The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Elon Crashes the Oval Office, Trump Pushes Gaza Takeover | Colman Domingo

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

Jordan Klepper covers Trump pushing his Gaza takeover plan even further and the hypocrisy, conflicts of interest, and terrible "jokes" behind the most powerful unelected bureaucrat in D.C., Elon Musk.... Marco Rubio was not always the it-girl of D.C. With his humble Florida beginnings and perfect lack of moral integrity, he was able to sneak his way in with Trump's in-crowd. This is the Daily Showography of Marco Rubio narrated by Molly Ringwald. Emmy-winning actor Colman Domingo joins to talk about his Oscar-nominated performance in the film “Sing Sing,” which is based on a real rehabilitation through the arts program at Sing Sing prison. He also discusses being co-chair of this year’s Met Gala and how to tell your personal story through style.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your I'm Jordan Klepper. We have a lot to talk about tonight. Trump gets romantic at the worst possible moment. Marco Rubio has the ultimate glow up, and the White House celebrates Bring Your Elon to Work Day. So let's get into another installment
Starting point is 00:00:47 of the second coming of Donald J. Trump. -♪ I'm gonna come. I'm gonna come. -♪ Yesterday was a busy day at the White House. First, Trump met with the King of Jordan, the country, Jordan. You're not the boss of me, King Abdullah II, okay? Of course, Trump invited the King to discuss his plan to displace 2 million people and turn Gaza
Starting point is 00:01:17 into the Atlantic City of the Middle East, which sounds pretty clear-cut to me, but apparently the nitpickers in the media still have questions. You said before that the U.S. would buy Gaza, and today you just said we're not going to buy Gaza. We're not gonna have to buy. We're not gonna buy anything.
Starting point is 00:01:33 We're gonna have it, and we're gonna keep it, and we're gonna make sure that there's gonna be peace, and there's not gonna be any problem, and nobody's gonna question it. There's no problem and nobody's gonna question it. There's no problem and nobody's gonna question it? Trump is like a Jedi who doesn't have the force. I'll take Gaza, nobody's gonna question it. Nobody. Is this thing working? Is this thing... Is this... But Trump has another plan to convince the haters. A charm offensive.
Starting point is 00:02:03 It's a war-torn area. We're gonna take it, we're gonna hold it, we're gonna cherish it. Oh! Okay. So it's going to be an ethnic cherishing. I got it. Okay, okay. I mean, how did that start like a Mussolini speech and end as a boys-to-men song?
Starting point is 00:02:21 We will take the land, it will be ours, and we're gonna make love to you like you want us to, and I'll hold it tight, baby, all through the night." Now, one thing I find weird about Donald Trump saying he wants to run Gaza is that from what we've seen so far, he barely wants to run the United States. For weeks, people have been raising alarms
Starting point is 00:02:40 about how Trump seems to be handing way too much power over to Elon Musk. And yesterday, Trump replied, I hear you. You want me to give more power to Elon Musk. President Trump setting new guidelines for hiring in the federal workforce while giving more power to Elon Musk
Starting point is 00:02:55 and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ. A new executive order directs government agencies to pursue large-scale cuts, saying they now need hiring approval from Doge. Yes. Elon Musk is now in charge of all government high lanes. High lanes. High lanes. I didn't...
Starting point is 00:03:15 Sorry. I didn't say that right. Right. I didn't say it right. Ha-ha-ha. Yeah, okay. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. Okay. I don't know why I keep Hitler misspeaking. I don't know why I keep misspeaking.
Starting point is 00:03:35 So this was already a pretty unusual thing for a president to do. But Trump being Trump, he had to make it even more ridiculous by introducing it with a full-on circus act in the Oval Office. Now, look at this scene. Musk is holding court with his hands tented like a Bond villain,
Starting point is 00:03:52 probably to stop him from doing a Nazi salute, with his four-year-old child in tow. I mean, that poor kid. His dad literally runs SpaceX, and Elon took him to a meeting on federal spending. Dad, are we gonna get to see the rockets? No, son, we're gonna discuss budgets because I'm a shitty dad. I mean, everything about this event was so bizarre.
