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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to The Daily Show Ears edition. This
Speaker 2: is Ryan Chang, correspondent on The Daily Show, and today
Speaker 2: we are joined by the longest running Daily Show contributor
Speaker 2: of all time, the one and only Great Lewis Black yayyy.
Speaker 3: The crowd goruggles.
Speaker 2: They are they're listening, and the clapping in the subway,
Speaker 2: in the cars right now. So good to see you.
Speaker 3: It's great to see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for joining me. I just get into it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you, by your own words, are older than shit,
Speaker 2: and you've been here a long time. You've been here
Speaker 2: since before John Stewart. Yeah, I want to ask you
Speaker 2: about you seeing the show change, specifically, not just the
Speaker 2: show itself, but like it's place in pop culture, you know.
Speaker 3: But they brought on other people and sullied my work,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean that was it for starters. It
Speaker 3: was kind of like, really, there's gonna be other folks here.
Speaker 2: So the airing of grievances began on the year's edition.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so you've been here, like I read to
Speaker 2: prepare for this. I actually read the Oral History of
Speaker 2: a Daily Show, which you're featured in. Yes, I would
Speaker 2: say not featured enough in because but I always find
Speaker 2: that style of storytelling, anecdotal storytelling, very interesting by people
Speaker 2: who are there, and sometimes they contradict each other.
Speaker 3: And then I found out things I didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the other thing, but really yeah, yeah, you know. But
Speaker 3: it started, I mean it was literally Liz Winstead knew me.
Speaker 3: I was working in clubs and it was one of
Speaker 3: those things with clubs in New York City, in New
Speaker 3: York City, and people were going, got, I can't believe
Speaker 3: you don't have an agent, you know, you really can't
Speaker 3: you find an agent? Can't you do this? But meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Liz Winstead knew me and a guy named Hang Gallo
Speaker 3: who wrote initially for the Daily News I think it was,
Speaker 3: and wrote about comedy way back when, and he became
Speaker 3: a producer on the show, and they both approached me
Speaker 3: because I was sitting around and tons of material and
Speaker 3: nobody had heard it, and I hadn't done any specials
Speaker 3: I'd done really just maybe I'd done a couple of
Speaker 3: you know shows, you know, I don't even know if
Speaker 3: I'd done an evening at the Improv.
Speaker 2: So at that point, how many years into stand up
Speaker 2: were you?
Speaker 3: I'd been doing stand up on and off. But I
Speaker 3: was really kind of committed to stand up at that
Speaker 3: point for about five six years.
Speaker 2: Five six years yea where I.
Speaker 3: Kind of went from being a playwright to putting myself
Speaker 3: full time into doing stand up. Sure, so they said
Speaker 3: do you want to do this? I said great.
Speaker 2: Just to give people a says do you mind me asking? Well,
Speaker 2: what year this was? Roughly?
Speaker 3: The year was ninety six, ninety seven, I think.
Speaker 2: I remember that. Yeah, remember Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, that was like the fortieth year that
Speaker 3: the Wizards.
Speaker 1: My team was in the.
Speaker 2: Dumps, so called the Bullets at that point, Yes, Bullet.
Speaker 3: The real name is opposed to that idiotic wizard stupid
Speaker 3: fuck thing.
Speaker 2: And they saw you around the traps, presumably Liz and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean Liz and I knew each other
Speaker 3: pretty well, and she had this idea, and the great
Speaker 3: breakthrough was is that it's a show that I think
Speaker 3: I had tried to sell a show like it. You know,
Speaker 3: how are we going to sell this kind of show?
Speaker 3: She sold it, which is huge right at the time,
Speaker 3: and because I was hearing things like I couldn't be
Speaker 3: on Letterman because the guy who was the producer said,
Speaker 3: you know, politics aren't funny.
Speaker 2: Right, and so the grievances continue here and this the
Speaker 2: grievance addition. Yeah, so you were kind of doing at
Speaker 2: that time, you were doing contemporary political maybe like what's
Speaker 2: it called, like very topical.
Speaker 3: I was doing topical stuff, and I was doing also
Speaker 3: other things like about Valentine's Day and about you know,
Speaker 3: the holidays and the general stuff that a comic would
Speaker 3: do and pick up on and you know, the candy
Speaker 3: corn stuff and all that. So they basically bring me on.
