Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Big news Today, Kim Kardashian
Speaker 1: announced that she passed a big law exam in California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on her fourth try. She she passed the baby bar exam,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know that that was a like a
Speaker 1: lower exam. I was like, the baby ball was like
Speaker 1: a place where you took your baby to hang out
Speaker 1: to meet other babies, Like when babies having a tough day,
Speaker 1: then they're just being the baby bar together. Give me
Speaker 1: in there a pan of milk left is hard. I
Speaker 1: thought it was that thing anyway, Kim. It was just
Speaker 1: really cool because a lot of people didn't think Kim
Speaker 1: could pass any of these exams, and now she's on
Speaker 1: her way to becoming like a full on lawyer, which
Speaker 1: is dope. And now what I didn't like is people
Speaker 1: online were like, I would never hire Kim Kardashian as yo,
Speaker 1: I would definitely hire Kim Kardashian. You kidding me? If
Speaker 1: she could convince the world that being a Kardashian was
Speaker 1: a job, she can convince to all people that I
Speaker 1: didn't kidnap someone's cat. That's what I need in my corner.
Speaker 1: And she was saying like she was like, my dad
Speaker 1: would be proud right now. He's in heaven. He's probably
Speaker 1: like proud of me and blah blah. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: can imagine Kim connessions because he's asoloyer, he's probably looking down,
Speaker 1: he's proud, and he's also looking down going wow, how
Speaker 1: the hell is o J still free? Damn? It's coming
Speaker 1: to you from the heart of times where in New
Speaker 1: York City called me City in America, It's The Daily
Speaker 1: Here tonight it's just like what Can's line and Puma.
Speaker 1: It is The Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining
Speaker 1: me for today's headlines is Michael Costa. How are you doing? Michael?
Speaker 1: Years almost over, Trevor A Right, two more weeks and
Speaker 1: I realized I gotta get on my New Year's resolution
Speaker 1: now or else I'm never gonna have actually done anything.
Speaker 1: So for the next two weeks, I'm going vegan and uh.
Speaker 1: For the next twelve days, I'm gonna do no cheese, pizza,
Speaker 1: an impossible burger, and then New Year's Eve, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it's spaghetti with tofu butter. Is that what they do?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but so never too late. That's my
Speaker 1: that's my mission. I think it might be okay, but
Speaker 1: you know what, good for you. I'm still going for it.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I love about your Michael Trevor,
Speaker 1: always pushing. Good luck with that, all right, let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with the
Speaker 1: big media news. Every year since Time Magazine has awarded
Speaker 1: Person of the Year to the world's most influential newsmaker.
Speaker 1: It is by far the most incredible honor that most
Speaker 1: people find out about in the dentist's office. And this year,
Speaker 1: the lucky winner is a guy who already pretty much
Speaker 1: one life. We have breaking news. Tessela and CEO Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: is now Time Magazines Person of the Year. Time Magazine
Speaker 1: said he is different from any other CEO. Constantly interacting
Speaker 1: with Twitter users while running one of the most valuable
Speaker 1: companies in the world, Elon Musk can also influence the
Speaker 1: markets with just one tweet. Time Magazine also recognize must
Speaker 1: other ventures like SpaceX. Musk is the richest man in
Speaker 1: the world thanks to Tesla, which is increased in value
Speaker 1: eightfold since the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah, congratulations Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: oh Man, I'm so happy for him. Like, the guy
Speaker 1: could really use an ego boost, you know, and honestly,
Speaker 1: you can't argue with this. I mean, richest man in
Speaker 1: the world who also controls space, crypto and electric cause
Speaker 1: h I mean, who would even be second place? Like
Speaker 1: maybe Pete Davidson. Maybe the only question is this though,
Speaker 1: Why isn't that Person of the Year always goes to
Speaker 1: the weirdest persons? Like have you noticed that? Like I
Speaker 1: sometimes wanted if aliens came down. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want these guys representing our race, you know, the
Speaker 1: aliens would be like your species needs to be exterminated.
Speaker 1: Except for that guy. Hey, Shame's normal, totally normal. I
Speaker 1: think it's just because his name is Elon that we
Speaker 1: think he's all futuristic. You know a lot of futuristic things. Elen,
Speaker 1: I pad, xbox, E, cigarette, a rod. You know if
Speaker 1: his name was Leon, would you buy a car from Leon? Trevor?
