The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Aasif Mandvi’s Favorite TDS Moments | Behind the Show

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

In this exclusive podcast, Aasif Mandvi goes Behind the Show to discuss the craziest moments of his tenure as TDS correspondent, like auditioning for and appearing on TDS the same day. He also shares behind-the-scenes details about his favorite moments from the field, including the racist diatribe that got a North Carolina Republican fired, Aasif’s father seeing his son ask the Governor of Florida for a urine sample on the evening news, and how Aasif being chased around a Republican convention led to John Oliver meeting his future wife. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And current Star of Evil streaming on our own Paramount Plus. How does it feel to be back in the building? It's such a weird, it's such a weird feeling, you know, because it's like it's like going back to your old college campus or something, you know, and everything's like, it's the same, but like new and better, you know? Yeah, they added, they added walls and rooms, they like, those three edit rooms became four. Right, they added, they added, they added walls. Yeah, they added, yeah, they had to, they're like, those three edit rooms became four. Right, they got, right, they got another edit room and it's just like everything just feels like shinier and cleaner.

Yeah, but it's not really. Not really. But it's great, it's great to be here and it's very, it's like, it's like, yeah, there's an energy that I just love, you know, like I just feel like, right back into like being in this building. You were last year, like, you were here as a guest with Trevor, right? Yeah. My last, officially, like, it was like 2015. I think right when John left. I sort of, I didn't like officially leave. I never got my, uh, goodbye show, which I still, which I still, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, they's, they's, th... Like, th. Like, th. Like, th. Like, th. Like, th. Like, th. Like, th. Like, like, like sort of, I didn't like officially leave.

I never got my goodbye show, which I still, which they still owe me, really. Oh, because you, you hung around for like a month or two into Trevor's, into Trevor's, I should have just been like, I'm leaving. Trevor was like, I don't know this guy. Yeah, yeah, I know. So like, I'll come back, you know, I'll just come back if I'm available. And so, like I never really officially left. Oh, right. Like it wasn't like I'm done now. I'm never, I'm done. That's it. You were busy and they were planning on bringing you back. Yeah, they were having me come back,

whatever, whatever, you know. And then Trevor was like, I don't know, watch the Daily Show? No, so I did come back and do one correspondent piece with Trevor. And then I came back as a guest with Trevor one time. And then, but yeah, it was around 2015. So you started in 2006? Right. Now you have the distinction of you auditioned, yeah. And then you were hired on the spot and were in that evening's show. Yeah. I think I may be the only correspondent who had that experience, which was that I got the call at like 1230 that afternoon saying the Daily Show is looking, it's an audition for the Daily Show.

And I was at that moment writing a letter to my ex-girlfriend who I found out had just gotten engaged. So I was really depressed. And I was writing this letter. And my manager calls and says, you have this audition for the Daily Show. And I said, listen, it's not a good day. Like, I don't feel like being funny right now. And so I was like, can we go in, tomorrow? And she said, no, no, if you don't go in today, that's it. They're going to hire someone. So I was like, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're going. They they're going. They're they're they're they're they're going. they're going, they're going, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're going to hire someone. So I was like, all right. So I basically just like put on, they were like go down, just go down to what, it's like, second street. It's like two in the afternoon, something like that. And then I showed up here, like I basically just put on a suit and tie and I lived up just on the upper west side. So I just like walk. And I got here and I remember they were like,

oh here the, here's the script or whatever, and I'm like, yeah, you do a chat with John. Yeah, I'm looking at it and I go in and John is there and then I did the piece and whatever it was that they had written. I think it was a piece that they had written for that evening show and they needed a correspondent, a middle east correspondent and they didn't have one one So they were like, well, this is hire a guy. So I come in, I meet John, John's very nice. And I remember John saying to me like,

if you've ever performed in front of a live audience before, and I was such a dick, I was like, yeah, I've been on Broadway, dude. And he was like, oh, OK, all right, very enough. Ahsif, thank you for joining us. Do the people of the Middle East share this administration's clearly more optimistic view of the conflict? Oh, absolutely, John. It's not often that an entire region has given this kind of chance. Every day the cafes and outdoor markets of the Middle East explode in anticipation.

