Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Big news of the day,
Speaker 1: very big, powerful, big news, so big, so strong, great
Speaker 1: as news you ever, so big um. An NFL player
Speaker 1: was banned for a year for betting on games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like people are angry, and I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I don't understand why athletes aren't
Speaker 1: allowed to bet. You know why I can't think better
Speaker 1: on the sport. There's a few reasons for me. Number one,
Speaker 1: I think you should always be a lot of better
Speaker 1: on yourself, you know what I mean. If you believe
Speaker 1: in yourself that much better money, people like, oh no,
Speaker 1: no gambling, no bet bet the money. And people would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, but they shouldn't be a lot of
Speaker 1: bet against themselves. I think you should. You should be
Speaker 1: a lot of bet against yourself as well, because sometimes
Speaker 1: you know the truth, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like if I was a New York Jet, I would
Speaker 1: bet against me. I know what's going to happen. Why
Speaker 1: not make some money from it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Just like that that kind of thing. It should just
Speaker 1: be public. We should know how they bet the fleets.
Speaker 1: That should be like like like on the stock exchange
Speaker 1: type thing. They should tell you, Yeah, this athlete they
Speaker 1: beat this, they beat that, they beat I'm in for that,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this guy should be banned for
Speaker 1: a year for bidding, especially when have you watched football
Speaker 1: game recently? Have you watched any sports? Every single ad
Speaker 1: is sports bearing better on sports? You need a better
Speaker 1: on sports. Then this guy beat then they're like, no,
Speaker 1: you're banned. Coming to you from the heart of Times
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Speaker 1: It's The Daily Show. Here's addition tonight Momo's coming time
Speaker 1: War ragsm Jesse Williams. This is The Daily Show with
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. The war in Ukraine is
Speaker 1: still going on and we're gonna be covering it. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Russian troops are still pushing through the country. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to all of it, all of it, all
Speaker 1: of the updates. But first we're gonna catch up on
Speaker 1: some of the headlines. And here to provide both his
Speaker 1: companionship and his two cents is my good friend Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Michael doing good March. You should have
Speaker 1: your Christmas tree down by now. Think about that. And
Speaker 1: it's nice out there. I dined out there today because
Speaker 1: I wanted to, not because I had to. I could
Speaker 1: feel my legs while I was eating outside. That's nice.
Speaker 1: The city is, uh, you know, removed the indoor vaccine mandate,
Speaker 1: so I had the vaccine taken out of my body.
Speaker 1: I am devaxed. I am de waxed. And oh I
Speaker 1: was supposed to tell you there's a guy in Fort
Speaker 1: Street who will sell clean blood to anyone who needs it.
Speaker 1: So happy to be here, that's my two cents. Hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you and also worried. All right, let's
Speaker 1: jump straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with
Speaker 1: big news from the mega Verse. One of Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: staunches supporters during his time in office was William ba
Speaker 1: Remember him. He was the Attorney General and less friendly
Speaker 1: job of the Hut. But what's interesting is that now
Speaker 1: that Trump is out of office and BA has a
Speaker 1: book to so well, he's suddenly not a fan. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's singing a different Former Attorney General William Barr speaking
Speaker 1: out live for the first time about his volatile time
Speaker 1: in the Trump administration and his dismantling of the president's
Speaker 1: lies about election. I told him that all this stuff
Speaker 1: was bosh and about election fraud, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way
Speaker 1: his team was. He was obviously getting very angry about this.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, well, look, I understand you're upset with me,
Speaker 1: and I'm perfectly happy to tender my resignation. And then
Speaker 1: the desk and he slapped the desk and he said, accepted, accepted,
Speaker 1: don't go back to your office, go home, you're done.
Speaker 1: After the election, he went off the rails. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: listen to anybody except a little coterie of of sick
Speaker 1: of fans who were telling what he wanted to hear.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, did bull Bo say that after the election
Speaker 1: Trump went off the rails. That's what he said after
Speaker 1: the election. So before the election, when he was trying
Speaker 1: to new hurricanes and inject bleached, that was that was
Speaker 1: on the rails. That was normal. You know, it feels
Speaker 1: like Trump fans are a lot like euphoria fans. You know,
Speaker 1: they act like the thing got more extreme over time.
Speaker 1: But really it was like that from the beginning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just hit their limits. Oh, there's so much nudity
Speaker 1: in euphoria these days, My man, it's HBO. Everything has
Speaker 1: a nudity. Everything Euphoria came a Thrones. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's why I stopped watching John Oliver every episode. And
Speaker 1: now white Dick. You didn't have to show me a dick, John.
