Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they told us that John Stewart was coming back.
Speaker 2: There was such an air of relief and focus in
Speaker 2: this studio one. They're like, thank god we still have
Speaker 2: all these small suits. We didn't know what to do
Speaker 2: with it. Thank god we could use these. He's very tiny.
Speaker 2: But also I think like we were ready to get started.
Speaker 2: This year is a dumpster fire and it's more important
Speaker 2: than ever, and this building is made to comment on
Speaker 2: the news, talk about it, find Huber in the bullshit,
Speaker 2: and call out the bs wherever you see it. And
Speaker 2: John invented it. He built the foundation of this place.
Speaker 2: And when he walked back in that door, like we
Speaker 2: had we had a great year without a permanent host,
Speaker 2: and it was really fun getting to hear so many
Speaker 2: different voices and so many talented people. But I think
Speaker 2: John came in and was like, I'm going to do
Speaker 2: this one day a week.
Speaker 1: And I think the.
Speaker 2: Rest of the news team is like, hell, yeah, we
Speaker 2: got your back. We are honored and excited to be here.
Speaker 2: There's no better place, no other place I'd rather be
Speaker 2: than right here at this desk. And I think like,
Speaker 2: you have a team that has got eyes focused on
Speaker 2: this next election, ready to go.
Speaker 3: I know what, no, what if somebody actually what is
Speaker 3: the audition to be.
Speaker 4: On the show as a correspondent.
Speaker 3: Let me see what happened with me was I was
Speaker 3: doing shitty open mics in Australia and then and then
Speaker 3: Trevor asked me to audition for it. So if you
Speaker 3: can find Trevor, I think he can help you. I've
Speaker 3: got any questions, any questions, anybody questions. I'm not like
Speaker 3: job offers in the back that. Yeah, well if you
Speaker 3: were a what I'd rather you ask me for a
Speaker 3: job anyway. I don't know, potato peeler everyday? What's what's
Speaker 3: the least most useful over there? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Do you think that you come into New York affected
Speaker 5: like your comedy and everything rather than going to.
Speaker 3: LA or oh yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, definitely for
Speaker 3: sure New York. I actually, when I first got my visa,
Speaker 3: I was I went to LA. My agent told me
Speaker 3: to come to LA and do pilot season. And that's
Speaker 3: a that's an industry term for everyone. There's one guy
Speaker 3: in the industry laughing or yeah, my agents, I had
Speaker 3: come to LA do a pilot season, pilot season, means
Speaker 3: you go into audition room with twenty Asian dudes who
Speaker 3: look like you, who all went to like Yale drama school,
Speaker 3: and they're auditioning for like, you know, Sidekick two on
Speaker 3: whatever and I and I was I was in that.
Speaker 3: I was in that for one I did that one
Speaker 3: time and as in I was in that season one time,
Speaker 3: and I knew, like, man, I'm not going to out
Speaker 3: act all these actual, trained, talented people. The only thing
Speaker 3: I can do with my limited skill set is go
Speaker 3: to New York and be a huge asshole and so
Speaker 3: and it wont t all about that. So New York,
Speaker 3: definitely New York is New York to life.
Speaker 6: Your most memorable guests, like so far in conversation that
Speaker 6: you've had over the New York because he's both of
Speaker 6: me here for a really long time, so kind of
Speaker 6: for both of you.
Speaker 2: Who gets the question that's the most memorable guest?
Speaker 5: Oh god, I Right when I started the show, we
Speaker 5: had Gloria steinem on and she was walking through the
Speaker 5: hallways and for whatever reason, she didn't know where to go.
Speaker 5: I don't know. She was just walking around by herself,
Speaker 5: and she popped into the edit that I was in
Speaker 5: and she goes, does anyone know where I'm supposed to go?
Speaker 5: And I was like, I do, and I just started
Speaker 5: the job, so I didn't know where to take her.