Speaker 3: There's no audience. What was at the time PBS Studios
Speaker 3: in New York City, and they just sat me at
Speaker 3: a desk and they had a background of people walking
Speaker 3: around as if I was in some sort of a newsroom.
Speaker 3: Right then they just and they I came in and improved.
Speaker 2: Oh, a segment or the whole show.
Speaker 3: No, just the segment. At that time, Kilbourne was in charge,
Speaker 3: Craig and he was I mean, he had the desk,
Speaker 3: and so I would come in it was once every
Speaker 3: two weeks, and I would improv stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: And they saw what they saw in you for the show?
Speaker 2: Was it because I know you as this prolific social
Speaker 2: common tat, very very topical. That's the kind of thing
Speaker 2: which most comics back then probably would not. Most comics
Speaker 2: would probably be a bit less prolific and maybe a
Speaker 2: bit less topical, because you want to do stuff that's evergreen.
Speaker 2: And so do you think that's what attracted them to you?
Speaker 3: Show I had all this material. Nobody knew me. I
Speaker 3: had all this kind of material that nobody.
Speaker 1: Had ever heard.
Speaker 2: Well, then, how did they know about that?
Speaker 3: Because they both had seen me in clubs. Liz was
Speaker 3: a comedian, Okay, okay, so she had seen me a
Speaker 3: ton and we'd done done all the stuff you do
Speaker 3: together's let's do a benefit for m Okay, I'll see
Speaker 3: you there. And Hank had seen me a ton, and
Speaker 3: so they knew that I had them, you know, And
Speaker 3: it was really like, okay, we're going to do this
Speaker 3: and we don't know how long we'll be on let's
Speaker 3: do you want to try this? Yes? And nobody knew
Speaker 3: what it would be like. And I did it, and
Speaker 3: then I would do my bit. I mean it's you
Speaker 3: you're great at there's too, you're great at improblem, Ronnie.
Speaker 2: I mean you are I'm specialists, that's true.
Speaker 3: And then you come on and do it. And then
Speaker 3: they come up and they go, keep this that that
Speaker 3: was wrong, and let's try it again. And then I
Speaker 3: would do it again.
Speaker 2: Oh that's how they did in the day. No teleprompter,
Speaker 2: no nothing, just go it like, let's keep what we liked. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then let's keep doing it.
Speaker 3: And now let's do it again, and let's do it again.
Speaker 3: I do it like three or four times. By the
Speaker 3: fourth time, i'd have it right. Then they brought an
Speaker 3: audience about like three months into it maybe. Then we
Speaker 3: went on to the teleprompter. So then I would sit
Speaker 3: down and write it, write it with Hank, and this
Speaker 3: is the two of you, just the two of us.
Speaker 3: I'd write it, give it to Hank, can't it help?
Speaker 1: Edit it?
Speaker 3: Liz would at it, and then I go on and
Speaker 3: I put it in the tele prompt. I'd read it.
Speaker 3: There was an audience that it up becomes a different
Speaker 3: kind of a thing completely.
Speaker 2: You're playing off the crowd. You're playing off the crowd.
Speaker 3: The crowd, yeah, and there was a probably a smaller
Speaker 3: audience than we had now and then and I kept
Speaker 3: doing that, and and that blossomed into Back in Black
Speaker 3: when I did the thing that I will advise against.
Speaker 3: I got really drunk at a Christmas party. We had
Speaker 3: a few years into it, and you know, it'd be
Speaker 3: really great if I could. What I'd like to do
Speaker 3: is to do is to do you know, news clips
Speaker 3: and stuff like that instead of just kind of doing
Speaker 3: this just doing my editorials. Could we put it in
Speaker 3: relationship to the news. And they took it. They had
Speaker 3: at that point access and didn't have to pay for
Speaker 3: all sorts of clips. So I didn't get those clips.
Speaker 3: I didn't get the news clips. I got, you know,
Speaker 3: squirrels on water skis, Oh right, right, right right, that's
Speaker 3: the stuff I get. And I was like, son of
Speaker 3: a bitch, and we're gonna call it back in black. Fine,
Speaker 3: that's great.
