The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - When Learning German Goes Wrong

Episode Date: May 13, 2019

Trevor's efforts to learn German in order to bond with his dad backfired in the worst possible way.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. John Stewart here. Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show. We're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. I tried to start learning German, because my dad is Swiss German, right?

And so I was like, I want to learn his language because I never learned it growing up. And then someone was like, why don't you learn Swiss? And then I heard Swiss and I was like, no. I'd rather learn German. And so I learned German. And so I thought it would bring us closer together, right? Because I lost contact with my dad for like 10 years. And so then when I met him again, I was like, I want to learn German and impress him, whatever. And I met him, and then I started speaking to him in German, and he was like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm speaking German. He's like, no, it's better if you speak German at all,

it's fine. But then now I could and practices. You know, I had a lot of fun. Until I found out that the way I spoke German sounded a little bit like Hitler. Yeah, which no one told me on this side of the world because we don't know how he really spoke or anything, but I would be in Germany and apparently the way I would hit certain inflections would freak people out.

And it's like, think of it like Barack Obama's voice. Like if someone learned English in America and they got here and they were like I just want to have a you'd be like hey you're doing the Barack Obama thing and they'd be like what are you talking about? You know what I mean? So I would do that like I'd go in places and then I'd like order food and like someone would be there and be like gooden to be like good the tod to to to to to to to tha and the the the tha and tha and tha good the the the tha good tha good tha good thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu the good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good to to to to to to the I'll have a little bruschein have. Bittishan. With the shenkin. And the people would look at me. And then when we left, my friend was like,

I was like, why would they look? Did I say it weird, like wrong, wrong words? She's like, no, you people are really frightened about that, and you know, and I was like, so I spoiled their day and she was like, yeah, you did, you know? And I was like, well, that brings me a lot of chardon fruder. The Daily Show with Covernoa, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the comedy central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,

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