Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Tonight, it's the final episode
Speaker 1: of The Daily Show with Trevor where we celebrate the
Speaker 1: fact that we fixed America. That's right, all the problems
Speaker 1: are solved, and it's time to move on. Mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: This here's the Daily Shot with Trevor no on man.
Speaker 1: Let's story. Let everybody welcome to the Kady Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Trevor to so much for shooting a thank you coming
Speaker 1: on in COSI thank you so much, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, thank you for being at my
Speaker 1: ticket see taken, see thank you so much. I'm coming out.
Speaker 1: I'm for tuning in, especially tonight because this is the
Speaker 1: final episode of the Daily Show with Trevor Noor. And
Speaker 1: it's not just that, it's also a celebration, you know
Speaker 1: because when I when I started the show, I had
Speaker 1: three clear goals. I was like, I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 1: Hillary gets elected, I'm gonna make sure that I prevent
Speaker 1: a global pandemic from starting, and I'm gonna become best
Speaker 1: friends with Kanye West. So I think it's time to
Speaker 1: move on. But before we do that, for one last time,
Speaker 1: let's do this people. Let's I'm straight into today's episode. Alright, people,
Speaker 1: let's do this. This is it's my final show and
Speaker 1: I've got a ton of clean up to do so
Speaker 1: I can get the security deposit back in the studio.
Speaker 1: But but before I head out, what better way to
Speaker 1: spend it? Meant to check in with all of my
Speaker 1: favorite people and all of your favorite correspondence one lost time,
Speaker 1: starting with my very favorite Michael cost everybody. Michael's like
Speaker 1: to see everybody one left hot mant what is going
Speaker 1: on in the market today, TV? I'm crushing it, and
Speaker 1: I mean crushing it. Okay, but tonight I'm also crushed
Speaker 1: because this is our last time together on the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to talk about the market tonight
Speaker 1: because as much as I love numbers, there's a different
Speaker 1: n word I love even more, nostalgia. Thank you nostalgia
Speaker 1: nostalgia TV. This is a chart of our friendship. Okay,
Speaker 1: six years, six years of African American relations, all right now,
Speaker 1: right here, this is the high point. We got off
Speaker 1: to a good start as you hired me, right, which
Speaker 1: meant I could stop sleeping in my shitty old Honda
Speaker 1: Civic and now look at me, I'm sleeping in a
Speaker 1: freaking Tesla baby, right, yeah, And every morning I wake up,
Speaker 1: I see where the autopilot mode brought me. I have
Speaker 1: a nice big cup of coffee, and I cleaned the
Speaker 1: blood off my tires. And that's thanks to you, my
Speaker 1: man so well, for the job. Yeah, for the job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but thanks to me for the blood. No, I do
Speaker 1: that blood is on your hands for real. But of course,
Speaker 1: of course, now here here is the first time you
Speaker 1: let me unto the show with the chart that looked
Speaker 1: like a butthole, right, and and here, okay, here is
Speaker 1: the time you let me on the show with a
Speaker 1: different chart that looks like a butth hole. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of that, but the one that's most
Speaker 1: important to me, Trevor, is this one up here, okay,
Speaker 1: because this is the time you let me on the
Speaker 1: show with a chart that looked like a penis. And
Speaker 1: this was a total game changer from me, Trevor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, look there were some tough times too, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean this is when COVID hit, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and and that wasn't easy. You were doing the
Speaker 1: show from your apartment. I was in the office every
Speaker 1: day because I didn't get that email but but that
Speaker 1: was a lonely two years we look. That's the beauty
Speaker 1: of our friendship, Trevor. In fact, I made a chart
Speaker 1: to illustrate it. Okay, some days are good, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: some days are bad. But true friendship, that's the sweet
Speaker 1: spot in between. And it it can stay. It can
Speaker 1: bring you unimaginable pleasure, but you can't live without it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael. I Uh, I see what you did there.
Speaker 1: One last time. I see that, Daniel what. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: trade our friendship through anything, Trevor, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for that, Michael. One lost time. Everybody felt times incredibly,
Speaker 1: this disgusting sense of it, Michael cost to everybody. Now
Speaker 1: let's go on to DESI light it please, and uh
Speaker 1: tell me that this for this last time, you're actually
Speaker 1: going to do the weather, please, DESI lighted everybody revel. Nope, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I am not here to do the weather. It's your
Speaker 1: last show, so on behalf of Paramount, Viacom, CBS, Comedy Central,
Speaker 1: Viacom Networks and paw Patrol Plus. I am here to
Speaker 1: do your exit interview. What right do we have to
Speaker 1: that live on a No, but some of us are
Speaker 1: getting drinks after the show, so I gotta squeeze in now.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, people are getting drinks and no one told me.
Speaker 1: Can I come? First question? Over the seven years of
Speaker 1: your employment here, what would you say is my best
Speaker 1: personality trait? You mean my best personality traits? Uh? Nope? Mine? Oh?
Speaker 1: I guess I would say humility. Yeah, I am amazing
Speaker 1: at that. I'll put down humility and great cheekbones. Okay.
Speaker 1: Next question, what will you miss most about me? Um? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is if this is my exit interview. Shouldn't the
Speaker 1: questions be about me and not you? Why would they
Speaker 1: be about you. I'm the one who's staying. I mean
Speaker 1: you're leaving us, which is fine, It's fine. I mean
Speaker 1: people abandon me all the time. I don't care. Why
Speaker 1: would I care? Dad? Point is I'm the one staying.
Speaker 1: But just in case, would you mind writing me a
Speaker 1: letter of recommendation? I glad me with DESI you know,
Speaker 1: I will write that you are one of the funniest
Speaker 1: and most gifted comedic actors I have ever known and
Speaker 1: had the pressure of pleasure of working with. And anyone
Speaker 1: who knows you is lucky to know you. Trevor. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: you can come to drinks with work. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: I thank you. See Okay, so you los geverybody. One
Speaker 1: of the funniest people I know, but one of the
Speaker 1: worst weather people I've ever worked with. And that's saying something.
Speaker 1: Now here to give us our final Loto numbers, do
Speaker 1: say slow and everyone all still say all right, friend,
Speaker 1: who's winning that money with a lot of numbers? No? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: listen hello friends. Yeah, now there's only one Lotto winner tonight,
Speaker 1: and that is my friend, my light skinned friend, my homie, Trevor.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Noah, it's it's not Ezekiel, but I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you keep saying Ezekiel to me.