Speaker 2: And so you wanted something meteor more dare I say,
Speaker 2: relevant politically, but they kept giving you the kind.
Speaker 3: Of but then they just weak. They had a ton
Speaker 3: of this stuff. And I mean, for me, great because
Speaker 3: it was on. I was on every two weeks, so
Speaker 3: it was still great in the sense looking at you know,
Speaker 3: the Veritable Gift Tours. Yes, but I mean I'm going okay,
Speaker 3: And I had Hank was in there, my producer and
Speaker 3: a writer gifted writer, really good at punchlines, a couple
Speaker 3: of the other Like now, the guys who work with me,
Speaker 3: the writers, they would come in and we'd look at
Speaker 3: this stuff and then we put it together. They we
Speaker 3: would all collect the stuff. Then I would go ahead
Speaker 3: and write stuff. Then they would write their stuff, and
Speaker 3: we combine it all together, and I'd do that, and
Speaker 3: that's what evolved into where we are now.
Speaker 2: Right. But it was kind of you pursuing something with
Speaker 2: more teeth. You were like, I wanted to say something
Speaker 2: a bit more teeth, but they kind of saw you
Speaker 2: as like the maybe the Andy Rooney segment on the show,
Speaker 2: kind of like the comic relief on a comic show,
Speaker 2: which is kind of.
Speaker 3: And also yeah, and they were, you know, it was
Speaker 3: another way to get at it. And then also when
Speaker 3: John comes in, so what he starts to do is
Speaker 3: create an arc with each show. So then at this
Speaker 3: point we're going to use this, this is when we're
Speaker 3: going to use Lewis, And so all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: they began to pick and shoes. I ended up doing
Speaker 3: less shows, but it was still fine because now because
Speaker 3: of doing the show my as you've noticed, you know,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, my stock rises. So now I'm
Speaker 3: touring around the country. I become because of the because
Speaker 3: of the Daily Show, and now I'm getting specials on
Speaker 3: Comedy Central. Now I'm in the face of Comedy Central
Speaker 3: along with David Tell. Right then we go on tour
Speaker 3: with Mitch Hedberg and Dave and I and then boom,
Speaker 3: I'm now isn't just touring amazing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you I guess it's fair to say
Speaker 2: the Daily Show did break break you in obviously working hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it and uh the Conan Conan. I did
Speaker 3: a ton of Conan's at the time too, that I broke,
Speaker 3: it broke and then and Conan and and also the
Speaker 3: specials I did because also.
Speaker 1: There again, now I'm working.
Speaker 3: Nights like if you do with clubs and putting together
Speaker 3: you know, these half hour specials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you got HBO specials after that, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess it was taking off. You kind of skipped
Speaker 2: a few step steps that because you know, you said,
Speaker 2: like when you first joined the show with Craig Kilbourne,
Speaker 2: it was like you didn't even know if the show
Speaker 2: was gonna last. And then just before John joins, there's
Speaker 2: a gap where Craig Kilbourne. The show actually did grow
Speaker 2: and it became more professional. I had more resources, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then when John joined you, you were quoted in
Speaker 2: the book, A Daily Show Book that you said, like
Speaker 2: it made sense to you why they hired him. You
Speaker 2: can see that. And then you were like, really, chef
Speaker 2: auditioned me.
Speaker 3: But there's always agreement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you know, like when he took over, you
Speaker 2: could You're like, Okay, this is gonna be better now,
Speaker 2: well I.
Speaker 3: Knew it'd be better. I didn't know what it would explode, Okay,
Speaker 3: but it also you know the thing that you can't
Speaker 3: really teach anyone and you've been through it. Anybody's experienced
Speaker 3: it breaks in their career. It's time and place, and
Speaker 3: a lot of it has to do with timing. Yes,
Speaker 3: and so John walks in at the point where there's
Speaker 3: an explosion a cable. So now literally and I see
Speaker 3: it as I'm performing around the United States. How do
Speaker 3: you perform in Biloxi? Well, here's how because they see
Speaker 3: the same things as we see everywhere. That also had
Speaker 3: a huge effect on the Daily Show in the way
Speaker 3: in which people you could see it, and because now
Speaker 3: they have an understanding much like they do with hacks
Speaker 3: and a whole bunch of other kind of professions that
Speaker 3: they know behind the scenes. And so now they kind
Speaker 3: of have a sense of what news is about. They
Speaker 3: now have a character.
