Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yo yo yo, Hey Ears Edition listeners, this is your boy,
Speaker 2: Ashton Walmack, writer and digital correspondent for the Daily Show,
Speaker 2: and as you know, every week we want to give
Speaker 2: you guys an Ears Edition extra And aren't you guys
Speaker 2: so lucky because we have the podcast. God himself be
Speaker 2: ex legend, do'n know him? One of my favorite guest
Speaker 2: hosts to have on the show. Thank you for coming
Speaker 2: round of applause for the very wonderful, illustrious Jesus nice, everybody,
Speaker 2: Jesus nice, and.
Speaker 3: Bill you're gear it up for me us the exit
Speaker 3: the building, and also give it up for the Daily
Speaker 3: Show for letting me host you guys. That the Ronks
Speaker 3: guy in the building. I had the time of my
Speaker 3: life shot to Ashton, the real homie. This is not
Speaker 3: my first time meeting him on the podcast. Because I'm
Speaker 3: a real person. I'll try to meet everyone on set.
Speaker 3: And we chopped it up in the what was it
Speaker 3: that the long kitchen?
Speaker 1: It's the little Yeah, it's like a hallway lounge area.
Speaker 4: Now we reunited on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Get it bro, bro.
Speaker 2: This is like I have to say before I even
Speaker 2: get started. This is definitely a dream come true. I'm
Speaker 2: nerding out obviously, from Complex to Vice to Showtime. I
Speaker 2: followed you. I'm telling you from Complex, when you're sitting
Speaker 2: on crates, my guy.
Speaker 4: Sitting on crates looking looking ashy and broke.
Speaker 1: You had behind the kids, it was fire.
Speaker 3: It was yeah, the little quarter waters and then the
Speaker 3: one episode with the Hennessy.
Speaker 4: Listen, listen, we got out the mud.
Speaker 1: I moved to New York.
Speaker 2: You were like one of the main reasons why this story,
Speaker 2: and I was like, bro y'all paying it. New York
Speaker 2: way too fire for me. I'm like, I'm going to La. No,
Speaker 2: New York sounds so much more fun. So thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you. I would not have this job podcast genuinely,
Speaker 2: I can cite you as a source.
Speaker 1: I'm not not even trying to guess it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: my brother. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Listen. You told me that.
Speaker 3: You told me that when we met in person, and
Speaker 3: I appreciate that wholeheartedly. And I also kind of relate
Speaker 3: to that because I just moved to LA you know,
Speaker 3: like temporarily, and like coming back the appreciation I have
Speaker 3: for New York now, like I look at New York.
Speaker 3: I guess in the vision that we described it on
Speaker 3: on the podcast, like it's.
Speaker 4: Like little things like last night, three in.
Speaker 3: The More and I ran to the bodego to go
Speaker 3: get hot wings and beer.
Speaker 4: You can't do that in La.
Speaker 1: Everything close it too. Every that's that's wild.
Speaker 4: That's wild, it's wild. So just just little those little things.
Speaker 3: Just you appreciate them so much, man, So I kind
Speaker 3: of see it the same way as you.
Speaker 2: All Right, that brings me. Let me get into my
Speaker 2: first question of the day. We were on strike for
Speaker 2: five months. Yes, how did that affect you? You were
Speaker 2: supposed to host before the strike.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 3: And the thing was when it was announced I was
Speaker 3: supposed to host, Like everyone was so excited.
Speaker 4: I was like, everyone was like congratulating me. Everyone like Jesus,
Speaker 4: you got host daily. So that's so great.
Speaker 3: Boom, strike happens, nothing, nothing, And I was like, yo,
Speaker 3: I didn't even know if it was going to come back.
Speaker 3: And then because of the strike, you know, everyone like
Speaker 3: I got a little depressed. I love working, I love
Speaker 3: being on TV. So I hadn't been on TV. Last
Speaker 3: time I was on TV before the strike was when
Speaker 3: I was on Jimmy Kimmel And that was like almost
Speaker 3: a year and a half ago.
Speaker 4: So you know, you build don't want to extect me.
Speaker 3: I was like daily show, daily So daily show, there's
Speaker 3: like nothing's like nothing.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody working, stay home.
Speaker 4: Nobody come in.
Speaker 3: But on the flip side of that, that made me
Speaker 3: appreciate hosting even more because after going through the strike
Speaker 3: and actually you know, going and protesting and you know,
Speaker 3: having this sad you know, just really learning to appreciate
Speaker 3: what I do when we make TV, not just what
Speaker 3: I do, what we do when we make TV.
Speaker 4: Like when we all come together.
Speaker 3: Like when we go in that writer's room, we're basically
Speaker 3: building an airplane while we're already in the air, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, Like, damn, that's hard. People don't even.