We're like children on Christmas morning, from what I'm told. It's very exciting. Really? The violence and the instability doesn't color that view? No, no, not at all. As one gentleman told me while standing in the smoldering remains of what was once his village, you can't get hummus without mashing some chickpeas. And so I do the piece, and then literally John turns to me, and he says,

welcome to the Daily Show. You're hired. Yeah. And but I was on that night and then literally like everyone, you know, it was like that was when everybody watched the Daily Show at 11 o'clock when it was actually on. And so people, like, my phone was blowing up that night like. Because it was like no announcement. And they were just like, well you just, a guy, a, a guy, a guy, a guy, a guy, a guy, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th., th. th. th. th. to, to, to, to, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th..................................................................................................................... there was like no announcement. Yeah, no, nothing. And they were just like, were you just,

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that they wanted me. Had you done even improv at all? I had done improv and I had done comedy like in theater and I'd never done stand-up and so I was for the longest time I had like this incredible imposter syndrome where I was just like why am I here like I I don't really belong on this show. And I was sort of like I'm and it was it was weird because it was for a number of years that I felt like I that, I'm that I'm I, I, I, I, I, I that I that I that I that I that I th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I had th. I had the. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th. I had th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I had th. th. I had th. I th. I had th. I th. I th. I th. I had th. I had th. I the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had the. I had th of like, I'm, and it was, it was weird because it was for a number of years that I felt like, oh, I'm kind of not really supposed to be here. Like, they're going to have figured this out at some point,

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So like a lot of correspondence to take some, the old, the old, the old rule around the office was like, given three or four pieces. Yeah, yeah. Even, even the, I remember like, Steve Corral's first piece is not good. But like everybody took but you're you were right out of the gate you were pretty solid. And that was a good a good subject and a solid, like a good really good subject matter really good people to interview like the guy was like a white guy in full Native American war.

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The Warder trustees, who I believe is all Caucasian, get rid of the Native American chief. Surprise, surprise. It's the white man. And bullies like this couldn't care less. I am really glad that the school retired Chief Alinewack, I feel like it was the right thing to do. Why pale faces, like you, trying to push Native Americans from their homes. Chief Alinewack isn't Native American. He's a race-based, racist stereotype. Aren't you a race-based stereotype?

Seriously, dude. Have you looked at a mirror lately? You look like a Wandsbrother playing a white guy. That's a new one to me. I, um, I've never heard that one. And he was like, he was like, I remember he was just like, should I, should I wear the paint? And we were like, yeah dude, we're the paint. It's great, wear it. The conceited the piece was you were completely on his side.

Oh yeah, well we always played that. And then you talked to the Native American woman who just like, And she was so confused. Oh my God, it was great. And then, and then I did that. And then I didn't do pieces for a while, and then I remember I did a piece with Stumiller, which was the WAMO or the one about the. I cut that one too. Yeah. And the toy toy factory. The toy factory. WAMO was bringing, they opened up a factory in China and they got no They got rid of their factory they got rid of the factory and opened up in like Michigan or some Yeah, yeah, it was something like that but it was it was it was a great piece and it was Because you got to do a lot of sight gags with all the toys yeah yeah and we did that and the guy was great and the guy was great and the the guy was the guy and guy and guy and guy and guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy the guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy and the guy and the guy and the guy and the guy and the guy and the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy was the guy the guy the guy the I remember they were like, okay, Monvi's ready now. And then I was going out all the time and they would, you know, and this job is weird because you would sit around a lot, especially if you were like doing in-studio stuff and you'd wait for your opportunity

to get on, you know, on the show. But if you weren't doing field pieces, then you were just sitting around. But then once I started doing field pieces, I was like, and the like, and the the the road, and the road, and their, and their, and their, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and thin, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and th, and then I was th. And then I was th. And th. And th, and then I was th, and then I was th, and I was th, and I was th, and I was th, and I was th, and I was th, and I was th, and I was like, and I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, th. And th. And th. And thin, thin, thin, th. And, thin, thin, the. And, the. And, thin, the. And, thin, and then I was like, th. And, th if you weren't doing field pieces, then you were just sitting around. But then once I started doing field pieces, I was like on the road all the time. So it was crazy. The only thing I regret was I was supposed to go do the India piece, and it was right when I left. And then Jones ended up doing the India piece. And then Jones ended up doing the India piece. And it was like, because I always ended up going to like the shittiest small towns in America

and doing these fucking pieces. In fact, I remember with Burger, I went to like, this place in Canada, the asbestos mine one. Did you cut that one? No. It was about the asbestos mine in, in this town in Canada, which was literally like a town that was on its last legs there was no business like all the stores and we stayed in this fucking shit-ass town it was like three degrees and I'm like why is every one of my field pieces involved like going to a shitty small town and other people will like go to Hawaii and like like

