to catch up on
Speaker 1: all those TV shows. That's my news resolution succession. I'm
Speaker 1: doing it, baby, And then when I'm done I'm like,
Speaker 1: look at this. The year is still on track, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Just in that zone and
Speaker 1: need to eat all those chips before they get stale.
Speaker 1: That's a resolution, And you know what, I'm on track everything.
Speaker 1: I've just made all my resolutions about ship that I
Speaker 1: do in the house, you know, make sure I use appliance,
Speaker 1: is a bit more more microwave you can get going,
Speaker 1: you know, use the scale in the bathroom. You never
Speaker 1: think about whether your scale works or not. I'm this year,
Speaker 1: my resolution is to see how high the numbers can go,
Speaker 1: just you know, like a car, you know, like sometimes
Speaker 1: you just rev the engine to get things going. I
Speaker 1: want to do that on the scales of bram get
Speaker 1: into two fifty. Come on. That's essentially a resolution, and
Speaker 1: I'm not failing yet. It's actually made me realize. This
Speaker 1: pandemic has made me realize that resolutions are all about perspective.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about it as things that are unattainable,
Speaker 1: But if you make the things that you were going
Speaker 1: to do anyways, you're only succeeding in life. Coming to
Speaker 1: you from the heart of times in New York City,
Speaker 1: the only city in America it's the Here's edition. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Morris Party to her Flipper, confronts Matt Gates and Ariana Deba.
Speaker 1: Is The Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with Donald
Speaker 1: Jumanji Trump America's best President. Last weekend, he was back
Speaker 1: on the rally circuit, kicking off his campaign to reclaim
Speaker 1: the Oval Office and the White House Disney Plus account.
Speaker 1: But Trump might want to slow his role a little bit,
Speaker 1: because it turns out he's not the only one making
Speaker 1: plans for his future. Former US President Donald Trump, he
Speaker 1: is in hot water today with the New York Attorney General,
Speaker 1: Leticia James says her team has uncovered numerous instances of quote,
Speaker 1: fraudulent or misleading practices related to the Trump Organization's financial documents.
Speaker 1: The case also turning up the heat on Trump's children,
Speaker 1: who James says, quote have been closely involved with the
Speaker 1: transactions in question. Investigators now taking legal action to compel
Speaker 1: Ivanka and Don Jr. To comply with subpoenas and appear
Speaker 1: for sworn testimony about the company's financial dealings investigators say
Speaker 1: in two thousand sixteen, Trump claimed his triplex was worth
Speaker 1: about three hundred and twenty seven million because it was
Speaker 1: over thirty thousand square feet. In reality, the AG's office
Speaker 1: says it was eleven thousand square feet. They say the
Speaker 1: Trump CFO Alan Weisselberg, charged in a separate criminal case,
Speaker 1: admitted the value of Trump's apartment was overstated by give
Speaker 1: or take two hundred million dollars. Oh no, no, no, no, no, Donald, No,
Speaker 1: you can't exaggerate your apartment's value by two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give it if it was an n
Speaker 1: f T. But this is an apartment, my friend. I mean,
Speaker 1: at the same time, Old Trump does not give up.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Let's doodle brag about himself, even if
Speaker 1: it gets him in trouble. I bet when a cop
Speaker 1: asks him if he knows how fast he was going,
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I do four billion miles a second,
Speaker 1: the fastest anyone has. Every good. Oh, it's so fast,
Speaker 1: So fast? Do you want to test it again? So fast?
Speaker 1: Asked me what I've been drinking all of it? And look,
Speaker 1: I get on Trump for a lot of stuff, but
Speaker 1: I can't get mad at him for this because deep down,
Speaker 1: he's just a landlord. And this is what every landlord
Speaker 1: in New York does. They'll say an apartment has three bedrooms,
Speaker 1: and then you get there, two of the bedrooms are
Speaker 1: somehow in the kitchen. But it's still the best deal
Speaker 1: for your budget, so you sleep in the dishwasher. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, all right. But let's move
Speaker 1: on to the question everyone's been asking, what the hell
Speaker 1: happened to that package I ordered? Well, it turns out
Speaker 1: your asshole neighbor didn't swipe it off your front porch
Speaker 1: this time. It actually got snatched long before that. If
Speaker 1: you ordered something from Amazon and didn't get it, it
Speaker 1: could be in this mess. This is the scene in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Trains carrying crates of orders are being robbed,
Speaker 1: with packages strewn around the tracks. As free trains slow
Speaker 1: down or come to a halt, the thieves leap on
Speaker 1: board with bolt cutters, open giant containers and take whatever
Speaker 1: they want. This is what they leave behind, all these boxes,
Speaker 1: some empty, some not. Look this box was full of
Speaker 1: COVID home testing kits, a precious product tough to buy it.