Speaker 1: I give you a middle name, Ezekiel, because I don't
Speaker 1: know any African words. You taught me nothing. Sorry I
Speaker 1: interrupted you. You You were saying. You were saying, you think
Speaker 1: you know African. They teach you African, but he'd just
Speaker 1: be speaking English out of time. Look at you leaving
Speaker 1: the Daily Show to go starting movies like them Him's
Speaker 1: Worth Brothers. Well, no, I don't actually have any movies
Speaker 1: lined up. I'm just I'm just leaving. That's all you
Speaker 1: were no, have you not been listening? This is what
Speaker 1: I said that. This is a moment where I'm just
Speaker 1: taking time. You know, it's about me making time for family,
Speaker 1: for friends, to travel a little bit more. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: doing a travel show. Okay, okay, all right, see that
Speaker 1: nice sense. Yeah, I'm traveling. Listen, why do you say so?
Speaker 1: Oh isn't a safari show? Yeah, introducing us to your
Speaker 1: animal friends that you went to school with. You can
Speaker 1: go to school. Oh, you should do one about African people,
Speaker 1: because you know what, I realized, I know more about
Speaker 1: mirror cats than whoever the lives in tans and live.
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of Americans tell me. Actually, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's not true. But but I'm not actually
Speaker 1: leaving for another I'm not leaving for a movie. I'm
Speaker 1: not leaving for like another show. I don't have anything
Speaker 1: lined up at the moment. It's just about this right now. Wait,
Speaker 1: a man, So you're leaving a good job. You're quitting
Speaker 1: the job without having another job line up. You crazy.
Speaker 1: You don't leave a job the job. So you're just
Speaker 1: leaving a job to do nothing. Wow, you really are
Speaker 1: half white? It's your voice Swiss chocolate in the building. Look,
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Hear. I just think life
Speaker 1: isn't all about work, you know, And it's all about
Speaker 1: the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. It's
Speaker 1: about it's about exploration, it's about discovery, it's about fulfillment.
Speaker 1: You know you're discovery. You're fulfillment. He's not like a
Speaker 1: white girl do with a semester abroad. You know what
Speaker 1: we call a grown ass man who doesn't have a
Speaker 1: job on imployed. No, I won't be unemployed. I have
Speaker 1: many great things going on in my life. Listen, Listen,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be proud with me, Trumble. You're
Speaker 1: my friend. Okay, you're one of my favorite people. And
Speaker 1: you're the reason that my mama don't work. Thank you, Jo.
Speaker 1: You know you're one of my fasin people. Thank you.
Speaker 1: And you know I really love your mama. Listen, my
Speaker 1: mama loves you too, and I always have to break
Speaker 1: her heart to tell her that we're just friends. Now,
Speaker 1: since you're about to be the broke dick that I despise,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need this lot of money, so I have
Speaker 1: fixed it. So the winning numbers are one of the
Speaker 1: most important dates in our lives, the day that you
Speaker 1: were not met. So all you have to do is
Speaker 1: play those numbers and the jack is yours, young man.
Speaker 1: Y Yeah, because it's just the date that we met
Speaker 1: that we both remember, right, And as soon as you
Speaker 1: play those numbers of the day that we met, it
Speaker 1: will come up with a screen and you're gonna win
Speaker 1: the money. Yeah. I'll play them because I remember them.
Speaker 1: I remember them. It was two to me. It was
Speaker 1: to me a day you interrupted me. It was to
Speaker 1: me one of the one of the most important moments.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't forget it. And that number sticks
Speaker 1: in my heart. And that number is four for no
Speaker 1: for many people. Yes, why you and I work so
Speaker 1: well because we both know the number is one of
Speaker 1: the people who've touched me the most in my life. Yes,
Speaker 1: which is why I know the number is ten. See
Speaker 1: is where you remind me of Tennessee neighbor. I'm of Georgia.
Speaker 1: You know what I played in myself because I also
Speaker 1: need this money, So good luck being unapployed. Don't say
Speaker 1: slow on everybody. I know I know the number, I
Speaker 1: know the numbers. I just I just want to a
Speaker 1: mountain LUs I know the numbers. All right, For one
Speaker 1: last time, let's turn to my good friend and favorite meme,
Speaker 1: Running Chang to see what it's trending on social media.
Speaker 1: Want the change? What is trending on social media? You
Speaker 1: want know what's trending. I'll tell you what's trending right now, Trevor.
Speaker 1: It's my feelings. I can't believe you're leaving. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like a part of my heart. It's being wiped
Speaker 1: out of my body. And not in the cool Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones way right, with so many, so many great times together.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're like a You're like a brother to me,
Speaker 1: and not like in the way black guys to say.
Speaker 1: I mean like actually like a family brother who happens
Speaker 1: to be black, kind of running knowing you, knowing how
Speaker 1: not emotionally are. I just want you to know I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah, no, no, no, no, for for real,
Speaker 1: no for uh no joke. I just I just want
Speaker 1: to say, uh, thank you, thank you for everything. Uh
Speaker 1: You've changed my life. You saved me from having to
Speaker 1: work with amateur producers from Australia and Singapore. Uh. I
Speaker 1: mean at the time when you're starting the show. You
Speaker 1: had closer friends than me, who are more talented than me,
Speaker 1: but you said, no, I want this Chinese guy because
Speaker 1: you are adamant about having Asian representation on the show,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate it. And the whole time here
Speaker 1: it felt like it was just the two of US
Speaker 1: immigrants just coming together to tell Americans what was wrong
Speaker 1: with them, which they always appreciate you. Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you running you know, I honestly I didn't um wow, wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't expect that from you. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like you wanna make me cry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got you, I got your in gullible. You bought
Speaker 1: all that ship. You know. Of course I can go
Speaker 1: out without you. I'm in multiple tempo movie franchises thanks
Speaker 1: to this show. You think you can sink me. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know it was your last episode until this morning.
Speaker 1: The whole, the whole worlds are got Trevor, and I
Speaker 1: got you a beacon of light in the dark nights. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is a show on Comedy Central, all right. We
Speaker 1: just had someone trying to kiss a butt hole like
Speaker 1: two minutes ago. Get over yourself. I can't believe you
Speaker 1: thought I was serious. No, I'm not. I don't thinking
Speaker 1: you were kidding running and good one, Runnie, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: in all seriousness on behalf of everyone watching right now,
Speaker 1: and from the bottom of my heart, can I beat
Speaker 1: the new host. I'll get back to your mat I'll
Speaker 1: get right back to you. I'm just gonna remember the
Speaker 1: beautiful possible, he said. All right, for our final traffic report,
Speaker 1: let's go to my very good friend the o G
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, who did this with me when
Speaker 1: nobody folk could right? What you and everybody? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's you're a war? Let's go non ward. I've been
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this, bro. You know you ain't
Speaker 1: gotta lead a country. You can just go over the
Speaker 1: Good Morning America and host over there. The lights can
Speaker 1: do it over there and a lot of trouble. They
Speaker 1: might have a right right, I'm not getting involved. Let's
Speaker 1: just do traffic. Hey man, listen before I do the traffic,
Speaker 1: just this, this is this is the last time you know,
Speaker 1: you and me. You've come clean, Come come come clean
Speaker 1: about just just said you you you you ain't African
Speaker 1: for real? You know what African? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You know what the hell I'm talking about I used
Speaker 1: to run credit cards back in ninety six in Birmingham
Speaker 1: with a dude who looked just like you. Your name
Speaker 1: was Slippery j Your have was a little shorter back then,
Speaker 1: and I've been keeping my mouth shut about it because
Speaker 1: we had a good thing going right here, you know.