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the same. Leon Musk does not carry
Speaker 1: the same word. Stop talking about the blockchain Leon, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So I Leon feels like a
Speaker 1: kind of a deadbeat name, whereas Elon' is a disruptor.
Speaker 1: So I'm not on board. So you don't think he
Speaker 1: deserves it at all. I think we're all being duped
Speaker 1: by some good naming. I feel you there. You know, Tesla,
Speaker 1: that's a good name as well if it was called Elsa.
Speaker 1: You see, we just let it go. We let it go.
Speaker 1: I'll be here, weak folks. All right, let's move on
Speaker 1: to our next story, which is from California, America's side. Boob.
Speaker 1: California is one of the most anti gun states in
Speaker 1: the country, which is a frustrating position to be in
Speaker 1: these days, especially when conservative courts are striking down any
Speaker 1: effort at gun control. But now the governor of California
Speaker 1: has come up with a new plan to limit guns,
Speaker 1: and where he got the idea from is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1: California Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants to use the
Speaker 1: new restrictive abortion law in Texas as a model to
Speaker 1: ban assault weapons us them tweeted he wants legislation that
Speaker 1: allows Californians to sue anyone who makes, distributes, or sells
Speaker 1: the guns, as well as ghost gun kits. The governor
Speaker 1: site Supreme Court rulings that have allowed the Texas law
Speaker 1: to remain in effect while the High Court reviews it.
Speaker 1: That's right, Gavin Newsom now wants to pull a Texas
Speaker 1: except he's going to do it on assault weapons and
Speaker 1: ghost guns, which, if you ask me, is a pretty
Speaker 1: risky move. I mean, you're gonna want those ghost guns
Speaker 1: and a giant marshmallow man shows up. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's what a ghost gun is. I think it is
Speaker 1: costa I re but yeah, the idea is that because
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is allowing this for banning abortion, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to allow it for banning guns too. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Here's the thing. The problem with this
Speaker 1: idea is that the Supreme Court can make up whatever
Speaker 1: rules they like, Like, if they want to strike down
Speaker 1: these gun laws, they'll find a way. You know, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is like that annoying kid that your mom
Speaker 1: made you have playdates with tag I got you not.
Speaker 1: I have a vest that makes me invisible. Man, I
Speaker 1: wish the courts allowed your mom to have an abortion.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you what, guys, America has gotten
Speaker 1: so divided right now that at this point I think
Speaker 1: maybe maybe some states should just like succeed and and
Speaker 1: try and do their own thing, like you know, have
Speaker 1: they tried that before? I was supposed the worst that
Speaker 1: could happen, you know, Trevor Um. I usually try to
Speaker 1: have something funny to say, but this story is about guns,
Speaker 1: abortion and obscure Supreme Court ruling. So you're on your
Speaker 1: own for this one. Wow. I was hoping that I
Speaker 1: was going to turn it to you and you were
Speaker 1: gonna like, I know, I mean, and then you just
Speaker 1: left me. If anything, I wish to state in New
Speaker 1: York allowed me the right to sue you for putting
Speaker 1: me on the spot to come up with something funny
Speaker 1: for that story. But we're not there yet. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's your job. Like you, before we started this,
Speaker 1: you said you've got my back, and now you're saying
Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's a tough story, you know, but but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what we do here. We deal with
Speaker 1: tough stories. Well, you do it better than me, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm sitting this one out. But at this
Speaker 1: point it seems like I'm all in because I'm still talking. Somehow,
Speaker 1: I was trying. I was trying to step out of it,
Speaker 1: but now I'm in so well, we're in this together.
Speaker 1: We're in together. Yeah, all right, let's move on from
Speaker 1: customs story that he brought into the show and talk
Speaker 1: about some big news from the world of sports involving
Speaker 1: Formula one racing the absolute coolest way to contribute to
Speaker 1: climate change. Yesterday was the final race of the season,
Speaker 1: but how it ended is giving a lot of people
Speaker 1: road rage. Back now with a big story in Formula
Speaker 1: one racing, a new champion unseated seven time reigning champ
Speaker 1: Lewis Hamilton's after one of the most controversial race finishes
Speaker 1: in the history of the sport. This was a walk
Speaker 1: off home run, a buzzer beater, and a hail Mary
Speaker 1: all wrapped into one. It was the final lap of
Speaker 1: the final race of a frantic Formula One season. It
Speaker 1: brought chaos, controversy, and a new champion. On Sunday, it
Speaker 1: looked like Hamilton's had the victory and the title in hand,
Speaker 1: leading almost the whole way with for stopping a distant second,
Speaker 1: until things got crazy near the end of the race.