Speaker 1: Many pharmacies This Amazon envelope wasn't even opened. The thieves
Speaker 1: just tossed it away. This track strewn with boxes, stretches
Speaker 1: as far as you can see in both directions. This
Speaker 1: entire area was cleaned up in mid December, which means
Speaker 1: that all of this came from train robberies in just
Speaker 1: the last month. God damn did you see that mess.
Speaker 1: It's like a Thomas the tank Engine episode of Hordes.
Speaker 1: Ship is crazy and how could this happen in Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's America? The President loves trains and now they're getting
Speaker 1: robbed old willy nilly. That's not right, people. This is
Speaker 1: like if during the Kingson administration everyone was rubbing blow jobs.
Speaker 1: It's unacceptable. I mean, what if those packages contained like
Speaker 1: your grandmother's blood pressure medication, depending on how you feel
Speaker 1: about your grandmother, that could be a disaster. And the
Speaker 1: worst part is that when they don't want the packages,
Speaker 1: they just leave them on the ground. I mean they
Speaker 1: even ditched COVID tests, which is just dumb. Those tests
Speaker 1: are worth more than the actual train. And you know
Speaker 1: what this means, right, and knowing how picky these robbers
Speaker 1: are is gonna make Valentine's Day extra stressful because either
Speaker 1: your surprise gift doesn't show up and your girl is
Speaker 1: piste off, or it does show up and she's still
Speaker 1: piste off. Well, if this necklace was so great, why
Speaker 1: didn't anyone steal it off a train? You cheap ass bitch.
Speaker 1: And no, I don't think these robberies should be used
Speaker 1: as an excuse to have more police in America. I
Speaker 1: know people are going to say that you don't need
Speaker 1: more police for this. All you need is to fill
Speaker 1: one random train car with angry bees. Problem solved, all right. Finally,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a major new development in criminal justice reform.
Speaker 1: News anchor drop a Beach, jay Z and mic Mill
Speaker 1: teaming up to support a proposed New York state law
Speaker 1: that would block lyrics from being used during trials. Both
Speaker 1: jay Z and Meek Mill they signed a letter saying
Speaker 1: this tactic effectively denies rap using the status of art,
Speaker 1: and then the process gives prosecutors a dangerous advantage in
Speaker 1: the courtroom. By presenting rap lyrics as rhyme confessions of
Speaker 1: illegal behavior, they are often able to obtain convictions even
Speaker 1: when other evidence is lacking. The rappers are joined by
Speaker 1: other artists, including that Joe Big Sean, Kelly Roland, and
Speaker 1: Robin Thick and imploring lawmakers to sign the Rap Music
Speaker 1: on Trial Bill and turn it into law. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: When someone gets arrested, prosecutors dig up any rap lyrics
Speaker 1: they might have written, and then they present them like
Speaker 1: it's a confession, which is ridiculous. People. Rap is an
Speaker 1: art for right. These songs are performances. The rappers are
Speaker 1: just reading out their journals. Just because you rap about
Speaker 1: killing someone doesn't mean you did it. It's just that
Speaker 1: a lot of words rhyme with kill, chill, hill, window, sill, uncle, phil,
Speaker 1: all of the words you need in a rap song.