Speaker 3: Realize like the amount of people it takes to make
Speaker 3: a TV show, and like everyone has like a role,
Speaker 3: and no one's role is smaller than another person's role. Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm the talent, but if the writers don't do this,
Speaker 3: and if the camera people don't do this, and if
Speaker 3: the interns do this, we don't have a show at
Speaker 3: the end of the night. And so like coming in
Speaker 3: with that vision and realizing how fortunate I am to
Speaker 3: not only host the Daily Show, but to work in
Speaker 3: Hollywood and be able to.
Speaker 4: Make people laugh.
Speaker 3: It's just like, yo, I feel like I'm the person
Speaker 3: that's the winning on this and like it's like not
Speaker 3: even about the fans. I'm like, like you saw me,
Speaker 3: you saw me get an emotional on that.
Speaker 4: Mic Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the happiest moment of this week probably right now, like.
Speaker 4: Ty, right now, Like.
Speaker 3: It's been four shows, this has been our best show.
Speaker 3: We're killing it, staff.
Speaker 4: Is killing it.
Speaker 3: You guys are here. I'm actually like, like I'm probably
Speaker 3: gonna tear up at the end of this. So if
Speaker 3: you see that, don't call me a bitch on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Was that exactly what you were feeling in that moment?
Speaker 2: You're just like it was all coming ahead. You're like, wow,
Speaker 2: I'm here, Yes, because.
Speaker 3: The last episode was so good, like we killed and
Speaker 3: people like you killed it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, we killed it.
Speaker 3: Like all the writers, like the jokes hit, everything was
Speaker 3: so good, and it's just like the culmulation of the week.
Speaker 4: And then also realized.
Speaker 3: Like a sadness like damn, I'm not gonna see y'all
Speaker 3: no more, and like all of that just hit me
Speaker 3: at once and just also just being appreciative and kind,
Speaker 3: just just being like damn, like a lot of times.
Speaker 3: Now I'm just like reflecting all my life and I've
Speaker 3: had so many jobs, I've done so many things, and
Speaker 3: just like, yo, for all the things I've done, you know,
Speaker 3: strip club manager, you know, allegedly some criminal stuff, working
Speaker 3: in the library, working in as a small business report,
Speaker 3: and like I'm hosting the daily show.
Speaker 4: No I hosted the daily Who are you?
Speaker 1: Who are so?
Speaker 3: And now I'm walking around to speak to New York
Speaker 3: and like random people are like coming up to me,
Speaker 3: like they're like, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 4: I'm so like I'm just like getting touched.
Speaker 3: Like I have neighbors in my building who I've never
Speaker 3: spoken to me before, and now they're like, oh, you
Speaker 3: do comedy.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, man, now that I see
Speaker 2: you on TV, yeah, I'm not going to feel your
Speaker 2: package is no man, all right, I know, I ain't
Speaker 2: know it was you.
Speaker 3: Now they're holding the elevated door open before they're hitting
Speaker 3: the button making the door.
Speaker 4: Closer fast fire.
Speaker 1: That's a man. That is awesome.
Speaker 2: That is like, do people come up to you like
Speaker 2: in the street. You ever get like, oh yeah, yo, yo,
Speaker 2: I know you. You you're my old librarian.
Speaker 3: They don't you know what that's that's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3: Nobody that worked with previous jobs. I mean, shout out
Speaker 3: to my old office job. Like I still got the
Speaker 3: group chat going shout out to Darren and the homies
Speaker 3: out there. But like, nobody that worked in any of
Speaker 3: the other stuff I've done ever contacts me. My number
Speaker 3: is the same. And it's actually funny. I went out
Speaker 3: one night shout to Fatima and the homies. We went
Speaker 3: to a gay club after we was out drinking because
Speaker 3: they was like, yo, they're gay. There was like they
Speaker 3: still got drinks and I was like, let's get it.
Speaker 1: It was alcohol there, right.
Speaker 3: So we go to the club. As soon as I
Speaker 3: walk in, the managers like, hello, Jesus at all you've
Speaker 3: been there? Was like you've been here before. And I
Speaker 3: go like this, tell them where you know me from?
Speaker 3: And the manager goes, he was my baby bouncer back
Speaker 3: in six.
Speaker 4: What yes, what yes?
Speaker 1: Funny is your baby bouncer that was the smallest guy.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, bro, I've lived a life as wild.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to imagine you as, but you have lived
Speaker 2: a life God damn, bro.
Speaker 3: But also you gotta think about this, and I imagine
Speaker 3: I have like mad layers on.
Speaker 4: I have like a dicky jacket.
Speaker 3: But of all the bouncers you see, you see this
Speaker 3: little small guy, You're like.
Speaker 4: He must know m m a, I ain't gonna mess
Speaker 4: with him. Like so he was just he was like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's here for a reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, No.