Starting point is 00:04:17 Trump was sitting quietly for half an hour, retreating to his happy place, thinking about Arnold Palmer's giant doge. And, I mean, and who thought cloning Stephen Miller was a good idea? I mean, is it for spare parts? I mean, they look like a before and even more before picture. Okay? I mean...
Starting point is 00:04:41 Okay, but, all right. Leaving aside this Renaissance painting done by the dogs playing poker guy, it's good that we have Elon Musk here, because we've been watching him slashing programs and shuddering agencies for a month now, and we can finally ask Elon, why are you doing this? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided
Starting point is 00:05:06 by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that the president, the House, and the Senate decide what happens as opposed to a large, unelected bureaucracy. Wow. Wow. I mean, you see why this guy's a genius. You don't want an unelected bureaucrat running the country. It makes a lot of sense. No questions here. I do have one question though.
Starting point is 00:05:40 Isn't that you? I mean... I mean, am I... Am I going crazy? Because it feels like I'm watching Drake sing Not Like Us at karaoke. Like, does he not know? Is having this one unaccountable bureaucrat in charge better than having those other unaccountable bureaucrats
Starting point is 00:06:07 in charge? Because at least the others have to follow transparency laws. The only thing transparent about Doge is Elon's skin. I mean, his financial disclosure is being kept secret. Doge is exempt from open records laws, and when someone on Twitter merely identified some of the people who secret. Doge is exempt from open records laws, and when someone on Twitter merely identified some of the people who work for Doge,
Starting point is 00:06:29 Elon suspended their account and said, you have committed a crime, which we tried to fact-check with career officials at the FBI, but they're all working at a Panera now. So, Elon, I got to tell you, I don't think you're being that transparent. So all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don't think there's been, I don't know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization.
Starting point is 00:06:58 And I fully expect to be scrutinized and get a daily proctology exam. Oh! Well, I did the exam, and what an asshole. You know what? I don't want to give you a proctology exam. I just want to know what you're doing, because another advantage of federal bureaucrats is that they can't have conflicts of interest,
Starting point is 00:07:21 whereas you seem to have every single one of them who's been in the office for a long time. a proctology exam. I just want to know what you're doing, because another advantage of federal bureaucrats is that they can't have conflicts of interest. Whereas you seem to have every conflict of interest. SpaceX has government contracts. Tesla is under government oversight. X is under government investigation. And his hair plugs are being investigated
Starting point is 00:07:39 by the department of no one's buying this. You're basically a walking conflict of interest. Is that not a huge f***ing problem? Well, all of our actions are fully public. So if you see anything, you say, like, wait a second, hey, you know, that seems like maybe that's, you know, there's a conflict there. I sort of like people are gonna be shy about saying that.
Starting point is 00:08:01 They'll say it immediately, you know? Oh, good! Okay, if we see a conflict, we just need to say something. Hey, Elon, I noticed a conflict. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Starting point is 00:08:22 Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Did that work? No? No? Nothing happened? There's no accountability and nothing matters? Great. Perfect system. Well, f*** it. He's not gonna be transparent. And he's riddled with conflicts of interest, but at least he's a genius.
Starting point is 00:08:34 And the work he's gonna do will be flawless. Mr. Musk, you said on X that an example of the fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms were sent to Gaza. How can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you say? Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.
Starting point is 00:08:58 So nobody's gonna bat $1,000. Heh! Nobody's gonna bat $1,000? You made up a $50 million conspiracy of sending condoms to Gaza. You're not grounding out to third. You're puking into the umpire's mouth. And just for the record, of course the United States didn't send $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. We sent $5 million of vibrating sex swings to North Korea, and I believe it stopped nuclear war.
Starting point is 00:09:26 But don't quote me on that. I'm not gonna bat a thousand. So, to summarize, he's not transparent. He has tons of conflict. He believes any lie he hears, and he spreads false rumors that go global. Honestly, I'd be pretty mad at him right now if he didn't have so much gosh darn charisma.