Speaker 1: And you don't want worries about legal troubles to interfere
Speaker 1: with musical freedom, especially not rap music, because throwing in
Speaker 1: the word allegedly after every rap lyric really screws with
Speaker 1: the flow. Obamatomically Allegedly people are saying abomatomically, And if
Speaker 1: we're being honest, it's not a coincidence that they only
Speaker 1: do this with rap music, because this is just another
Speaker 1: way of targeting black people. I mean, half of country
Speaker 1: music songs are about the singer burning their excess car
Speaker 1: because they cheated, but I've never seen any of them
Speaker 1: prosecuted for it, So I hope this law gets past.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only downside is that criminals are going
Speaker 1: to use it as a loophole to hide evidence. Every
Speaker 1: Wall Street board meeting is not going to have an
Speaker 1: m C in the corner. Oh my home is in
Speaker 1: the back. Move your account to the Cayman Islands. Bim
Speaker 1: bim bim bian. They can't use that, right, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got them Goldman Sex. By the way, when I first
Speaker 1: heard that they wanted to stop prosecutors from using rap
Speaker 1: lyrics and trials, I thought that they meant the prosecutors
Speaker 1: were the ones rapping. Grammars are really interesting thing that
Speaker 1: shapes how you see things, because I thought, like, the
Speaker 1: prosecutors are actually in court, like, Hi, my name is
Speaker 1: what my name is? District Attorney Theodore wasn'tiak. But all right,
Speaker 1: enough of that, Let's move on to our top story,
Speaker 1: which is about Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United
Speaker 1: Kingdom and the only kid to make it out of
Speaker 1: the Village of the Damned. Right now, he's embroiled in
Speaker 1: a huge scandal over secret COVID parties, So let's catch
Speaker 1: up on all the latest in our ongoing segments, Keep
Speaker 1: calm and party on. You may remember the outrage across
Speaker 1: Britain a couple of months ago when Boris Johnson was
Speaker 1: accused of throw being a secret party in the middle
Speaker 1: of lockdown against his own COVID rules. By the way,
Speaker 1: but the truth is there wasn't a secret COVID potty.
Speaker 1: Turns out there were many secret COVID parties, and now
Speaker 1: Boris may have partied himself right out of a job,
Speaker 1: and the walls seem to be closing in on Boris Johnson.
Speaker 1: New poll in fact for the Observer newspaper shows sixty
Speaker 1: three percent nearly two of every three Briton's want Johnson out.
Speaker 1: As many as twenty Conservative members of Parliament say they
Speaker 1: planned to submit letters of no confidence. Fifty four letters
Speaker 1: are required to trigger a no confidence vote in Parliament.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Johnson his face calls to resign after reports
Speaker 1: that number ten Downing Street hosted parties over the past
Speaker 1: two years. The events were held when the United Kingdom
Speaker 1: government imposed strict COVID restrictions on gathering. I recognize the
Speaker 1: enormous sacrifice that people have made. I apologize for miss
Speaker 1: judgments that may be made in number ten by me
Speaker 1: and anybody else, But please, can I ask him to
Speaker 1: wait for the inquiry to conclude one misjudgment that really
Speaker 1: hurts the apology to her Majesty the Queen over parties
Speaker 1: allegedly held in Downing Street the night before her Majesty
Speaker 1: sat alone at the funeral of her husband. You know
Speaker 1: this sucks for Queen Elizabeth. I haven't seen her that
Speaker 1: disappointed since she found out what Prince Andrew did on
Speaker 1: his vacations. Apparently these are not the only photos Andrew
Speaker 1: and I can hardly blame her, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: her husband had just died and here they were throwing
Speaker 1: parties without her. I mean, come on, this is our
Speaker 1: first chance in seven years to catch some fresh dick
Speaker 1: and no invites though that ship is messed up. Or
Speaker 1: you don't think people move on, you need to grow up.
Speaker 1: But you can see why so many people have turned
Speaker 1: on Boris or a scandal because while he was having parties,
Speaker 1: the people of Britain were dealing with severe lockdowns. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about American lockdowns. I'm talking about real lockdowns,
Speaker 1: like there were curfews, the government limited how many people.