Speaker 1: The crash forced the safety car onto the track to
Speaker 1: limit the driver's speeds. Once the race restarted on lap
Speaker 1: fifty eight of fifty eight were stopping, fought, overtook, and
Speaker 1: sped by Hamilton's to win the championship in a shocking,
Speaker 1: unprecedented finish. Okay, Okay, I know right now there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are saying, I literally do
Speaker 1: not understand anything here. So let me and explain what
Speaker 1: happened to you and why everyone in Britain is in
Speaker 1: a bad mood today. I mean, aside from the six
Speaker 1: straight days of rain, Basically what happened. Basically what happened
Speaker 1: is you've got Lewis Hamilton's. Okay, he's like the Lebron
Speaker 1: James of Formula One, like if Lebron wasn't just the
Speaker 1: best player but also the only black player ever in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Okay, you with me. So now, Hamilton's was
Speaker 1: trying to win his eighth championship, and for the entire
Speaker 1: race he was in the league. But then there's a
Speaker 1: big crash at the back of the race. And whenever
Speaker 1: that happens in Formula One, a safety car has to
Speaker 1: come out to make sure that while they're cleaning up
Speaker 1: all the wreckage on the track, the other cars don't
Speaker 1: run over the people who are doing the cleaning, because
Speaker 1: that's just rude. Plus if you hit the people who
Speaker 1: are cleaning up, then you've got to bring more people
Speaker 1: to clean up the people who are cleaning them up,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes like a whole thing. So the
Speaker 1: safety car, safety car comes out and drive slow, and
Speaker 1: all the race cars behind it they have to stay
Speaker 1: behind the safety car, you know. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: like it's like a a senior citizen doing twenty on
Speaker 1: a one way road, you know, which which kind of
Speaker 1: sucks if you're leading, because Hamilton's was in the lead,
Speaker 1: right because he has to slow down. Meanwhile, everyone at
Speaker 1: the back can catch up to you. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't think there are any other sports where this happens,
Speaker 1: Like you never you never see an NFL game where
Speaker 1: for a few minutes the riff only lets the losing
Speaker 1: team score. Oh my god, someone's hurt real bad. All right,
Speaker 1: would you guys like to score a couple of touchdowns
Speaker 1: while we drag him off the field? Yeah? Yeah, not you,
Speaker 1: not you, someone's hurt. Okay, you guys want to score quick,
Speaker 1: all right? Go on, go on, go on, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, yes, it's kind of a crazy way to
Speaker 1: do things right. It is kind of crazy, but I
Speaker 1: mean these people also driving two hundred miles an hour
Speaker 1: around a race track, so crazy is relative, and some
Speaker 1: people argue that it makes the sport more exciting. Every
Speaker 1: time there's a crash, the whole field comes back together
Speaker 1: and then it's a it's a race, you know. So now,
Speaker 1: because of the safety car, everyone caught up to Hamilton's
Speaker 1: right and then with one final leap to go, the
Speaker 1: race director, he's like the guy who chooses everything is
Speaker 1: like bigger than the reff He had two options. One,
Speaker 1: follow the rules and let the race end under the
Speaker 1: safety car, in which case Hamilton's would have won, but
Speaker 1: with all the other cars driving like they're going through
Speaker 1: a school zone, very boring. Or two second option was
Speaker 1: spice things up, you know, change the rules a little
Speaker 1: bit and restart the race, but for one final lap,
Speaker 1: which is what he did. Yeah, and that last lap,
Speaker 1: which maybe shouldn't have happened, gave Max for step and
Speaker 1: the guy who was in second place, it gave him
Speaker 1: a chance to go change his tires and then pull
Speaker 1: ahead and win. So that's why Lewis Hamilton's fans are
Speaker 1: pissed at what happened, and his team protested the decision.
Speaker 1: But that protest goes to the same people who made
Speaker 1: the decision. So I mean, that was never gonna work.
Speaker 1: It's like appealing your mom, grounding you to your mom.