Speaker 1: That doesn't help me understand the opioid crisis. And here's
Speaker 1: what all of Trump's acolysts don't understand. He didn't become crazy.
Speaker 1: He didn't become that. No, you just realized he was
Speaker 1: crazy when he started disagreeing with you. Like Kamakazi pilots,
Speaker 1: I'm not sane when they're taking off. You just agree
Speaker 1: with that part of the flighty. So what time do
Speaker 1: we learn? But the point, the point is that just
Speaker 1: like John Kelly, John Bolton, Michael Cohen, Omar Rossa, remember her,
Speaker 1: bull Ball has not come out and said, actually, guys,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is crazy and was not fit to be presidents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but before you get all excited and welcome bull Ball
Speaker 1: into the resistance, you should probably hear his plans for
Speaker 1: the next election. I certainly have made it clear. I
Speaker 1: don't think he should be our nominee, and I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, support somebody else for the nominee. But if
Speaker 1: he is the nominee and you have your choices, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump or whoever is running on the Democratic side, would
Speaker 1: you vote for him? Because I believe that the greatest
Speaker 1: threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed
Speaker 1: by the Democratic Party. It's inconceivable to me that I
Speaker 1: wouldn't vote for the Republican nominee. So even if he
Speaker 1: lied about the election and threatened democracy, as you write
Speaker 1: in your book, well it's better than a Democrat. It's
Speaker 1: hard to project what the facts are going to turn
Speaker 1: out to be three years hence, but as of now,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to conceive that I wouldn't vote
Speaker 1: for the Republican nominee. Yo, man, these people a while.
Speaker 1: William Barr literally agrees that Trump tried to overthrow the election,
Speaker 1: but still he would vote for Trump over a Democrat. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe Trump's gonna end America and put me
Speaker 1: in a prison camp. But it's better than learning new pronouns.
Speaker 1: Am I right? It's actually said how in America politics
Speaker 1: has turned into sports because this is like a sports
Speaker 1: attitude right where people who have like this blind level
Speaker 1: of support. You know, you support the Knicks, support the Nicks.
Speaker 1: What if they start doing synchronized swimming not basketball? I
Speaker 1: I hate that, but I'm still going to support them. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm a Knicks fan at heart. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what they do in the court, swimming, dancing. I'm
Speaker 1: a Knicks fan. Don't want to get a new jersey's
Speaker 1: old new color, not gonna learn new things. I'm a
Speaker 1: Knicks fan. It's not that it's not sports, it's politics.
Speaker 1: You know he wrote it seems like he wrote the
Speaker 1: book about the wrong thing. He says, what I'm most
Speaker 1: passionate about is fighting the progressive agenda. We'll write a
Speaker 1: book about that. You know you're writing. Teacher says to
Speaker 1: you about what you're passionate about. Not you're not right,
Speaker 1: what your second most passionate about. You know, That's that's
Speaker 1: what seem stuff happened. Here's the old heroes when they leave.
Speaker 1: I told him, I told no, you didn't were there.
Speaker 1: And then at some point you're like, all right, this
Speaker 1: guy's crazier than I thought. And they're also all heroes.
Speaker 1: When they got to push their book, Dude, it's always
Speaker 1: the book. The book. Yeah, this is what I find.
Speaker 1: All these people were there. But if I just pushed
Speaker 1: my book real quick. Oh I don't have a book,
Speaker 1: but you did, you did very well. Actually, yes, my
Speaker 1: time at the Daily Show. Why I hated Trevor Noor
Speaker 1: when how I resigned on. I used to tell him
Speaker 1: on that show, let's move on, and I used to
Speaker 1: tell him, all right, let's move on to some news
Speaker 1: about Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced governor of New York who
Speaker 1: was never a guest on The Daily Show. If you
Speaker 1: see pictures of that, it's a lie. Cuomo you might remember,
Speaker 1: was at the center of a whole bunch of scandals.
Speaker 1: That was his history of sexual harassment, his shady handling
Speaker 1: of the early COVID pandemic, and he abused the power
Speaker 1: of his office by making people watch all those PowerPoint presentations.