Starting point is 00:09:46 So, you know, there's crazy things, like just a question examination of social security, and we've got people in there that are 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone that's 150? I don't, okay. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're messing out. Um, so... Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 00:10:09 He's old! He's old! He's old! Tough crowd! Tough crowd! Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Anyone here from Washington, D.C.? Anyone? Are you all from Washington, D.C.? Ah! Look, if you want to see more of that kind of comedy, then don't worry, because there's a new special
Starting point is 00:10:25 coming out that's just for you. Live from the Oval Office, it's the Musk C. Comedy special that will have you dozing in your chair. It's Elon Musk, Lolligark. Now, do you know anyone on high? Is it 150? I don't. Okay. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out. Oh, snap. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Oh, snap, he's the CEO of comedy. I have detractors? You do, sir. You'll want to neurolink these jokes straight into your brain stem, featuring an opening act by the Balding Brothers. Order now and you'll get even more of Elon's most hilarious bits. Blackmailing with money? Go fuck yourself.
Starting point is 00:11:11 The one thing he's not cutting is the laughs. I am aspirationally, you know, aspirationally funny. So, yeah. Sponsored by Doge. Doge, we use the HIV prevention money to pay for this. Oh, when we come back, we find out about the man who's gonna get us into war. Don't go away.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Whoo! We'll be back in a minute. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. for buying a foreign country or slapping tariffs on imported salami, the person who has to translate that into policy is his Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But how did Rubio get such an exciting job? Let's find out in a brand new Daily Show-ography. Egypt's Foreign Minister Bader Abdel-Adhi arrived at the State Department for talks yesterday
Starting point is 00:12:20 with Secretary Rubio. Mr. Secretary... Yep, that's me. Bet you're wondering how a fun-sized Florida boy went from this... A con artist is about to take over the Republican party and the conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it. ...to this...
Starting point is 00:12:35 Mr. President, I think Miami-Dade County likes you a lot. I think they love you a lot. I wasn't always hanging out with all the cool kids at Donald Trump's lunch table. But sometimes when you're in the right place at the right time with the right complete lack of moral spine or integrity, magic can happen. This is the daily showography of me, Marco Rubio. Pick me in pink.
Starting point is 00:12:59 I wasn't always the it girl of DC. I'm actually from Miami near Little Havana, or as I like to call it, just normal size Havana. Graduating high school with a 2.1 GPA, I had the body of a Chippendales dancer and the brain of a Chippendales dancer. Fortunately, I got into a really good college that no one has ever heard of on a football scholarship. Some people say I'm kind of a jock. Well, they don't say it, but they're thinking it. After that college went bankrupt,
Starting point is 00:13:28 I kind of bounced around for a while. Two more schools, some epic partying, a bullshit arrest for underage drinking. I still dreamed of joining the NFL, but settled for marrying an NFL cheerleader. Being a cheerleader's husband prepared me for a lifetime of holding down jobs I'm not qualified for. After that came law school and local politics.
Starting point is 00:13:49 When the Cuban-American community heard how my parents had fled Castro, they embraced me wholeheartedly. I will always be the son of exiles. And when they heard I was lying about that, it was too late. I wish I would have known the date. I would have gotten it right. I would have said they came before Castro. Uh, if you want a representative who can remember dates from history, you're going to have to find someone with a better than C average.
Starting point is 00:14:10 I got a C. That's on you. Soon, I became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Or as my future boss would say, the first Mexican. He's like, so funny. Next came yet another step up the social ladder. When Marco Rubio is sworn in today, he'll become the second youngest U.S. Senator currently
Starting point is 00:14:30 serving at age 39. People are comparing him to a young Barack Obama, as a matter of fact. So annoying. Who is? I was in with the in crowd. Everybody loves me. Soon, the other kids tapped me to give the response to old man Obama's State of the Union address. Wow. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Everything started off great, but then things started to get dry. America continues to be indispensable to the global liberty. And drier. In the short time that I've been here in Washington, And drier. Then tragedy struck. This is like the wrong president. I tried to move slowly so that no one would notice, but somehow everyone noticed.
Starting point is 00:15:12 And that's what I call high quality tools. With one sip, I went from sigma to beta. Riz depleted. I had to do something to get my mojo back, no matter how desperate. I announce my candidacy for president of the United States. Right away, the bitches got bitchy. Like when I showed up for the campaign in the cutest new boots and they called them man heels and high-heeled booties. You see how picky I am about my shoes? They only go on my feet.