Speaker 1: You could see people weren't even allowed to have anyone
Speaker 1: over for Christmas. Yeah, if Santa came down your chimney,
Speaker 1: you'd have to shoot him dead, but they don't have
Speaker 1: guns in the UK, so you just have to beat
Speaker 1: him to death. And look, I know Boris isn't the
Speaker 1: only political leader who has been caught partying against his
Speaker 1: own rules, but he might be the only one trying
Speaker 1: to pretend that he doesn't know what a party is.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Johnson maintains he believed it to be an
Speaker 1: official work event, not a party. Now in email leaks
Speaker 1: showing a hundred people were invited to socially distant strings
Speaker 1: in Downing streets and to even bring their own booze.
Speaker 1: The idea that you walked into the garden, there's forty
Speaker 1: people there, the tables are laid out with food and drink,
Speaker 1: and there's alcohol being served in the middle of a lockdown,
Speaker 1: and you think that's the work event that is just
Speaker 1: to Chris, isn't it. You are just taking the mickey
Speaker 1: out of the British people. Most nobody told me, and
Speaker 1: nobody nobody said that this was something that was against
Speaker 1: the rules. There was a breach of the COVID rules.
Speaker 1: Or we were doing something that wasn't a work event. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: nobody told me. I I didn't know it was a party.
Speaker 1: How do you know what a party is unless somebody
Speaker 1: says it's a party. How could you not know that
Speaker 1: that was a party. I mean, it's not a work event.
Speaker 1: They said bring your own booze. That never happens for
Speaker 1: a regular work meeting. No one's ever like, we really
Speaker 1: need to figure out our fourth quarter projections, So grab
Speaker 1: some tequila because dad is making mugger readers? And also,
Speaker 1: am I the only person who finds aware that the
Speaker 1: leader of the government is the one saying nobody told
Speaker 1: me that this was against the rules. Nobody told me.
Speaker 1: Nobody told you. They're your rules, your rules to deal
Speaker 1: with a global pandemic. This isn't your kid's birthdays. You
Speaker 1: gotta remember the ship now. Boris's own former top aide
Speaker 1: says that he had warned Boris that the party broke
Speaker 1: COVID rules and that Boris has been lying under oath
Speaker 1: to Parliament about it. But maybe these parties are just
Speaker 1: emblematic of how Boris thinks COVID rules didn't apply to him,
Speaker 1: like Apparently, back when Boris had COVID, he refused to
Speaker 1: stay in isolation and it got so bad that his
Speaker 1: staff and this is completely true, had to put chairs
Speaker 1: in the doorway to his office to block him from leaving. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: I was shocked when I read this, mostly because I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was that easy to stop British people
Speaker 1: from going places. Turns out, if Africa just put a
Speaker 1: couple of chairs in front of England, who could have
Speaker 1: stopped colonialism. So as of now, Boris is in big trouble,
Speaker 1: as they say in England, trouble. And really, if you're
Speaker 1: a prime minister who's been breaking the lockdown rules that
Speaker 1: you imposed on everybody else, you have to resign or
Speaker 1: you can do this, you are morning. The British Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson has announced the end of all pandemic restrictions
Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom, saying that people will no longer
Speaker 1: be asked to work from home, masks no longer required
Speaker 1: in schools, the mandate to wear mask in public removed
Speaker 1: as well. According to the Guardian, the swift change is
Speaker 1: seen as an attempt by Johnson to quell conservative anger
Speaker 1: over his lockdown breaching parties at Downing Street, and having
Speaker 1: looked at the data Katholey, the Cabinet concluded the once
Speaker 1: regulations laps, the governments will no longer mandate the wearing
Speaker 1: of face masks anywhere or ship. Boris went from B
Speaker 1: Y O B to d G A F. You can't
Speaker 1: break the rules if there are no rules. That's right, everybody,
Speaker 1: no mosques, everybody, no restrictions. Are no more haircuts, bitches.