Speaker 5: Then there were just the two of us aimlessly walking
Speaker 5: around back hallways. But it was just so it was
Speaker 5: such a cool moment to actually get to see her
Speaker 5: and meet her in person, and.
Speaker 2: Then well I remember that moment. Then I, as a man,
Speaker 2: stepped in was like you ladies look lost.
Speaker 7: Follow the dude, Gloria steinem come over here, I would say.
Speaker 7: One of the fun like it is it's such a
Speaker 7: small little building that you see guests wandering around all
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 2: I remember Paul McCartney was here and I know, have
Speaker 2: you heard him from the Eagles, great great musician, love
Speaker 2: the Eagles, but he came on. He was one of
Speaker 2: the few guests where we were sort of told internally
Speaker 2: don't be in the hallways because sometimes you can find
Speaker 2: yourself in the hallway bumping into people and be like, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: President Clinton, I want to say hi, and so McCartney,
Speaker 2: they're like, stay in your edit base. And I remember
Speaker 2: hearing Paul McCartney walk through the hallways singing as he does.
Speaker 2: We get it, We get it, and nobody interrupted with him.
Speaker 2: You went out. He did his piece and I was
Speaker 2: editing a piece in an edit bay and he came
Speaker 2: off the show and he kind of walked through and
Speaker 2: I saw the back of my on the court of
Speaker 2: my eye. The door was open. I saw McCartney walk by,
Speaker 2: and then he came into our edit bay. He turned around,
Speaker 2: walked into our edit bay and he was like, so.
Speaker 6: What's this?
Speaker 2: What are you guys playing with? What are you fucking
Speaker 2: around with him?
Speaker 3: What is this? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Did he get notes?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I immediately we jumped into bits like I don't know
Speaker 2: this music, and here sucks.
Speaker 7: What do you want to do?
Speaker 2: And he started playing the game of making fun of
Speaker 2: everything in there, and you realized. I realized in that
Speaker 2: boat it was like he just wanted to play. Like
Speaker 2: he shows up to places, this creative, fun guy and
Speaker 2: the world like shuts down around him. Not to bother
Speaker 2: Paul McCartney, but he was just like this this element
Speaker 2: of joy that walked through the space, that just wanted
Speaker 2: people to play with him. And so we told him
Speaker 2: to get the fuck out, and that was it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I haven't heard him, since.
Speaker 5: What do you think.
Speaker 4: Your life and what should we be looking at ASTI.
Speaker 2: Now, well, I mean the biggest issues fit. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously we what I would love I love them to
Speaker 2: do some boring things. I think term limits would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Right now. I think I'd like them to functionally focus
Speaker 2: on ways in which we could break this divided quagmire
Speaker 2: we are in. You can talk about the big issues
Speaker 2: like we're divided country, all this, all that stuff is true.
Speaker 2: I think a big problem we have is the way
Speaker 2: we are set up is a problem. And you have
Speaker 2: people trying to get into office and stay there forever.
Speaker 2: It's not a lifetime job. People should be doing that
Speaker 2: job for a couple of years. In the House, do
Speaker 2: it for six years, get the hell out, Supreme Court,
Speaker 2: do it for twelve Let somebody else come in. I
Speaker 2: think we should be we should talking about ways of
Speaker 2: which we could rework this. That is more a reflection
Speaker 2: of the modern political environment that allows more ideas to
Speaker 2: come in and less stagnation. So whatever we can do
Speaker 2: to focus on that, I think is hugely important. And
Speaker 2: then secondarily, I'm I'm always always so flabbergasted that we
Speaker 2: can't do anything about gun violence in this country, and
Speaker 2: you watch the news today before we come out here,
Speaker 2: there's another goddamn shooting, and I think, yet again, we
Speaker 2: know what we're going to see, and so I think
Speaker 2: there's issues like that that are so if there is
Speaker 2: ever a need for a government to step in and
Speaker 2: protect its citizens, it's on issues like that where we
Speaker 2: see people harmless, people being attacked by careless people who
Speaker 2: aren't given enough, whether it's mental health and security. We're
Speaker 2: also given weapons of war and put in places that
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be. And if we don't have a society
Speaker 2: that can look at that issue and put any partisan
Speaker 2: bickering aside and try to help kids who are scared
Speaker 2: to go to school, then like, what help do we
Speaker 2: have in balancing a budget? I think there's basic things
Speaker 2: for if you want, if you want this community and
Speaker 2: citizens to believe that government can actually do something for it,
Speaker 2: that it can be effective in your lives, Like you
Speaker 2: have to take care of the most vulnerable, and you
Speaker 2: have to stop being a dip ship who's worried about
Speaker 2: getting re elected and be a human who's worried about
Speaker 2: saving a.
