The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Backstage with Jon Stewart: A Look at The Daily Show in 2024

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

In this podcast exclusive, Daily Show host Jon Stewart previews his plans for 2024 with showrunner Jen Flanz and co-executive producer Zhubin Parang. They discuss what it’s like for Jon to be back at the Daily Show offices after all these years, how the media landscape has changed, and their plans for covering the 2024 election. They also discuss the correspondents taking on hosting duties, the correspondent casting process, and Jon’s first impressions of Jordan Klepper and Trevor Noah’s audition tapes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday?

I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. All right. All right. It's all good. It's all good. Come on.

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podcast boot camp. They do. They do. You have to spend six months speaking into a microphone. Wow. You do a lot of push-up for some reason. And then at the end of it, you have to successfully sell a Casper mattress or else you were never heard from again. Can I tell you something? That would make a really great podcast. Someone should do. Like try to sell something to someone on the air? That's a good idea.

Someone should do a six month boot camp podcast. Maddow. I love it. I'm sure there's already like six Bushwick guys who are doing that podcast separately. There's a lot of podcasts. John's not really in our podcast studio. No, John, you are watching. But you can see how nice it is.

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Lots of my cousins at VHS. In Iranian communities, it was a huge bootleg success. That's for sure. John, let's just get right into this. All right, we've dicked around enough. You've been back in the building for a few weeks now. The question is that the mind John Stewart is back. What do you make of the snacks? There used to be potato chips? There's now a lot of veggie sticks. If people don't know, no, but it's not just veggie sticks, Juven. Don't sell the place short. There's popcorn. That's true. But people don't know.

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And when we were there, it was designed in plebeian chic. Yeah, I believe you would call it. It looked like a bureaucratic and administrative satirical movie about what it was like to work in a bureaucratic nightclub. It did, it was like Trevor did, when he came in, did have this idea of like, what if we had an office that that did not make people sad when you walked in? That did not... I didn't know we were allowed to do that. And by the way, we weren't sad, so we didn't know. I was like, oh, we're having a good time.

He's like, but it could look nicer. All right. I think you'll also be, you know, happy to see that we have had, what used to be, I think just one one, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, of potato chip has now been replaced by just endless organic gummies. Yes. That's so I mean the snack game now to be fair advances in snacking over nine years you are living in a different universe. It's really not fair to compare it. It's not. When I was there the only snacks that were available to people, and obviously this was years ago, were crackers salted and unsalted. And those were the only snacks that were made. And then there was an explosion in ingenuity and in snack technology.

And when I look, and you got, here's what people don't know. So do you know those racks? Yeah, if you were to go to a CVS and they have that one little rat, it, th, th, th, th, th, that, that, th, that, th, that, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, that, th, th, th, th, th, that, that, that, that, thrack, thrack, thrack, thrack, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they. Crackers, they, they, they. Crackers, they, they, crackers, they, their, their, they, you got, here's what people don't know. So do you know those racks? Yeah. If you were to go to a CVS and they have that one little rat, it's like a tree, a beautiful Christmas tree that you can hang snacks on? It makes the snacks even more appealing when they're hanging on that tree. So my question to you guys is, who stole it from a convenience storm?

guys is who stole it from a convenience storm and and is it a wanted snack treat? It is I don't think we should talk about that here no because no that would be maybe one of us had something. Jen Flans you know I remember you when you were in a company woman I remember you when you would speak truth to power I'm just try to stayto stay out of, you know, trouble so I could produce the show for you. Okay. Not to be too real, but I think the, that snack tree is also a way to, to get around mice. I know, I was just gonna say it. I know, I was gonna say it. then I'm like, should I give away the to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. this. this. this. this. this. the show. this. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the show. the the the show. the the the the the the show. the the the the the the 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 Do you remember hot dog? Was hot dog a mouse? Oh, guys.

