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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to the Daily Show Ears edition. My name
Speaker 2: is Matt O'Brien. I'm a producer and writer on the show,
Speaker 2: and I'm here with a very special guests who drop
Speaker 2: by to interview a panel of undecided voters on the show.
Speaker 2: It's Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Welcome, Trying, Thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Who are you again? That's a great question. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: work on the show, Matt o'donald, No no relation. You
Speaker 1: do work on the show. I'm a writer. You're a
Speaker 1: white middle aged man. You're a writer. Can we get
Speaker 1: some diversity in here? For God's sakes, all right, let's
Speaker 1: just go with it all, Triumph, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: I have Matt, Matt and I have worked together. Matt's
Speaker 1: just like Matt is a very well respected has been
Speaker 1: who used to work at the con and O'Donnell's show,
Speaker 1: and the two of us did many reports together. And
Speaker 1: I just read that from a prompter. I don't remember
Speaker 1: him at all.
Speaker 2: And it's led us here to this podcast.
Speaker 1: Led us here to the neador of show business. Thank
Speaker 1: you for inviting me to record in a room smaller
Speaker 1: than slightly smaller than a handicapped bathroom stall. Seriously, am
Speaker 1: I taping a podcast or being held for ransom? This
Speaker 1: is where isis shot all their videos right, very exciting. No,
Speaker 1: Hiki Niki, it's nicest, doesn't have anything to do. This
Speaker 1: is the room where you euthanize all the correspondents who
Speaker 1: don't find loving homes. Right now. I love this place, great,
Speaker 1: great room. Have you called David Ellison? Maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: know that buying Paramount comes with a free shitty podcast
Speaker 1: studio that would put.
Speaker 2: It over the top. Yes, guy dance, get sky Dance
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Speaker 1: That's good. Yes, there you go that. I was a
Speaker 1: little improv from Matt.
Speaker 2: I'm up on show business topics like the acquisitions.
Speaker 1: See he is, there is diversity here. He's a writer
Speaker 1: who isn't funny. I can no. Here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go with the prepared jokes. Yes, no, you know
Speaker 1: what I love about the Daily Show offices. I've been
Speaker 1: here before, and you have a lot of office dogs,
Speaker 1: and I think that's wonderful. I love seeing all the
Speaker 1: office dogs around. It really made me feel at home
Speaker 1: when I took a shit on John Stewart's death. By
Speaker 1: the way, Is this the same room where you waterboarded
Speaker 1: John into coming back the very same How? Why the
Speaker 1: fuck is he coming back to Comedy Central? I kid,
Speaker 1: what happened? Did his OnlyFans account not take off? I
Speaker 1: was enjoying the show when you had the celebrity the
Speaker 1: host honestly? Yeah, yeah, I mean it was like watching
Speaker 1: I Love the nineties. Seriously, I I for years, I've
Speaker 1: been biting my pause wondering what D. L. Hughley's politics are. Like. No,
Speaker 1: it's great, it's great. So no, but you're on the
Speaker 1: Daily Show now, So what's it like to work on
Speaker 1: the only Comedy Central show that isn't a Futurama rerun?
Speaker 2: Well, it's uh, it's on the East Coast. It's close
Speaker 2: to my home, right, it's an honor and.
Speaker 1: His Whitecastle. You know, you could be working there. It
Speaker 1: pays about the same.
Speaker 2: At this point, I had moved out west to get
Speaker 2: away from working with Triumph, and yeah, so did code It.
Speaker 3: It's his entire crew to the Left coast. Because Triumph
Speaker 3: is a New Yorker that paid off. I called then
Speaker 3: and I said, fuck that guy.
Speaker 1: And he said, I don't know. Right away. From right away,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of pull back in the oughts. Anyway. No,
Speaker 1: you know, this is great back here on the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: So what's the topic of the show today. Republicans are
Speaker 1: bad or Trump is bad?
Speaker 2: It's a little both. We try to hit both sides.
Speaker 1: It must be tough figuring out which to do on
Speaker 1: what night, four nights a week. My god, keep it up, though,
Speaker 1: keep it up. No, seriously, you guys do do important work.