Speaker 1: And yet you could argue that suddenly lifting restrictions is
Speaker 1: just a cheap and dangerous attempt to curry public favor
Speaker 1: at the cost of writing a lethal virus. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, restrictions are lifted, baby, So break out
Speaker 1: the liqu of Britain. It's time for a work event,
Speaker 1: all right. When we come back, Jordan Clapper has a
Speaker 1: very polite conversation with Matt Gates and it goes very
Speaker 1: well for everybody. You don't want to miss it. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Daily Show. It has now been a
Speaker 1: year since the patriotic group of heroes stormed the capital
Speaker 1: to save democracy by hanging Mike Pence. So to give
Speaker 1: the day the honor it deserves, we sent Jordan Clapper
Speaker 1: down to the capital for a January six edition of
Speaker 1: Jordan Clapper Fingers the Pulse. It's been just over a
Speaker 1: year since the attack on the U. S. Capital, so
Speaker 1: last week i went back to Washington, d C. But
Speaker 1: now I'm ready for anything. This time. I'm prepared contact
Speaker 1: in case they get thrown in jail, money belt in
Speaker 1: case I need to bribe an oath keeper when they
Speaker 1: take over the city that doesn't go down. I got
Speaker 1: Potbelling's money when I leave on a Union station. But
Speaker 1: unlike last year, today there was a piece a quiet
Speaker 1: a calumn that almost suggested perhaps our country is truly
Speaker 1: healing from the events of that day. And then we
Speaker 1: found this guy screaming at CNN s John King broadcasting
Speaker 1: from a balcony. Fake news, bullshit. You what's your gorgeous shocking.
Speaker 1: I'll try to get across the people in the world. Man.
Speaker 1: I watched and watch Fox News every day, Chris Talker, Kennedy,
Speaker 1: I watch all of you guys. You know what it's like,
Speaker 1: money talk Yeah, rush hour, wear your shirts. F Biden,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I respect to our president. It's important to
Speaker 1: have respect for the office of the president exactly, and
Speaker 1: at the same time, were a shirt that says Biden
Speaker 1: I mean for me? Yes, do you understand the inherent
Speaker 1: contradiction in that? Yes, I do, I do? I do,
Speaker 1: I do, I definitely do. When we drove by, I
Speaker 1: saw you screaming up at the second floor there at
Speaker 1: John King from CNN and go h you're saying that
Speaker 1: what I did there that was not That was me
Speaker 1: my personal opinion towards John King and and fake news.
Speaker 1: See then yes, so fake news CNN should go itself. Yeah, respectfully, respectfully, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I now do I want my kids seen me saying that? No,
Speaker 1: of course not. But I mean we all have arguments.
Speaker 1: You did have your kid, I saw your kid in
Speaker 1: the cart, and I about for my kids in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh today, But they don't. They don't understand. I have
Speaker 1: aged to understand. Okay, so they did, see, they just
Speaker 1: don't understand. Correct. Unfortunately, our nation's leaders were respectfully divided
Speaker 1: on how to best remember the day. On the one hand,
Speaker 1: you had the Democrats condemning the attacks as only they
Speaker 1: know how We're privileged to have a contribution from one
Speaker 1: of the great creative talents of our time. Lynn, then well, Miranda,
Speaker 1: and on the other hand, there were people like Representative
Speaker 1: Matt Gates and Marjorie Taylor Green who were unapologetic about
Speaker 1: what happened. And we're even planning an event of their own,
Speaker 1: proud of the work that we did on January six
Speaker 1: to make legitimate arguments about election integrity. So we're going
Speaker 1: to make those arguments today and a press conference at
Speaker 1: two fifteen, and we're actually gonna go walk the grounds
Speaker 1: that that patriotic Americans walked from the White House to
Speaker 1: the Capitol Ah, a solemn walk in front of the media,
Speaker 1: to re enact the events of January six. Plenty of
Speaker 1: time for me to ask some questions as they patriotically
Speaker 1: sauntered down. Oh ship, they're just getting into their cars. Hey,
Speaker 1: Matt Canson, you're gonna reenact the events in January six?
Speaker 1: Who is going to take a ship in the Retundan?
Speaker 1: And also who's gonna who's gonna make uh the gallows?
Speaker 1: Isn't this a little bit childish matter? Is that what
Speaker 1: attracts you to this? Oh? Well, I'll catch him at
Speaker 1: one of the other sedition re enactments. Of course, there
Speaker 1: were some who witnessed the event's firsthand who have a
Speaker 1: different attitude towards the rioters when it comes to insurrections. Come,
Speaker 1: I don't give an I quote you on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Representative Ruben Diego was inside with fellow congressman of both parties,
Speaker 1: just yards away from the violence. Look, I was scared
Speaker 1: for the country. I was scared for my colleagues. Um,
Speaker 1: I was piste off. The thing I remember the most
Speaker 1: is seeing the fear in the eyes of some very
Speaker 1: young staffers. I was here that day. It was chaotic.
