The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Epstein Emails Implicating Trump Surface as Ghislaine Gets VIP Treatment in Prison | Jay Jurden

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Josh Johnson dives into newly released bombshell emails from Jeffrey Epstein that might implicate Trump, considering he referred to the president as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” Plus, on the he...els of whistleblower revelations that Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison accommodations include puppies and TV time, Ronny Chieng explains why this is all perfectly normal. Nick Offerman holds a microscope to Trump’s “I love farmers” act to expose the policies, corporations, and advancements in processed food that have Americans yearning to eat like Europeans and small farmers struggling to stay afloat. Writer, actor, and comedian Jay Jurden sits down with Josh to discuss his debut stand-up special, “Yes Ma’am” on Hulu. He shares why his Southern charm prevents him from feeling like a real New Yorker, his experience studying theater at a football school, how studying the dramatic arts helps him stay present on stage, and his favorite jokes that both he and Wanda Sykes have ever written. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:32 From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only sorts for new. This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Josh Johnson. We've got so much to talk about tonight. We read some emails that should have been a meeting. An emotional support dog is about to quit on the job.
Starting point is 00:02:08 And Nick Offerman has a beef with how we make beef. So let's get into the headlines. Donald Trump's been having a pretty good time. The shutdown ended. He didn't have to concede anything. And he didn't even have to give poor people health care. favorite kind of deal. Everything's coming up, Trump.
Starting point is 00:02:30 Nothing can stop the Trump train now. Breaking news. Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Donald Trump by name several times in private emails. Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump train is experiencing a slight delay. There is an Epstein file on the tracks.
Starting point is 00:02:53 We should be moving as soon as we get that cleared. But fine, Epstein mentioned Trump in an email. That doesn't mean he did anything wrong. Maybe the email was about how Trump never comes to his sex parties. Rude. I say this because I'm an American, living in America. And no matter what party you're in or who you voted for, it would be better for all of us.
Starting point is 00:03:24 As a general matter, if we do not have to be. have a sexual predator as president because it would make our country look so bad. You know, how embarrassing would that be if we, America, went from being the shining city on a hill to not being allowed within a thousand feet of the hill. So let's just stay calm and see what the email said before we jump to conclusions. These are emails from Jeffrey Epstein to Galane Maxwell. This is one from April 2nd, 2011. And in this email, Jeffrey Epstein writes to Galane Maxwell and says,
Starting point is 00:04:03 quote, I want you to realize that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump. Okay. That doesn't sound good at all. But, you know, that dog hasn't barked could mean a lot of things. Maybe Trump's feet hurt, all right? So that's all the news in terms of bombshells. emails. It's not a lot. It's not like there's an email with a journalist where he's strategizing how to blackmail Trump. Michael Wolf says, quote, I hear that CNN is planning to ask Trump
Starting point is 00:04:34 tonight about his relationship with you. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or if it really looks like he could win, you could save him generating a debt. I like that Epstein was like, yeah, that seems like a lot of work. I'm probably just going to kill myself. And did he really have leverage anyway? All I've seen so far is Epstein and Maxwell saying Trump is a dog that hasn't barked.
Starting point is 00:05:16 We don't know what he didn't bark about. Maybe the rest of that email clears him. I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is true. Trump. Unnamed victims spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. According to the released emails, Maxwell responds, I have been thinking about that. Oh shit. I think the Trump train crashed. Because this isn't just not a good look. It's one of the worst looks I've ever seen. Like I'm talking Adrian Brody in a rasta wig bad. Also, why was Jeffrey Epstein writing about?
Starting point is 00:05:54 his crimes in emails. That's so dumb. He's firing off his blackberry to Galane like, hey girl falling about the sex crimes. Hope Trump doesn't snitch about the sex crimes. Hit me up if you want sex crimes this weekend. Say what you want about Donald Trump, but he knows better than to put
Starting point is 00:06:12 incriminating shit in emails. He does it in person. Or on the phone, or reportedly inside a sketch of a naked lady. But never email. Trump has to be pretty unhappy. That new evidence is coming out because he's worked so hard to prevent that. Remember, Galane Maxwell got moved into a country club prison after she gave an interview saying this.