Speaker 1: I've checked with myself, and I decided that my decision
Speaker 1: was correct. And by the way, by the way, just
Speaker 1: just asn't decide. I love how every sport, every sport
Speaker 1: has all of these layers of replay officials and specialists
Speaker 1: and appeals to analyze every little play. But then when
Speaker 1: we're trying to solve real things like murder, is we
Speaker 1: just as twelve random people on the street. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you think this guy did it? Yeah? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't dress kind of weird, doesn't he? Yeah, take him away,
Speaker 1: Take him away, Thank you, members of the jury. Now,
Speaker 1: I know, right now a lot of Americans are thinking,
Speaker 1: what Trevor, some you o NASCAR race changed the rules
Speaker 1: so that somebody else could win? Who cares? Who cares
Speaker 1: about any of this? Okay, but you'll remember this moment
Speaker 1: when the next US presidential election comes. Yeah, then you'll
Speaker 1: see why this story is a big deal. Well, our
Speaker 1: elections can never go to the wrong person. So we're good.
Speaker 1: You know. By the way, this story, uh dramatic, exciting, competitive,
Speaker 1: Someone should write a musical about and you would name
Speaker 1: it after who was the guy that was in first place? Um,
Speaker 1: Hamilton's Hamilton's. No one's ever thought of that. That would
Speaker 1: crush Yeah, yeah, I think Hamilton's music would do well,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Good, So now we're being partners again.
Speaker 1: I also wonder, with gas prices being so high, how
Speaker 1: bad it would suck to be a Formula One race
Speaker 1: driver right now? You know you got one lap to go.
Speaker 1: You think you're just saying, just put put ten dollars
Speaker 1: in for this last lap. Yeah, that's all I got.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't pay for their own guests. They don't.
Speaker 1: They're not at the thing. Go on, what's my zip codes? Ship?
Speaker 1: I'm getting past? No, No, they don't. That would make
Speaker 1: it a very I wanted to say terrible sport, but
Speaker 1: I actually think that might be the greatest sport ever invented.
Speaker 1: Be interesting. I also find it interesting that they're racing
Speaker 1: on oil, a finite resource. You know, That's why I
Speaker 1: support steam engine racing, because they use water with coal.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's a finite resource too, and it
Speaker 1: sounded better when I was just thinking of it. But
Speaker 1: there are electric racist now, and if we could come
Speaker 1: up with somebody to create an electric car, I would
Speaker 1: consider that person person of the year, all right. And finally,
Speaker 1: the hot new TV show right now is HBO's reboots
Speaker 1: of Sex and the City More Sex, More City over
Speaker 1: the weekend. The debut episode not only sent shock waves
Speaker 1: through people's living rooms, it also shook up the stock markets,
Speaker 1: a huge shock to fans of Sex in the City.
Speaker 1: Mr Big, the husband of Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie,
Speaker 1: dies of a heart attack in the very first episode
Speaker 1: of the series reboot. He's doing a vigorous workout on
Speaker 1: a Peloton bike. Then Mr Big, played by actor Chris Nod,
Speaker 1: heads to the shower where he suffers a fatal heart attack.
Speaker 1: The scene was such a shock the company's stock took
Speaker 1: a nose dive Thursday, dropping eleven percent. The Pelton spokesperson
Speaker 1: confirmed that it gave him the show permission to use
Speaker 1: Peloton equipment in that episode, but not that a character
Speaker 1: would die using it. But then forty eight hours though,
Speaker 1: Peloton came together to create commercial showing Mr Big alive
Speaker 1: and well. The clip has now gone viral. Pelton had
Speaker 1: also released a statement from a cardiologist saying Mr BIG's
Speaker 1: extravagant lifestyle and perhaps his family history played a role
Speaker 1: and his death. America, America, Yo, how does Peloton's real
Speaker 1: life stock tank because of something that happened to a
Speaker 1: character in a TV How dumb awesome? People? Your TV
Speaker 1: isn't real? Do you think those dragons and Game of
Speaker 1: Throws are real? The c g I, the Mandalorian, it's
Speaker 1: c g I. The cost of this is us. It's
Speaker 1: all c g I. No real people can cry that much.
Speaker 1: Grow up, people. Here's some investing advice. You should not
Speaker 1: make me jerk financial decisions based on TV shows. To
Speaker 1: do your research, you should look into the market and
Speaker 1: you see what Elon must tweets, and then you go
Speaker 1: with that. I do feel a little bad for Peloton, though,
Speaker 1: because when they gave HBO permission to put their product
Speaker 1: in the show, they didn't know someone was going to
Speaker 1: die because of it. You know, they probably thought the
Speaker 1: characters would just hang clothes on it like everyone else does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I don't like ad placements and TV shows. I
Speaker 1: find them dishonest, I find them greedy. I find outrageous,
Speaker 1: you know, almost as outrageous as the power of four
Speaker 1: Dura cell batteries. The choice of the Daily Shows Michael Costa, Trevor,
Speaker 1: you can't stop me from doing endorsements, dude. Okay. Also
Speaker 1: you can't stop the copper top the Daily Shows, Michael
Speaker 1: Costa's premier choice of battery. Do they pay you for that? Uh?