Speaker 4: Kid's your favorite restaurant in New York we see for
Speaker 4: a party restaurant.
Speaker 3: Uh, potty restaurant.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, yeah, First of all, what's a party restaurant?
Speaker 3: Do you mean like potty restaurant? Oh? Like, like what
Speaker 3: kind of hold? Well, Usually when people ask me this,
Speaker 3: the first is the first question is do you want
Speaker 3: white people food or Asian food? That's the first Asian Okay,
Speaker 3: you don't have to point your Asian firm when you
Speaker 3: say that. That's right. You can like Asian food without
Speaker 3: without pointing out Asian people. So you want Asian and
Speaker 3: then that means you you want like right, so you
Speaker 3: want noodles noodles? Okay, then go to whala what wala
Speaker 3: wala wala wala. It's a great restaurant in China. Talk,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. Don't worrybout you're not gonna go.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna go through. But yeah, in Chinatown there's
Speaker 3: a restaurant called Wayla. You're not gonna go no.
Speaker 2: Where buck It's like I can't get in or no.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it. You're gonna go. Oh that sounds nice.
Speaker 3: You're never gonna go, so don't worry by You're gonna
Speaker 3: go eat pizza and all of a sudden time because.
Speaker 2: Times Square is the best pizza you gotta go to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if I get one recommendation, go to Times spend the
Speaker 2: rest of your time in Times Square. It's the pizza
Speaker 2: in Times Square. You'll have a blast Classic New York.
Speaker 2: If you've changed is great.
Speaker 6: You know what, Never convinced someone or being able to
Speaker 6: show them how incongruous their views are compared to their beliefs.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I don't think that's Uh, that's.
Speaker 2: Something I've gotten super close to. I will say though,
Speaker 2: In the last piece that we did, we went down
Speaker 2: to South Carolina and we talked to a woman who
Speaker 2: was there on January sixth. She got arrested for being inside,
Speaker 2: spent sixty days in jail, and she came out and
Speaker 2: she changed her opinion, and and it was you give
Speaker 2: her a run with Blause, right, and now you guys
Speaker 2: just clap for an insurrection. Tost see how easy it is?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: And so it was.
Speaker 2: It was good to talk to her. I think like
Speaker 2: she was somebody and I did ask her, was like,
Speaker 2: I don't run into many people who feel like they've
Speaker 2: been through it and then come out on the other side.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And she said, I think jail shook her. Uh, And
Speaker 2: I think she started doing her own research, as she said,
Speaker 2: and a couple of things didn't line up, and she
Speaker 2: felt like she was taken in, and so she felt
Speaker 2: it was her duty to come out to this Trump
Speaker 2: rally and talk to people about what she'd been through.
Speaker 2: They weren't necessarily great at listening to her, but there's
Speaker 2: a little glimmer of hope in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of the back.
Speaker 6: Do you think that anything will convince them? Otherwise?
Speaker 2: Anything will convince them otherwise? Here's what I think. Changing
Speaker 2: somebody's mind is hard to do. And I think if
Speaker 2: you are approaching something like I want to change their mind,
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna get anywhere. I think the problem we
Speaker 2: have right now is a crisis of certainty. I talk
Speaker 2: to everybody on all sides. We're very certain about their beliefs.