Speaker 2: It's like one of the people where it's like I'm
Speaker 2: I'm trained, I don't choose to use my hands. You're like,
Speaker 2: why don't you use your hands because I've killed before.
Speaker 2: You're like, don't play with that, dude.
Speaker 4: Okay, brother, brother, don't don't take me back to the
Speaker 4: dark side. I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm choosing not to use violence.
Speaker 4: Never again. Never again. He's hands. I only praise the
Speaker 4: Lord now.
Speaker 2: But honestly, to your point, like just from being in
Speaker 2: the writer's room, we get guest hosts every week. We
Speaker 2: don't really know what to expect from the guest host.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: You came in. The energy was genuinely I'm using your words,
Speaker 2: was immaculate. It was like it was fun. It felt
Speaker 2: like in order to be a writer's room, the person
Speaker 2: steering the ship, the person piloting the plane we're building,
Speaker 2: they got to be in with us, and you were
Speaker 2: one hundred percent in and that's what that's what makes
Speaker 2: it fun to come to work and write jokes and
Speaker 2: be able to do little goofy just all the little
Speaker 2: goofy stuff we do every week. The guest host is
Speaker 2: very much like a pivotal part of it. And you genuinely,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I really hope you get another week because
Speaker 2: that was so much fun.
Speaker 3: But no, thank you for saying that, because like the
Speaker 3: whole experience did not feel like work, and coming into
Speaker 3: the writer's room it felt like hanging with the homies,
Speaker 3: you know, like we're watching the videos, we're laughing. And
Speaker 3: one thing I loved out to the Daily Show writers
Speaker 3: room and everyone in that room. It was so comfortable
Speaker 3: that people so able to say whatever, and people would
Speaker 3: say the shittiest jokes, jokes that full flat like no.
Speaker 4: One in the room at everyone got quiet. But that's
Speaker 4: the good. That's the sign of a good writer's room
Speaker 4: for to do that.
Speaker 2: Everything repercussions and no none, that's my favorite part.
Speaker 3: You're comfortable and that's the thing. And when you're comfortable,
Speaker 3: that's when the good jokes come through.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 3: There's no like, I'm scared to like says everyone in
Speaker 3: that room feel is like has the same level of
Speaker 3: confidence and comfort and everyone feels equal and and that
Speaker 3: right there made it so easy to make the show.
Speaker 3: And that's why it was bro, I said again, it
Speaker 3: was just like hanging with the homies.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that brought that up, because my
Speaker 2: first day in the writer room terrified. You're sitting behind
Speaker 2: Trevor Noah and you're like, I'm not about to say
Speaker 2: a joke? Are you kidding me? You're like, you think
Speaker 2: you're gonna say a joke, and then the sad man
Speaker 2: from the Apollo go come in and will Yeah, you're fired, Bro.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad you said that, And that's my favorite
Speaker 2: part of the morning meetings. The writer's room. It's not
Speaker 2: just writers' pitching jokes. It's producers, it's executives, it's everybody. Everybody.
Speaker 1: If you got a funny thought, that's the pitch.
Speaker 2: If you could see the pitch list, everybody pitches a
Speaker 2: daily show, not just me, not just our head writers.
Speaker 2: We got interns, at pitch. That's what makes it so
Speaker 2: much fun.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: It's a comedy place. We just we just hear for
Speaker 2: the jokes. That's why you're one of my the funnest
Speaker 2: guest hosts.
Speaker 1: To have for sure. Thank you man, Thanks for show
Speaker 1: for show. Now, I guess going on to my next question,
Speaker 1: you do have experience hosting your own show. Your previous
Speaker 1: roles weren't as like politically oriented. How was that for
Speaker 1: you coming from a more pop culture background into political comedy.
Speaker 3: It actually wasn't that difficult because in previous iterations of
Speaker 3: the show we had interviewed politicians, interviewed Obama, plug you'
Speaker 3: aoc so. But the way those interviews worked were different
Speaker 3: than the way you work on the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: And as far as covering politics, we usually covered.
Speaker 3: It more from a comedy aspect, more like, hey, here's this,
Speaker 3: here's it, not more like do.
Speaker 1: You think we're doing?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: But no, usually use comedy when we talk about politics.
Speaker 1: Y'all doing it's fine, but but no, like you got.
Speaker 3: Fact check in fact check, we were just like misprodounced names.
Speaker 4: We didn't know. It was just like making up if
Speaker 4: they were a Democrat.
Speaker 1: Republican, you were bit in. Facts don't matter. What are
Speaker 1: you thinking about it? They don't matter.
Speaker 4: I regret that because now facts actually don't matter.
Speaker 3: Like they took that fault. Bro listen black. Twitter creates
Speaker 3: the world tapes, so.