Speaker 2: They have context full what we're making fun of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then John was able to coalesce it and
Speaker 3: he had really a great eye for talent.
Speaker 2: He sought it and brought in execute. Yeah, take a
Speaker 2: quick break and we'll be right back. Well back with
Speaker 2: Lewis Black. So at that point when John joined and
Speaker 2: it was kind of, you know, things were really kicking off.
Speaker 2: I mean, much like the Bulls. I guess it's like
Speaker 2: ninety five Bulls when every time you came back, did
Speaker 2: you feel like it was growing bigger and bigger and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this cultural phenomenon and the production.
Speaker 3: I mean it took a while, but I mean you
Speaker 3: could feel it. You literally if you could feel it coming.
Speaker 3: It was kind of one of those things that you
Speaker 3: felt you could see the wave in the distance and
Speaker 3: you went well and then all of a sudden you pay.
Speaker 2: It right right. And I think it was a perfect
Speaker 2: mix of at that time, there wasn't you know, a
Speaker 2: ton of content that is diluting the pool. There's only
Speaker 2: so many shows and this was the only show. And
Speaker 2: you don't let me put word in your mouth. But
Speaker 2: for me, I felt that the beauty about comedy when
Speaker 2: it's done great, it's always this kind of like underground,
Speaker 2: it's like counter cultural. It's cool. You guys were like
Speaker 2: the cool kids making fun of the institutions, and you
Speaker 2: were and the fact I was on cable made it
Speaker 2: a little bit hot to watch, was made it even
Speaker 2: more desirable. Yeah, you know all these times had tucked.
Speaker 3: Away, and I mean, you know you had, and you
Speaker 3: also had other things that kind of help set it up.
Speaker 3: Like you know, I don't think he gets the it
Speaker 3: doesn't get that the amount of credit does. But David
Speaker 3: tells Insomnia was this kind of are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Just wandering around in the middle of the night. You know,
Speaker 3: there was a certain you just nailed, really that whole
Speaker 3: thing about it, and there were other building blocks around
Speaker 3: it in terms of Comedy Central, they're also what made
Speaker 3: it great, I think, and it's something I scream about
Speaker 3: a lot. And I don't think they give the credits.
Speaker 3: The level of writing on this show was unbelievable and
Speaker 3: I still do this day. I think that what creates
Speaker 3: the quality on the one was initially the writers, John
Speaker 3: and the writers brought that whole thing up. And now
Speaker 3: what really does it is a movie. We had a
Speaker 3: killer lineup then we have had a killer lineup now
Speaker 3: Correll and Colbert, and so it was a strong group
Speaker 3: that you know that also had a bent in terms
Speaker 3: of writing. And we've got that now again and it
Speaker 3: makes a big difference.
Speaker 2: Oh no, thanks, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: I wasn't talking about I was talking about the bull.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I guess if you could talk a little
Speaker 4: bit about like the the way the show has changed culturally,
Speaker 4: because it started off as a normal talk show kind
Speaker 4: of like.
Speaker 2: News clips with jokes and I kind of called it
Speaker 2: like America's final phone videos with jokes when and that's
Speaker 2: like that's the basic version of the show to me,
Speaker 2: Like that will get everyone paid. But to make the
Speaker 2: show great, it started to have a point of view,
Speaker 2: and the point of view at that time was kind
Speaker 2: of figured out commenting on the cable news environment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was commenting on it was satirizing news. And
Speaker 3: it was also the take was any authority it was
Speaker 3: right And that was huge, right because there was nothing
Speaker 3: really like that.
Speaker 2: There was nothing doing it. There's nothing there's still nothing
Speaker 2: like that doing it. It's still the only show that
Speaker 2: I think that is American satire, modern American satire exactly.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to ask this question without answering it
Speaker 2: because I want to hear your answer, But like, how
Speaker 2: do you feel that point of view has changed over
Speaker 2: the years, because as people have grown more savvy, and like,
Speaker 2: how much did it change from un ironic making jokes
Speaker 2: to satire and maybe even parody of news to becoming
Speaker 2: kind of like essay, maybe a bit outragey, And then
Speaker 2: you know, like how do you feel that that?