Speaker 1: I gotta called an asshole just over there? Was it
Speaker 1: by a member of Congress? Or the guy had a pitchfork?
Speaker 1: Do you know the pitchfork guy? Is he a member
Speaker 1: of Congress? Ars he he might be probably from the
Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus. Yeah, the guy he's talking about the pitchfork.
Speaker 1: If he's not in Congress, he's definitely running in the
Speaker 1: mid term. Is the front runner. Yet later, outside the
Speaker 1: halls of power, Democrats gathered for a vigil, hoping the
Speaker 1: country would never have to go through a horrible day
Speaker 1: like that again. But down the road there was another
Speaker 1: vigil for outside in jail right now, going to vigil
Speaker 1: number two, where they'd chose to look on the bright
Speaker 1: side of the potential treason. What would you call the
Speaker 1: events of January six a wonderful, glorious event. People were
Speaker 1: excited that day. January six was the greatest day of
Speaker 1: montar life. Okay, and you're obviously not a police officer.
Speaker 1: There was no insurrection that day. If there was any
Speaker 1: intention on our part, we would have been actually freaking arm.
Speaker 1: If there was intention, people would come with it, and
Speaker 1: we would have been with zip ties or bear spray
Speaker 1: or a pitchfork felt fence. What about the people who
Speaker 1: did come with zip ties, bear spray and pitchfor us, Well,
Speaker 1: that those were arms, Those are just minable defensive measures.
Speaker 1: Who is the candlelight vigil for that? All of the patriots,
Speaker 1: all of the hundred forty patriots, the police officers were
Speaker 1: injured that day. Yeah, so it's for the police officers
Speaker 1: that this is for the patriots that are in prison,
Speaker 1: the people arrested for injuring the police officers that day.
Speaker 1: It was the people standing up to say you stop
Speaker 1: the steal. We're here at the sight of where the
Speaker 1: January six protesters are being detained. This is a vigil
Speaker 1: for them. Their rights have been taken away. So criminal
Speaker 1: justice is obviously a big issue for you. I'm interested
Speaker 1: in protecting everyone's rights. Are you going to Rikers Island
Speaker 1: to protest the fifteen people who died last year? I
Speaker 1: am not. Even a year later, selective victimization was still
Speaker 1: trending hot. At the end of the day. It might
Speaker 1: have felt that nothing has really changed, that we were
Speaker 1: locked in endless loop talking about the same things with
Speaker 1: the same people. I felt like that, apparently for a
Speaker 1: good reason. I saw you in Hershey, that's right, you
Speaker 1: bet hanging in there? Are you bet? I've a wouldnt
Speaker 1: just a near downfall of demography. It's been it's been
Speaker 1: a busy it's been a busy year or two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a little hectic, hectic year. Indeed, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for that, Jordan's and if you want to
Speaker 1: see even more from Jordan's trip, check out the link
Speaker 1: below for additional scenes available only on the web. All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, I'll be talking to the star
Speaker 1: of the critically acclaimed remake of West Side Story, Arianna Debos,
Speaker 1: So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is award winning actor, singer, and dancer
Speaker 1: Arianna Debos. She's here to talk about starring as Anita
Speaker 1: in West Side Story. Arianna Debose, Welcome to the dayly Show.
Speaker 1: You I don't think we're talking, we're talking. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Yeah? And welcomes. It's really good to
Speaker 1: have you here, especially now. Like you know, some people,
Speaker 1: if they're Broadway officionados, have seen you. You know you've
Speaker 1: You've been just I think you've been grinding at this
Speaker 1: thing in Broadway with ten years right where you've done everything,
Speaker 1: every different type of production. You're a consummate performer, singer, dancer, actress,
Speaker 1: everything all in one. But it feels like this is
Speaker 1: your moment, Like you don't where the overnight success comes
Speaker 1: together after ten years. It feels like that's that moment.