Speaker 1: But now, just seven months after being forced to resign,
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo has decided but he served enough time. Former
Speaker 1: Governor Andrew Cuomo's first public appearances leaving office has some
Speaker 1: wondering if he's considering a political comeback. Cuomo spoke Sunday
Speaker 1: at God's Battalion of Prayers Church in Brooklyn. During his remarks,
Speaker 1: the former governor repeatedly took aim at cancel culture, which
Speaker 1: Cuomo says forced him out of office. Go and underestimate
Speaker 1: the strengthen the virulence of the cancel culture. They broke
Speaker 1: my heart, but they didn't break my spirit. I want
Speaker 1: to take the energy that that could make me bitter
Speaker 1: and use that energy to make us better. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: First of all, a pretty slick moved delivering that speech
Speaker 1: in church, because people have to forgive you even if
Speaker 1: they don't want to. Yeah, Jesus says so. And secondly,
Speaker 1: let's agree on something. People, Let's agree on this. Please,
Speaker 1: can we agree on this once? Emper all, Getting canceled
Speaker 1: is not the same thing as getting investigated for sexual harassment,
Speaker 1: all right. Canceled is when people yell at you on
Speaker 1: Twitter for like a joke. When you're getting canceled, you
Speaker 1: can put your phone on airplane mode and keep it moving.
Speaker 1: That's not what happened to Andrew Cuomo. Right, That wasn't
Speaker 1: the work police. That was the police police. A big difference.
Speaker 1: But I was canceled, No, my man, this is crime.
Speaker 1: Everyone just uses that. How I was canceled, what were
Speaker 1: you doing? Kidnapped? Some people canceled cultures out of control.
Speaker 1: It feels like these days people can blame literally anything
Speaker 1: on cancel culture. Mommy, why is the fish upside down
Speaker 1: in the bowl? Oh? Canceled culture, Timmy, Yeah that fish
Speaker 1: is gone now, so sorry about it. I guess in
Speaker 1: many ways, this comeback if it is classic Andrew Cuomo,
Speaker 1: though nobody asked him to come back, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: make a move anyway. Yeah. People like, we don't want
Speaker 1: you back, Governor. He's like, it's fine, I'm Italian. Let's
Speaker 1: kiss on the mouth. I you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's running. I think since he lost his job and
Speaker 1: since his brother lost his job, I think they're living
Speaker 1: together on the bunk beds and he just wants to
Speaker 1: get out of the house. Didn't that kind of feel
Speaker 1: like he was just happy to get out. It does
Speaker 1: seem like that he's blaming cancel culture for everything. The
Speaker 1: way that I use supply chain, that's my you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I called you ten times, you didn't call me back.
Speaker 1: I did call you back. It must be a supply
Speaker 1: chain issue. You know. My wife was like, I love you.
Speaker 1: You know you don't say it enough and said, look,
Speaker 1: that's a supply chain question. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if if I can, Just so you know, what's funny
Speaker 1: is we don't understand the supply chain enough to know
Speaker 1: how to argue back against. That's actually a brilliant thing.
Speaker 1: Any problems supply supply chain. I'm gonna say that next
Speaker 1: time the landlord comes, Trevor, you haven't paid the supply chain.
Speaker 1: I was in the elevator someone said can you hit
Speaker 1: number twelve? And I'm like, yo, supply chain, I can't
Speaker 1: do that. You know, I was brilliant. Yeah. Well wait,
Speaker 1: I asked you about my birthday present and you said
Speaker 1: supply chain was not the same thing it's been. Look,
Speaker 1: supply chain has been a problem for a lot of
Speaker 1: the Prop five. All right, finally, do you guys remember
Speaker 1: that Canadian truck a protest that shut down the border
Speaker 1: and forced you to learn the capital of Canada a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Yeah, you probably remembered. With the truck
Speaker 1: has blocked the streets for weeks to show their outrage
Speaker 1: over COVID vaccine mandates and other Canadian government tyranny like
Speaker 1: free healthcare and education. Anyway, some Americans show what happened
Speaker 1: in Canada, and they said, hey, we have trucks too,
Speaker 1: why not do that here? But sadly the results has
Speaker 1: been less impressive. A caravan of pro Trump anti vaccine
Speaker 1: truckers modeled after the Canadian Freedom Convoy has reached the
Speaker 1: nation's capital. The People's Convoy traveled across the country to
Speaker 1: reach Washington, d C. Starting in California last month. The
Speaker 1: caravan play into circle the capital several times and then
Speaker 1: returned to their home base in Maryland. But a number
Speaker 1: of them were sort of were frustrated by the traffic
Speaker 1: on the beltways of course around washing d C and
Speaker 1: did not complete the lapse they had hoped. And protests
Speaker 1: slow down traffic a little, but the truckers did not
Speaker 1: know that the beltway is like that all the time,
Speaker 1: So the protests ended up having a far smaller impact
Speaker 1: than the Canadian protest that inspired it in our states.