Speaker 1: It's I'm doing it as a proof of concept and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send it to their at team. So you're
Speaker 1: giving them free ads and they might not even pay
Speaker 1: you for them. I'm taking a calculated risk, yep. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't even know what to do any more.
Speaker 1: Custom All right, Well, they got different sizes. This is
Speaker 1: a deed and there's I think this is a but
Speaker 1: it's a great battery. I've use them for all my
Speaker 1: fax machines and remote controls. All right, just give me
Speaker 1: the small one. I need to form my con when
Speaker 1: you got all right, Well, Peloton has tried to ride
Speaker 1: this thing out, and to be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: give props to them as a company. You know, if
Speaker 1: we're trying to have a sense of humor and trying
Speaker 1: to limit the damage by joking about it all. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're out of the woods yet
Speaker 1: because based on the preview for next week's episode of
Speaker 1: Sex and the City Reboots, Man Peloton has got some
Speaker 1: more bad pr ahead of it. All Right, when we
Speaker 1: come back, Roywood Jr. Will look back at who got
Speaker 1: canceled in. You don't want to miss it because it
Speaker 1: might be you. Welcome back to the Daily Show is
Speaker 1: almost over. We can all agree that compared to last year,
Speaker 1: it has been a perfect year. So for the rest
Speaker 1: of the month we'll be remembering all best moments in
Speaker 1: our year end segment, a look back at the least
Speaker 1: bad year of the last two years. Tonight, a special
Speaker 1: look back with Roywood Jr. At the Department of Cancelations.
Speaker 1: Good evening and salutations. It is time to once again
Speaker 1: announced the US Department of Cancelations list of approved cancelations
Speaker 1: for the year one. Now as a reminder, these are
Speaker 1: actual cancelations. Now one of them fake cancelations that ends
Speaker 1: up just making everybody Richard. Nobody's getting a Netflix specially
Speaker 1: out of this. Not even a podcast sponsored by my pillow.
Speaker 1: This is an official cancelation. This means you've got are
Speaker 1: listed on your taxes and everything. Everything in your life
Speaker 1: gets canceled. Career canceled, Twitter account canceled, then disappointment canceled.
Speaker 1: You think you've got a reservation at Outback Steakhouse, not
Speaker 1: anymore canceled. First up, Mike Richards. We all know Mike Richards,
Speaker 1: the producer of Jeopardy, not to be confused with Pramer.
Speaker 1: Michael Richards, who we canceled back in two thousand six
Speaker 1: along with Matt Quest, which is when't getting the job done.
Speaker 1: Matt Quest to take two lefts and a slight right
Speaker 1: and get your wass up out of here. Mike Richards
Speaker 1: was selected to take as host of Jeopardy by the
Speaker 1: show's producer, Mike Richards. Yes, they kind of looked alike,
Speaker 1: and all the data that they you know, analyzed that
Speaker 1: just showed them that, you know, he already worked there
Speaker 1: so it would be less paperwork. Can't blame. But soon
Speaker 1: after Twitter did his thing and everyone discovered many disparaging
Speaker 1: comments Richards made about women and Jews, I mean the Jews,
Speaker 1: Jewish people, Rosha Shana, what's the right Kim Kurt for
Speaker 1: its terrible comments and the hubrist to think his smarmy
Speaker 1: asked could succeed a legend. The US Department officially cancels
Speaker 1: Mike Richards in an act of what is justice? Alex
Speaker 1: love you trade back baby? Next up? Uh? Former New
Speaker 1: York Governor Andrew Cuomo emphasis on the former. Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 1: rose to national prominence at the start of the coronavirus
Speaker 1: pandemics because, in its time of need, America wanted a
Speaker 1: guy who sounded like Alpacino to throw up a couple
Speaker 1: of power points lots and tell us that toilet paper
Speaker 1: was on the weight. Unfortunately, for Cuomo, all the shaman
Speaker 1: in the world wasn't gonna help him clean up the
Speaker 1: ship storm he was about to face. Cuomo was actually
Speaker 1: canceled twice this year, first for getting a bunch of
Speaker 1: nursing home residents killed and then fudging the numbers to
Speaker 1: cover it up, and then he was also canceled for
Speaker 1: sexual harassment against women who worked for him. You can't
Speaker 1: do both of those in one year. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the most prolific killer of old people, you gotta
Speaker 1: at least be courteous to women. The Department of Cancelations
Speaker 1: approves this cancelation, and it sentences Andrew Cuomo the ten
Speaker 1: million years in the prison sealed built out of the
Speaker 1: unsold copies of his book. They're gonna lease some room
Speaker 1: in there for your brothers too. Next up, the Cleveland Indians. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't need to explain why this was canceled. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you don't know why was canceled, please turn yourself
Speaker 1: into self cancelation. It'll be easier on all of us.