Speaker 1: I mean, the state of politics is such a joke.
Speaker 1: So it's just great that you guys have found a
Speaker 1: way to take all the humor out of it. That's
Speaker 1: a good joke.
Speaker 2: That's a good, solid joke for me to pup on.
Speaker 2: And we're out and are good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, tryump. Thank you for unloading uh all
Speaker 2: of ammo on me.
Speaker 1: What I do, It's what I do.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I was forced into this. I'm
Speaker 2: certainly glad I was.
Speaker 1: My only kid. It's all coming from a place of truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I know we've known each other for
Speaker 2: a long time. Yeah, and I can't disagree with any
Speaker 2: of it. We are now going to talk to the
Speaker 2: hand up here, asked Robert Smigel about the piece you
Speaker 2: did for the show We're Back with Robert Smigel, The
Speaker 2: hand up the ass of Triumph. They insult comic dog. Robert,
Speaker 2: of course is a legendary comedy writer, and gave.
Speaker 1: Me my start. You let me write for Triumph, and
Speaker 1: I'd say, would you like a start? Miss it? I
Speaker 1: very much would.
Speaker 2: So you probably didn't start doing politics until probably two
Speaker 2: thousand and four.
Speaker 1: Right, you think you're right. I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: did politics until two thousand.
Speaker 2: It was mainly it was it was things like bon jovies,
Speaker 2: pop culture stuff. Yeah, and we met through we met,
Speaker 2: so the the way it happened is believe or not.
Speaker 2: I was a production assistant at the Daily Show, Right,
Speaker 2: and we met. You were at the two thousand and
Speaker 2: four Democratic Convention in Boston. Yeah, I think you were
Speaker 2: shooting that Triumph movie.
Speaker 1: I was shooting a Triumph movie, yes, for Columbia. I
Speaker 1: think that the Fairly brothers were producing it, and we
Speaker 1: shot a bunch of footage. I got thrown out of
Speaker 1: the DNC twice. I remember seeing one time when I
Speaker 1: crashed Bill O'Reilly's show. I followed Michael Moore in. He
Speaker 1: brought me in. Michael Moore did I was making fun
Speaker 1: of him, and he said, come follow me, and then
Speaker 1: they followed me in and I'm like heckling O'Reilly in
Speaker 1: between commercial breaks and stuff, and O'Reilly's having fun. But
Speaker 1: then like the cops come in and they like they
Speaker 1: see that I'm not credentialed or something. And Michael Moore
Speaker 1: literally says, he followed me in here, like he didn't
Speaker 1: say he's with me, with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the man you're looking for, exactly.
Speaker 1: I have. I've never stuck my hand up that ass sir.
Speaker 1: That is I've never met that that asshole.
Speaker 2: That hand is not find this whole thing childishary.
Speaker 1: This is. Yes, I harassed security guards at auto automobile
Speaker 1: industry offices. Yeah, I would never make fun of someone
Speaker 1: of Bill O'Reilly's statue. I limit my harassment to security
Speaker 1: guards at major corporation's office buildings. Anyway, I thought we
Speaker 1: had great footage, but we showed a compilation to uh,
Speaker 1: the studio, and they just killed the project. Really Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was weird. They were like, there's no story here,
Speaker 1: and I like had a whole treatment that was going
Speaker 1: to be a story that we were going to shoot later.
Speaker 1: We had the first thing we shot was the convention.
Speaker 1: It was like, so there, you're just grabbing moments, and
Speaker 1: that's a usually a good fishing expedition for Triumph because
Speaker 1: of course, I mean amount of people in one Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you and I went to the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight Republican Convention together and it was quite different because
Speaker 1: we were there with NBC, Yes, and we had like
Speaker 1: an escort taking us. It was like crazy compared to
Speaker 1: what I did did on my own for this movie studio.
Speaker 1: We were right on the floor, I mean right on
Speaker 1: the floor of the night convention and they're setting up
Speaker 1: Would you like to talk to the governor of Minnesota?
Speaker 1: Would you like to talk to this person? We harassed
Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper made a great segment, didn't get thrown out.