Speaker 1: But the people deserve to know the truth about to
Speaker 1: Slippery tell the truth. Man, right, you're from Birmingham. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. I've never lived in Birmingham. Dude,
Speaker 1: My god. Look you don't have to say it like that.
Speaker 1: No more Burmingham. Just say Birmingham. That's what the city is.
Speaker 1: You remember you remember Slip. You don't remember you remembering
Speaker 1: running the hustle at Walmart the credit card it was
Speaker 1: it was it was you, it was me, it was Ramrock,
Speaker 1: Big Mixed Bahama, Joe, Tu Bone, Fat Mat And we
Speaker 1: tried to jump that ins and we jumped the fence
Speaker 1: and security was running nothing and in two Bone ship
Speaker 1: his pants and we had to take our pants off,
Speaker 1: so we had to give Tu Bone our pants. And
Speaker 1: then we didn't have no pains. You remember, we didn't
Speaker 1: have no pains. You're gonna look me in the eyes
Speaker 1: and tell me. We wouldn't that you wouldn't with me
Speaker 1: at the wal Model and Lake show partway in nineteen
Speaker 1: nineties six. Okay, firstly, why did both of you have
Speaker 1: to give him your pants if he shot his times?
Speaker 1: Don't change the subject on me right now, slipper Jay,
Speaker 1: I have if you're really, if you're really from Africa,
Speaker 1: why you'd be talking on British then I forgot you
Speaker 1: or time or the Queen Beans. And you've been listening
Speaker 1: to job blow No, no, not give that. Ain't no
Speaker 1: African sound like that? Man. If you're gonna put on
Speaker 1: a fake accent, at least make it sound accurate. What
Speaker 1: you're doing is offensive, is disrespect. It's not a made
Speaker 1: up accents. Why would I pretend to be African? Look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not judging. Man. Look we all do it. Everybody
Speaker 1: a lie to get the job. Bro, looking black, sound
Speaker 1: and reddish. That that's how you get the job. You
Speaker 1: I lied to get this job. Man. I don't know
Speaker 1: ship about Excel. I told him people that I keep
Speaker 1: in Lodden. I said, whatever it takes, that's how you
Speaker 1: play the game. Man. But just just just be real
Speaker 1: with me, bro, be real with me. It's been seven
Speaker 1: years last, dude, Roy, just Roy, look at me, Roy Roy.
Speaker 1: I am really African. Okay, whatever, man, Either way, we
Speaker 1: had a good ride. We did. It's been amazing for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been my dude from day one and you know this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're having a ton of fun together every iteration of
Speaker 1: the show. And let's let's make sure we keep in touch,
Speaker 1: keep hanging out. We're real friends, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know, maybe get together, steal some
Speaker 1: credit cars and she's at old times. No would j anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, the June Julie everyone,
Speaker 1: Nor would Jor Reward. I'm Trevor Noah from Africa. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that's everyone. And we're getting someone Trevor. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: someone and send out every other week to the heart
Speaker 1: of America to almost getting murdered by Q and on Psychopaths.
Speaker 1: Jordan Clipper, you're still alive. I am still alive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fairly fairly, Trevor. I wanted to come out here thank
Speaker 1: you for your candor you're with your intelligence, and to
Speaker 1: offer you one final goodbye, but I'm not gonna do that. Oh.
Speaker 1: I thought it'd be better if the folks of New
Speaker 1: York did that. I wanted to give New Yorkers a
Speaker 1: chance to weigh in on Trevor's departure, so I bray
Speaker 1: play went to the only place more intense than a
Speaker 1: mega rally, Midtown Manhattan during the holidays. Move thank you.
Speaker 1: Trevor is leaving? How does that make you feel? Sad?
Speaker 1: Extremely sad? Have you heard Trevor thatway? Was leaving the
Speaker 1: black girl? He is hate black guy. Yeah, I'm sad.
Speaker 1: He has been such a signature. He went through coffee.
Speaker 1: We don't of us. That was such an important part,
Speaker 1: like just seeing him on his house and you everybody
Speaker 1: being depressed. But just he being on TV wasn't such
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. You know, it's trevor'sdal How's it made
Speaker 1: you fail? Everything ends, hopefully, our buddy ends about Trevor.
Speaker 1: You watch Trevor to die? No no, no, no, no no, okay, misunderstood.
Speaker 1: What I like about Trevor is you have to be
Speaker 1: able to laugh at all sides of everything. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't want to watch something where they only snap on
Speaker 1: one person. Let's snap on Biden, Let's snap one Trump,
Speaker 1: Let's snap upon everybody. Everybody deserves this. Everybody deserves it.
Speaker 1: That's New York. Trevor was leaving the show. How do
Speaker 1: you feel about that? Yeah, I feel like he was
Speaker 1: the best correspondent. Trevor is the most talented thing on
Speaker 1: that show. But there's other talented people who are on
Speaker 1: the show currently, Trevor Trevor, other correspondents there are. Your
Speaker 1: favorite might be Jimmy Fallon is not a correspondent of
Speaker 1: the Navy show that is Yeah, that's totally different show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about there's other people who work on the
Speaker 1: Daily Show or equally talented. Trevor is the other one.
Speaker 1: You know. Jordan Clapper does a real beout. Does not
Speaker 1: even even that the guy who goes out puts his
Speaker 1: life on the line, multiple Ivan nominations. I just love
Speaker 1: no You just love Noah. You can be confronted with
Speaker 1: Jordan Clapper and you wouldn't know I was still talk
Speaker 1: to him, you'd still talked to him. Fortunately, some fans
Speaker 1: dude more than others. What's your favorite Trevor Noah segment
Speaker 1: between the scenes. I think that's beautiful, Will because you
Speaker 1: see how really human side us all, you know, just
Speaker 1: being human. We New York. There's something human we like.