Speaker 1: Does it feel the same way for you? I hesitated
Speaker 1: to say it, but yes, um what he hesitates because
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it, like I'm having fun. I don't
Speaker 1: want to want it to go away. You know moments,
Speaker 1: their moments, they're like they're they're fleeting. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no at all, Like COVID is a moment and look
Speaker 1: how long it's going for you know what, You're not wrong?
Speaker 1: So um, I'm just um, whatever it is, however anyone
Speaker 1: interprets it. I'm just enjoying whatever this is while it lasts,
Speaker 1: because it's been really fun and it's not every day
Speaker 1: you get to make a movie with Steven Spielberg and
Speaker 1: and what you're asked to execute, it's actually something you do.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I have to do other kinds
Speaker 1: of homework, but the bones of what this job is,
Speaker 1: I got that great. I love that, and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's also you need to be in
Speaker 1: a position where you're having fun. The audience is having
Speaker 1: fun watching you have fun, and then the critics are
Speaker 1: having fun as well. Like that's the perfect combination of
Speaker 1: what you'd like in OX. You know, because Screen Actors
Speaker 1: Guild nomination, right, Golden Globe winner, congratulations, thank you, right, um,
Speaker 1: Like it just feels like you you're in this world.
Speaker 1: In CP Award as well, I should mention, yes, that's
Speaker 1: also another nomination I was really honored by by. I'm
Speaker 1: honored by it all. I'm I'm very grateful for the
Speaker 1: opportunities to be seen, especially for artists of color. Like
Speaker 1: it feels like we're all starting to have a different
Speaker 1: kind of moment right now and most of our work
Speaker 1: is not only being seen but considered invalued in different ways.
Speaker 1: That's really the heart of why I'm so excited. I
Speaker 1: think it's an honor for anyone who gets to talk
Speaker 1: to you because of what you're doing in all of
Speaker 1: the mediums you're doing it in. Like Triple Threat gets
Speaker 1: thrown around a lot. You know, people like you, but
Speaker 1: you really are that. You know. SNL was one of
Speaker 1: the best examples. Congrats by the way, we thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I had a lot of fun on that show.
Speaker 1: You looked like you did. You did so well that
Speaker 1: like I've seen people crush it on SNL, I have
Speaker 1: seen very few people crush it to the point where
Speaker 1: people watching are like, where's her SNL? That that would
Speaker 1: be fun, people like when doing her own things. Well,
Speaker 1: that's cool that I'm actually not not so shy about
Speaker 1: the fact that I really want to bring the Variety showback,
Speaker 1: like I really want to do it. So if anybody
Speaker 1: wants to hit me up on that, cool um. It
Speaker 1: seems like to me, you are soon becoming the puzzle
Speaker 1: piece that everyone is going to have to figure out
Speaker 1: how to fit around. That's cool. I've never been I've
Speaker 1: never had that I've ever had that. I genuinely feel
Speaker 1: like that is what you are. You are very quickly becoming.
Speaker 1: I mean, West Side Story is a few films get
Speaker 1: remade with as much pressure as this one has had.