Speaker 1: I'll be the first to witness this one. Took us
Speaker 1: over a hundred years to process the paperwork one, but
Speaker 1: we finally got it done. There's a big backlog. Cleveland Indians,
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves. We got the Native American
Speaker 1: mascot division of this department working around the clock. They
Speaker 1: don't even get Thanksgiving off. That's messed up. Luckily, I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone in Cleveland is gonna be missing that
Speaker 1: name because the new name is amazing. The Cleveland Guardians
Speaker 1: sounds great. If we checked the make shure that the
Speaker 1: Guardian and the name or like some white supremacy groups
Speaker 1: or something. Now allow sound a little white supremacy. And finally,
Speaker 1: former President Donald J. Trump whose vicious lies about the
Speaker 1: election inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol and return
Speaker 1: him to power illegally. For shaking the foundation of our
Speaker 1: precious democracy to it's very core, the U. S. Department
Speaker 1: of Cancelation officially cancels him for all time. Then again,
Speaker 1: his supporters stormed the high building, trashed eye offices, busted
Speaker 1: up eye break room fridge, and now I have to
Speaker 1: bring my lunch to work in a cooler. So to
Speaker 1: avoid that happening again, the Department of Cancelation officially endorses
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump for president. And two go get them,
Speaker 1: future boss. I'm sorry, I'm not about to get beat
Speaker 1: with no flagpole by them people. They cres all the
Speaker 1: way they was cronk climbing like redneck spider man. That's
Speaker 1: going to cancelation. I don't I don't want any party.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. Roy. All Right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, Henry Cinson's chief of staff, whom Ibiden,
Speaker 1: will be joining me right here on the show, So
Speaker 1: don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guest tonight's is who of it in. She's an advisor
Speaker 1: and chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and she's
Speaker 1: here to talk about her best selling memoir, Both Slash
Speaker 1: and A Life in Many Worlds. Huma, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, Trevor. You have lived a
Speaker 1: life that is I mean just in proximity to action
Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, just just listening to this.
Speaker 1: You know when I was going through it again, it's
Speaker 1: it's you. You. You were by somebody's side who was
Speaker 1: running for president twice. Um, you know you were somebody's side. Well,
Speaker 1: she was serving as Secretary of States, as Senator of
Speaker 1: New York, and you had to wake that same person
Speaker 1: up from bed when she was first Lady. The person
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, of course, is Hillary Clinton. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about that first. How do you wake up a sleeping
Speaker 1: first Lady? So, first of all, I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: with you today, and I, um, yes, when I walked
Speaker 1: into the White House, I was a twenty one year
Speaker 1: old intern. I didn't exactly know what I was doing,
Speaker 1: and there was very much at lease in the Clinton administration,
Speaker 1: the sink or swim attitudes. They kind of threw you
Speaker 1: into it. And so this was the midst of her
Speaker 1: Senate campaign. She was first Lady morning for the Senate
Speaker 1: and one morning, the White House operator says, well, she's
Speaker 1: not responding now, as somebody who had followed all the rules,
Speaker 1: one of the first learned rules you learned the White
Speaker 1: Houses failed a plan, plan to fail, and I had
Speaker 1: a plan. The plan was that she was going to
Speaker 1: wake up. So I didn't know how to wake her up.
Speaker 1: So I decided to march into the hallway. I tiptoe
Speaker 1: in the back. I knocked on the door and I said,
Speaker 1: Mrs Clinton, no response. So finally I opened the door,
Speaker 1: tiptoe in and shake her really hard. And not only
Speaker 1: did I wake her up, I woke up the leader
Speaker 1: of the free world and the ghost of Lincoln, and
Speaker 1: the entire house was alerted. And the funniest thing about
Speaker 1: the story is that she gets up, she gets in
Speaker 1: the chair to get her makeup done, and she turned
Speaker 1: to me and she says, Huma, next time, just knock louder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big jump from softly shake yours. That's
Speaker 1: like a big jump. I learned a lesson that day,
Speaker 1: and now I aways knock louder. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it for a while, but that's
Speaker 1: a less like that, just like incremental steps the journey
Speaker 1: of whom we had a lot of fun, That's for sure.