Speaker 1: Trevor's covered a lot of interesting in important moments. If
Speaker 1: you had to pick a favorite police shooting that he's covered,
Speaker 1: which one would it favor? Like? Your favorite landharted movement
Speaker 1: from COVID two many account. I'm sorry today the day
Speaker 1: just you guys are embarking on something new. What advice
Speaker 1: do you have for somebody else who's also embarking on
Speaker 1: something now? Always talk fas fruit to like with a
Speaker 1: close friend or a colleague or somebody. Talk to them
Speaker 1: before you make the biggest decision of yours. Just the
Speaker 1: smart thing to do. Your fans Fever is retiring today.
Speaker 1: And where's he going? Now? Yeah, he's gonna open a
Speaker 1: candy shopping Ryan back. Okay, I think I'm just guessing
Speaker 1: he won't tell anybody what he's doing. But do you
Speaker 1: know where he's going? What did he be doing? It
Speaker 1: is unclear? I know he always likes soccer. I don't
Speaker 1: know how easy that is to get into. It feels
Speaker 1: like anybody could do it, so may met it. What
Speaker 1: is he going to be doing next to? You know?
Speaker 1: I think he's going to Ukraine. Whether it's stand up fighting?
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm looking forward to that. I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing him as he hits the road potentially and
Speaker 1: stops in Tampa, because I know he does that occasionally.
Speaker 1: So you want Trevor to come to tatop Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: want him to come to me. That's white privilege right there.
Speaker 1: A black man retires after all long years of work
Speaker 1: and you're like, please come to me, make me love Trevor.
Speaker 1: The truth is the word on the street was loud
Speaker 1: and clear. Trevor. Thank you very much, Trevor. We will
Speaker 1: miss you, Trevor. We love you, Trevor. We're going to
Speaker 1: miss you so much. You are the best this spot. Um,
Speaker 1: I said, do you soon, come come back soon? You're
Speaker 1: not like trolling us through. Absolutely, good luck and thank
Speaker 1: you for keeping us a little bit more safe. I
Speaker 1: found of the candy shop. Yo, Trevor, you're the man.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do. Congratulations, keep it real and what do everybody? Trevor.
Speaker 1: I wish you the bask You're awesome. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your work. Go make fun the world. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: like exactly that verbatim, Go make fun of the world. Wow.
Speaker 1: Trying to tap aoutverybody every now. Thank you know, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for Wow and one last time to
Speaker 1: old on the cars want to thank give it up
Speaker 1: one more time. Everybody, every single car, car, every single
Speaker 1: one of them. Dancy La, Honty Day, Michael Costa who
Speaker 1: cuts low war with Julia, thank you so much, kicking
Speaker 1: up everybody. Give the best break news team in history
Speaker 1: of everybody. What are these people? I do these people?
Speaker 1: Keep watching them. They're funny, They're amazing. I couldn't have
Speaker 1: done this without them. I didn't want to do it
Speaker 1: without them. We're gonna come back. We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick breaking off that I'll be talking to my good
Speaker 1: friend Neil Brandon. Don't get away, colling right back, welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's a very final episode of the Daily Show with
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah. That's right, just a few more hours before
Speaker 1: I fly back home to Africa. Rafiki's holding up the
Speaker 1: new Kid. We've all got to be there's a thing.
Speaker 1: But before I go, I wanted to hang out one
Speaker 1: more time with my good friend Neil burning. He's a
Speaker 1: three time Emmy nominated writer, director, producer, and stand up comedian.
Speaker 1: His latest Netflix special Blocks is streaming right now on
Speaker 1: Netflix and Tickets for his national brand new Neil tour
Speaker 1: are on sale on Neil Brennan dot com. Please welcome
Speaker 1: my good friend Neil Brennan. Ah. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know how many of the stories in this building
Speaker 1: started outside of the building. You know, we worked together
Speaker 1: on the show. But I've known you. How long have
Speaker 1: I known you? Now? I think it's thirteen years we met?
Speaker 1: We I okay, so we met. We were both in
Speaker 1: Denver doing comedy. Well that's not where we met, you
Speaker 1: know where we actually met at the comedy We met
Speaker 1: at the comedy store in l A. And I remember
Speaker 1: watching you and I was like, you are a very
Speaker 1: funny person. And I've seen your Twitter at the time
Speaker 1: that's when people are still telling jokes on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I was like you your Neil Prayer.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're really funny. And we spoke a
Speaker 1: little bit and you were just like, what is this?
Speaker 1: What is happening right now? A lot of people gave
Speaker 1: me that you just you know, but you you wouldn't mean.
Speaker 1: You were just confused. And then um, we chatted for
Speaker 1: a little bit and then I said, oh, I'll follow you,
Speaker 1: and then I followed you on Twitter and then and
Speaker 1: I remember that the next time we spoke, you sent
Speaker 1: me a message because you said, hey, who the hell
Speaker 1: are you? Because I have a whole bunch of exclamation
Speaker 1: marks and Africans in my mentions right now, because I
Speaker 1: remember because one of my friends. And you're like, that
Speaker 1: doesn't that's not possible. Yeah, I can't even say that.
Speaker 1: And that's actually how we became friends. Africans ince your life,
Speaker 1: thank you. I never met one before you, all right,
Speaker 1: So that the story I like ton was so ten
Speaker 1: years ago. We worked in Denver. You were at the improv. No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I never played where were you? I was at?
Speaker 1: It was called like a funny bone or it was
Speaker 1: so not even an improv. I've never played that. I've
Speaker 1: never played any of the premium club. We were there
Speaker 1: for the weekend. We're both getting three hundred bucks of show.
Speaker 1: And I and you were like, I'm pretty big in
Speaker 1: South Africa and Europe. And I was like, get out
Speaker 1: of here, like literally get out of here. And he
Speaker 1: got out of here. He literally left, and uh and
Speaker 1: then and then because I told I told up doing
Speaker 1: a service though you're not doing. Neil makes it sound
Speaker 1: like he's like grumpier than he is. What happened was
Speaker 1: we didn't know we were both in town, and then
Speaker 1: I saw a post and I was like, Neil's here.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, let's meet. And then we met
Speaker 1: your South African friends, like you know, and so then
Speaker 1: we we we were like, let's meet and we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna grab some food. And we met downtown Denver
Speaker 1: and we're eating at this little spot on with tacos.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it wasn't. We we're having a
Speaker 1: meal and we're chatting about how hard it is being
Speaker 1: on the road, how we're both getting three D and
Speaker 1: that you sleft to pay your own air fair and
Speaker 1: it basically equals nothing when you get back home, right.