exotic places Iceland and stuff and I was like I was like going to some shitty-ass small town in middle America somewhere. What was your favorite piece? I have a couple. I have a couple. So one of them is the Boise Idaho one where I almost got arrested. That's the two-headed fish costume. Which people remember that piece because the two-headed fish costume. But the great thing about that piece is that it was a real

legit like 60 minutes should have done that story. Oh yeah. Because it was like that company Simplot. Again for the listeners it was this large company Simplot who basically owned everything in Idaho. Their main business was potatoes I believe., and then they were basically dumping all their like stuff into the saline ram I think it was. It was like getting into the river and like and so you interviewed an environmentalist and then you went to the... We went to the EPA right and walked in to complain but we had this great idea that like I would be a two-headed fish from the Idaho River who had come to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the EPA the EPA the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the we had this great idea that like I would be a two-headed fish from the Idaho River who had come to the EPA to complain about my habitat, my natural habitat.

And so I walk into the EPA office and the poor man. And camera's rolling. And Brennan is like, go, go. And we walk in and the woman at the front desk was so, because I pretended like it was just me, so she sees the guy in a two and she's just like, and so she's like, who are you? She buzzes me in and as soon as I come in, and you said, I'm a 200 fish. Yeah, and she lets me in and then,

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And he was just like, he was like, and finally I remember him just being like, sir, you are not a fish! Please, and then we left, and they called home on security, and we walked out. And they were rolling on that. We got it in the side where they where the cops didn't really see and they rolled in. They rolled in and they tried to arrest us. Yeah, it was crazy. These SUVs come wheeling into the parking lot. And then there's like

you on the side like the guy's talking to you and you finally took the head off. The one head that was on your real head and the other head. the thrown head. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the the the the the the the the th. the the th. the th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their the the their their 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 the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their try. try. try. their the the the the the the the the try. the the the the try. the the the try. the their their their their their try. And I was like, I am not going to prison tonight in the 200 fish costume. If you remember, the other part of that piece that people forget about is when you start to go into the conspiracy. Oh yeah. When you're like digging in, it was this great, very cinematic yeah, yeah. Brennan did. And then you start to realize that the simplot is everywhere and they've got complete control of Idaho. Yeah of Idaho, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the idea. Yeah. the idea. Yeah. the idea. Yeah. the idea. Yeah. Yeah. the idea. the idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the idea. Yeah. Yeah. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. th. complete control of Idaho. Yeah. Of Idaho, yeah. Why would the EPA call Homeland Security? I needed answers, but everywhere I went, no one would talk. What is this? Does Simplot run this whole state? Literally, every single place I went in Idaho, there was Simplot.

So I looked him up. And they're one of the largest privately held agribusiness companies in the world. The governor of Idaho worked a Simplot for 30 years and married J.R. Simplot's daughter, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, chairs the subcommittee that sets the EPA's budget? What the f-fee! Is this an actual conspiracy? There's certainly a conspiracy of silence.

This is really dangerous. Yeah. What do you mean, yeah? Well, I've received threatening phone calls from people who've suggested that I don't work on this issue or come back to Caribou County, Idaho again. Okay, are you kidding me? Look, next time a fake reporter comes to ask you to do an interview about Simplot, you should lead with the stuff about the threats.

And then you talk to Aaron Brockovich. Do you remember? That's right. She came and she did. No, you had her on like, you had a zoom. Yeah. Yeah, I talked to Aaron Brokovich. She's like, you know, get a set a set a to to to to to to to to to to go to to to go to go to go to go the the to to the to the the the to the to the the to the the tha tha tha tha tha tha thi to to to thi thi thi to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tha. tha. tha.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. tooooman. She's like, you know, get a set of balls man. You gotta go in and you gotta go after these fuckers. And then at the end you're, you got to go after these fuckers. And then at the end, you're like, you're chicken out. Yeah. You have a nightmare. You have a nightmare. to the the the th. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. the to go. the to go. the the to go. the. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to go. to go. to go. to. to. to. to. to. to. to...................................... end of it. Yeah, there's a great piece. My other favorite piece is the one with the North Carolina guy who, Don Yelton. Don Yelton, who basically, that was such, I mean, that piece is like legendary because he got fired for all this. Right, it went, it went viral. Again, for the listeners, the North Carolina had passed a law that basically was anti-voting rights.