Speaker 1: Damn you even dropping gyms to this podcast. I'm gona happy
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 3: But no, like that was part of the beauty of
Speaker 3: the Daily Show. It's like, it's kind of like sugar
Speaker 3: and medicine. It's like, hey, we're gonna give you this dry,
Speaker 3: boring ass information and you're gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna laugh through it.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the things on the comments people
Speaker 3: were saying, like, you're really good at that. You're like,
Speaker 3: put a nice spin on it. That doesn't feel like news.
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel preachy. And people even the stadium piece,
Speaker 3: the long story short piece, shout out to the writers.
Speaker 3: I got Diallo for just hooking that up.
Speaker 4: Go up.
Speaker 3: I lived across the street from Yankee Stadium. I could
Speaker 3: hear the crowd, I could smell the glizzies, white people.
Speaker 4: Those are hot dogs.
Speaker 3: Then in two thousand and nine, they built a new
Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium right next to the old one, and it
Speaker 3: looked basically the same. It was like Drake's last two albums.
Speaker 3: You couldn't tell them apart. But there was one huge
Speaker 3: difference the cost to the public. The city handed over
Speaker 3: twenty acres of public parkland and a billion dollars of
Speaker 3: tax paper money. So the house that Ruth built really
Speaker 3: became the house that you and I built, Well most
Speaker 3: of you. I'm a softign sistant I don't pay taxes,
Speaker 3: but this happens all the time. Just last year, New
Speaker 3: York gave the Buffalo Bills six hundred million dollars to
Speaker 3: build a new stadium. Six hundred million. That's almost as
Speaker 3: much as NYPD spends to stop fifty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 3: of turnstile jumper. So how does this happen? Why are
Speaker 3: billionaire owners getting welfare to build stadiums. It's something I
Speaker 3: want to talk about in Tonight's Long Story Show. If
Speaker 3: that's not delivered the right way, that's a snooze fest.
Speaker 3: That's like a New York Times article. You don't want
Speaker 3: to read about that. But we were able to punch
Speaker 3: it up and do jokes and like actually make it interesting.
Speaker 4: And that's the Beauda The Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Like you you're gonna learn something and me personally, I
Speaker 3: hate learning. I hate watching TV and learning anything. I
Speaker 3: only have but so much space in my brain. I
Speaker 3: can't be losing stuff like you know, you learn and
Speaker 3: you I might lose the lyrics from mob.
Speaker 4: Deep's Eye for an Eye. I can't risk that.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I can't learn your name right now. I'm holding on
Speaker 2: to the theme song of the Jeffersons.
Speaker 4: I can't listen. I can't disrespect big noise, you know.
Speaker 1: But no, you're right.
Speaker 2: You're right, and that's what the whole infotainment is for,
Speaker 2: because we got to trick you in the spoonful of
Speaker 2: medicine then the spoonful of sugar meta whatever we do
Speaker 2: have to like quote unquote trick you. My favorite part
Speaker 2: is you were giving the information like your skill set
Speaker 2: is like being like a guy on a porch talking
Speaker 2: like you just the homie, and you were giving that
Speaker 2: information like a hood dude on the porch. The juxtaposition
Speaker 2: is funny. It's wow, it speaks to me, so is that.
Speaker 2: That's very enlightening and it formant.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: The comments have been super positive online on social media,
Speaker 3: and I sold one comment and it was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know who this guy is, but I will continue
Speaker 3: to listen to him wherever he goes. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the Daily Show audience. Y'all was so supportive,
Speaker 2: except for Chris nine two eight six. I see you
Speaker 2: every day on Instagram comments, BS, don't let me catch
Speaker 2: you on the streets.
Speaker 4: Is that a real person? Uh?
Speaker 1: No, I was messing around.
Speaker 4: Okay, well you know what I did. Here's an interesting fact.
Speaker 3: Every time I saw a negative comment, like on the
Speaker 3: IG and it was like you think Jesus is funny?
Speaker 3: I would be like, okay, let me research this hater
Speaker 3: and I go on their Twitter page, and ninety nine
Speaker 3: point nine percent of the time that person has tweeted
Speaker 3: like maybe back in like twenty sixteen, like y'all think
Speaker 3: Jesus is funny at Loki.
Speaker 4: I respect the hater.
Speaker 3: I respect a hater like you got you keep it consistently,
Speaker 3: if you stand the your business.
Speaker 1: That's a fire ass hater. He's staying in your life.
Speaker 1: Nah no, no, baby, He like one.
Speaker 2: Of them reverse fans. He like, I've actually been hating
Speaker 2: Jesus since six.
Speaker 4: How are you a monogamous hater Listen.
Speaker 1: I love it. This is a great segue in the haters,
Speaker 1: Oh my haters, because we have to talk about one
Speaker 1: of my favorite headlines this week.