Speaker 1: And then you said to me, I don't get why
Speaker 1: you're doing this, because you're huge back home, and I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I love this, and you're like, you're delusional. And
Speaker 1: then you said what's your dream? And I said, I
Speaker 1: just want to keep doing comedy and have as much
Speaker 1: fun as possible, and you said, well, America doesn't tolerate
Speaker 1: people with accents on TV, so you should leave. And
Speaker 1: at that time I was correct, yeah, okay. In my defense,
Speaker 1: once Oliver started doing good, I literally called you and said,
Speaker 1: never forget that. I said, come back, I'll never forget
Speaker 1: that girl. Oh man, I don't never forget that. And
Speaker 1: now the thing people don't the great thing that people
Speaker 1: don't know is three months I called you and was like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's enough, that's not true. You've been here
Speaker 1: from the beginning. Um, you know what I've what I've
Speaker 1: loved about your journey because it's not about me, it's
Speaker 1: also about you, is um you know a lot of people. No,
Speaker 1: Neil as one of one of the smartest, funniest people
Speaker 1: you ever worked with in the comedy industries, worked with
Speaker 1: the greatest comedians you can imagine. You know a great comedian,
Speaker 1: He's worked with them in some way shapeful form. He
Speaker 1: is slowly turning into, in my opinion, one of the
Speaker 1: most unique and funny and original comedians that are out there.
Speaker 1: And like, I've watched your journey, your new special on
Speaker 1: on Netflix is phenomenal because you're not just doing comedy,
Speaker 1: but you know you You're you're creating different types of shows.
Speaker 1: You're you're in joining it, you're playing with it. And
Speaker 1: your new special blocks I've told you this person. But
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing, it's funny. People have commented on how
Speaker 1: hot breaking and funny it is, how poignant and honest
Speaker 1: it is because you break down what it means to
Speaker 1: be a liberal, how you try and identify yourself, how
Speaker 1: we as people don't communicate anymore, what it means to
Speaker 1: grow up in a household where parents didn't know how
Speaker 1: to love you, what abuse was. It feels like it's
Speaker 1: such a vulnerable, hilarious that's that's my point. But that's
Speaker 1: my point, Like who would think, Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 1: show that I'm gonna make and it will be hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it worked out pretty well. Um the the I'm I'm
Speaker 1: the final guest on the Daily Show. That No, it
Speaker 1: worked out. I had the idea for the show, and
Speaker 1: it is about the ways I don't feel like I
Speaker 1: fit in. Even like recycling, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: do correctly. Like whenever I throw some away and it's
Speaker 1: in one of those garbage cans, got like a garbage
Speaker 1: hole or cycling hall on a compost hole, I do
Speaker 1: my best, but afterward I'm like, I don't think I
Speaker 1: did that right. Like that happens kind of across the
Speaker 1: board in my life. I'm not married, I don't have kids,
Speaker 1: Like I don't need meat, I don't drink them. I
Speaker 1: just I'm kind of an outlier in a lot of ways. Um,
Speaker 1: but I figured out. But I am very funny. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I figured out I would to synthesize it into
Speaker 1: a show, your new Can I talk about your new
Speaker 1: Netflix special? Oh? Why yes, you can? Sure now that
Speaker 1: you're here. Yeah, you know why. I told you. I
Speaker 1: thought it's one of the probably you're my favorite special viewers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which you never say. Yeah, I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's in a good way that you're not one of
Speaker 1: those people just says it was like favorite best I like,
Speaker 1: what amazing? No, you don't, you don't. Um, And but
Speaker 1: it really to me was like your strongest, cleanest thank you,
Speaker 1: that's material, Thank you very much. It was hard for
Speaker 1: both of us because and not just us, many comedians,
Speaker 1: many touring autists, many like everyone from people who are running,
Speaker 1: you know, holding the stage. So everyone was struggling because
Speaker 1: of COVID. People couldn't go to offices, et cetera. But
Speaker 1: touring was decimated, you know, everyone who worked was gone.
Speaker 1: Building a show was really hard. I wonder if you
Speaker 1: went through the same thing because I was. I was
Speaker 1: panicking about whether or not I'll be able to make
Speaker 1: the show what it was, And then you were also
Speaker 1: building a show when everyone was wearing mosques, no one
Speaker 1: could even sit together, Like, was that hard? I didn't
Speaker 1: know how much to talk about it, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because I couldn't tell if people wanted
Speaker 1: to hear it or didn't want to hear it. Was
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, so I don't say anything, but what
Speaker 1: is your doing? Yeah? Um? So I had a couple
Speaker 1: like fast jokes up front and and and then I
Speaker 1: would just get into the show because I think people
Speaker 1: want you to acknowledge it, but they don't want to
Speaker 1: harp on it to bump them out. I would love
Speaker 1: to know from the first time you and I hung
Speaker 1: out on the show and spoke about depression, We spoke
Speaker 1: about you know, anxiety, you know the stuff comedians talk about. Um,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know if you feel like you've he
Speaker 1: field a lot more, if you've grown a lot more,
Speaker 1: And for people who have been on a similar journey
Speaker 1: to you, what's some of your best advice for that
Speaker 1: I've done a ton of stuff I've talked. I didn't
Speaker 1: think called t MS transparent on myg neetic stimulation for
Speaker 1: the pression. That was really helpful. I did ketamine, did you?
Speaker 1: It sounds like you just did that at a party.
Speaker 1: That sort of sounds like you did. I did care imane,
Speaker 1: I got drunk, I got little. It really helped. Um No,
Speaker 1: so ketamine t MS iawuaska. I just I'll do not
Speaker 1: like i'll do anything, but Kyle, like I'll do anything.
Speaker 1: Um and uh, but I feel like you've done stuff. Also,
Speaker 1: this is another way in which we can act. I
Speaker 1: think therapy is amazing. I think you should always be
Speaker 1: working on yourself. But but like you've always been the
Speaker 1: person who's gone, I'm a tortured soul and there's no hope.
Speaker 1: You said that in your comedy right and and I
Speaker 1: feel like over the years I've seen a glimmer of
Speaker 1: hoping a little, a little. I'm a little sunnier than you.
Speaker 1: I know, it's pretty cute. It is got a burgundy suit.
Speaker 1: Come on, what do you want? Um so so so
Speaker 1: so that not to be too mushy, but so that
Speaker 1: Neil Brennan, who's sitting out there right now and goes,
Speaker 1: I mean anxious. I'm depressed. I don't think anybody in
Speaker 1: the world loves me. I don't think there's any future
Speaker 1: for me. What like, what do you say to them?