Speaker 1: Ah man, this is just sad American truck is we're
Speaker 1: trying to block traffic, but d C already has so
Speaker 1: much traffic that nobody really noticed they were protesting. And
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, the protest isn't much good
Speaker 1: if it's too subtleful people to know it's a protest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like if Rosa Paws bravely decided to sit in
Speaker 1: the middle of the bus, just wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 1: The bus driver we at the front, like that black
Speaker 1: woman shooting whatever. Also, I bet when these truckers planned
Speaker 1: the driving protests didn't think that gas was going to
Speaker 1: hit five dollars a gallon. That's a horrible time to
Speaker 1: be driving as your protest, because now they're praying the
Speaker 1: cops told them away just to save on gas. Do
Speaker 1: you see what I'm doing? What you want to tell
Speaker 1: me back home? Please? Man, I need you to tell
Speaker 1: me back home. I didn't plan this park. You think
Speaker 1: if anybody is comfortable with traffic, it would be truckers.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the whole definition of the job it is,
Speaker 1: isn't it. It's actually a very hard job. You're right,
Speaker 1: it's a hard job. And I always feel bad for
Speaker 1: truckers because even on their day off, if they want
Speaker 1: to go somewhere, they're gonna drive, They gotta work and
Speaker 1: think of that, and timing is everything with this. It
Speaker 1: doesn't help them that vaccine mandates are being pulled off
Speaker 1: in the mask. It's like, you know, what do we want?
Speaker 1: No mandates? When do we want them? This morning? We
Speaker 1: ended it this morning. You know, it's already happened. I
Speaker 1: would just say that the protest was successful. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: admit that the thing happened. I would just be like,
Speaker 1: how was the protest? We got everything we asked for? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mentioned by Luther King came. He was like, I
Speaker 1: have a dream. What what it already happened? Oh that
Speaker 1: was reality. All right, We've gotta go for a quick break.
Speaker 1: But don't go away because when we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: be looking at how Putin is not just waging war
Speaker 1: on Ukraine but also on his own people in Russia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm starting to think this guy is not
Speaker 1: a good dude. We'll be right back. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. It is now day twelve of Russia's
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine, or as Putin calls it, Russia's relaxing
Speaker 1: shoulder massage of Ukraine. So let's catch up on all
Speaker 1: the latest in our ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Despite the world telling Vladimir Putin that he's been not nice,
Speaker 1: the Russian military has continued its indiscriminate bombing of civilian
Speaker 1: areas in Ukraine, reducing them to rubble and leaving the
Speaker 1: people there without homes, food, or even water. And when
Speaker 1: the civilians try to flee those cities, well, it turns
Speaker 1: out that Russia has been bombing them too. More and
Speaker 1: more civilian is being killed as Russia escalates its attacks. Here,
Speaker 1: people trying to flee the invasion struck at an evacuation
Speaker 1: crossing point. Twice Russia and Ukraine agreed to ceasefires in
Speaker 1: order to give people a chance to get out. Both
Speaker 1: times Russia broke the ceasefires with violent, indiscriminate showing. At
Speaker 1: least four people, including a woman and her two children,
Speaker 1: were killed in that attack. We will not forgive, We
Speaker 1: will not forget. Ukraine's president Zelensky vows to punish Moscow's
Speaker 1: troops as he reacts to the killing of civilians attempting
Speaker 1: to flee the conflict. We will find every shot at
Speaker 1: our cities or people. There will be no quiet place
Speaker 1: on this earth for you, except for the Great Sweet Jesus.
Speaker 1: This is insane, Like it's bad enough that Russia is
Speaker 1: blowing Ukraine to smithereens, but it's even worse than their
Speaker 1: bombing people who are trying to escape during a ceasefire
Speaker 1: that Russia agreed to. I mean, what, well, what's what's
Speaker 1: Russia's logic here? I honestly don't get it. What is it?
Speaker 1: First we murder the people, then they'll warm up to
Speaker 1: us as their new rulers. What's the plan? And today,
Speaker 1: after attacking civilians during the first two evacuation attempts, Russia
Speaker 1: offered to create new humanitarian corridors to allow people to
Speaker 1: escape these cities. Except and you can't make this part up,
Speaker 1: many of the evacuation routes would funnel civilians straight into Russia,
Speaker 1: which is insane. Let just think about that. For more
Speaker 1: people are trying to escape, and you're like, we'll let
Speaker 1: them escape, but into our country, Like imagine hostage take
Speaker 1: us saying all right, we'll let the hostages leave, We'll
Speaker 1: let them leave the bank, but only if they come
Speaker 1: with us to our house. Then they're still hostages. Are
Speaker 1: you insane? I mean, not to mention. Even refugees probably
Speaker 1: don't want to live in Russia right now when things
Speaker 1: aren't great in Ukraine, but at least they still get
Speaker 1: the batman there's nothing in Russia, and because many Russians
Speaker 1: have family members who are living in Ukraine, the idea
Speaker 1: of the Russian military leveling Ukrainian cities and killing innocent
Speaker 1: people was never going to be popular in the first place,
Speaker 1: which is probably why Putin has now gone into overdrive
Speaker 1: to make sure that in Russia nobody hears about it. Well.