Speaker 1: You are playing a role that is arguably one of
Speaker 1: the most important roles in not just film history, but
Speaker 1: then like in the history of so many Latino actresses
Speaker 1: where they go like, this was this was it? You know,
Speaker 1: this was the Rita Marino moment that changed film for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. It had an influence in your life,
Speaker 1: Yes it did. And I saw it when I was Gosh,
Speaker 1: I guess I felt like six or seven, you know,
Speaker 1: and I didn't understand who she was, but I understood
Speaker 1: she sort of looked like me, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: dance just like her. And then, and not until my
Speaker 1: adulthood did I really understand the full spectrum of of
Speaker 1: what West Side Story did for her, what what and
Speaker 1: what she came to mean to our community. But then
Speaker 1: also the struggles that she faced after winning an oscar.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like she became the first Latina to
Speaker 1: win an oscar, and then all of a sudden there
Speaker 1: was no work, so she had to find other ways
Speaker 1: to expand her career, and I as it makes me
Speaker 1: very sad that that was her experience, but also when
Speaker 1: you look at her breadth of work, she showed you
Speaker 1: that Latino's are not we don't just do this, we
Speaker 1: do this. That's really cool. I mean, I think specifically
Speaker 1: related to West Side Story, my being after Latina. That
Speaker 1: makes me especially proud of what I've been able to
Speaker 1: accomplish because we really are not represented on screen. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that any film is a perfect film,
Speaker 1: but I do think the fact that we that my
Speaker 1: inclusion in this film works were the beginnings of getting
Speaker 1: it right. And if Stephen can do it one of
Speaker 1: the greatest directors of all time because he is um,
Speaker 1: then I think everybody else can. He's one of the
Speaker 1: greatest directors of all time. But you said you said
Speaker 1: know to him when he asked you to read lines, Well,
Speaker 1: I did, but that was simply because I had found
Speaker 1: out about this audition very very last minute. I was
Speaker 1: on Broadway at the time. I was playing Donna Summer,
Speaker 1: which was a very challenging role for me, and leading
Speaker 1: a company takes a lot out of you, and I
Speaker 1: don't make a habit of going into a room within
Speaker 1: the one in it and being unprepared. Do you like?
Speaker 1: But if I like, that's that's the difference. If I
Speaker 1: walked into the room and Steven Spielberg was on the
Speaker 1: let's say I walk into the elevator in this building,
Speaker 1: and then with Steven Spielberg, and then he said, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I need you to read these lines. I just stought
Speaker 1: reading the lines, started reading them. I wouldn't be like, no,
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg, I haven't prepared. I would just read you
Speaker 1: said you said no. I said no because I wanted.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is I'm not prepared to show
Speaker 1: you a viable interpretation of this character. And I would
Speaker 1: rather do that. Then. I'd rather give you something that's
Speaker 1: usable than give you something that's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in and next like
Speaker 1: I want to. If I was gonna do it, it
Speaker 1: already took a lot of guts for me to walk
Speaker 1: into the room because I didn't actually believe that i'd
Speaker 1: ever be considered for the job, but alone get the job. Um,
Speaker 1: then I was going to do it and do it
Speaker 1: well in a way. I feel like you saying no
Speaker 1: to doing it incorrectly and wanting to do it your
Speaker 1: way and the best way possible is part of your character, Like,
Speaker 1: that's that's who it is story, it is, that is
Speaker 1: who she is at her heart. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of my characters like there are different bits of
Speaker 1: me within them, and that is the part of me
Speaker 1: that is Anita. So before I let you go, I'd
Speaker 1: love to talk about one of the most just like
Speaker 1: amazing moments in in film, and and that is when
Speaker 1: a character who has created a moment in history comes
Speaker 1: back to the film. Obviously, I'm speaking about Ria Marino,
Speaker 1: who comes back in West Side Story playing a different role,
Speaker 1: but comes back as an executive producer. And then you're
Speaker 1: in a scene with her. I wonder if that if
Speaker 1: that was a lot of pressure for you. Was there
Speaker 1: any moment that you shared with her where you were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is my thing that I've sort of
Speaker 1: inherited from her, and I have the opportunity to turn
Speaker 1: it into what I want. I mean, we we spoke
Speaker 1: briefly at the beginning of the process, but she was
Speaker 1: very supportive. Thank god. She made me feel very comfortable
Speaker 1: and just encouraged me to bring everything that made me
Speaker 1: unique to the character and just let me gave me
Speaker 1: permission in her own energetic way to fly. And now
Speaker 1: the scene you're talking about is its deep, heavy subject matter,
Speaker 1: and so I sort of shifted into just focusing on
Speaker 1: who the characters were and playing the truth of the characters.
Speaker 1: Because if I had actually thought about, all, right now,
Speaker 1: you're going to yell at rhom reno, I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody if it hadn't been me, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: would have been comfortable with doing that. Well you know
Speaker 1: what you did it you you looked more than comfortable.
Speaker 1: I mean you you you're just sailing. And congratulations on
Speaker 1: the award. Congratulations on the nominations and everything that you're
Speaker 1: going to achieve. Man, thank you for joining on the
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. West Side Story is in theaters
Speaker 1: right now. You definitely want to go and watch it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
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