It's like really an illegal law, right? It was like restricting. And it was basically like to keep poor people and young people and African Americans from voting because they generally vote Democrat. And he said, he said that would kick Democrats in the butt. Yeah. But then he went off, but he went off on this racist diatriate. So we had all this stuff and we didn't put it in the piece a lot of it because we just felt

like it was too much. So I remember John came in and he watched, you know, John would come in and watch the pieces before and he'd give notes on the edit. So he came in and he watched it and and we had Don Yelton sort of like doing some of his racist stuff and then we as John was walking out he turned back and he was like, by the way, do you have any more of that of him doing all that, saying all that racist stuff? And I remember Jenna and I both looked at each other and we were like, yeah, we have a lot more of him saying that.

And John was like, let me just put it all in there. And so we just did like a fade of him just saying all this race stuff. Time, like it's time, like it's time lapse. So you're just going one racist thing after the next. The bottom line is the law is not racist. Of course the law is not racist. And you're not racist. the treats you the same as I would anybody else. Well, I've been called a bigot before. the bigot. Let me tell you something. You don't look like me, but I think I've treated you the same as I would anybody else. Matter of a fact, one of my best friends is black.

One of your best friends is black. Yes. And there's more. When I was a young man, you didn't call a black, you called him a Negro. I had a picture one time of Obama sitting on a stump as a witch doctor, and I posted that on Facebook. She said, I was making fun of my white half of Obama, not the black half. And now you have a black person using the term, nigger this, nigger that, and it's okay for them to do it. You know that we can hear you, right? Yeah. Okay, you know that. You know that we can hear you. Yeah. Okay.

All right. And then at the end, I had this line where I said, you know we can hear you, right? Which became like the tagline of the whole piece because I just was like, you know, you know we can hear you. And it was such a great. It was a beautiful constructed piece and it was just so diabolical. Like it was just like that guy. And then he resigned. And then he resigned because it went viral.

Basically the RNC was like, you can't say that stuff out loud, dude. Right. And then the Republicans were like, you're done. And then he doubled down. He was like, what, what's wrong with it? Like he's like, he wouldn't retract anything. Yeah, he was like, what did I say that was wrong? Yeah, and so they fired him and he lost his seat and, yeah, it was, it made, it made like, legit news. That was the one time, I feel like, the Daily Show actually, like, the tauile actually did something that actually made a difference in the world. Like so much time it felt like we were just sort of preaching to the choir and...

Yeah, there's been a few pieces like that that kind of made, made difference. Occasionally I think we just did penetrate, you know, so much of the time it was like we were just like talking to ourselves it felt like you know, we changing anybody's policy, but that was one of the few times I felt like we actually, so I was proud of that. Like I was proud of the fact that we actually made a real difference in the world, you know. Yeah, yeah, Don Yelton, man. We'll be right back. The future of America is in your hands. This is not a movie trailer, and it's not a political ad, but it is a call to action. I'm Mila Atmos and I'm passionate about unlocking the power of everyday citizens.

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Do urine, urine tests. So, uh, so you went, so the Rick Scott press conference. So you went, we had to get drug tests. Do a drug test. Urine urine, urine tests. So you went to the Rook Scott Press conference? No, and we did. And we were talking to, you know, the Florida legislators and we found out. And you talked to, you talked to, you know, the other thing that's forgotten about that piece was, I cut. Yeah, yeah. the thiii thi. the guy the guy the guy th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thrunk, you went, you went, you went the the the the the the the the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. So, thr. thr. thr. thr. thr., you're trying to convince him that he should be peeing in a cup. Yeah, yeah, suddenly you go, oh, like everybody who works for the Florida government also is, should be peeing in a cup because they're getting money from taxpayer money because the whole argument was if taxpayers are. Right, and you went, you went, you went, you went, sort sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, the. He. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. wandered the halls of like the state legislature and try to get people to pee in the cups. This law is on Constitution and it violates the Fourth Amendment. You're poor and on drugs. What do you know about the Constitution?

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I'm sorry, I think I'm going to need you to be into this cut. Those are the greatest moments when you just like could actually like sort of speak truth to power in that way you didn't didn't didn't that law didn't that law get reversed to down the road a little bit I may have yeah I can't remember but I think that was another one that went viral to I remember I remember like it got a lot of attention because also we were in that room with all when we went to the Rick Scott press conference. It was just like weekly or whatever. It was like his yeah it was like his ring so all the foreign report. So every outlet in the state of