Speaker 1: A new iron curtain has fallen in Russia, and this
Speaker 1: time it's an information iron curtain. That's why most Russians
Speaker 1: don't know what's really happening in Ukraine. The Kremlin today
Speaker 1: blocked Facebook and Twitter, and there are no independent media
Speaker 1: outlets left. Vladimir Putin signing a law tonight making it
Speaker 1: a crime to spread what the Russian government considers fake
Speaker 1: news about the conflict in Ukraine. The maximum penalty fifteen
Speaker 1: years in jail. Independent Russian news outlets have always found
Speaker 1: it difficult to operate. Now it's impossible. The staff at
Speaker 1: Moscow's last independent TV station walking off set as their
Speaker 1: final symbolic broadcast played out. A similar scene played out
Speaker 1: at Russia's oldest liberal radio station, Echo of Moscow, which
Speaker 1: says it's been forced to close. We just can't say
Speaker 1: welcome to the U. S s. Yeah, just think about
Speaker 1: that for a moment. The only place to get any
Speaker 1: news in Russia now is state media. That's it putting
Speaker 1: even shut down Facebook in Russia, which is so messed up,
Speaker 1: Like why couldn't he have shut it down everywhere? Why
Speaker 1: only in Russia, which is truly evil. We also want
Speaker 1: to break from Facebook. I mean. On the plus side,
Speaker 1: the one silver lining of this is that everyone is
Speaker 1: getting the exact same news in Russia, which means Russian
Speaker 1: family dinners are probably going to be like the least
Speaker 1: contentious affairs ever, especially way more than American family dinners. Well,
Speaker 1: I heard the war in Ukraine is going well, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard the same thing. Yeah, more stuffing police. Every
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving were Russians together enjoying same news. So we don't
Speaker 1: this a Greek they sing during Thanksgiving in Russia. You
Speaker 1: can't prove that I'm not lying because there's no Facebook
Speaker 1: day anymore. Now. Many Russian people are against this war.
Speaker 1: In fact, over four thousand protesters were arrested just yesterday.
Speaker 1: But for most of the country, this media blackout means
Speaker 1: that they'll never know the truth about words really going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are in. There are even stories of Ukrainians who
Speaker 1: have called their parents in Russia to tell them what
Speaker 1: is happening, and their own parents don't believe the stories,
Speaker 1: which is terrible. At the same time, I guess that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you lie to your parents about everything
Speaker 1: else in your life. Oh sure, Putin is invading you,
Speaker 1: just like that time you didn't throw a party when
Speaker 1: we're out of town. But while Puttin is cutting off
Speaker 1: Russian people's links to the outside world, the outside world
Speaker 1: itself has been trying to cut itself off from Russia.
Speaker 1: Russian banks have been banned from the global financial system,
Speaker 1: Russian airlines have been blocked from entering most countries, and
Speaker 1: even Apple has stopped selling its products in Russia, which
Speaker 1: means Russians can't watch ted Lasso anymore. It's terrible for them,
Speaker 1: probably fine for Putin, because I mean, if the show
Speaker 1: has no villain, who's he supposed to root for. And
Speaker 1: every day, every single day, more companies are joining Apple
Speaker 1: and all these other companies in leaving Russia. A list
Speaker 1: of private companies cutting ties with Russia is mounting. Visa,
Speaker 1: MasterCard and American Express are boycotting business there. TikTok is
Speaker 1: blocking users on its platform in Russia, and Netflix announced
Speaker 1: it has suspended service. Too says that they are putting
Speaker 1: a halt to its factory in production in Russia. This
Speaker 1: comes as the vehicle imports into the country have been
Speaker 1: suspended indefinitely. Accounting firms that KPMG and Price Waterhouse Cooper's
Speaker 1: both announced they are exiting Russia due to the invasion.