Starting point is 00:06:33 I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects. Well, no, no, that's something. And she said it British, so you've got to believe her. I don't know what she's got on him, but it's. must be bad because she didn't even exonerate him. She didn't say Trump is innocent. All she said was
Starting point is 00:07:00 I didn't see him do anything. I also didn't see him do anything. What do I get? That's all she said and now she's being treated like royalty. A whistleblower alleges that Elaine Maxwell is getting special treatment in prison. Maxwell's meals have been customized. They are delivered directly to her cell.
Starting point is 00:07:20 She is personally escorted to the exercise area after hours and gets to enjoy recreation time in staff-only areas. When she wants private meetings, the warden personally arranges them, providing an assortment of snacks and refreshments for her guests. I mean, she gets to hang out in the staff areas. Can you imagine being a prison guard who can't watch TV in the break room because Galane taking a nap on the couch? But this is truly insane. There is not another convicted
Starting point is 00:07:47 child sex trafficker in the world who would get this kind of treatment in prison. There's actually no way within the confines of prison that her life could get any better. Add to that one more perk for the convicted sex offender, puppy time. According to the whistleblower, an inmate who trains puppies to become service dogs was instructed to provide one to Maxwell for our time so she could play with the puppy. Do not give that dog to Galane. That's not what they meant when they said take the dog to the groomer. So look, I don't know what Galane knows about whatever Donald Trump did. All I know is that every detail that comes out makes him look more and more suspicious.
Starting point is 00:08:38 And if you thought this couldn't look any worse, wait till you see the birthday card that Trump sent that dog. For more on the fallout of these new emails, let's go live to Galane Maxwell's prison with our own Ronnie Chang. Ronnie, what's the latest? Well, Josh, I've been talking to White House officials, and they say this is absurd. Galeen Maxwell is not being treated differently
Starting point is 00:09:12 from any other federal. prisoner. Wait, where are you? Are you in Trump's new ballroom? I thought you're supposed to be reporting from her prison. Yeah, this is, this is a prison. This is, this is Galais Maxwell's cell. That whole room is just for her? Yes, but it's not that nice, okay? The bed is king size, but the pillow is only queen size. It's like, the aesthetics are all off. Believe me, this woman is doing hot time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on. Here, can I can't want to? Wait, is this shrimp? Would you like shrimp?
Starting point is 00:09:47 No, I'm allergic to... What a hell haul. Ronnie, Ronnie, come on. Most prisoners don't get past apps in their cell. I wouldn't call shrimp puffs an app, okay? It's an hors d'oeuvre at best. Let's tone down the rhetoric. The point is that Trump is clearly trying to hide something here.
Starting point is 00:10:10 I mean, just look at all those emails. Don't take my word for it, okay? Just ask Delane when she gets back. What do you mean back? Where is she? Oh, I don't know. I think this is one of her work-from-home days. She gets work from home for prison? Yeah, but don't twist this into sounding like special treatment, okay?
Starting point is 00:10:28 It's two days off, three days in. Talk about human rights violation. Wait, is that music? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the concert's about to start. Don't tell me they are doing a private. concert for Galang. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:10:46 It's not private. It's for her and her puppy, all right? Ronnie Chang, everybody. When we come back, Nick Offerman will give us his opinion, so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions.
Starting point is 00:11:27 So, here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend, Nick Offerman. Hello, I am that guy from that show, Nick Offerman. And today, I am here to talk to you about farmers. Now, farmers aren't just guys mowing down their cornfield to build a baseball field for ghosts. They are also a vital part of America's economy and national identity. Now, luckily, they have a staunch ally. We have the greatest farmers in the world. I cherish our farmers.
Starting point is 00:12:06 I'm a big farmer person. I love the farmers. I think they're great. I love the farmers. They're great. They're the greatest. The farmers love Trump. And I love the farmers.
Starting point is 00:12:14 I love cows. Come on. Come on. Love is love. And I've seen that guy dance. I bet he knows his way around and utter. And look, I happen to share the non-sexual part of his affection for our farmers. I've been lucky enough to work on the small farms of people like English farmer James Rebanks and Kentucky's Mary and Wendell Berry.