Speaker 1: Just keep keep saving your money and invest in a
Speaker 1: raw ira now, um uh, just keep trying. That's the
Speaker 1: thing is because it is the thing with depression and
Speaker 1: anxiety and all these mental health things. They don't really
Speaker 1: know what does what. So you have to keep trying
Speaker 1: and not get too discouraged about. If one thing doesn't work,
Speaker 1: then you're broken or screwed or whatever. Like you know,
Speaker 1: you just try another thing. It's like stand up where
Speaker 1: you just do a joke and it's like, oh, you
Speaker 1: don't like that, We'll try another one. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: just go on and on and on. Do I worry
Speaker 1: for you? Yeah? I have some worries. I worry what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen when you wake up tomorrow at one in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Do you realize that you're not going to
Speaker 1: be the host of the Daily Show anymore? Yeah, You're
Speaker 1: just gonna be a best selling author who does comedy
Speaker 1: and sold out arenas around the world. Hashtag pray for
Speaker 1: Trevor so buddy. It is my great honor on behalf
Speaker 1: of everyone here and at home to give you your flowers.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank thank you so much for that. Thank you. Also,
Speaker 1: as someone quitting a job in America, you're about to
Speaker 1: lose your health insurances, you should probably sign up for Cobra.
Speaker 1: I brought all the necessary forms. I love you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Trevor know everybody he'll bring. You're right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't like smoke. We're gonna take this quick, great
Speaker 1: bold right back after this. Thank you again for being here.
Speaker 1: It's been fun. That was really cool. Thank you got
Speaker 1: a lost time so I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I mentioned it is my final show, final episode of
Speaker 1: the The Daily Show with Trevor Or. And don't be sad.
Speaker 1: I don't a lot of people are sad, but please
Speaker 1: don't be sad. You should be happy that an African
Speaker 1: leaders peacefully leaving power. That's never guaranteed. That's never guarantee.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to believe it's been seven years. At
Speaker 1: the death, you know, I was I was thinking. Everyone
Speaker 1: asks me about that. I say, it's seven years. Can
Speaker 1: you believe it doesn't feel like seven years? You know?
Speaker 1: Um Or not all at the disk obviously I went
Speaker 1: home in between you. Yeah, but still it's been a
Speaker 1: wild ride, you know, And and some of the people
Speaker 1: I work with, some of you have been asking between
Speaker 1: the scenes, what have you learned at your time in America? Trip?
Speaker 1: What have you learned at your time? And you know
Speaker 1: it is and I would never pretend to understand America,
Speaker 1: you know, in the relatively short time I think I've
Speaker 1: been here. Um, I don't. I don't think I know
Speaker 1: much about anything. The more I learned, funny enough, But
Speaker 1: but when I thought about it, I realized that there
Speaker 1: were three main lessons that I've learned in my time,
Speaker 1: you know, being privileged enough to host the show that
Speaker 1: that you've been wonderful enough to watch. And the first
Speaker 1: lesson I learned is something that took me a long
Speaker 1: time to realize. Issues are real, but politics are just
Speaker 1: an inventive way to solve those issues. Don't ever forget that,
Speaker 1: you know, I I I in the very beginning also
Speaker 1: got sucked into the whole Republican Democrats. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, this is the way it should be
Speaker 1: as a Republican. Yet it's it's not actually the way
Speaker 1: it should be. It's not even the way it is.
Speaker 1: It's not a binary. They're not just two ways to
Speaker 1: solve any problem. They're not just two ways to be.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm eternally grateful to a a man who
Speaker 1: I met as a stranger, funny enough, and he said
Speaker 1: something really beautiful to me. We're walking through Harlem and
Speaker 1: he said to me, said, you know, Trevor, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest lives. They tell you in America, they tell
Speaker 1: you that, they tell you that America's is two political parties,
Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats. And he said, but I'll tell you now,
Speaker 1: it's Republicans Democrats as black people and every other person
Speaker 1: of color who is trying to make a name or
Speaker 1: do something for themselves. And that stuck with me and
Speaker 1: made me think about American politics differently. Made me realize
Speaker 1: that we get tricked a lot of time, not just
Speaker 1: in America but everywhere in the world into liking or
Speaker 1: not liking something based more on the tribe that it
Speaker 1: comes from, the tribe that it emanates from. Then what
Speaker 1: the idea actually is, you know, it's whether they put
Speaker 1: that little R or that D next to somebody's name
Speaker 1: in a newspaper, article that defines how you feel about it,
Speaker 1: when in fact, somebody that you may not agree with
Speaker 1: on most things can do something that you like. They
Speaker 1: could do something that you agree with. And I think
Speaker 1: as we live in a society where we increasingly introduce
Speaker 1: ourselves with the things that separates us, we forget that
Speaker 1: real friendships come from the similarities and then the disagreements.
Speaker 1: How we polish each other as human beings. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you'll agree with everyone, don't get me wrong, like
Speaker 1: kumbaya and everything works. I'm not saying that. But you know,
Speaker 1: just remember that you like Trump did prison reform. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying now you should like him, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have to hate the prison reform that
Speaker 1: he did. It could be like, I hate this guy,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to be there like your honor.
Speaker 1: I should get a longer centercris because Trump did this
Speaker 1: ship issues on Democratic Republican And that's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's that's all I wish I could have said
Speaker 1: a lot more clearly on the show. But sometimes in
Speaker 1: the country, the way the users told, the way it's
Speaker 1: delivered to you, it makes it feel that way. But
Speaker 1: it's not. Clean water isn't a Republican or a Democrat issue.
Speaker 1: Affordable housing isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. I don't
Speaker 1: care what party you are. You're probably struggling to pay
Speaker 1: for your rent. You're probably struggling to own a house
Speaker 1: or to buy something. Crime is not a Republican or
Speaker 1: a Democrat issue. It's oftentimes something that New York Times
Speaker 1: just reports on because they listen to everything the police say.
Speaker 1: But that's another story for another day. You know, politics
Speaker 1: has transformed into a giant game of football. It feels
Speaker 1: like and just like football, you know, turns everybody's brains
Speaker 1: to mush. But don't forget that. Every time you think
Speaker 1: of an issue, don't think of it through the lens
Speaker 1: of Republican and Democrats. Forget that for a moment, think
Speaker 1: about it as a human being, and then figure out
Speaker 1: which person in power is actually trying to do what
Speaker 1: you think needs to be done about that issue. Now,
Speaker 1: the second lesson I learned is never forget that context matters.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget how much context matters. I feel like
Speaker 1: we live in an age of limitless information right now,
Speaker 1: but we never seem to acknowledge that there's a shortage
Speaker 1: of context. You know, in many ways, that's why I
Speaker 1: started doing between the scenes. I realized, in the short
Speaker 1: time I have on the show, there's only so much
Speaker 1: I can convey as a message. And you know that
Speaker 1: messages I understand distilled and synthesized for people. But but
Speaker 1: we we we process everything in bites and we don't
Speaker 1: realize that we have a lot of information, but we
Speaker 1: don't have the context that is so necessary for us
Speaker 1: to protest, you know, to to to process that that information,
Speaker 1: which is so important. Context is everything, It's truly everything.