Speaker 1: From now on, it's just slowly. The maker of the vodka,
Speaker 1: which has been marketed as Russian Vodka, is launching a
Speaker 1: major rebranding in direct response to the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: How stole the group has announced that it will only
Speaker 1: use Slovakian sources to avoid Russian ingredients. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: bad it's gotten. Even Vodka doesn't want anything to do
Speaker 1: with Russia anymore. Just think about that. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if hand Gestures announced that they wanted nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Italy? It's a two dog sick. So yeah, no Toyota,
Speaker 1: no credit cards, no Netflix. It's almost like all of
Speaker 1: Russia is being forced to spend the weekend that they
Speaker 1: broke Dad's house. But unfortunately, none of this has stopped
Speaker 1: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, probably because none of it actually
Speaker 1: affects Putin is what people don't realize. Sanctions are bad
Speaker 1: for the country, but this doesn't affect Putin because I
Speaker 1: mean Putin doesn't drive a Toyota. Putin doesn't watch Netflix
Speaker 1: or use credit cards. You think this man pays man
Speaker 1: doesn't paid for anything? In like twenty years, which waiter
Speaker 1: has the balls to bring Vladimir Putin the check? Um?
Speaker 1: Will you be paid by cash or card? Um? Will
Speaker 1: you be playing with your life? Okay, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see you guys next time. All right, then have
Speaker 1: a good night drama. Yeah. If anything, people, the war
Speaker 1: has only gotten more intense. Russia has made major gains
Speaker 1: in southern Ukraine and looks like it may totally surround
Speaker 1: the capital of Kiev this week. So the Ukrainian people
Speaker 1: are a very bad place right now, which is why
Speaker 1: it's been so inspiring to see how they're still still
Speaker 1: telling the Russian invaders to go for themselves. Thousands of
Speaker 1: people taking to the streets to rail against their Russian
Speaker 1: occupiers in a show really that while Russian forces might
Speaker 1: be able to take some of these towns and cities,
Speaker 1: occupying them will be much more difficult. In Harsan, Ukraine,
Speaker 1: defiance residents woke up under Russian occupation and took to
Speaker 1: the streets. Go home. There's no vodka here, this man says.
Speaker 1: This woman draped in our country's colors scans firm. We
Speaker 1: are not afraid. We are together, she says. Some incredible
Speaker 1: video of her son, Ukraine where Ukrainian protester jumped onto
Speaker 1: a Russian military vehicle waving his country's flag. Uh, there
Speaker 1: it is right there. Yeah, people in the face of
Speaker 1: mortal danger. Many Ukrainians are standing up and saying we
Speaker 1: won't back down. I mean, did you see that one guy?
Speaker 1: He climbed right on top of a tank, which is insane.
Speaker 1: It's also insane how tanks have like zero defenses against that.
Speaker 1: If you're in front of a tank, it's terrifying. But
Speaker 1: then once you get on top, the tank is like
Speaker 1: get off. Stop that, ye stop that. And this ready
Speaker 1: shows you the difference between capturing a city and controlling
Speaker 1: a city. You see, capturing a city is easy. You
Speaker 1: send in more tanks than the other team and then boom,
Speaker 1: it's yours. But if you can't stop the old man
Speaker 1: in town from coming out and roasting you. Have you
Speaker 1: really won? Yeah, you haven't. You haven't really won the
Speaker 1: invasion if your soldiers are coming back home like we do.
Speaker 1: This city but now every week is being mean, dear me.
Speaker 1: Ukrainians are braving this invasion with defiance and courage. And
Speaker 1: and there was one specific Ukrainian that a British reporter
Speaker 1: caught up with who seems to know the secret. So
Speaker 1: not just coping with the possible destruction of your country,
Speaker 1: but smiling while doing it. Tell me quickly, are you
Speaker 1: all right? All right? And how how many people are
Speaker 1: tract the legalized American and British British British? How many
Speaker 1: more legalizing? Had is cannabis legalizing? I don't know whether
Speaker 1: the cannabis cannabis is licensed. I'm glad that's all you're
Speaker 1: thinking about. Yeah, you guys can have zelenski. I just
Speaker 1: found my favorite Ukrainian. Yeah, because you see that guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. When I smoke weed, I
Speaker 1: can barely handle the stress of the doorbell ringing. This
Speaker 1: guy's in a war zone getting question by a journalist
Speaker 1: and he's chilled. They have in fact, he's questioning her.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you some questions, Hey, let me ask
Speaker 1: you like, she's flustered, like, wait, what's going on here?
Speaker 1: I almost think this guy doesn't even know that there's
Speaker 1: a war going on, you know, and he probably thinks
Speaker 1: that he's got some really good cush. He should have
Speaker 1: had half the brownie. Man. I'm seeing tanks everywhere. God damn.