Starting point is 00:15:40 It's called style and glaring insecurity. Ever heard of it? And then the meanest girl of them all came out of nowhere. And he's like this. And we were, huh, huh, I need water. Help me. I need water. Help. And he's like, this is on live television.
Starting point is 00:15:59 This total joke artist, he was like pouring water. He was sweating. I've never seen anything like it. I thought he just got out of a swimming pool with his suit on. Oh, yeah? Well, just like a cat, when I get wet, I get mad. And also kind of like mildewy. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:15 The point is, this kitty likes to scratch. Donald is not going to make America great. He's going to make America orange. Mike F-ing drop. As long as he didn't come up with a nickname for me, I had this battle won. I call him Little Marco. L-I-D-D, L-E-L-I-D-O.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Don't worry about it, Little Marco. Little mouth on him, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Okay, that's hurtful. It was time to go burn book nuclear. And you know what they say about men with small hands? Come back from that, Hoover. You referred to my hands. If they're small, something else must be small.
Starting point is 00:16:49 I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee you. Oh. I was outplayed. I went from superstar to a short, sweaty, high-heeled loser. Those were, uh, those heels were really up there. You won't see me wearing them. But I wasn't ready to... It's Rubio! We get it. I wearing them. But I wasn't ready. It's Rubio! We get it. I was down, but I wasn't out. Well, I was out of the presidential race. You know what I mean. Shut up. There was only one thing left to do. Makeover!
Starting point is 00:17:17 Something many thought would never happen. Marco Rubio supporting Trump. Two met on Capitol Hill yesterday. Has of course endorsed Trump. Marco Rubio and first daughter Ivanka Trump. He has inspired a movement. And together, we will not just make America great again. It was pathetic, it was embarrassing, it was so cringe. That it has ever been.
Starting point is 00:17:37 But most importantly, it worked. Marco's a good guy, a really nice guy, and I like him. Yes, I finally made it into the inner circle. I was one of the cool kids. In the end, I realized it's not about being the richest or the tallest or the most popular. It's what's inside that counts. And inside, I have nothing. No spine, no principles, not even a shred of dignity.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Because all that really matters is that when you get pushed over, you fall in line. XOXO, little Marco. When we come back, Colby Domingo will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me.
Starting point is 00:18:26 I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me.
Starting point is 00:18:42 I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. I'm not sure if you're gonna be able to hear me. -♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, 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, 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, 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's a film about the power of art. And when you pour it into a human being, what blossoms? You know what I mean? That's what it's about. It's gorgeous. I wish you could just bottle, like, the joy and the hope that's in this film and just pass it out to everybody here right now. You didn't get his gifts. Oh, that's great. That's great.
Starting point is 00:19:37 You're gonna get one, and you're gonna get one, and you're gonna get one. Exactly. There's a little bit of joy underneath all your seats. It is a beautiful story, the transformative power of art. Did you have a moment for you as somebody who's been in the arts, on stage, in front of the camera? What do you think of when you think back on that?
Starting point is 00:19:58 You know, listen, I was a very shy kid and just a nerd, and I just felt like, you know, unpopular. And honestly, the moment I took a theater class, and it sounds so silly in a way, but I took a very shy kid and like just a nerd and I just felt like, you know, unpopular. And honestly, the moment I took a theater class, and it sounds so like silly in a way, but I took a theater class and I felt like I came alive because I, you know, I started to put myself in someone else's shoes and become other characters. And I really felt like I had a voice.
Starting point is 00:20:16 And literally I think my voice dropped into a deeper place. And usually even when I teach acting, every so often I would teach acting, I teach people more than anything to have a voice. I think that's the most important thing that you get out of learning theater in every single way. So that's the gift that I was given, and that's what I like to share with other people.
Starting point is 00:20:34 And that's why this film is very important to me, because I feel like it's just about finding your voice, finding that you have feelings, you can name them, and you can actually place them. And actually it does some really good work in our film. It's based on our Rehabilitation of the Arts program at Sing Sing Prison, where these inmates were doing theater. And they really gained some skills that they didn't know
Starting point is 00:20:54 that they even needed, and so much so that it just transformed their lives. Yeah. And a lot of the... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE A lot... Many of the actors in the film were a part of this program. We're formerly incarcerated. 90% of our cast are formerly incarcerated men.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Is that right? 90% of them. Whoo! It's... It's remarkable. What is it like? What is it like collaborating with folks who are formerly incarcerated compared to Hollywood nepo babies?