Speaker 2: I felt like it was iconic. The fact that all
Speaker 2: the universe is timing is so beautiful. The God's timing
Speaker 2: is real. I think we saw that this week. So
Speaker 2: I want to get into a headline we discussed DJ
Speaker 2: Envy being accused of fraud.
Speaker 3: I know some people expect me to come out here
Speaker 3: and do my thing while you're just roast people by that.
Speaker 3: I have beflip. But this is a serious show. There's
Speaker 3: a serious chair, serious desk, and now I'm going to
Speaker 3: give you some important financial news so important I have
Speaker 3: to put on my spectacles. I report on this serious
Speaker 3: financial news.
Speaker 5: Popular radio host DJ Envy now distancing himself from an
Speaker 5: alleged multimillion dollar frond scheme.
Speaker 4: DJ vus that was never on my radar?
Speaker 2: Go on, what was that like covering him for the show,
Speaker 2: and how did you decide what angle you wanted to
Speaker 2: approach for that story?
Speaker 3: You know what that's like against out to the universe
Speaker 3: for just putting that, putting that right there, for us,
Speaker 3: putting on a tee. But no, it was like it
Speaker 3: was cool, but it also it showed growth because it's
Speaker 3: like when that happened, it was so early in my career,
Speaker 3: I didn't know how the game worked. Actually, one of
Speaker 3: the most hurtful aspects of that was the fact that
Speaker 3: when I came in this industry, I was.
Speaker 4: Like, Yo, these people you meet, he's your friends, And
Speaker 4: it's like, Yo, no, that's not the case. These are
Speaker 4: just people you work with.
Speaker 3: These are like people you go on you know, you
Speaker 3: go on their podcast and like they can switch it
Speaker 3: up on you and like they'll do it on camera.
Speaker 3: That was wild, you know, like, and it's like, I'm
Speaker 3: not a person trying to hold resentment for it. I've
Speaker 3: moved on past it. It's funny when it comes up
Speaker 3: on the little reunions and stuff. I got a little
Speaker 3: tired of talking about it because that's all people wanted
Speaker 3: to talk about at one point, but then able to
Speaker 3: be able to talk about it on the Daily Show,
Speaker 3: and we did it in a way where it's just
Speaker 3: like we were kind of laughing at the situation and
Speaker 3: laughing at like we're above.
Speaker 4: That now, Yeah, we're on the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Dog Like, oh, is that what's going on down there?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. I'm up here reading joking about Trump
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, sorry, I'm about to I'm about to interview AOC.
Speaker 3: You have a little fraud problem over there, my guy.
Speaker 1: You know, like you know, I know a few politicians,
Speaker 1: can I can might put in a good word.
Speaker 3: Wow, dj Envy is in trouble for real estate fraud.
Speaker 3: What a serious story. It's definitely not funny. There's certainly
Speaker 3: nothing personal that makes it funny to me. It's not
Speaker 3: like Rashan accosted me on the radio for making a
Speaker 3: little joke about him and his wife, which.
Speaker 4: I only thought we were friends.
Speaker 3: It's not like you called me dickhead and then got
Speaker 3: so mad he locked himself in the studio for the
Speaker 3: rest of the show and then told the building security
Speaker 3: that was a threat. But even if that happened, that's
Speaker 3: all in the past.
Speaker 4: I'm just reading.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: One of the better parts was being able to just
Speaker 3: like it wasn't like childish, it wasn't juvenile.
Speaker 4: There was no name calling, there was no it was
Speaker 4: just like, yo, you're just.
Speaker 1: Discussed the story.
Speaker 2: You literally just discussed the story, you know, I mean
Speaker 2: who's the dickhead?
Speaker 1: Now it's pretty funny. Let's not act like this.
Speaker 4: But it was fun. And then also, you know, just
Speaker 4: it's like full circle.
Speaker 3: It's like now, you know, like I'm on the Daily Show, baby,
Speaker 3: Like I was just like, you know, let's just cover
Speaker 3: this in a way where it's not cringey, in a
Speaker 3: way where it's just like it actually does come off professional. Also,
Speaker 3: you know, I was killing it in that suit. I
Speaker 3: put on the glasses as well. You know, the ladies
Speaker 3: love the glasses. Sadly, the glasses got a little fogged
Speaker 3: up towards the end, but only real professionals in Hollywood
Speaker 3: noticed that.
Speaker 4: But it was it was a fun time and you know,
Speaker 4: like it was just it was playful.
Speaker 3: It wasn't malicious. It wasn't like it wasn't it was
Speaker 3: just like even I don't know, if he laughed, he'd
Speaker 3: have to laugh. I mean it was very he has
Speaker 3: a lot to laugh about right now.