Speaker 3: I mean it it grews as it's audience grew is
Speaker 3: it's audience got smarter. We got smarter, and the audience
Speaker 3: lead you, and they not only lead you, but they
Speaker 3: give you the freedom and the freedom that they gave
Speaker 3: us is huge. And you see it now when all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, I can now in the midst of
Speaker 3: one of my things stand up and yell about stuff,
Speaker 3: I get upset the audiences and it always comes incrementally
Speaker 3: and it's really grown. And there was something that really
Speaker 3: worked about bringing John back, and then something that I
Speaker 3: was saying from the time before he came back and
Speaker 3: Trevor had left, I said, let the fucking correspondence host
Speaker 3: stop it. That was my take on And when I'd
Speaker 3: have interviews with people around the country, you know, they
Speaker 3: don't give a shit and des Moin, I mean, nobody listen.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's all sen telegrams back, you know.
Speaker 3: But I felt that, I really did. I felt that
Speaker 3: it was its time and it would grow again. Having
Speaker 3: John come back really kind of was like great because
Speaker 3: it basically got them to look again, and then by
Speaker 3: looking again, they went, oh, we can try this. Yes,
Speaker 3: and nobody basically had to take like Trevor had to
Speaker 3: take over. Yes, nobody's taken over. So it's your take,
Speaker 3: and it's the take of those others.
Speaker 1: Whoever they are. We'll talk about them later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I guess I'm trying to get to this
Speaker 2: idea that like when the Daily Show started, the news
Speaker 2: was very different in America, and so you could satirize that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, a nutshell like it was Tom
Speaker 2: Broke call. It was like there was three news anchors maybe,
Speaker 2: and there was a way of satirizing it, which I
Speaker 2: don't know like, how would you approach that now? You know,
Speaker 2: like if you had to, if a daily show wasn't
Speaker 2: this institution, if you tried to do it now, it's
Speaker 2: almost like you couldn't. I don't even know how you
Speaker 2: could do it because it's so chaotic and fragmented and
Speaker 2: there's no monoculture, there's no context for you know.
Speaker 3: It would have to be on this right, it would
Speaker 3: have to start there, I feel, right, because that's where
Speaker 3: the whole world. Now you've got what is it? I
Speaker 3: find myself looking that's going. So there's a thing called
Speaker 3: news fucking right right, And this guy really and these
Speaker 3: two women are completely psychotic and are basically saying that
Speaker 3: breathalyzers are fake. I mean, you just kind of it's
Speaker 3: partly having a mirror all, you know, and which is
Speaker 3: what we do in part still, I mean some of
Speaker 3: my stuff still deals in that in that frame.
Speaker 2: This is why this is what you're so great is
Speaker 2: because as long as I've known you, you've never actually
Speaker 2: shat on the present and put the pass on a pedestal.
Speaker 2: You've always been like it's different and now it's great
Speaker 2: and was great before. And you know, I guess what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to ask you, is is satire dead?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, well the hard.
Speaker 3: Thing for me it's been and I've been yelling about
Speaker 3: this for about the past since since Trump came around,
Speaker 3: this is how do you it's satirized? What is already satiric?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: And I I kind of go. I go on stage
Speaker 3: and we'll go read something and go, uh, it's like,
Speaker 3: what is it? The benefits of slavery? Okay? How am
Speaker 3: I supposed to make that funnier?
Speaker 1: What am I?
Speaker 3: What context do I fucking have to put that in
Speaker 3: for you? It's done and you look at it, and
Speaker 3: I'll say that to the I go, here's my favorite
Speaker 3: punchline this week, and I do this. I've been doing
Speaker 3: it for a year now. I'll go the benefits of
Speaker 3: slavery and they'll go h And I go, you assholes,
Speaker 3: how do you miss the joke? And if you sit
Speaker 3: there and groan about it, then what you're saying to
Speaker 3: me is is maybe there are some benefits, right? And
Speaker 3: I do feel like that that's part. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: when I watched your set recently when we were doing it.
Speaker 3: You know, when I watch you work, you have you
Speaker 3: got that sense I mean, it is, and it's not easy.