No, I don't know who I tell you. You don't remember, that's one of Maggie's favorite stories about the Daily Show. So we were doing a bit one night where we needed to get a mouse. And we got somebody scored, they went down to the pet store and they got a bait mouse. Yeah, like a little feeder mouse. That was about to be prey. And, and thage, and when, and when, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the th, th, th, th, th, thaguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu- 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, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th, to th. Do, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thoomuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. to Yeah, like a little feeder mouth. That was about to be prey. And when Maggie got wind of it, she promised me that we would keep him safe. And so we had to build a terrarium.

Yes. She named him Hot Dog. And I don't know if you remember, she made that big folder of all the care of hot dog. And she brought it in. I remember that. Oh my god. What happened to a hot dog? I know the answer. Okay, he lived to be a hundred and three. Oh my god. Wow, all they mean is just a little bit. Oh in mouse. No, what happened Hot Dog was, he became a brilliant French chef and moved. And lived in Paris, apparently under a different name, and became quite well renowned. Oh, good for him. Good for him. I'm glad. I thought you were going to tell me he died. What? No, no, no, no, I'm sorry.

And by the way, if Maggie comes to the show to visit, you will tell her. No, yes. He moved to France to be a chef. That was the story that I told her. He's out of farm in France. That's right. John, let me ask you something else. You know, John, the media. Why do you keep saying my name? I feel like you're setting me up for something terrible. It's that kind of stuff when you say something over and over, get to remember what the name is? Jubin?

John, John, John, John, John, John, John, John. The media has changed so much. I have noticed you haven't said my name. Chief, let me ask you a question. Jen? Jen? Jeubin? I, Jubin. I'm asking you guys. About all the changes that have happened here, you know, all the changes. There have been a lot of changes. There's been differences.

Not so many. But Jen, you've successfully navigated this show through many, many, many eras of the daily show. so many. So many. John, Trevor, I believe 250 guest hosts in the intervening years. I was here with Craig. You were here with Craig. I saw John walk in the door. Jen Flans was there when I got there. It was.

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It's the one thing I have control. Everything else is, you just, but anyway. It's funny how hard that is now. Like, in the old days I used to be able to do that pretty easily and now I made Jen give a, um, a Facebook. Yeah, it's like a list of everybody that's there and I like sit and I like point at the But even that's like for my brain is not as elastic so it's stuff. So everybody has a mind.

We got a lot of people here. We have more people than we did. I'm calling everybody Jen. It's just hoping that I'll tell you. It's good to ask you. What? You know, John, the media landscape has changed so much. When you left the show, there was no TikTok, now there's TikTok, now there's Tick Tock, there's a podcast, now they've blown up, there's YouTube. There's so much places to get misinformation.

And I'm wondering, John, where you get your misinformation? When I started at the Daily Show, there was only two ways to get information. The streets? Uh, what are the streets saying? The streets? You would go out on the streets and say, Can someone tell me what a dirty Sanchez is? Somebody just said that? Does anyone know?

They would say, come over here. And the other was, you had to wait for them to make a pamphlet from a printing press. So these were the only two ways that you could gather information. It's relentless now. I thought it was relentless when I left. Right. It's, it's geometrically past the moment. It's, uh, it's relentless now. It's relentless. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's relentless. It's rel relet's rel the the the the the the the the the the their. It's relet's relet's relet's relet's relet's relet's relet's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relentless. It's relet's relet's relet's relet's relentless. It's relentless when I left. Right. It's geometrically past the moment, and as I think the great Maria Ressa says, a lie travels 10 times or 6 times or 7 times faster around the world than the truth, I think it's a much more dire situation, but at least none of these social media entities have monetized that idea and incentivized misinformation because that would truly be dangerous. I'm really glad that they fight it so vigorously. Yeah. I, actually, I know somebody who, who was a content moderator on Facebook, who was one of the

people who had to like go through all of the, you know, it's a really terrible paying job. How can you make an individual do that? That seems like an impossible test. Brutal. They were there for like two or three days and they're like the amount of hideousness that you see. People just like very casually posting up just like video know, videos of murders, videos of brutal things that they are just putting up just to see if