Speaker 1: Well, actually you're talking about your suit.
Speaker 2: You went from a suit at the beginning, you know,
Speaker 2: you Daily Show classic, but then you started loosening up,
Speaker 2: finding your own style.
Speaker 1: That brown what was that like a brown jacket? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was right, Yeah, yeah, did you have a style
Speaker 1: of you? Is that you stylist? What made you go
Speaker 1: stop doing the suits and find your own style for
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 4: You know what that was?
Speaker 3: Actually all of that was the same stylist. That was
Speaker 3: a shot to my guy, Dan Peelee. I've been working
Speaker 3: with him now. That was his first time doing a
Speaker 3: multi night gig on broadcast television, and me and him,
Speaker 3: we've been working together. We're like so in sync, like
Speaker 3: we don't even Like he gets an outfit and he
Speaker 3: knows that's exactly what I wanted to wear. And I mean,
Speaker 3: like I like the suit, you know, like I wanted
Speaker 3: It's my first time on the Daily Show. I wanted
Speaker 3: to wear a suit, and then after that loosen up
Speaker 3: and it was actually something we worked on because I
Speaker 3: haven't been on TV for so long. He was like,
Speaker 3: I want to reintroduce the world to you, but A
Speaker 3: knew you, like a higher level you, because you know,
Speaker 3: I'm still at the end of the day, I'm a
Speaker 3: guy from the Bronx.
Speaker 4: I'm always going to be a god for the Bronx.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't mean I have to, you know, be
Speaker 4: in like size thirty eight junko Jean.
Speaker 1: Then that's insightful. I was wondering.
Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder what made him get out
Speaker 2: of the suit, because the suit, like you said, it
Speaker 2: is the classic Daily Show suit.
Speaker 1: But I love it. I love it. I love it
Speaker 1: when the guests find their own.
Speaker 3: Part of me was like, oh, shoot, wear a suit
Speaker 3: every night, and I was like, no, I just want
Speaker 3: to stand out, you know, I want people to see
Speaker 3: the real media.
Speaker 4: Like then, Also, you have to be.
Speaker 3: Careful with the suit because if the suits got done right,
Speaker 3: you're gonna look like a jehole witness.
Speaker 4: Say what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to be up there looking like
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey at the desk.
Speaker 4: Listen, Steve Harvey, he's been putting on lately.
Speaker 1: Lately, he been wearing that shit lately.
Speaker 2: I'm still stuck in three years ago when he was
Speaker 2: wild with them big ass suits.
Speaker 4: But listen, what do you have against the suit with
Speaker 4: forty buttons?
Speaker 2: Come on, it ain't the it's the zoot suitings of it.
Speaker 2: It's the fact that they stretch out.
Speaker 4: The suit just goes below the knees.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: He's wearing this suit is a dress for a seventh
Speaker 4: day events.
Speaker 1: I know, it's you got a suit kilt on.
Speaker 2: I ain't never seen no shit, but I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: like the changing it up, because it did give you know,
Speaker 2: I have a personal like not it's not my show,
Speaker 2: but you know daily shows like oh, this is my show.
Speaker 2: So seeing like a new energy and like a fresher
Speaker 2: look coming out on our clips on our show, it
Speaker 2: gives it that new vibrancy. So I'm showing other guest hosts, Hey,
Speaker 2: remember make this shit look fla, I don't coming up
Speaker 2: dusty air.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people were saying that online. They was like, Yo,
Speaker 4: this is like you're bringing like a younger energy to
Speaker 4: the show. You're bringing like a new energy, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: thank you. I was like, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Like the Daily Show is like an iconic brand, so
Speaker 3: it's just like, Yo, just bringing your energy to it,
Speaker 3: and it's just like the two and two match.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it fun. That's what makes it fun.
Speaker 2: So, Jesus, you used to be a part of a
Speaker 2: comedy duo, but now you've hosted Kimmel, You've hosted a
Speaker 2: daily show. How's that transition been for you going from
Speaker 2: a duo to now just Jesus nice.
Speaker 4: You learn a lot.
Speaker 3: You learn a lot, and it's different now because all
Speaker 3: the responsibilities is on me.
Speaker 4: So it's like, if something goes wrong, that would be
Speaker 4: on me.
Speaker 3: By at the same time, all the benefits are on me,
Speaker 3: so when I show up, that's just me representing. So
Speaker 3: like it's even like going to the Daily Show, They're like,
Speaker 3: be in the car at nine. I'm in the car
Speaker 3: at like eight fifty five. I'm there for every meeting.
Speaker 3: I'm fully prepared. I am just like you can ask people,
Speaker 3: I'm a pleasure to work with. And I know at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, that's what people are getting.
Speaker 4: Jesus is what Jesus is.