Speaker 1: It does sound like that. I mean you you've had
Speaker 1: a really interesting relationship with Hillary Clinton. Who is you
Speaker 1: know in America? I mean, a person who will go
Speaker 1: down in history and like, people will love her, people
Speaker 1: will hate her, people will talk about her. You've seen
Speaker 1: sides of her that nobody else will. And what I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed in your book is you talk about seeing
Speaker 1: those sides of Hillary, and you talk about how difficult
Speaker 1: it was for Hillary to navigate the journey of being
Speaker 1: perfect and like talking perfectly and looking perfect. It seems
Speaker 1: like there was no there was no way to win
Speaker 1: when you were doing that, when you're trying to create
Speaker 1: the perfect image of a Hillary Clinton, Like, where was
Speaker 1: this external pressure coming from? You know, Trevor, So much
Speaker 1: of it is hindsight. When we were in it in
Speaker 1: the moment, there was no perfect way to be And
Speaker 1: one of our challenges, I actually write in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight we even on the inside, we didn't know
Speaker 1: how to deal with some of the sexist and misogynistic comments.
Speaker 1: So you just laughed around along with it. We just
Speaker 1: assumed this was the price you paid for being in
Speaker 1: the game. So if you said she should wear brown,
Speaker 1: we wear brown. If you said she should talk louder, okay,
Speaker 1: let's try to talk louder. And it was constantly shape shifting,
Speaker 1: if you will, responding to people's comments. But nothing was
Speaker 1: ever right. And I think was next level in that
Speaker 1: here we were and everybody had a different everyone had
Speaker 1: a different response. And actually share a story in the
Speaker 1: book with a Hollywood director pulls me and says, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give us some media training, and I said,
Speaker 1: will give me an idea of who she should be like?
Speaker 1: And they said, well, her husband, And I said, excellent,
Speaker 1: anybody else President Obama both phenomenal communicators, you know, legendary communicators,
Speaker 1: both met and so we could never quite get it right.
Speaker 1: We kept trying, and I think that it's in part
Speaker 1: because we have a hard time seeing women in leadership,
Speaker 1: forget Commander in Chief, Trevor, just seeing women and leadership positions.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, not everyone's going to necessarily
Speaker 1: agree with everything Hillary puts, but she is a historic
Speaker 1: figure for this country and the world, and she tried
Speaker 1: to pave the way forward, and she's got some cracks
Speaker 1: in that ceiling and somebody's going to step in there.
Speaker 1: She was. In a fact, we have a vice president
Speaker 1: who stepped in those ships right right, who's also being
Speaker 1: criticized for how she laughs. So how she doesn't laugh.
Speaker 1: You know, there seems to be a fine line that
Speaker 1: can like no one can really walk perfectly. Um. You
Speaker 1: you have faced a lot of that criticism. You have
Speaker 1: faced you know, I think a lot of extra scrutiny
Speaker 1: because you're not just a woman, but you're also a
Speaker 1: Muslim woman. You're a Muslim woman who's been working in
Speaker 1: American government for so long. Reading through the book, there
Speaker 1: were things I didn't know about you. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you had your moments of you know,
Speaker 1: being the terrorists that people were talking about, actual you know,
Speaker 1: sitting members of Congress saying like, oh, there she is
Speaker 1: the member of this organization, the member. Do you think
Speaker 1: it got better or do you think it just you know,
Speaker 1: went underground for a little bit because you're seeing this,
Speaker 1: you know, with Lauren Boebert for instance, now coming and
Speaker 1: saying il haa noma, you know, the backpack in the
Speaker 1: in the in the elevator. Do you think it got better?
Speaker 1: Is a Muslim person working in government or do you
Speaker 1: think it just shifted Maybe I actually think that what
Speaker 1: happened to me in two thousand and twelve as you
Speaker 1: were referring where five Republican members of Congress suggested I
Speaker 1: was essentially a spy, not a patriot. I was that American, Trevor.