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2024. What is it about this election that you are most eager to take on? Because I personally don't know what much there is to satirize. The candidates are very of sound mind, the media seems prepared to root all the issues. I think the word eager is the one that I find so interesting. Sure, you can you can reject that. For me, it's not just about the election, it's if you want to be present in this world, you have to be present in this conversation and you have to be as relentless and tenacious as the counter narrative that's being formed through, you know, so much of the

information that we see now is weaponized by all different and it keeps taking exponential leaps, which is what, you know, it's not just the election, it's AI, it's the way that we've militarized all our conflict. Like, it all ties together to, I think, this one larger idea, which is the form of government that we cherish so much is really an analog, I don't want to say dinosaur, but it is analog, and the world now moves at an increasingly, infinitely digital pace. And reconciling those two things I think is the challenge of the moment for people and I'm excited To be with you guys again and the best fucking news team and to just be a part of that conversation because I think you have to

register your thought and complaint so that it can be referenced. Because remember, AI is now the sum total of all that we do. AI really is an information laundering system, a vacuum that takes up all the pieces of human information and then spits some back out in a sort of reconstituted form. If you want this world of the future to be informed but what you think is the right part of the present, you have to register. You have to get it out there. Yeah, if only, if not to change the direction of the conversation, at the very least, so that when aliens come to the smoldering ruins of mankind, they can see something that was like,

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What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Hey, what's up guys?

Hey, everybody's all cleaned off. Look at that! The old suit on. It still fits! It still fits! John, let me ask you a question. You'll be working with a lot of our correspondence. You know Jordan Clepper obviously, you are at the show while he was the show while you were host. I don't. Oh, you mean Jen.

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like there's a mechanical part of this job that it does take most performers who are not familiar with that, some uptick in learning curve. Jordan was just like, is this my camera? Boom! Like, he just, he knew all the roots, man, right off the brain. Right, yeah, his audition, we were like, I remember John came back. He goes, yeah, yeah, we should. Yeah, hire that guy. What we're saying here is Jordan is very good at faking authenticity is what we're saying, and I with that. He is. There are other correspondents though you haven't worked with Desi, Ronnie, Costa, Doolsay. What so far you've seen, you haven't seen much of them but so far as you go in,

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And so for you guys to be able to restto restock in that way is is very impressive. Yeah, I mean Joss and I watch so many people that... Poor Jossie. Yeah, that he... She was she was on tape patrol back when I was here. Oh, we left us. We're still on tape patrol. Yeah, yeah. It's like when we found Costa's tape we were like, We got what? You know, we're like Ghostbusters, antipods, like feeling in that room. It is like, you're like, oh my god, we found it. Yeah.

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Well, that, theyreau doing yeah well that's a thing though right because so you don't have to but just in order to keep the office ratings up that you know the bracket our show we got to have something on there you know so I didn't realize yeah so they're gonna they're gonna step in I mean I'm really sorry that you're gonna have to be working like that And it was, it's just like I'm like so psyched to see them at the desk. But that was part of the thought. And Jen and I had talked about this. You know, one of the things that, you know, the guest hosting thing, it was really fun. there was a th th tho tho tho th tho th. It was a tho th. It was really th. It was really th. It was really th. It was really thi thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really th. It was really th. It was really th. It was really th. It was really th. It was a th. It was a th. It was a th. It was a th. It was really thi. It was really thi. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was really th. It was a that is central as a point of view show, you are asking the staff to create a completely different show every week with a different point of view. And it's a really difficult ask, and I think part of this reset that was part of it was, let's

let the correspondence take that role and the stat and everybody can sort of calibrate around that sensibility. And I think it's gonna be really exciting to see what they do with it. We've been writing for their voices for so long and they're all friends, you know. Boy, John, I wish you had been actually, the, in that guess was error, where like every week the guests and their point of view would

the in that guess-so's era where like every week the guests and their point of view would like wildly change how I would have to explain just by looking at the writers in the room that that point of view was not going to fly this week so they would say something I'd be like good the next week they say something I just be staring them like right just try to look while they guess host I tole I told you guys that and the next week you're like Ukraine you're like you're the only thing standing between us and barbarism yeah it was there was that was hard lot a lot of weapon but high-degree difficulty for a show like you guys earned your your stripes on that like that's a very high degree of difficulty I think we we had some fun people come through that we earned our organic Yeah I we're 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 they are are are the the the the the the the the the the the they. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they. are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are the the th are the are the are the are the are the are the are the are the the the the the the the the the the they. the the the are the is that. Like that's a very high degree of difficulty. I think we had some fun people come through them. We earned our organic gummies, I think for this.