Speaker 1: We have information we know. We know about a flood
Speaker 1: in Pakistan in a way that we never would have
Speaker 1: known before. We know about protests in Iran. We know
Speaker 1: about what the truth movements are in Ukraine. We know
Speaker 1: about a drought in parts of you know, Sudan. We
Speaker 1: we know all of these things. You know. We know
Speaker 1: who Pete Davidson is dating now. We know sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like we know it before he does. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just like, what's what I am? Sweet? But but
Speaker 1: we don't have the context oftentimes when we make a decision.
Speaker 1: Is what I started realizing, you know, we see a
Speaker 1: clip video, it's designed to make us angry. We respond
Speaker 1: to it according if we don't know how it starts it,
Speaker 1: we don't know how it ended. We don't know what
Speaker 1: the actual story is. And context is so important for everything,
Speaker 1: for every conversation. If you think about it in in
Speaker 1: in life, you know, see it makes you angry. You
Speaker 1: don't wonder why it makes you angry. You don't even
Speaker 1: know if it was designed to make you angry. You know,
Speaker 1: I just I've realized it's so important to protect yourself
Speaker 1: from that. Try and find the context wherever you can,
Speaker 1: ask as many questions and it may slow you down
Speaker 1: in being able to make a decision. It may slow
Speaker 1: you down and being able to form a take. But
Speaker 1: may be that's a good thing. Maybe we shouldn't have
Speaker 1: an opinion immediately. Maybe we should wait and see what happened,
Speaker 1: see what the context is. You don't know what the
Speaker 1: video is. You know, we'll see these videos. So that
Speaker 1: video of that raccoon attacking that little girl, it's terrible,
Speaker 1: But we don't know what she did to the raccoon.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe she sold the raccoon some cocaine and
Speaker 1: wasn't cocaine and the raccoon was like this is flower ah.
Speaker 1: You know, I think context is everything, and I have
Speaker 1: experienced it many in many ways. Firsthand, I remember when
Speaker 1: I started the show. You know, um, there's so many people.
Speaker 1: They hated me, genuinely hated me. They hated the idea,
Speaker 1: they hated how I looked, They in my hair, they
Speaker 1: hated my accent, they hated everything about me by point
Speaker 1: of view, everything. And then I looked seven years later
Speaker 1: and now those people still hate me, but but for
Speaker 1: the right reasons now because now they know me, they
Speaker 1: understand me. Then obviously there's people who love me. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you who come out and enjoy
Speaker 1: the show with me. But just remember, without context, nothing
Speaker 1: makes sense, whether it's international traditions, norms, customs. We all
Speaker 1: think it's normal because we are in the place that
Speaker 1: we're in. But as the world becomes smaller, we're also
Speaker 1: going to compress everything that we think is right and
Speaker 1: is normal, and it's going to create a little bit
Speaker 1: of tension. You know, there isn't one way, and we
Speaker 1: don't know what the one way is. You know, context, people,
Speaker 1: please just don't forget that. It's like how if you
Speaker 1: joke about your own mom, then it's funny, right, But
Speaker 1: if I joke about your mom, then it's hilarious. There's
Speaker 1: a difference, you know. And I guess the final the
Speaker 1: final lesson I learned at the show, and I learned
Speaker 1: it not at the show, but because of the show
Speaker 1: and the news I was covering, is please don't forget
Speaker 1: that the world is a friendlier place than the internet
Speaker 1: and the news will make you think. Just don't forget that.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been I've been really lucky to go
Speaker 1: out and you know, my comedy has taken me to
Speaker 1: places and to people. I've been lucky enough to do
Speaker 1: comedy from Florida all the way through to you know,
Speaker 1: Washington States. I've been lucky enough to travel around the
Speaker 1: world and meet people. And people are a lot friendlier
Speaker 1: than social media would have you believe. You know, I
Speaker 1: have people who are Republican voters who come to my
Speaker 1: show because even their kids brought them and they go
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I would laugh and I had a
Speaker 1: good time. And I may not agree with you, but
Speaker 1: maybe this, but but they see me as a human
Speaker 1: maybe I talked to them. I see them as a
Speaker 1: human in a way that we didn't before. People are
Speaker 1: a lot friendlier than they'll have you believe. The news
Speaker 1: is designed to tell you what is happening. Generally, what
Speaker 1: is bad is what's going to make news. But not
Speaker 1: everything is bad. You know, old ladies are just being
Speaker 1: punched everywhere in New York City, at every corner. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're punching people. People are a lot better than
Speaker 1: than than they'll have you think. You know, we're all
Speaker 1: we're all human beings. We're all trying to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, we're all just
Speaker 1: trying to smash and and already the I think the
Speaker 1: most the most important lesson. My time at the show
Speaker 1: has taught me as gratitude, you know. It taught me
Speaker 1: to be grateful, you know, grateful for for everything that
Speaker 1: I have that I don't even realize I have, you know,
Speaker 1: Grateful to the wonderful people who helped me make every
Speaker 1: single episode of this show. I always tell the people
Speaker 1: I work with, I go, you know, I wish you
Speaker 1: could be with me all the time. When I meet
Speaker 1: people who enjoy the show and they go, great show,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, I wish they could see that
Speaker 1: as well. You know, they could experience that, and they
Speaker 1: could also get the death threats to Uh. We should
Speaker 1: share these things, is what I'm saying. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but thank you to all of them. It's it's crazy
Speaker 1: when when when when people are like, how did this?
Speaker 1: How did this? It was it was a wild journey.
Speaker 1: It was the craziest journey that I didn't predict. I
Speaker 1: didn't expect, you know, I gotta I got a call
Speaker 1: from a man by the name of John Stewart and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget this call. I was in London doing
Speaker 1: my first tour of the UK. Was such a such
Speaker 1: a such an exciting moment for me. I I was thrilled.
Speaker 1: I had wanted to travel and do comedy for so long.
Speaker 1: And my phone rang and I didn't know what the
Speaker 1: number was and I answered and the voice another and said, Hey, Trevor,
Speaker 1: how are you. My name is John Stewart. UH host
Speaker 1: a comedy show in America called The Daily Show. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh wow, yeah, I know what the
Speaker 1: Daily Show is. And he was like, as you should,
Speaker 1: young man, as you should because it was very funny.