Starting point is 00:12:51 They let a Hollywood muck-dy-muck like me help with herding the cattle, scrubbing the animals, and of course, testing the semen. They assured me that's the most coveted job on the farm. So please consider my hands sticky with experience. Well. Unfortunately, small farms like those have been tragically disappearing for decades. According to census data, there are already 10% fewer farms than there were just five years ago. We've lost half the cattle ranchers in the United States since 1980. About 90% of the hog farmers. In the last two decades, more than 100,000 small farms had disappeared across America's landscape. America cannot afford to lose this many farms.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Without them, we'll have nothing to point at and shout, cow, on road trips. But the real reason these small farms are going away is in America, we don't farm to feed people, because we are not growing food. What we're growing is ingredients. The number of farms and what they produce for human, consumption have been on a steady decline over the past few decades in the U.S. Instead, what's being grown is corn and soybeans used for livestock feed in ethanol or is cheap sugars, starches, and oils in highly processed foods.
Starting point is 00:14:24 In other words, we're not growing corn and beans to eat. They're being grown to turn them into whatever the f***a Dorito is. I believe that is short for Dirt Burrito. And this is something America is something America's farmers have known for decades. Our food system is no longer about food. It's now about corporate interests and everything is engineered to make more profit than nutrition. Now don't get me wrong. I enjoy junk food. I'll eat a twinkie. I mean, they're like butt plugs, fun in moderation, and you can stick them up your butt. Or so I've read. But as the number
Starting point is 00:15:11 of small farms shrinks. The diversity of our food supply shrinks with it. And you might think, well, that can't be true. Look at all the choices I have at the grocery store. Well, look closer. Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef. Together control roughly 85% of all beef production in America. This bacon is a good example. You know, these look like three different choices of bacon. They're all actually the same company. You capitalist pigs have ruined. are normal pigs. How dare you trick me with bacon? Like I'm some dog you're training to sit.
Starting point is 00:15:58 Now, in fairness, I will present my paw for meat snacks. Nevertheless, giant food conglomerates have turned America's farms what we call factory farms, which is an oxymoron like bittersweet, veggie burger, or Canadian football. Well, we're all friends. Now, just look at some of the wonderful benefits of our current industrial food system. Ultra-processed foods make up 73% of the U.S. food supply. This actually has very real health impacts, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease.
Starting point is 00:16:42 Ultra-processed foods may be linked to anxiety and depression and sleep problems. In 2015, the WHO classified ultra-processed meat as carcinogenic. Jesus, I'm trying to make a BLT here, not become Spider-Man. Now, you don't need me to tell you that our food system is a nightmare. We all understand in our guts that the quality of food is better. in other countries. It's the one time even Fox News will praise Europe. When you go to Europe, the food is delicious. It's so fresh, and you don't gain weight if you eat a big bowl of pasta. We can eat pizza. We don't gain any weight. You feel fresh. You feel
Starting point is 00:17:21 clean. You come back here. You start eating pasta and you gain weight immediately again. So there's something wrong with our foods. Yes, why is it that the food tastes better in Europe? It's not just because you're starving after waiting in line for 12 hours to see a painting of a modestly breasted woman not smiling. It's not. It's because they prioritize organic food made on smaller farms. The average farm size in Europe is 39 acres.
Starting point is 00:17:54 In America, it's 500 acres. European farms are like their bathing suits, much smaller. So you can see every detail of their meat and veg. And the good news is, we can be more like Europe. But unfortunately right now, our policies seem to be making it even harder on all our farmers. American soybean farmers have been hit hard by Trump's trade war.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Cattle ranchers are furious over President Trump's plans to bring down beef prices by bringing in more from other countries. You're telling me the president is disappointing beef boys and soy boys? That's practically all the boys. So, Mr. President, please live up to your pro-farmer rhetoric. Help us refocus America's agriculture on things that Mother Nature would recognize and not the producers of high fructose corn syrup. We can change our approach to food to make it more like actual food. We can change our approach to farming to reflect respect for farmers and for the animals
Starting point is 00:19:01 we consume. We can have a system. Yes. We can't have a system that lives up to the words of America's greatest agrarian mind. I love cows. I couldn't agree more, but hey, that's just my opinion. Nick Offerman, everyone, be sure to check out Nick in the new Netflix series, Death by Lightning. Also, Mitch Bookler, Woodchucks is out now.
Starting point is 00:19:35 When we come back, Jay Jones will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is a writer, actor, and comedian whose debut special for Hulu is called Yes, Ma'am. Please welcome, Jay Jordan. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for having me.
Starting point is 00:20:27 Yeah, absolutely. This is so cool because I actually know you. Yes. Like I really know you. We know each other very well. We know each other so well that every now and then you get this and I get this. People say, hey, Jay, great job on the Daily Show. And I go, okay, what segment?