Florida was in that room. You know and and the funny thing was it when we did that thing Brennan I remember it was also another Brennan piece and he said to me, he's like, just get up and just ask him to be in the cup and I was like, all right. And Brennan's standing off to the side. And these guys are all like, everybody in the room. And if you remember in the piece we cut to, we cut to, between our footage, we also cut to like, the local, like, the local news, like, channel five, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, channel, like, channel, channel, what happened was that, the Channel 5 is covering this, and all whatever local stations around Tallahassee and Tampa and Miami and Jacksonville, they're all covering it, and I ask him to pee in the cup, and it's like, and all the cameras turn on us,

because they're all in the room going, and so obviously, the whole place goes silent. We come out of the room afterwards after we have the interaction with Rick where he's like, I'm not doing that. And then all the press guys come up to us and they're like, oh my god, that was amazing. We wish we could do that. And then it's on the news that we were there. And my dad in Tampa sees, he watches the news, and sees me on the news, thoes, thoes, thoes, thoes, thoes, thoes, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, thi, and, thi, and, thi... thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeee. the news asking Rick Scott and then he calls me like right after we come out of the room and he's just like, what did you do?

What the fuck did you do? Because he was watching it like, like on Channel 11 or whatever in Tampa. But they, but not everyone knew that it was the Daily Show right away. No. Not right away. No. It was just like they were like, oh, reporter asked Rick Scott's a peeing a cup. And then it went, oh, it's a daily show, but like, but also one of the really funny visuals in that is passing the cup. Oh yeah, you're like, you're all the way, you're all the way in the front. The guy in the front is like, and he just like, he steps forward. He gets out of his seat, he steps forward, and he puts it on the floor in front of Rick Scott's podium and then he sits back down. It's so great.

And I remember I said to him, I said, don't worry, you can all just turn around so you could have some privacy. Oh my god, it was such a great, that was so great. Those moments I do miss like that, just those moments when you caught somebody in that way or like you got someone to, you know, those were things that always felt incredibly satisfying, you know. And your signature move was to look to the camera. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I used to do that. that. It it it it it it it it it it it was it was it was it was it was it was it was, it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such it was such such such such such such such such such such such such such such a great. It was such a great. It was such it was such such such such such such such such such a great. It was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such. It was such. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was, it was, it was, it was such, it was such. It was such. It was such. It was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such a great. It was such a great. It was such a great. It was such a great, it was such a great, that, that, that, that, it was such a great, that, it was such that, it was such that, it was such, it was such, it was such, it was such, it wasthings that always felt incredibly satisfying, you know. And your signature move was to look to the camera. Oh yeah, yeah. I used to do the look to the camera. Like, you just look over the camera. Yeah, yeah.

Can you believe this shit? Break the wall, you know? Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was good. Now, there was something else. you and Miles were involved in. What? Which was, I believe to this day, the most expensive, what? Slash field piece, not really a field piece, but the Quasby show, remember?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember like, Miles was all in on this thing? You went, you went to sound stage in Connecticut, right? Yeah, we shot this thing you went you went to you went to soundstage in Connecticut right yeah we shot this thing like a real real sitcoms listeners it was a parody of the Cosby show muslim family living living in a white neighborhood Cosby show Q you apostrophe OSBY right Cosby yeah and it was like a massive budget I don remember exactly, but I remember at the time was huge budget. It was like the piece It was like, I don't remember how we were using it in the context of the show, but it was like a 12-minute edit that Miles did and would not. I did not cut it. I did not cut it. I did not cut it. I did not. I did not cut it. I did not cut it. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the the the th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I'm like, there it is, like, you know, it's three minute like monsters. Because then we had to do a whole thing with the, and then it turned into a web series.

A web, so then Miles and I ended up turning it into a web series called Halal and the Family. Because you changed it after the... After Cosby, kind of a thi. So, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, and, and, the, and, and, the, and, the, and, the, and, and, and, and, the, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, and, the, the, the, the, the, the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, the, and, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the family. And then we won like a Peabody for that for that web series which is still out there. Yeah, it's on a funnier die. Funny or die, it's on YouTube like you can watch it but we so Miles got his dream because he wanted to make that he wanted to make a full-on like sick on parody. So we did like four episodes of this and it was all based around like Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry and you know like you're in like a white neighborhood. Yeah, the premise was that it was a Muslim family who was terrified that anybody would find

other than Muslims so they're the whitest, most like American Muslim family like like the father comes in is like. But just the, aren't the kids kind of rebelling against that? The kids are, yeah, but the father. Because they're like, what are you doing? And the dad is like, the dad is like, he's like, let's have our pork juice everyone. You know, and he's like serving pork juice and like try to be like, we're not dangerous, you know, but it was great. We actually ended up. Yeah, I th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. th. the th. the th. th. the th. the th. the th. the the than. the the the the the the the tho. that. the the the the the the the the the the the the the dad, the dad, the dad, the dad. the dad. the dad. the dad. the dad. the dad. the dad. the dad. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that's. that's, that's, that's, that. that. that. that. th or how we got it into the show.