Speaker 2: And if you actually want somebody to see something that
Speaker 2: they haven't seen before and cross that divide into believing
Speaker 2: something else, they have to acknowledge that they have a
Speaker 2: sense of uncertainty. And if they're being approached by somebody else,
Speaker 2: you have to acknowledge that you have a sense of uncertainty.
Speaker 2: As well, and so I think in order to change
Speaker 2: somebody's mind, you have to be a bit of a
Speaker 2: loser to begin. That sounds strange, but you have to
Speaker 2: concede something to get anywhere. And so is it going
Speaker 2: to happen on a TV show, doubtful. But with friends
Speaker 2: and family there's an opportunity one because there is a
Speaker 2: connection there and hopefully some love. Although I know it's
Speaker 2: been a hard few years, but I think if you
Speaker 2: can approach that not from a place of judgment and
Speaker 2: from a place of uncertainty, concede something that you do
Speaker 2: I don't know, because guess what, you are probably a
Speaker 2: lot like me, and you wish you were as certain
Speaker 2: about the things that you want to be, but you
Speaker 2: had to put up these guards because people are coming
Speaker 2: at you with knives all the time, and it feels
Speaker 2: like the other side is so dangerous, and in many
Speaker 2: cases they are. But if you can't relate to them
Speaker 2: like another human being and say, I too, am uncertain
Speaker 2: about some of these things, then you will never reach
Speaker 2: them as a human being and asking them to come
Speaker 2: over to a side of better understanding. So I think
Speaker 2: our only option is a step towards concession.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the danger you talked about.
Speaker 3: What was the sariest moment for you?
Speaker 2: Sure, January sixth was a funny time. I mean, I
Speaker 2: would say you a funny January sixth story. I was
Speaker 2: there on January sixth, working to be clear, and I
Speaker 2: had four security guards with me because I'm a media
Speaker 2: and it's twenty twenty and that's what you do nowadays.
Speaker 2: And I talked to a man who is swinging a
Speaker 2: pitchfork and he was ranting about revolution. I'm talking to
Speaker 2: this man with security. We all come around. I talked
Speaker 2: to this man about swinging a pitchfork, and as I'm
Speaker 2: interviewing him, we're interrupted by another man who's screaming obscenities
Speaker 2: at us, and obscenity man gets shushed by pitchfork man,
Speaker 2: who said, you do not speak for me, leaving me
Speaker 2: grateful to the more level headed man swinging a pitchfork.
Speaker 2: And I swear, I swear we made eye contact and
Speaker 2: he rolled his eyes as if to say, could you
Speaker 2: believe this? Here's what I have an issue with the
Speaker 2: pizza debate is Jon Stewart comes on the show and
Speaker 2: he's a lovely guy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: He is the loveliest four foot two person you're ever
Speaker 2: gonna met. Very insightful. He has a lot of insightful
Speaker 2: things about the way of the worlds, But where he's
Speaker 2: wrong is on his pizza. His vitriol for Chicago style pizza.
Speaker 2: I will say, as somebody from the Midwest, to spend
Speaker 2: a decade in Chicago, you need to understand and appreciate
Speaker 2: that there are different types of pizza, and the Chicago
Speaker 2: style is deep a different experience. Sometimes you want to
Speaker 2: go deeper into something. Sometimes you want to spend time
Speaker 2: moving through it. You want to work your muscles trying
Speaker 2: to get through the cheese, the mazzarella, all of the
Speaker 2: sauce at the time. Sometimes you want to eat it
Speaker 2: and then feel like you're going to defecate yourself at
Speaker 2: any moment. Sometimes that experience you want to go through.
Speaker 2: And so I hold Chicago pizza in high regard at
Speaker 2: the same time as holding New York pizza in high regard.
Speaker 2: And I think as a society we need to get
Speaker 2: to a point where we can enjoy all those types
Speaker 2: of pizza.
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