Starting point is 00:20:44 They go, at the desk. I go, oh, Josh. It's funny because, okay, so we got passed at the cellar around the same time. And I remember I was at the cellar waiting to go up and I was just like eating or something. And this person came up and they were like, dude, you the other day were so, were so funny. You were so, and like, your jokes were like, boom, boom, boom.
Starting point is 00:21:05 It was like, rapid fire was crazy. And in my head, I was like, I know they're not talking about me. Like, that's not even what I do. And then they told me one of your jokes. I was like, oh, this is Jay. Yeah, y'all was like, I'm not married to a man. No, thank you so much for coming. I'm so excited about your special and everything.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Thank you, that means a lot. Yeah, so you grew up in Mississippi. Yeah, and you grew up in Louisiana. Yes, yes. And so we're both. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:34 Look at them. We got teeth. Look at that. They don't think we do. So we've both been here now for a long time. Do you feel like a New Yorker? So I've been in New York officially 10 years, but I will never say I'm a New Yorker because I still speak to everybody on the street. I'm always like, how you doing?
Starting point is 00:21:53 Hey, yeah, hey, yeah, baby. I'm still very southern. When I see an old lady, sometimes on the train, you know this feeling. You see an older woman get on the train. You instantly get up because you're a southern gentleman. And what you just said to her as New Yorker, sit your old ass down. Yeah. So I don't know how to get rid of that.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Yeah, no, absolutely. There's sometimes there was one time where, to your point, right? And I was no new, I was like a month. I only lived here. Yeah, they still smelled the Creole on you. Yeah, 100%. Because then I saw this guy on the train and it was like, it was one of like those six train stops where the gap is like
Starting point is 00:22:29 slightly higher on the train than it is on the platform. And I saw a guy basically back up his wheelchair when the door's open and tried to back in and he couldn't quite get it. And so I walked up and went ahead and grabbed the back of it. And I was like, hey, do you need some help? And then I started pulling him in.
Starting point is 00:22:48 And this dude, I pull him the rest of the way in. And he goes, yo, get up off my chair, man. And it stands up. And I was like, my best. I didn't know I was ruining something. He said, you're messing up my hustle, man. That's the most intimate thing
Starting point is 00:23:07 you can do. It's like help someone back up in a wheelchair. Now, I'm still Southern. The special is about being Southern. I think it's what makes me funny. I think sometimes a juxtaposition of being southern and sweet and slow in a fast-paced city. It creates some comedy. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Not just some. A lot. Yeah. And so you have a BFF. and an MFA. You can say I'm in debt. You don't have to be... I got a B-A, BFA, and the MFA, I was in school forever.
Starting point is 00:23:42 And you went to school at Old Miss and Alabama. Yeah, because I love being scared. And there are no as, like, NCAA schools. Yeah. Is there a theater program as strong as they're, like, football? Here's the thing. No. But the theater programs were very strong.
Starting point is 00:24:03 But whenever I was at both of those big SEC schools, there were times when we couldn't rehearse because they were like, hey, these kids gonna be drunk and hung over. We cannot make them rehearse with swords. We can't be doing any rapier sword fights. These kids went to the game. So every now and then football would supersede theater. But the football culture, especially Alabama,
Starting point is 00:24:24 the culture of winning, excellence, and kind of excelling and executing properly. That was in the BFA, the MFA program at Alabama. At Ole Miss, it was so fun because you have like these party kids who really want to go to college and have the college experience. Next day, they'd be like, and now a scene from streetcar named Desire. Yeah. And so you, did you see much of that crossover?
Starting point is 00:24:46 Like, is that how you, because to me, I also studied theater and I didn't, I didn't go as far as you. Like, I didn't, I stopped. We get it. You're straight. God. I'm just trying to give a copy. But I know what you mean. I know what you mean.
Starting point is 00:25:08 No, it's just I think that when you have all these sort of like intersections happening at one time, it just gives you a lot of perspective on what people are like. And I think I see a lot of that in your stand-up. I think I see a lot of the experiences that you've had. And I see you bring more of your personality to every situation than just, sort of like taking life for face value and stuff. I was lucky. I had to do that not only for myself, but also for my students.
Starting point is 00:25:35 So when I got my MFA, I was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Alabama. So I had to introduce these 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds to theater. And I had to make it interesting enough that they would sit through a 10 a.m. class when they knew we had a big SEC game the next day. They were ready to start party.