Speaker 1: But this really just goes to show you it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you are in the world. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what language you speak in every country, on every continent,
Speaker 1: there's always one weird high guy on the bus and
Speaker 1: that brings us together. All right. When we come back
Speaker 1: the Multi Talent to Jesse Williams will be joining me
Speaker 1: right here in the studio to talk about getting naked
Speaker 1: on stage. So stay tuned, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is actor, producer and director Jesse Williams.
Speaker 1: He's here to talk about making his Broadway debut in
Speaker 1: the show Take Me Out. Jesse Williams, come back to
Speaker 1: the Danny Shrink, So have me again. Um, you think
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it this time? Because the last time
Speaker 1: I saw you, you were getting ready to go to Broadway.
Speaker 1: You're getting ready to make your debut, and I will
Speaker 1: never forget it. It was around February and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta come to the show, you gotta everyone made plans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll shut down second time around. You're feeling good, I do.
Speaker 1: I feel great? I mean we were, Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: three weeks into rehearsal. It was I was nervous. I
Speaker 1: was terrified all things. I still am today. But we
Speaker 1: never got to take it to the next step. So
Speaker 1: now we're in tech. We're open in a few days, um,
Speaker 1: and it's thrilling and terrifying and we're ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's not just your Broadway debut, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a play that's a revival, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a powerful story as well, because it's a story
Speaker 1: of a baseball player of color who comes out and
Speaker 1: I mean along, you know, amongst all sports. Athletes will
Speaker 1: tell you, look, I've got nothing against anybody who's gay,
Speaker 1: but there's this there's this attitude in this feeling and
Speaker 1: change rooms. It was like, keep it out of the
Speaker 1: you know, keep it out of the chain. Don't tell
Speaker 1: me about it, you know, right, the locker room is
Speaker 1: a pretty specific space hyper masculine space brings a lot
Speaker 1: of bag edge in there. And Richard Greenberg, who wrote
Speaker 1: the play, envisioned this in the early two thousand's and
Speaker 1: he figured it was imminent that a superstar, not just
Speaker 1: a player, but a superstar, top of his class, world
Speaker 1: class athlete that was kind of untouchable. What would happen
Speaker 1: if that person came out because you can't trade him,
Speaker 1: you can't release him. This is somebody who's really the
Speaker 1: pinnacle of their profession. What would happen there? And he
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna happen any year from us. Twenty
Speaker 1: years have passed, still hasn't happened in any American major
Speaker 1: sports at that level, um never. And then add to
Speaker 1: that him being black, um add to that him being
Speaker 1: by racial specifically, and what that represents in this country
Speaker 1: and doesn't um So it explores a lot of that,
Speaker 1: And one of the things that's most fascinating to me
Speaker 1: is that the character, without giving too much away, doesn't
Speaker 1: change or shift or do anything behavioral to provoke or
Speaker 1: let men hide behind behavior. You know, I don't mind
Speaker 1: that he's gay, but I wish he didn't do this.
Speaker 1: I don't mind his gay, wish didn't act this way.
Speaker 1: He's at doing anything. This guy is the alpha, best
Speaker 1: player in the world, best player on the team championship team.
Speaker 1: He hasn't changed anything but said a word. And look
Speaker 1: how men contort themselves in shape. They don't know how
Speaker 1: to behave around him, They don't know how to present themselves,
Speaker 1: and it takes away, you know, an interesting locker room
Speaker 1: dynamic where guys are able to be kind of playful
Speaker 1: and no more erotic and maybe intolerant, and you know
Speaker 1: all those things that get woven in the locker room culture. Now,
Speaker 1: what do you do when I'm there? When you're in
Speaker 1: a story like this? You know, one thing I've always
Speaker 1: loved about fiction is that it oftentimes provides enough sugar
Speaker 1: for us to delve into effect. You know, is that
Speaker 1: through stories we get to solve all the puzzles that
Speaker 1: we can't seem to solve in real life. You know, like,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys out there would be
Speaker 1: I'm fine with guys who are gain And then you go, like,
Speaker 1: what if your friends get Now that's not let's not look,
Speaker 1: we gotta keep out distance, man, We've gotta keep up distance.
Speaker 1: But I'm still cool with him. And I go, what changed?