Speaker 1: We went to a.
Speaker 2: Wind lobbyist party and sang a song about abortion.
Speaker 1: Yes, Sarah Palin song Sarah Brave good Times. Come on.
Speaker 2: I think they had a live band, and you said, well,
Speaker 2: can I just borrow the mic first?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, And I sang this song. And the whole
Speaker 1: joke was that I figured everybody wouldn't listen to the
Speaker 1: song lyrics, that they would just focus on the chorus.
Speaker 1: Sarah Pale I know sahbrate could times come on and
Speaker 1: they'd all get into it, and then in between I
Speaker 1: would sing, you know, not gonna allow abortion tonight, it's
Speaker 1: not right. Yeah, even in the cases of that, let's celebrate.
Speaker 1: But I feel like Conan made us cut that line. No,
Speaker 1: that hurt. That hurt was my favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about the rape. I think there line okay,
Speaker 2: but these are huge, opulent seafood towers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeahs dancing away not listening closely.
Speaker 2: It was why did they say yes? I never understood
Speaker 2: why people said yes.
Speaker 1: I know they have. At the two thousand and four
Speaker 1: Republican Convention, I was also thrown out. And this was
Speaker 1: really gorilla because my movie had been stopped. So me
Speaker 1: and like just three friends just got passes somehow, and
Speaker 1: I just brought in my own camera and I was
Speaker 1: just sitting there. And during George Bush's speech, I remember
Speaker 1: I had a Triumph, not me. Triumph was wearing one
Speaker 1: of those ridiculous Republican hats that had an elephant's trunk.
Speaker 1: It was just an elephant's trunk on the people would
Speaker 1: wear it over their foreheads, and so Triumph I had
Speaker 1: Triumph screaming, you know for Bush cheering every time, and
Speaker 1: each time he cheered, the elephant's trunk would drop, so
Speaker 1: it was around his neck, it was around his chest,
Speaker 1: till finally it was between his legs and this long
Speaker 1: elephant trunk hanging between his legs and he's screaming at
Speaker 1: the top of his lungs and the cops finally noticed
Speaker 1: and detained me. Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the best moments of going to a political
Speaker 2: convention with you and Triumph is going through security because
Speaker 2: they make you unpack your bag on a table, so
Speaker 2: you have to take out the puppets.
Speaker 1: Oh, the elephant hat.
Speaker 2: You're laying out all these things that you're bringing, all
Speaker 2: the props, and he's very stern looking security guards or
Speaker 2: wanding them okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: No bomb in this puppet. I remember. I remember one time,
Speaker 1: I think it was at that DNC. We really wanted
Speaker 1: to do this thing where Triumph had been fucking a
Speaker 1: poodle and he was stuck. They got locked like dogs do,
Speaker 1: and he's supposed to interview some famous politician, but he's
Speaker 1: still stuck in the poodle and we just could not
Speaker 1: get the apparatus or the dog into security. It would
Speaker 1: have been the best thing ever to have Triumph walking
Speaker 1: through because we had a remote set up so that,
Speaker 1: like I could make Triumph talk by a remote control.
Speaker 1: We used it once on the Comedy Central show. We
Speaker 1: did like twenty years ago on TV fund House. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a remote control that where I could make
Speaker 1: triumphs lip lips move and talk without having my hand
Speaker 1: up his ass. And we had him hooked up to
Speaker 1: this poodle and he's like, help somebody know what.
Speaker 2: I feel like it would be quicker to just tell
Speaker 2: us which conventions you haven't been thrown out of, because
Speaker 2: the exactly Yeah, anyway, the point is, what were we
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: There's no point. There's no point.
Speaker 2: There's never been a point. I met you at the
Speaker 2: two thousand and four convention. Ye doing all these shows,
Speaker 2: and I was roaming the floor with Stephen Colbert and
Speaker 2: you were talking to Stephen Colbert, and I think you
Speaker 2: just said something along the lines of like, hey, I
Speaker 2: need a thousand jokes in the next month two because
Speaker 2: the shows, and I think I I think I met
Speaker 2: just said hey, I'll send you some jokes. And I remember, hey,
Speaker 2: young Matt here, didn't.