Speaker 3: And that's another thing that if you know we're Hollywood
Speaker 3: is such a small industry that everyone talks about everyone.
Speaker 3: So one thing that I've learned is if you're good
Speaker 3: in one set, word travels.
Speaker 4: With the industry. That people are like, yo, Jesus is
Speaker 4: a pleasure to work with. Hire this guy. This guy
Speaker 4: is great.
Speaker 3: Because the people at Kimmel they're calling me from the
Speaker 3: Daily Show thing and they're like, oh, I know this
Speaker 3: person at the Daily Show and they said it was
Speaker 3: so fun to work with you, and I was telling
Speaker 3: them about this.
Speaker 4: And then also another.
Speaker 3: Part that people forget, like a lot of people who
Speaker 3: work on the Daily Show used to work either on
Speaker 3: my old show or like a previous show, so it
Speaker 3: was like a real it was like union reunion, like
Speaker 3: the stage man and the directors. Like when I see
Speaker 3: these people, it wasn't even like dapping them up. It
Speaker 3: was like, yo, hug these people. These are people I
Speaker 3: missed five and.
Speaker 4: They're like they know me.
Speaker 3: So it's like like when I see those people, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is easy to do. Like Jesus, let's fucking get.
Speaker 1: It, dude. That's fire. That's fire. You remember you remember
Speaker 1: like seeing like oh it was like reunion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I remember everyone I worked.
Speaker 3: There's never like even like pas and interns and like
Speaker 3: in La I'll run into people and they'll be like
Speaker 3: do you remember me? And I'll be like season three
Speaker 3: blah blah blah lah la dah, Like I like because
Speaker 3: that's the thing, Like I never want someone to I
Speaker 3: met to feel like they weren't appreciated, and I never
Speaker 3: want like one thing, especially at the Daily Show, Like
Speaker 3: no matter who I saw in the hallway, I was
Speaker 3: always talking to them because I've worked on shows where
Speaker 3: people have been like, Yo, nobody ever spoke to me,
Speaker 3: No guest host is ever spoken to me, And I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 3: that's wild. Just because it was an intern or a
Speaker 3: PA doesn't mean they don't exist. And it's just like, Also,
Speaker 3: that intern that you're nasty to today might be running
Speaker 3: paramount in the future, so you gotta like, don't don't
Speaker 3: don't burn bridges.
Speaker 4: You don't have to burn.
Speaker 2: You had a segment while you were at The Daily
Speaker 2: Show where you hit the streets of New York and
Speaker 2: ask what makes a real New Yorker and you had
Speaker 2: Bronx guest aoc Nana Kuame. How important was it for
Speaker 2: you to showcase New York City in your episode?
Speaker 3: You know what, it was very important because being a
Speaker 3: native New Yorker that kind of adds a certain genesse.
Speaker 4: Quah to be hosting The.
Speaker 3: Daily Show because people like, even though I was out
Speaker 3: in LA, people like right away was like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: from New York because you hear my voice, you the
Speaker 3: way I can pronounce I'm in the store asking for kaffee.
Speaker 4: They're like like, let me get a coffee in a sandwich.
Speaker 3: You know, like you got that accent, but also it
Speaker 3: kind of felt like a love letter to New York
Speaker 3: because after not being in New York for so long
Speaker 3: and just you know, like I'm not trying.
Speaker 4: To shit on La. La is a beautiful city.
Speaker 3: Is completely different than New York, and it has its
Speaker 3: own great qualities. And it's like comparing the two is
Speaker 3: like comparing like ketchup and mustard. They're like total opposites.
Speaker 3: But being away from New York, being away from my
Speaker 3: friends in New York, being away from just like little
Speaker 3: like you start missing little things that you took for granted,
Speaker 3: like even being in a car. The other day, I
Speaker 3: pass Linking Center and it was nighttime and it was
Speaker 3: like lit up and it was so beautiful, and I
Speaker 3: was like, how many times have I like walked past
Speaker 3: Lincoln Center never even looked at it? Just completely like
Speaker 3: you'll be in Grand Central. Grand Central is basically like
Speaker 3: almost on the level of the Sistine Chapel to other people.
Speaker 3: When we walk through it, as New Yorkers, we don't
Speaker 3: look around, we don't take it for granted. We're like,
Speaker 3: let me get the fuck out of this building as
Speaker 3: soon as possible because I's something to do, and That's
Speaker 3: one thing in New York.
Speaker 4: Like we're always rushing.
Speaker 3: We're always rushing at the point that we don't even
Speaker 3: have time to enjoy this incredible city.
Speaker 4: You know, like it's corny.
Speaker 3: But like once you leave New York you hear Empire
Speaker 3: state of Mind and you start crying.
Speaker 1: You're like, I see why little Mama jumped on that stage.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: Bro, you be in a bar in LA with other
Speaker 3: New Yorkersire state of mind.