Speaker 1: And it's interesting when you realize that there's still an
Speaker 1: idea of what gay is or isn't and how we
Speaker 1: react to it. Yes, and that's actually one of the
Speaker 1: more interesting things that there's that idea of what that
Speaker 1: means and if you but if you don't have in
Speaker 1: a different way, it leaves you kind of flailing for
Speaker 1: something to grasp at that makes you what is what
Speaker 1: does gay mean? Without a demonstrable and very much like
Speaker 1: blackness right like you know a lot of media blackness
Speaker 1: has to be demonstrated, it has to be shown in
Speaker 1: some really narrow, uh pedantic way. Um. But with this,
Speaker 1: you know, the friendships that Darren has, they're very different.
Speaker 1: It's got a best friend that handles it one way.
Speaker 1: There's religion comes into play. There's there's a projection of
Speaker 1: of aggression. There's projection of prying eyes of me, you know,
Speaker 1: being a predator in some ways when I'm not even
Speaker 1: looking at you. There's all types of things that we
Speaker 1: forecast that is a kind of a reflection of what
Speaker 1: women have to deal with in our society, what black
Speaker 1: folks have to deal with in our society. It comes
Speaker 1: with and you know, your presence alone is two strikes
Speaker 1: out of three. Um. I like that. So it's so
Speaker 1: you get to see how how Um. It's really an
Speaker 1: interesting examination of relationship and the damage that talking can do,
Speaker 1: expressing yourself too much. Honesty, which feels like a pathway in,
Speaker 1: can sometimes necessarily And now so there's cultural dynamics. We
Speaker 1: give a bias towards there's an interesting under current of
Speaker 1: white privilege in this story that I think is really interesting,
Speaker 1: whether intended or not. UM because Darren is not only gay,
Speaker 1: but he's black, and he's one of very few black
Speaker 1: characters in this play. So there is a pretty there's
Speaker 1: an island I'm already on that's fascinating man to come
Speaker 1: and see sibly written. It's really that's why I'm doing.
Speaker 1: It's really wonderful, smart material, credible director, a great cast.
Speaker 1: You are also going to be nude in some of
Speaker 1: the some of the scenes. Ye know what, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is happening, it's real, this is on stage. It's
Speaker 1: on stage. I don't think I would ever do public nudity,
Speaker 1: but I think I would definitely not do nudity on
Speaker 1: Broadway because I think, like on film, I feel like
Speaker 1: I could be like, cut, I'm not feeling my best
Speaker 1: right now. Broadways Broadway. Yeah, so you're very helpful. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you telling me all the way things you wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that I'm doing. No, no, no, What I'm mean
Speaker 1: is I'm I'm commending you and I'm asking you because
Speaker 1: there is a certain comfort that comes with the story
Speaker 1: and and the setting, and there's a realism that comes
Speaker 1: with as well. By the way, you can't have a
Speaker 1: conversation about masculinity and power dynamics in a major sports
Speaker 1: team without being in the locker room. The locker room,
Speaker 1: especially around homosexual expectations, it's about exposure, vulnerability, What do
Speaker 1: I do? Where do my eyes have to go now?
Speaker 1: And there's really interesting analysis through the through conversation on
Speaker 1: the in the play about that what the what the
Speaker 1: brief nudity does is bring the audience into our experience. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is what you have to decide? Where to look?
Speaker 1: You have? Are you listening? Can you look and listen?
Speaker 1: Can you be here? Are you distracted? Did you see
Speaker 1: me looking? Do I have to look up? Do I
Speaker 1: have to avoid? What do I do? So the audience
Speaker 1: has to really experience what the characters are going through
Speaker 1: and decide, and then that helps them understand who do
Speaker 1: they empathize with, what do they understand a lot of
Speaker 1: complex dynamics. One of the most fascinating things is having
Speaker 1: arguments where both characters are right right. That's like real life.
Speaker 1: It's like argue with your partner, you know, and reflecting
Speaker 1: on it two scenes later. So there's a real relatability
Speaker 1: to how messy this stuff is. Life is hard. I
Speaker 1: love it, man, It's it's exciting to see you on stage.
Speaker 1: It's going to be great to see you doing this
Speaker 1: for the first time. Thank you for coming on the
Speaker 1: shows very much. We get extended. There might be a
Speaker 1: role for you in there. If you want to whip
Speaker 1: it out. Uh, think about it. I will. I will
Speaker 1: think about it. Let's take it under invitement, put under
Speaker 1: your head. Yeah, let's let's go. Let's go. Let's go
Speaker 1: for a quick break while I think about this. Taking
Speaker 1: Me Out opens April fourth, and tickets are on sale
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. I'll think about this and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back after this. I'm gonna say no, but I
Speaker 1: think I'll think about it. Sounds like a yes, Well
Speaker 1: that's our show for tonight. But before we go. Families
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