Speaker 1: We run into Steve? Didn't I run into Stephen outside
Speaker 1: the convention like online to get in one night, the
Speaker 1: night John Carey was making.
Speaker 2: And that's when I remember you taking out all of
Speaker 2: these insane, ridiculous props for security to wand as you
Speaker 2: were going in. Yeah, everybody else had their briefcases and
Speaker 2: their documents, but I've got these ridiculous props.
Speaker 1: Huh. Yes, I remember seeing Steven there covering for the
Speaker 1: Daily Show and he had me harmonize with him to
Speaker 1: the star spangled banner outside. There's footage of it. I
Speaker 1: have it at an't remember. Yeah, nobody's seen it anyway.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we've been to you and I have been
Speaker 2: to many political conventions.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember the two thousand and eight one was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Then did we go in Florida
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve? Right to Tampa? To Tampa? Was that
Speaker 1: the time I had mister Met with me?
Speaker 2: No, that was the spin that was that was the
Speaker 2: spin room on Long Island at Hofstra University. Was that
Speaker 2: a debate that was a debate, That was a debate,
Speaker 2: that was a Republican debate. Yes, and we brought mister
Speaker 2: Met and we photo bombed. Greta Van Sustron on Fox
Speaker 2: News I think at like one in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's like after the whatever, the debate, and
Speaker 1: they're doing their wrap up analysis and she's talking to
Speaker 1: you know, Susan Estrich or some such pun for.
Speaker 2: People that don't know. The spin room is this room
Speaker 2: after a debate where all of the pundits and political
Speaker 2: operatives gather in a room and talk to as many
Speaker 2: outlets as possible to get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they set talking. They were holding signs representing the candidates.
Speaker 2: So you can be you can get you can get
Speaker 2: twenty people in a half hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But then I took to photo bombing, and I've
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun photo bombing, and that time,
Speaker 1: you know, Triumphs peeking behind Greta an Custern. Then he
Speaker 1: gestures and brings in mister met giant baseball head, and
Speaker 1: then he started humping mister Metts no behind Greta an Sustern.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was proud of that.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who played mister met oh man,
Speaker 2: I don't maybe chill emmy, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think so, I don't remember. It's just some actor
Speaker 1: that we nobody else was willing to know. We needed
Speaker 1: to pay an actor.
Speaker 2: Nobody it was the real mister met Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daily Show Ears edition. All right,
Speaker 2: so now let's talk. I guess about what we did
Speaker 2: for the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was fun to be back on late night.
Speaker 1: First late night since. Yeah, since my appearances on Colbert.
Speaker 1: I did a so Conan went out of business a
Speaker 1: few years ago, right, and I took to working for Colbert.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I successfully got the show canceled.
Speaker 1: As the head writer. I took it to it's death knel. Right.
Speaker 1: I started the show, I finished you killed it.
Speaker 2: I rearranged the chairs until it was under one.
Speaker 1: I remember when I met you. I was like, I
Speaker 1: see something in this guy. He's the one feels like
Speaker 1: a finisher. And I spoke to John Stewart and the
Speaker 1: producer Jen Flans and they were very kind and anxious
Speaker 1: to have Triumph show up and in an election year.
Speaker 1: So we started with something that I don't really do
Speaker 1: very much as Triumph. I'm usually running around chasing people. Recently,
Speaker 1: I was at the Trump trial. Right outside the Trump Trial,
Speaker 1: I just taped it myself with some friends, some writers.
Speaker 1: Josh Comer's Todd Levin, some of my best writers, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and we put it on my YouTube channel, Triump's YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: But I was very excited to come and have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do the Daily Show, and so I did
Speaker 1: something that has been done on the Daily Show a
Speaker 1: few times, where they do focus groups where they take
Speaker 1: an actual panel of voters, whether it's Trump supporters or whatever.