I mean, we're the heroes. We are the heroes. Leslie Jones, like, Leslie Jones, like, the energy that she brought and the perspective, like, just great. We laughed so much. We laughed so fun. Marlin was such a good time and and just fun to work with and the respect that they had for the show and the desk because of you and Trevor it's like they were so excited to do the show is really cool. Oh that's nice. They're like oh I can't believe I'm doing the daily show.

I can't believe he got a new desk. I walked Trevor is deceivingly tall. Yes. Deceivingly tall. He doesn't seem, he seems like average. And explicitly handsome. And I don't care for that. Actually, we're getting another, you know, another dude desk. Wow, you were talking to accommodate. You know what I started thinking, can I? You just dropped a bombshell? I was like, am I allowed to say this? By the way I'm I to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say to say this. to say this. this. to say to say this. to say? to say? to say, to say, to say, this? this. th. th. th. th. th. hea? He hea? He hea? He hea? He hea. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. I was. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. th. He. He. th. He. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. t. t. tell. t. t. th. th. th. the? By the way, I'm like, we're in charge, but am I allowed to say this? I don't know. Anyway, it'll be new and accommodate co-hosts because we had a lot of fun when we did that the Jordan-Desi show and the Jordan-Yeah, I like the idea of trying out. Yeah, I like want to talk to a few people, our desk currently doesn't really accommodate that.

So the only thing that because I don't have the center of gravity by the, of having my feet like more firmly on the ground, that's a pretty slick plywood that goes beneath that thing. And I'm hoping that we at least put, because I don't know if you remember, 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, 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, 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 to, the to, to, to, to, to, to, to know. He slide too fast out of the yes. He went to slide back and I don't think you realize like no break. Yeah and it's and the desk is on a platform so it would I think I think our stage manager might have saved his life. Oh my god. Yeah a hero. But yeah there have been multiple guests over the years that almost fly off the platform. And um. That's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It's. Yeah. Yeah. It's. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There. There there. There there. There there. There there. There have there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there have there there there there there. There have there. There have the guests over the years that almost fly off the world. And um... That's the fun of it. What a way to go.

Honestly, go big or go homes. That is like, they wake up in a hospital. What happened? You were plugging your movie. You had just thrown to a clip and then... It was it Anyway, yeah, we'll watch for that with the new desk. Yeah, we'll check out Maybe we'll just do a chair with no wheels. I mean just yeah, we'll say you know just some

Just get some double-sided scotch tape on there. That'll solve the problem too you do a You do a joke when you're talking to me, writing, producing, dressing the set, fixing the wheels. It's a grind, it's a grind. No stop at aging six days for every day. That's the important thing. Well, look, guys, we are so excited to be back on the air and to tackle all the issues and just fun characters and and goose and gaps. They're going to be happening this election season. Let me actually John before we let you go what is what's what's what's a what are you most excited for the

viewers to tune in for this this upcoming year. I'm excited for the audience to experience that split second of vertigo. That's going to happen when they see a familiar name in a familiar setting with a completely different face and head. And I'm excited to see them go, wait, is that also happening to me? Because that would be weird. If he's older, that must mean I'm older. How fast does this accelerator? This gentleman is heading to the event horizon.

What is going on here? I'm sure that's why everyone will be watching. Yes, everyone's going to be watching. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, I'm going to be fantastic. For the years addition, I am a Jube Mparence, joined by Jen Flans and the John Stewart. What's that? Bye-bye.

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