Like, you're just like, okay, let's just do this. Well, the premise was that we did it and then we showed it to a focus group and the whole idea was we had this focus group of people watching it. No, no, I mean like, I mean like in the original Daily Show, you know, it was like, that was something that was pitched. Oh, and then, and then, like, they were like, you mean, how did it even get green lit? Like, Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't know if, it was, it must have been a reaction

to some news story. Yeah, it was, no, it was a reaction. There was a sound bite that was based off. Like a little sot from her. So she said, it seems that what Muslims need right now is their own, you know, Cosby Show, because it solved racism. And we were like, cause be the show has one. That's what it was. And so then we were like, we're going to show it to people and see what they think. And I just remember, like we showed it to all this focus group and I remember one of

the guys was like, I don't believe this family. And we were like, why not? He was like, well, because they're just too American. They're like, they're not, you know, well, they like that. So we got the response was that if they were too American then we didn't believe that they were Muslim, you know, so that was that was the sort of takeaway from the from the Daily Show version of it. And then we did the Halal and the Family, which is a longer version. Right. And it's an election year. Do you remember going to the

conventions? Oh my god. Your convention memories? Yeah. Wouldn't you like, would you like to be back doing it this year? Honestly, I don't know. It's so depressing right now. What's happening? It's also different for us. Yeah. Back when you were doing it, we were still... Well, I guess still, well, I guess, it was, no, we were, you know what, I, actually, I take it back, you came in 2006, so we were already like, we were already like on the map. My first convention was the 2008 DNC. Uh, Denver. In Denver, when Obama was the nominee. Right. And I have yet to experience anything as crazy as that like it was we were if there's any ever a moment where I felt like being a daily Chicago correspondent was like being a Beatle like it was like at the DNC when it was me Riggle Oliver Jones Sam I think Wyatt was there.

Wyatt, yep. And we couldn't even walk through the DNC. It was crazy. It was like, because that was our audience. That whole, everybody in that building were daily show fans. So we're like, we walked through that. And I remember like, I remember Lindsay Crystal and she was our one of our, you know, director producer and she was just like, she was trying to hold

people back and she had me do that. Oh my god, it was horrible because what she had me do was she said okay I want you to go down. She said, okay I want you to go down, we should do the fucking worst things about. Like she said, go down, all these press guys were on their laptops, and she's like, I just want you to run through the whole line of people who were all like live on the, and just shut their laptops as you want by. And so I run through their I would run through this thing and I shot everyone's laptop and they're live, some of them are live broadcasting and I just shut their laptop. People were furious and I, and a guy got up and started chasing me.

And I remember Lindsay being like, she's like, run, and I'm just running down the hall. And there's a dude, some report's like you mother fucker and he's chasing me and Lindsay like is hiding and I run into like who's you know I just I just was running into people and it was just like and I'm like literally hiding from this guy who was chasing me at the DNC it was it was crazy and the RNC I don't think we even have the right credentials because no that's if you remember that's where Oliver met his wife. Oh, was that what he met? She hid him. She was running, him and the crew were running from like security because they didn't have the proper credentials, they had like snuck in or something. Right, right.

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And I think being on a streamer gave us a lot of leverage and gave us a lot of room to play with things that we might not have been able to, we might have been restricted on network in terms of how much we could play with stuff, you know. Did the Daily Show, how, help? Well, it's like, so you go from like real actor, daily show back to like real actor, so like is there a, is there a, do they help each other or is it just like, this is like, this is like, this is, this is, this or is it just like, this is like, this is like, this is basketball, this is football. No, it's all. And they're both sports, but like, you know what I'm saying? I mean, I always, I've always,

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like a guy who's like been on law and order and stuff to like people actually knowing my name and knowing who I was. So it was a tremendous launching man you're like I know you're no one in New York if you're an actor in New York and you have you have to have been in at least one episode of law and order or you might as well quit acting I guess we're we should wrap this up because it's been a while yeah yeah sure well hopefully you'll you know, hopefully you'll be back again soon. Maybe it. Yeah, you know. Absolutely.

Well, it was great. I'm so glad we got to chat. Yeah, always a pleasure. Yeah, man. Good. All right. All right. the today's searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts.

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