Speaker 1: In this case, I thought it would be funny to
Speaker 1: do undecided voters, because it's really hard to believe that
Speaker 1: anybody could be undecided after all this time. Point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so as undecided, let's go around the room. Tell us
Speaker 1: your name and what your problem is. We've never had
Speaker 1: worse choices.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I don't like either candidates, same as
Speaker 2: other people said, up, not really crazy about either candidates.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see some of you feel you need more
Speaker 1: information about the candidates, and I get it. We know
Speaker 1: so little about Trump and Biden apart from their campaign issues,
Speaker 1: their actions as president, their handling of the global pandemic,
Speaker 1: their criminal indictments, whom they've showered with at a very
Speaker 1: detailed description of Trump's penis from a former porn star,
Speaker 1: but we still don't know it's like, what else do
Speaker 1: you need to know? Or why the fuck are you
Speaker 1: focusing on? Like I'm worried he's too old er, he's
Speaker 1: too mean. It's like they're their differences, you know, their
Speaker 1: differences on the issues are so profound that it's just
Speaker 1: comical to me that people are focusing on anything else.
Speaker 2: And these guys have been political fixtures.
Speaker 1: Now for We've known Trump for forty years. We've known
Speaker 1: both of them for like a total almost decades. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of the years we've known them, and it's older than
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost as old as they are actually,
Speaker 1: so yeah. So I just thought it was a really
Speaker 1: comical setup for Triumph to mock these people. And it's
Speaker 1: a little different than the focus groups that I've seen
Speaker 1: in the past, and that in those, uh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of back and forth, right, you really get to
Speaker 1: hear the opinions of these people. Triumph kind of he
Speaker 1: kind of does most of the talking. It's a one
Speaker 1: side of mostly you know, people get in little lines
Speaker 1: here and there, but.
Speaker 2: For most parts, it's incoming fire for people for the
Speaker 2: most part, which.
Speaker 1: Is not unlike a lot of Triumph remotes.
Speaker 2: You know, that's kind of part of the fun of it, though, Yes,
Speaker 2: people as long as people are having a good time.
Speaker 1: People having a good time taking it. Kind of like
Speaker 1: Triumph's interview with you. At the beginning of this.
Speaker 2: Show, I was demonstrating, you take it on the chin for.
Speaker 1: Ten minutes, you stick. You say a couple of things
Speaker 1: in between, but mostly you're just letting.
Speaker 2: Problems is when you're fighting back, it really is rubber puppet,
Speaker 2: so you look ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The best version of that that ever happened was again
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. I was covering the Republican
Speaker 1: Convention just for my own enjoyment, hoping that I could
Speaker 1: get a movie together, and I was invited by MSNBC
Speaker 1: to do their after show. I forget what it was called,
Speaker 1: but it was hosted by Ron Reagan Junior and Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough and they had as a guest the late great
Speaker 1: actor Ron Silver. For those who remember Ron Silva, he
Speaker 1: kind of talked like this. He was in a very
Speaker 1: active Republican actor and anyway, he got very serious with me.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. It's always fun when somebody really
Speaker 1: wants to get into a debate with the rubber puppet
Speaker 1: and Ron Silver. We got in each other's face arguing,
Speaker 1: and I continually made fun of him and his political points.
Speaker 2: Well, because on camera it looks like, you know, in person,
Speaker 2: he can see your face, yes, saying these things right
Speaker 2: to him, but on camera it looks like he's arguing
Speaker 2: with a rubber dog.
Speaker 1: He is, well, no, he doesn't see my face. I
Speaker 1: was actually crouched under yeah, yeah, yeah. Well it's like
Speaker 1: a roundtable show, just like with this kind of table
Speaker 1: and on those I have to crouch under the table.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, you know, I don't know what would
Speaker 1: possess someone to say, well, I'm going to really give
Speaker 1: it to this dog here. He just really wanted to read.
Speaker 1: He felt like that he needed to be the Republican
Speaker 1: speaking up against all these other people. This is my moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so he didn't care if he was doing
Speaker 2: it against you know, Joe Scarborough or a latex puppet.
Speaker 1: He wanted to argue that FDR was a bad president
Speaker 1: or whatever the hell. It was hysterical.