Speaker 3: It's like you work through it, You work through it,
Speaker 3: you work through it, right, And I've had to come
Speaker 3: around other ways to try to get the joke all right.
Speaker 2: So in a way, satire is dead.
Speaker 1: I guess I think it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's Those are the questions
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the daily shows past,
Speaker 2: because you are kind of uniquely placed to talk about
Speaker 2: all this, since you have such vision on it. I
Speaker 2: did want to switch to the present though, and kind
Speaker 2: of talk about this week's hot summer piece.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about it.
Speaker 1: How hot it is.
Speaker 3: It's really insightful. Well again, I mean because it's hot out.
Speaker 2: Monday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth.
Speaker 5: The previous record, which was set on Sunday, only lasted
Speaker 5: twenty four hours. It's hot, really, really hot, the hottest
Speaker 5: day ever recorded on Earth. Suck on that, dinosaurs. We
Speaker 5: can destroy the planet ourselves. We don't need an asteroid
Speaker 5: like you pussies. Yes, this summer, the heat is kicking
Speaker 5: our ass more than usual. Last week it was so
Speaker 5: hot in New York.
Speaker 1: That and I can't believe I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 5: I asked the hawk to a girl to hit me
Speaker 5: in the forehead.
Speaker 2: It is hot out and not to be disparaging, but
Speaker 2: you have seen a lot of summers, so you have
Speaker 2: summers to compare to.
Speaker 3: This is the shittiest.
Speaker 2: This is it.
Speaker 3: This really wins I mean by far, because I have
Speaker 3: a chunk of it off right. You know, it's like
Speaker 3: I really, I'm supposed to go outside. And then, which
Speaker 3: they don't fucking talk about enough, is the air quality index.
Speaker 3: Now it's not only ninety five degrees. You can't you're
Speaker 3: not supposed to breathe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't breathe.
Speaker 3: I mean except last summer it was the fires on
Speaker 3: this part of the United States.
Speaker 1: You really couldn't go out. You know you're here.
Speaker 2: The sky turned orange, Yeah, for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it made for a wonderful sunset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was almost a permanent sunset. You couldn't miss it.
Speaker 2: It lasted a long time. That was pretty scary, that one.
Speaker 2: So climate change. Climate is fucked politically, well fucked, all right.
Speaker 2: Just another day in Amaris, another day, just another day,
Speaker 2: and you have a podcast coming out here.
Speaker 3: It's a rant cast. I don't because I don't talk
Speaker 3: to people. I read the rants that people send in.
Speaker 3: Some people send in things about peanut butter. Some people
Speaker 3: send in things about pickles. Some people scream about things
Speaker 3: that are going on at their office. Somebody talked recently
Speaker 3: about the fact that he's had five different bosses in
Speaker 3: charge in how each of them is a dick, and
Speaker 3: the levels of dictum in corporate America, and that this
Speaker 3: idiot doesn't know that. And then I comment occasionally on him,
Speaker 3: but mostly I let them stand on their own what's
Speaker 3: good about it? And it was said, when I had
Speaker 3: to leave the road and the pandemic had started, these
Speaker 3: people were starting to write. You know, they wouldn't you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't put them on the Daily Show as a writer.
Speaker 3: But they were writing for my voice, that point of
Speaker 3: view in terms of what was pissing the market brilliantly. Well,
Speaker 3: and now they're getting back to it again.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing about you, is that for
Speaker 2: a crotchety old man, you will you are very appreciative
Speaker 2: of modern methods and you are very cutting edge in
Speaker 2: everything you do. I mean you will. I remember seeing
Speaker 2: you doing the Rancast live during the pandemic. You really
Speaker 2: embraced technology and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know it was good and.
Speaker 2: You've seen it. You've seen it changed completely. You went
Speaker 2: from literally theater, the oldest form of of entertainment, to
Speaker 2: seeing early days of television production of the Daily Show,
Speaker 2: to full Daily Show, and then now you're live streaming
Speaker 2: on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sitting in a place just like this. I'm
Speaker 3: sitting in what I call a bad cable access studio
Speaker 3: with nobody around. It's like you're watching a lunatic.
Speaker 2: But it's great. Yeah, And I just I'm going to
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