Speaker 1: It was like you know, go in and out of
Speaker 1: you know, it's like being taking himself seriously and then
Speaker 1: not at all, and where there's great conversation where he
Speaker 1: invited me, said I've seen your comedy online, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think it was the executive producers basically brought
Speaker 1: me to John's attention, you know, Jen Flanz Adam Low,
Speaker 1: It's Steve Vodo helped me make the show, and they said, John,
Speaker 1: you gotta see this kid. You've gotta you know, you
Speaker 1: you've got to do something with him. And John liked me,
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, let's let's let's do something. You know,
Speaker 1: I see you in me. I was like, huh, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting one, and He's like yeah. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've always felt like I'm Jersey. I get it. I
Speaker 1: get it. But it's it's been wild. And I called
Speaker 1: my my my two best friends, my two best creative
Speaker 1: friends who have been working with for a long time,
Speaker 1: David Mayer and David Kibuka, and I said, one of
Speaker 1: them from North Carolina, you know, Cowboy and and Guru.
Speaker 1: At the same time, fantastic Foolmaker called him and said, yo, David,
Speaker 1: we gotta do this. And then my friend David Kiebuka
Speaker 1: from South Africa is like, you you wanna? I want
Speaker 1: to go to America and he's like for how long?
Speaker 1: I was like, for as long as they'll allow us. Man,
Speaker 1: I need you and we we can do this thing together.
Speaker 1: And he's like, wow, alright, I was, let's see what
Speaker 1: happens and uh and yeah, and we've been seeing what
Speaker 1: happens ever since. And so I say thank you to
Speaker 1: all of those people. Are so many thankies. Like I said,
Speaker 1: my my first bosses are sitting right here, the people
Speaker 1: who gave me the job sitting right here. You know,
Speaker 1: Michelle Gaines, stop her job. You know. Some of you Aren'tia,
Speaker 1: Sarah and Kent, but riding we went through it together.
Speaker 1: That was ridiculous. People asked them if they were crazy.
Speaker 1: They were like, are you crazy? Who the hell is?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Why would you give him this job?
Speaker 1: You know? And I even asked. I was like, why
Speaker 1: would you give me this job? Yeah? And they're like,
Speaker 1: we we see something in you and we will ride
Speaker 1: with you. And you did. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: over and over again. You rode with me when nobody
Speaker 1: else would. You could have fired me when people were
Speaker 1: frustu ay, and you should have not seen it when
Speaker 1: I got will see it. But yeah, and we've kept
Speaker 1: up ever since. You know, all the people, I've been
Speaker 1: truly grateful all the way through to my new team
Speaker 1: of busses, you know, led by Chris McCarthey and the
Speaker 1: team Kays and Nina and everyone else, you know where
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, they were the first ones
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, the Daily Show is your world, but
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be your only world. Let's make projects together.
Speaker 1: Let's produce other content, Let's create for the correspondence. Let's
Speaker 1: you know, get Jordan's doing specials, Let's get Daisy doing specials.
Speaker 1: And you know, now that people are Emmy nominating, I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of that. And I'm so grateful to every
Speaker 1: single one. But honestly, most importantly, I'm grateful to you,
Speaker 1: every boom, every single one of you. I am. I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful. I remember, I remember when we started the show,
Speaker 1: we couldn't get enough people to fill an audience. And
Speaker 1: you know, I always think it's good, that's how comedy
Speaker 1: is funny enough. I remember all my shows, people didn't
Speaker 1: they weren't tickets that you know, everyone were empty seats
Speaker 1: um And then I when I look at this now.
Speaker 1: I don't take it for grand to ever. Every seat
Speaker 1: that has ever been filled to watch something that I'm doing,
Speaker 1: I always appreciate because I know the empty seat that
Speaker 1: sits behind it. So thank you. Thank you to the
Speaker 1: people who watch, the people who share the clips. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone who's having an opinion, everyone who's been kind enough
Speaker 1: and gracious enough to you know, whether even if it's
Speaker 1: a critique, doesn't even have to be praised. But some
Speaker 1: people who watched them, I don't like it when you
Speaker 1: do this, but I but I watched. I want to
Speaker 1: say I appreciate those people. Even the people who hate watched,
Speaker 1: We've still got the ratings. Thank you. I'm it's totally
Speaker 1: grateful to you. And uh, this is random for some
Speaker 1: but special shout out to two black women. Um, I
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've been I've often been credited with,
Speaker 1: you know, having these grand ideas of people like oh, Trevior,
Speaker 1: you're so smart and you saw and I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: who do you think teaches me? You know, who do
Speaker 1: you think has shaped me, nourished me, informed me? You
Speaker 1: know from my mom, my grand you know, my aunt,
Speaker 1: all these black women in my life. But then in
Speaker 1: America as well. If you always tell people, if you
Speaker 1: truly want to learn about America, talk to black women. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because unlike everybody else, black women cannot afford to and
Speaker 1: find out. Black people understand how hard it is when
Speaker 1: things go bad, especially in America, but any place where
Speaker 1: black people exist, where it's Brazil, or its South Africa,
Speaker 1: wherever it is, when things go bad, black people know
Speaker 1: that it gets worse for them. But Black women in particular,
Speaker 1: they know what is genuinely heoup always be shocked to
Speaker 1: be like, why do what black women turn out the
Speaker 1: way they do in America? Why do they vote the
Speaker 1: way that? Yeah, because they know what happens if things
Speaker 1: do not go the way it should. They cannot afford
Speaker 1: to around and find out. And some Black women who
Speaker 1: have taught me, all of them, I mean the scholars online,
Speaker 1: the you know, the authors, everybody, the Rock sand Gaze,
Speaker 1: the Tressey McMillan, cottons that you know, I'll remember the names,
Speaker 1: you know, the Zoet somemoos Is, the like brilliant, brilliant
Speaker 1: women I've taken the time to inform me, to educate me,
Speaker 1: to argue with me. You know, the Toronto Brooks who
Speaker 1: you know, We've laughed with me, talking about everything from
Speaker 1: sexual assaults to just what life is like. M And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, now, do yourself a favor. You truly
Speaker 1: want to know what to do or how to do
Speaker 1: it or maybe the best way of the most the
Speaker 1: most equitable way. Talk to black women. They are there
Speaker 1: are a lot of the reason that I'm here, and
Speaker 1: so I'm grateful to them. I'm grateful to every single
Speaker 1: one of you. There's been an honor. Thank you you
Speaker 1: are after Yeah, well that's all shut up to night.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning in every single night
Speaker 1: that you did. Thank you for coming out in Preston.
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