Speaker 2: Well, so I guess that's indicative of It's interesting that
Speaker 2: early on that was where our discourse was starting to go,
Speaker 2: is people will argue now with oh god, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean that arguing with the rubber dog puppet back then
Speaker 2: was I think kind of new, kind of now I
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 1: There's well, now there are people who will see the
Speaker 1: puppet and be humorless about it again, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean it kind of turned when Trump got elected. I
Speaker 1: remember going out for Conan and I think it was
Speaker 1: the last piece I did for the inauguration. Was yeah, right,
Speaker 1: was Trump was inaugurated and I had already done some
Speaker 1: Trump rallies for my Hulu specials that I did in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. But once Trump was inaugurated, there was a
Speaker 1: different attitude among his supporters, like fuck you were not
Speaker 1: taking this. Like two different people grabbed the cigar out
Speaker 1: of Triumph's mouth and broke it.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah for real, just because everybody was the
Speaker 2: enemy at that point, anybody that wasn't.
Speaker 1: And it was like stop fucking with us. We won,
Speaker 1: this is our day. Sure. Yeah. And and like there
Speaker 1: was a biker guy. There were a bunch of bikers
Speaker 1: there for Trump. Yeah, and one biker really got in
Speaker 1: my face and then.
Speaker 2: I remember that, yeah, yeah, I remember that that guy
Speaker 2: was there. Was that there was The bikers were really great.
Speaker 1: They and aged you. They went hardcore, yes, but one
Speaker 1: biker took it really seriously, like, what the fuck are
Speaker 1: you doing? Man, get the fuck out of here. And
Speaker 1: another one's like, hey, buddy, buddy, calm down, brother, brother,
Speaker 1: take it easy. It's okay, it's okay. We're just just
Speaker 1: a clown, you know, just just.
Speaker 2: There's a great opening line in that piece about the sun.
Speaker 1: Oh it was.
Speaker 2: The there was there was not not many celebrities here,
Speaker 2: it was it was the sun was one of the
Speaker 2: many celebrities you decided not.
Speaker 1: To show up. Yeah, great, so.
Speaker 2: We did an undecided voter panel. Uh, and these, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're right, it's usually Triumph is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a fishing expedition.
Speaker 1: You have the.
Speaker 2: Jokes organized on a document kind of by.
Speaker 1: Well, I had jokes on a document here, and that's
Speaker 1: always like kind of a mixed blessing because I like,
Speaker 1: I remember the first few I did at the Westminster
Speaker 1: Dog Show, I didn't have jokes, and it was a
Speaker 1: lot of improv and they went really well because it
Speaker 1: was so new and they was really funny. Classic piece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the very first one, I mean they put it up
Speaker 1: for the Emmys. But then we did another one with
Speaker 1: Hollywood scores, and then we went back to Westminster and
Speaker 1: I was like, I think this time I should maybe
Speaker 1: we should prepare some jokes. And then the jokes were
Speaker 1: so great that I was like, Okay, every time we
Speaker 1: do this, let's all get together and write jokes. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I have so many jokes that I don't give
Speaker 1: myself the space to relax and interact. In sure, sometimes
Speaker 1: even with this piece, I feel like it would have
Speaker 1: been nice to play around. Like I remember when we
Speaker 1: were in Minnesota, we did like a bonus piece on
Speaker 1: our own, like we were there to do the convention,
Speaker 1: then we were there to interview Ralph Nader, and we
Speaker 1: had prepared jokes for both, and then we did another
Speaker 1: piece with protesters Democratic. We wanted to make fun of
Speaker 1: the Democratic post protest, remember, and we didn't really have jokes,
Speaker 1: and me and you just fucked around. Yep.
Speaker 2: It was a nice remot, it was, And it was
Speaker 2: kind of it was sort of that makeshift sort of campground,
Speaker 2: I think a site or something.
Speaker 1: It was like a cordoned off area where Democratic protesters
Speaker 1: were allowed to pro to, you know, assemble, and we
Speaker 1: just you know, we talked about some shit before we
Speaker 1: said jokes. But yeah, a lot of it was on
Speaker 1: the spot, and I remember Conan saying, oh, I like
Speaker 1: that one. You should do more. Yes, where you just
Speaker 1: relax and just feel more organic. The interaction is nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, So back to the Daily Show piece. I
Speaker 2: thought it came out really well. I thought that people
Speaker 2: were really good sports about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. A lot of.