Starting point is 00:21:25 Yeah. Like, were you just relieved to be like, oh, there's no nepo babies on the call sheet today? Thank God. Thank God, finally. But you know what's kind of cool is that these guys had the lived experience of going through this, but also they were trained while they were on the inside. So I was working with actors.
Starting point is 00:21:41 People who have training and have respect for Shakespeare, and, you know, we were just doing the work together. So we sat at the table, and we just collaborated in a very gentle way. Now, these guys, a lot of guys were in prison maybe 20 years, 25 years. But I love, it's a little subversive, because when you see the film, you don't know really.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Well, now you know, because I told you. But you don't know really still, because it feels like a documentary in some way. But then you realize that people are playing versions of themselves when they were inside. It's really incredible. When you're even working with, like, one of your close friends who you're sort of paired with within the film, Clarence,
Starting point is 00:22:14 you have scenes where you're actually working about going over lines and what have you, which in some ways is almost meta as to the things that you were doing off-camera. All of it is so meta because a lot of these guys actually were we filmed in two decommissioned prisons in upstate New York. And a lot of guys passed through those prisons. Downstate is one of those prisons that everyone sort of lands at,
Starting point is 00:22:31 and then they're spread out throughout New York. But a lot of guys were like Clarence Macklin Jr., literally he said he was in, we were filming one scene, and he knew, he said, oh no, there was a cell that I was in before. So it had that meta, but also had a meta quality that my best friend Sean San Jose is actually my best friend is that exactly I've known him for 30 years he's another professional actor that I know from San Francisco so there is the meta of there's that's why I think it feels like a documentary because there's something really real
Starting point is 00:23:00 happening yeah and I feel like you know know, there's no real... The only agenda is looking into a person's humanity and filling it with art and hope. That's the agenda of the film. Yeah. You know what I found really remarkable? Yeah. Yeah. It's such a lovely film. It feels so...
Starting point is 00:23:21 The right word, it feels insular in that, like, I've seen many films that take place inside a prison that have so many external plots that act on these characters. And I think this movie lives so much within the characters. And there's a world that exists outside of it and consequences that exist within the prison itself, but it really sits with people kind of dealing
Starting point is 00:23:39 with their own emotions and how they connect. Which is so rare, because usually, any time you see a prison drama or something, it's all these tropes that you usually see. It's violence. It's a horror story. Now, I'm not going to say it's not a horror story, but inside, there are other people in there,
Starting point is 00:23:52 people who are trying to advocate for others, who are in the law library trying to advocate for good food or make sure their fellow inmate is ready for their parole board hearing or starting theater programs or gardening or taking care of animals and things like that, and how it's having a profound effect on them. So much so, and I love to give this out because a lot of people don't know,
Starting point is 00:24:11 like I didn't know about this until I started going on this journey, that there is a 3% recidivism rate amongst members who go through this program compared to 60% nationwide. So, it's something that works. Is that right? That's the truth, yeah. You give people a little bit of hope
Starting point is 00:24:29 and a connection to one another. Yeah, yeah, but also, I'd like to say, the film is actually really funny, too, which no one would ever believe. When you think, oh, it's about, like, inmates, you're like, it's actually really funny. These guys are doing some... First of all, we have a whole crazy play musical
Starting point is 00:24:42 that we're doing in it. Yeah. And that's based on... There's some little clips at the end. It's based on a real, it's called Breaking the Mummy's Code. You have everything in there from mummies and Freddy Krueger and what, so you got these grown men putting on a play and watching them in their antics and rolling around on the floor and being silly. But also it brings out these really warm feelings.
Starting point is 00:25:00 I feel like I know, anyone that knows who's watched it, they're very surprised because they go in thinking it's gonna be one thing. And they walk out feeling filled with so much hope and love for their fellow man. And it's a one. I think that's what we need right now. We need more warm feelings, right? Right? We need those warm feelings.