Speaker 1: That as I traveled the world as a little girl,
Speaker 1: and we went everywhere from South Africa to London, to
Speaker 1: Paris to Asia. Every time we landed, I would turn
Speaker 1: to my mother and say, is in America yet? Why?
Speaker 1: Because to me, America wasn't just a place that you
Speaker 1: could go to movie theater things I didn't have back
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia, or you could wear what you wanted.
Speaker 1: It was a feeling. It was a sense of choice
Speaker 1: and optimism and appreciation for, you know, those principles and values.
Speaker 1: So I've always walked to the great pride as an American.
Speaker 1: I do think when they accused me of being essentially
Speaker 1: a spy, it was unleashing. I think it was an appetizer,
Speaker 1: Trevor to what we were to face in when certainly
Speaker 1: Muslims and many brown people be came the other and
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying my kind of brown. Generally, if
Speaker 1: you're a person of color, you were the other. And
Speaker 1: they succeeded in doing and I think it unleashed I
Speaker 1: think Donald Trump unleashed permission to have this kind of
Speaker 1: dialogue and conversation. It's one of the many reasons I
Speaker 1: wrote this book is to explain to the country what
Speaker 1: it is to be an American Muslim. It's not just
Speaker 1: heart wrenching, but it's also really vulnerable. How you share
Speaker 1: your story. You know, your name really just rose to
Speaker 1: prominence in the country with the Anthony Weiner story, your
Speaker 1: ex husband. And I remember at the time, I mean
Speaker 1: I wasn't familiar with American politics, but the story was
Speaker 1: blowing up a lot of the women who I worked with,
Speaker 1: they were just like, oh, this is so shitty. Like
Speaker 1: as women, we we have to deal with the ship
Speaker 1: that our men do. We have to bear their shame
Speaker 1: as well. And you, you, you really laid out elegantly
Speaker 1: and vulnerably in the book. But what was really surprising
Speaker 1: to me is that at the end of the book
Speaker 1: you acknowledge and thank your ex husband. And I'd love
Speaker 1: to know why you did that and and if that
Speaker 1: was a true feeling that you had or if you thought, no,
Speaker 1: this is the high road that I need to take. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I do acknowledge Anthony and the end of
Speaker 1: the book, and the reason I do that is two things.
Speaker 1: The first is he gave me the single most important
Speaker 1: thing in my life, that's my little boy. UM. And
Speaker 1: he gave me that sense of feeling. I know what
Speaker 1: it is to be loved and if you read the
Speaker 1: book to feel like the most special person in the room.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of experience with men before
Speaker 1: I met Anthony, and I wanted to be seen, not
Speaker 1: as even though I have a whole chapter in the
Speaker 1: book called Elephant in the Room and another one called Shame,
Speaker 1: Shame Go Away. Even though I did live with a
Speaker 1: lot of shame and felt judged for much of my marriage,
Speaker 1: I tried to make every decision that I thought was
Speaker 1: right for me and for my little boy. And I've
Speaker 1: actually been surprised by the number of people who read
Speaker 1: the book and read to the end, seeing how I
Speaker 1: made these decisions as a related to my marriage, saying okay,
Speaker 1: I understand now, I get it, and I think people
Speaker 1: who have in their life loved ones who deal with
Speaker 1: addiction or mental health challenges, they understand. For people who don't,
Speaker 1: it's harder, and so I'm really glad. I'm I'm very
Speaker 1: humbled to hear people understand it once they read the
Speaker 1: story and see that there is another side. There is
Speaker 1: hope and possibility and optimism. Well, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think everybody does understand. I just think as human beings,
Speaker 1: it is easier for us to judge a situation that
Speaker 1: is happening outside of us, because when we're not in love,
Speaker 1: or when we don't love somebody, or we're not experiencing
Speaker 1: a negative thing with a loved one, the answer is obvious,
Speaker 1: you know, so you go, you should do this, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that. That's what it's like when we're watching
Speaker 1: a TV show. You know what all the characters should do,
Speaker 1: but you're you're the character and your own TV show,
Speaker 1: and then you never know what to do from episodes.
Speaker 1: That is so beautifully sad. Yeah, I could not agree more.
Speaker 1: And you're you're right when you're judging somebody else. If
Speaker 1: you're in that position, would you actually have the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's so easy because you're watching it, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's what it is. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining me, Trevor, Thank you for having me. All Right, people,
Speaker 1: Huma's book both Slash and is available wherever books are
Speaker 1: sold or are. We're gonna take a quick break, but
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