Starting point is 00:25:53 And I had to be like, no, no, wait, wait, wait. Y'all heard about Ipsen? Y'all know about a doll's house? This is crazy. Nora and Torvald, they're getting into it. And so in the time that you've been doing... Nerd. That was one realism nerd.
Starting point is 00:26:10 There was like, Dawes House. I wasn't going to say anything. And then you called it. So in the time that both of us have been doing stand-up, I feel like the landscape has changed for how to get your jokes out or how you present to people and everything. And there's a lot of this.
Starting point is 00:26:28 like old school approach that everything happens in the club everyone that wants to discover good comedy should like buy a ticket, go to a comedy show live in person and everything but we see so many millions of people digesting comedy through their phone, their laptop, the TV
Starting point is 00:26:44 whatever and I guess how are you feeling about the state of that change? I think that change is this kind of really cool new pattern of people will discover you on the phone and then come to the club or people see you in the club and they go back and follow you on the phone.
Starting point is 00:27:01 I think it's a cycle that actually helps itself. The clips are nothing but like 15 to 30 second commercials for us as comedians as we like peddle our wares. I would love whenever people come to me after a show and they go, hey, I don't usually go to comedy clubs. They go, I don't like comedy. I don't like stand-up, but I liked your clip. So I started going to the club and I got to see all these other comics whose work I also
Starting point is 00:27:23 enjoy. Because at the end of the day, what I want is people to enjoy, not just me, but also enjoy it. also enjoy other comedians who I think are very funny. I want people to go out and be in community. It's live theater, essentially. It's a live performance, and I think it's a really cool thing when people go, okay, this is, I'm going to look at this thing on this phone.
Starting point is 00:27:42 We're all locked in the house. I'm going to look at this thing on the phone, and it's going to get me out of the house and go make me be in community with other people. So I'm happy. Have you, have you, have you found yourself in any way attached to those outcomes though like I feel like so many comics when when you see their set you you see them thinking about the clip
Starting point is 00:28:10 more than the people that are from them and I feel like every time I watch you I feel like you're really present and everything and so I'm I because I know you and because I I watch a lot of comics I don't usually pay much attention to like social media footprint as much as like what they're doing on stage and And so that's why I say that, because I feel like every time I've seen you, you're like, you're here with us, you know? Well, I want to be honest, and I think one thing that my theater background has taught me is that people love stand-up and people love crowdwork and people love being in and of the moment because theater and comedy, they're ephemeral. They're fleeting. It happens this way with this audience, with this host, with me at this moment, with this camera.
Starting point is 00:28:49 It all happens just once. And when you digitize it, when you put it up, it's still a little different because it's not in and of the moment. I think I try to stay in the moment I also love my jokes so much I love sharing them I used to be so I used to be so like precious with the material you know everyone was like this before the pandemic they go no it's mine you can't
Starting point is 00:29:07 I'm saving this joke about penises no yeah by the way speaking of penis Nick Offerman no let me get let me get it out Nick Offerman likes Twinks that's gonna be on gay Twitter now
Starting point is 00:29:24 I want everyone to know But, like, we used to, like, protect and hoard our stuff. Now I feel so happy when people go, oh, I love this joke. Oh, I love this bit. And because we kind of produce a lot of material now and because we justate and because the world is crazy enough, we keep having more stuff to make jokes about. I feel happy sharing my stuff. I'm very happy that people see a clip and then they come see me, but I'm even happier if
Starting point is 00:29:53 they watch the special. So, you've already referenced it, but I know that sometimes comics are so precious about everything that goes in the special, everything that gets cut and everything. Was there anything, was there any, like, story or, like, any idea that didn't make it in that now that it's out, you wish you would have put in? Okay, so one of my favorite jokes I didn't put in the special simply because I, like, true, it just, like, a scale. my mind because I was working with so many other things. I have this wonderful joke where I kind of talk about my core personality where I say I'm a black queer man, also known as a gospel choir director. And that didn't, right?