Speaker 2: People asked me and said, did people know it was
Speaker 2: triumph and and oh, yeah, you're always very good about
Speaker 2: I never want people it's not an ambush. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: should be in on the joke. They should feel and.
Speaker 1: Even I mean, it's very rare that I go up
Speaker 1: to someone and not make the effort to ask them
Speaker 1: first if it's okay to talk to them, sure, matter
Speaker 1: who it is, pretty much anyone but Lindsay Graham. If
Speaker 1: it's a person who there's a bar of despicability that
Speaker 1: you know, if you can't reach then and those people
Speaker 1: are arguably way more fair game. Yeah, public figures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's and also there's the press. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: have an internal voice that tells me he's gonna say
Speaker 1: no if you ask, yes, ask for giveness. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So after this, after after after the Daily Show, what
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1: With the Puppet. I don't know. We'll see. We might
Speaker 1: do more on the Daily Show. That would be fun.
Speaker 1: Since it's an election year. I don't know. I'd love
Speaker 1: to go back and cover Ted Cruz's campaign again. I've
Speaker 1: covered Ted Cruz running for president, and I've covered Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz running for Senate, and it's his turn again. I
Speaker 1: would love to go back and harass some of the
Speaker 1: That would be fun to to hit some of the
Speaker 1: craziest congressional or Senate candidates. And then I got some
Speaker 1: stuff I've been doing.
Speaker 2: There's also stuff online that people actually should check out.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've been I've been doing some live shows. I
Speaker 1: do a game show on the road sometimes called Let's
Speaker 1: Make a Poop. It's a lot of fun. It's sort
Speaker 1: of a Jeopardy kind of game where the celebrity panelists
Speaker 1: have to guess the correct answer to questions, but they
Speaker 1: don't have to guess the correct answer. They have to
Speaker 1: come up with a funny answer, the correct funny answer,
Speaker 1: and it's really a lot of fun. And I did
Speaker 1: a show from San Francisco with weird Al Yankovic and
Speaker 1: Rob Schneider. Amber Ruffin was there. It was a great night.
Speaker 1: That's online. It's on the Team Coco YouTube page, and
Speaker 1: it's also on the Triumph YouTube page. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come out with another one that I did recently from Chicago,
Speaker 1: where we actually got a former governor, Rod Blogoyevitch to
Speaker 1: sit in on the panel. Yes, and we spent some
Speaker 1: time in prison. He spent like six or seven years
Speaker 1: in prison, and then Trump commuted. Trump com commuted his sentence,
Speaker 1: and now he's a wondering what he's up to now.
Speaker 1: He calls himself a Trump but crat now as if
Speaker 1: there's even as if that makes any sense. No, I
Speaker 1: told him, yeah, that's like, does he still have.
Speaker 2: The legendary quaff the blogo god?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I said, you know what Trump loves about
Speaker 1: you is uh you know because here he was on
Speaker 1: Celebrity Apprentice with Trump. That's how Trump got to know
Speaker 1: him and like him. And he said, you know, I
Speaker 1: think Trump likes you, you know, because you both show
Speaker 1: no remorse or forehead.
Speaker 2: All right, so you'll probably do some more of those maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, there's that. And I'm writing, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I wrote a movie with Adam Sandler called
Speaker 1: Leo that I'm very proud of and yes, yes that's
Speaker 1: for kids, but parents do. All right, well check it out,
Speaker 1: check that out as well.
Speaker 2: All right, well, I want to thank uh everybody for listening,
Speaker 2: and Robert Smigel and Triumphance Ould Comic Dog for I've
Speaker 2: rarely ever hosted a podcast, but I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: very good at it and I see a thank you,
Speaker 2: very a very strong future for myself.
Speaker 1: Thank you, excellent, Josh, thanks a lot for me to
Speaker 1: poop one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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