The Daily Show: Ears Edition - A Look Back at 2021 - The Year in Cancellations

Episode Date: December 30, 2021

Roy Wood Jr. officially breaks down the major cancellations of 2021, including that of "Jeopardy!" producer Mike Richards, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Good evening and salutations. It is time to once again announce the U.S. Department of Cancellations list of approved cancellations for the year 2021. Now, as a reminder, these are actual cancellations. Not one of them fake cancellations that ends up just making everybody richer. Nobody's getting a Netflix special out of this. Not even a podcast sponsored by my pillow. This is an official cancellation. This means you got a listed on your taxes

and everything. Everything in your life gets canceled. Career, canceled. Cancell. You think you got a reservation at Outback Steakhouse? Not anymore? Cancel. First up. Mike Richards. We all know Mike Richards, the producer of Jeopardy. Not to be confused with Kramer Michael Richards, who we canceled back in 2006 along with MapQuest. We just wasn't getting the job done, Mapquest. Take two left and a slight right and get your ass out of here. Mike Richards was selected to take over as host of Jeopardy by the show's producer, Mike Richards. Guess they kind of looked alike and all the data

that they, you know, analyzed and just showed them that, you know, you already work there so it would be less paperwork. Can't blame them. But soon after, Twitter did his thing. And everyone discovered many disparaging comments Richards made about women and Jews, I mean the Jews, Jewish people. Rosh Ashana, what's the right? Can we cook? For his terrible comments and the hubris to think his swammy ass could succeed a legend, the US department officially can cancels Mike Richards. In an act of what is justice, Alex? Love you, Tradeback, baby. Next up.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Emphasis on the former. Andrew Cuomo rose to national prominence at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, because in its time of need, America wanted a guy who sounded like Al Pacino to throw up a couple of PowerPoint slides and tell us that toilet paper was on the wait. Unfortunately for Cuomo, all the shaman in the world wasn't going to help him clean up the shit storm he was about to face.

Cuomo was actually canceled twice this year. First for getting a bunch of nursing home residents killed and then fudging the numbers to cover it up, and then he was also canceled for sexual harassment against women who work for him. You can't do both of those in one year. If you're going to be the most prolific killer of old people, you've got to at least be courteous to women. The Department of Cancellations approves this cancellation and it sentences Andrew Cuomo to 10 million years in a prison sale built out of the unsold copies of his book. We're going to leave some room in there for your brother too. Next up. The Cleveland Indians.

Now, I don't need to explain why this was canceled. In fact, if you don't know why this was canceled, please turn yourself in for self-cancellation. It'll be easier on all of us. Now, I'll be the first to admit. This one took us over a hundred years to process the paperwork on, but we finally got it done. There's a big backlog. Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves. We we we, we we, we we, we got the the the the the th, we got, we got, we got the Nat, we got, we got, we got the Nat, we got the Nat, we got the Nat, we got the native, we got the native, we got the native, we got the native, we got the native, we got the the native, the native, the native, the native, the native, to to to to to to to to to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, is, is, is, is. to, is. to, is. to, is to, is too, is too, is the too, the the the the th the. the the the the the the. the the thean. too. too. too, too, too, too, is too, we got the Native American mascot division of this department working around the clock. They don't even get Thanksgiving off. That's messed

up. Luckily, I don't think anyone in Cleveland's going to be missing that name because the new name is amazing. The Cleveland Guardians. Sounds great. If we check to make sure that the guardian ain't the name or like some white supremacy group or something, right? Oh, God, yeah. Sound of a little white supremacy. And finally, former President Donald J. Trump, whose vicious lives about the 2020 election inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol and returned him to power illegally. For shaking the foundation of our precious democracy to its very core, the U.S. Department

of Cancellation officially cancels him for all time. Then again, his supporter stormed our building, trashed our officers busted up. I break room free, and now I have to bring my lunch to work in a cooler. So to avoid that happening again, the Department of Cancellation officially endorses Donald J. Trump for President in 2024. Go get them, future boss.

I'm sorry, I'm not about to get beat with no flag called by them people. They just decreased all the way they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they to bring to bring to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to bring to bring to me to me to bring to bring to me to me to me to me to bring to bring to me'm not about to get beat with no flagpole by them people. You saw the way they were climbing like Redneck Spider-Man. That's one cancellation. I don't want any party. Watch the Daily Show, weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.