Starting point is 00:25:16 We do. So, you're going to win an Oscar for this. Do you have your speech written? No. No? No. What are you going to do? Do you have your speech written? No. No? No. What are you gonna do? You gonna prep one? No, you can't. You can't. I just feel like it's a... You're gonna kill it.
Starting point is 00:25:29 You're gonna kill it, though. I just think it's in, like, I don't know. It's something I'm a little superstitious about that. Yeah. Any award that I've ever won, a lot of times I'm working and I'm not able to be at an award show, which I always feel like, well, maybe that's good because maybe I don't know I'm gonna react like a weirdo or something.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Or I'm at the awards show and literally my publicist, she literally told me, she said, you didn't expect to win, did you? I said, I don't even think about winning. I just sit and I'm happy to be there. I'm just with a big smile on my face, hugging and kissing on people. And then I'm like, oh wow,
Starting point is 00:26:01 I gotta get to the stage and say something. But then I try to trust that I'll be in the moment, and I'll try to say something loving. I'll try to say something appealing to the moment. And that's all I can do. But I'm not going to be standing there like, oh, I want to, first thing, thank God. And I'll thank God on my own.
Starting point is 00:26:18 But I feel like, you know what I mean? That's personal. I don't judge people who do that. But I'm just saying that like like... -"Wow." -"Wow." He's like, "'Wow, things are really dark here.'" No, no. No, I think it's important, but that's private for me. For me, I think I like to have those private conversations,
Starting point is 00:26:34 and I'll say something to appeal to the moment. But I think, like, I'll thank you afterwards. -"Really?" -"Yes." -"Okay. I appreciate that. It would mean more on stage. I will say, another fun thing, though. I mean, just structurally, it'd be nice for my family to see it as well. Okay. Note taken.
Starting point is 00:26:57 Note taken? Good. You're a co-chair of the upcoming Met Gala? Yes. So that's... I mean, that's a lot. That's a lot. I mean, does that add pressure? Like, now, can you even go to the store anymore without thinking about, like, you need to dress? What I look like?
Starting point is 00:27:13 No. Yeah, I do have to... I actually, because I'm such a... I thought for a long time nobody would recognize this face. But now they recognize it everywhere. And so I have to dress for it as well, because also because I've sort of... Me and my stylist have been sort of slamming the game when it comes to this.
Starting point is 00:27:28 I mean, it feels, it's fun to dress. And I want to get more guys to dress. You said you wore that blue suit for me. I did. I 100% did because people are like, oh, Coleman Domingo's coming out. He's going to look f**king fantastic. Get that blue suit out.
Starting point is 00:27:44 They're like, get the blue suit. No, get the extra blue suit out." -"Good, good." -"Yeah, this is me pushing boundaries here." -"It's great, man. But I also think that that's what it's all about. And I love the idea that this Met Gala is gonna be centered on tailoring towards the black dandy, which is actually so honoring black men's style throughout history.
Starting point is 00:28:02 And literally, I just had a meeting at the Costume Institute and I was blown away in an extraordinary way because it's really looking at tailoring. There's so much more to it than one would even imagine. But it's historical. It's also how people define themselves and redefine themselves.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And then how they show up in the world. And I feel like I know that I know as a black man in the world, I know that the way they show up in the world. And I feel like I know that, I know as a black man in the world, I know that the way I show up, I mean, look at all these, the basketballers and stuff like that, everybody's stunting now when they come out because they're telling a story and they're showing how they define themselves and redefine themselves,
Starting point is 00:28:38 regardless of the way the world may perceive them. They're like, no, and you do that with style. So what I'm telling you all is get a good sense of style. Thank you. Work on it. I'm gonna work on my style. Yeah. And thank you for the film. It truly is a wonderful piece of art.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Thank you. And if you have even just, like, just a little shout-out from that stage, just even just, like, a quick thank you, Jordan'll go about how about a Cal Burnett one of these one of these Cal Burnett I'll do that I'll take it 100% take it sing sing is available to watch Let me just ask you, and maybe your last answer is a preview of, I think, what you could say here, but I want to hear why, but do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation
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