Speaker 4: You think nine eleven just happened. It's incredible. You really
Speaker 4: have one hand in the air for the big city.
Speaker 4: You're like, we're gonna rebuild these towns.
Speaker 2: I never cared about that Frank Sinatra song. I'm from Texas.
Speaker 2: I'm from Houston, Texas. Bro, I ain never cared about
Speaker 2: that Frank Sinatra song. I lived here for six years.
Speaker 2: Now I walk down the street. What's new New Yo.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like jugging to Frank Sinatra, and I'm
Speaker 2: not feeling this place is magical.
Speaker 4: Like I'm just I'm just drunk on the trains. If
Speaker 4: you can make it, you can make it anywhere. Oh?
Speaker 1: Is that is that a subway master?
Speaker 4: Bator?
Speaker 1: How have I missed you?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Keep the city great.
Speaker 1: Last question, man, last question, let's go.
Speaker 2: You asked your guests fuck Mary kill, Tony Morrison, Jordan,
Speaker 2: Neil Hurston or James Baldwin. I think it's only fair
Speaker 2: for you to play fuck Mary kill New York edition.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you some New York options.
Speaker 1: You tell me Mary kill. Okay, fat Joe, Cardi b DJ.
Speaker 2: Vuh put him in hour in a hard position immediately.
Speaker 3: Hey, yo, hey yo, all right, I guess you. I
Speaker 3: guess I would marry Cardi.
Speaker 4: B uh and oh god, you know what I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna be X all right.
Speaker 1: Acceptable answer, acceptable answer.
Speaker 4: I love that. I actually actually tried to solve that problem.
Speaker 1: I know you're like, you got that. I'm not like this.
Speaker 3: There's no way I can answer like even if I
Speaker 3: answered the right way, like either, like I could say,
Speaker 3: like DJ everybody, then it's like kill fat Joe.
Speaker 4: Then I can never go back to the Bronx.
Speaker 1: Well, as soon as you would have said fat Joe,
Speaker 1: he would have clipped it and used that. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 4: I got a fact. I did a call for fat Joe, Like, yo,
Speaker 4: what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Yo? Fuck me?
Speaker 2: It was terror spot with the chop cheese.
Speaker 1: Bagel New York Slice. I probably should have started with
Speaker 1: that one chop.
Speaker 4: Bigel in New York Slice.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know what, I'm gonna have to go with
Speaker 3: a New York Slice because something about eating a New
Speaker 3: York sites in New York. Because there's Prince Street Pizza
Speaker 3: in LA. It's exactly like Prince Street Pizza here. But
Speaker 3: it's not just something off about the environment, like you
Speaker 3: have to like you have to have that dirty New
Speaker 3: York you know.
Speaker 1: Like you gotta have building juice drop and land on
Speaker 1: your pizza. You know, that's like the extra that's like pineapple.
Speaker 4: You want to walk over the subway great and just
Speaker 4: get a faith full of that hot suwhere era, you know,
Speaker 4: really make you feel that home.
Speaker 1: I hate that, Like that is why I love me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, I hate like those are the things
Speaker 1: that make thing like beautiful.
Speaker 3: Like this weekend, it was like we had that freakish
Speaker 3: Saturday and it was like eighty degrees.
Speaker 4: Everyone was outside and the whole time the beauty of
Speaker 4: New York. I was like, you know what, I.
Speaker 3: Can't tell who has on a Halloween costume or who's
Speaker 3: just wearing their regular ass clothing.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that game Brooklyn or Halloween is my favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I love your costume, like this is me.
Speaker 4: This is me. I dress like a mermaid every day.
Speaker 1: I am hell Razor. This is like cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, good day, good day.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your enjoyer. This has been like fucking top tier conversation. Man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Obviously, oh, thank
Speaker 1: you man.
Speaker 4: And this is so much fun. You're so you're good
Speaker 4: at this. You're good. Your very natural questions are good.
Speaker 4: They weren't corny.
Speaker 3: Questions, you know, say every every now and then, I'm
Speaker 3: going on the podcast and like ask who does a podcast?
Speaker 3: I can see what people are struggling, you know. It's
Speaker 3: like again like watching this for you're like, yo, oh
Speaker 3: they're nervous.
Speaker 1: Well let me not line and act like I wouldn't nervous.
Speaker 2: But more importantly, shout out to the podcast team everybody who,
Speaker 2: like you said, putting everything together man.
Speaker 4: Shout to the podcast scene.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you bro.
Speaker 4: So much fun.
Speaker 2: This has been the Daily Show Ears edition. I've been
Speaker 2: your host, Ashton Walmack, joined by the illustrious Jesus nice
Speaker 2: y'all catch us every week.
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