Starting point is 00:30:36 Let the church say, mm-hmm. That didn't make it to the... So now I'm happy when I get to do it live for people. But that's a joke. I go, oh, okay, I forgot that one. But even right now, I filmed the special in April, and so now I have a new hour that I'm doing that's completely different from the special because I want people to feel like they get their money's worth, I don't, you know, I want people to go, oh my gosh, Jay is really spoiling
Starting point is 00:30:58 us. Because at the end of the day, as a comedian, I feel this is the industry of service and patronage. Like, I want to be funny enough that I justify the babysitting costs, the Uber cost, the ticket, the two drinks, the meal, the merch, the picture. Like, that's what I want to do as a comedian. So whenever I go, oh, I didn't get to do that joke, my creative kind of like North Stars, I'll write another one. So, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm with you. Yeah, I know you.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Oh, my God. You make more stuff than all of us. That's very God. No, but what I also love about the special is that knowing you from starting and just, it just feels like a really, yeah, I know, I know it's just us. Like, I know y'all, like, don't know that we know. Y'all got to be here. But this is like, one of the reasons I'm so excited for you is that I watched you when we were
Starting point is 00:31:51 all doing, like, mics during the... pandemic, which actually felt like mental illness. Y'all don't even know. We were doing comedy outside every now and then, in the park. If you do comedy in the park, if you don't have a microphone, you are just a man screaming in the park. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:07 100%. That was us. For a little bit. A hundred percent. And so because I remember doing like, they were like, oh, we're going to do a show. And I was like, where? We're all going to die then. And they were like, no,
Starting point is 00:32:21 it's going to be fine. We're going to do it in the park and then I get to the park because I came because I was like, I'm about to lose my mind anyway. Yeah. And then I get to the park and they're like, hey, we actually can't use the PA system because it would be everybody talking to the same mic and the droplets
Starting point is 00:32:37 and so we would all kill each other. And so I was like, what do you want me to do? And they were like, project. They said, use that theater train. They said, Josh, diaphragm. That's what they said. And then at one point we had the little condoms for the mics. The little cup cake prophylactic on the mic.
Starting point is 00:32:54 Y'all don't understand. Y'all think we're joking. Yeah, this is like not a joke at all. Like, they did not work. Like, the idea that this piece of cloth they were going to wrap over the mic and we would be safe. It's like, you mean a mask for the mic
Starting point is 00:33:09 that we're all spitting on? And there were a couple guys who were like, I brought my own mic. I was like, ooh, you nasty. You go on everybody's show. I know. You're a comedy ho. And so then to see you from there, to getting past at the cellar, seeing you at the cellar, seeing you have your special come out, is very, very beautiful.
Starting point is 00:33:33 That means a lot, Josh. Thank you. It's also, I also have to say this, I have, I watched your Tonight Show set. I watch your Comedy Central New Negro set. I, like, we've always been, like, comedy peers, but I also love the work you create and also just navigating the space because, like, right now in comedy. sometimes as a young or comic you get to say something and older comics like you can't do it that way and then you go well why not and they go we've always done it this way and so like to see you kind of forge your own path and to see other comics kind of like break these trends and kind of like spread out their
Starting point is 00:34:10 material however they do it that's inspiring because you go oh there there isn't just a one way to do this and that makes me very happy and look at us now that's crazy no no this is amazing so before you go okay i you kicking me out y'all no no it's i is i kicking out i wish we could talk forever but they you know they they can't stay forever i know and we don't want them to leave one at a time um so i know that this like almost breaks host to comic uh like unspoken rule because it is very difficult to just recite a joke out of nowhere and it's like i've done morning news where they've been like, what, do one of your jokes now?
Starting point is 00:34:55 And you're like, ah, I didn't think that far. But I'm curious because I'm curious about you, what is your favorite joke? Okay. So I have two. I have one that's mine and one that's Wanda Sykes. So the Wanda Sykes joke, Wanda Sykes, the special, I'm gonna be me. She had a joke about how she had to come out as a lesbian. And she had kind of extrapolated.
Starting point is 00:35:15 She said, what would it be like if I had to come out as black? And she came out as black and her mom was like, anything but black lord. Please, give a cancer, Jesus. Anyone. And so that's my, that's my favorite. That's probably my favorite one of my favorite. My favorite joke of mine, and that's just because it's a fun little tip of the hat and the calling card, is that I say, I'm sorry, y'all, I'm not even gay.
Starting point is 00:35:45 I just want to be marketable. I'm not gay. No, I'm not, but I'm also not straight. I'm queer, as in everybody's hot, not gay. gay as in reminding the teacher we have homework so that that's probably my favorite that is my favorite now too jordan everybody thank you so much thank you thank you so much for Thank you. No, absolutely.
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