The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - Tracey Ullman Revels in Lampooning World Leaders on "Tracey Ullman's Show"

Episode Date: August 23, 2019

Tracey Ullman talks about skewering political figures such as Germany's Angela Merkel and the U.K.'s Theresa May on her HBO series "Tracey Ullman's Show." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you. to you. Very nice to meet you. So, it's so exciting to meet you. So exciting to meet you. Oh, I like how you say like there was an old Trevor. It's like, you came back in time. Young Trevor, good to meet you. He's got a lot of energy, isn't it? It's marvelous. It's honestly so great for me to meet you because your show was really popular in South

Africa. I always saw you. Yeah, it was performing characters. It was Tracy Olman something. It's always, it's always your name. Yes, I like that. No mistaking it. And I always loved how you could perform all of these different characters. You're back with a new season season c- the the the the the the the the tracacach. Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch. It, Tracy, Tracy, it, it, it, it, Tracy, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, it, look, it, it, it, it, it, look. It. It, it, it, it, it, look. It. It. It. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, to, th. It, th. It, to, th. th. to, to, th. to, th. to, th. to, th. to, to, th. th. to, th. to, thi. to, th. th. th. th. th. No mistaking it. And I always loved how you could perform all of these different characters. You're back with a new season of your show on HBO. And what I'm still doing it, I'm still doing it. And I. When you look at what politics is now, do you find it harder to go above and beyond what's happening in reality? It's really tricky.

I never used to do this sort of political stuff. I mean, you remember in the 80s, there was like problems like Spitting Image in England with puppets. They had puppets of Reagan and Maggie Thatcher and they tried that show in America. And they couldn't take it, because you were making fun of the president.

They used to have their their their their their their their their their their their their to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have bounce and go, well, well, but they, you couldn't do that then. They tried it in America and it was like, oh no, you can't make fun of the president. Now you're making fun of everybody all the time. You used to be so sweet. Well I first came to this country. But you're loving it though. Yeah, I love being Theresa... Yeah, but I've got some birds to impersonate now. I've got Angela Merkel. And Teresa May, who you saw there, and Brigitte Macron and Nicholas Sturgeon, and you know, there's lots for me to do. And I do the men as well.

Angler Merkel is the one that gets me. Because I mean, like, I when I see Teresa May I go like okay I can see someone doing an impression of that but like what does Angler Merkel even sound like no she does like when I see out there's not like a tick or anything how is she? I don't know it's like sometimes a lot of stuff she just morphed her arms from here just from here just from here just to me just I'm just a to remember years to you you you you you you W. came up behind her and gave her a big hug and she went, ugh! And I thought, you know, can you imagine being the only woman in the room with Berlusconi and Bush and, oh, what a nightmare. Cameron, and so, I imagine that I don't know that she's really like, but I think that she thinks she's very sexy.

And she's sex bomb, six-bomb giving off the mask. And so Berlusconi, when Berlusconi sees me, his hair dye is running, running down his face. So I imagine, I imagine them off duty, but I never, you know, I don't impersonate politicians because I'm incredibly political and I'm this sort of like infuriated liberal and I hate Trump the most and the best. I don't, you know, I see, I empathize, I mean I see, I'm like the poignancy and sadness in people. What a horrible time to be Prime Minister for Theresa May. Yes it is. It's bad. It's like, it's I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I, it's like, it's like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I th I'm I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm I'm I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I th. I th. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like the poignancy and sadness in people. What a horrible time to be Prime Minister for Theresa May. Yes it is.

It's bad. It's like the worst time. Like you've got the Brexit, you've got, you've got to their Brexit, you've got to Brexit, you've got, you've got to the opposite side, you've got to deal with what's happening in Europe. and then left Theresa to clear up this horrid mess. Imagine I going to this, bloody boys. Let me ask you this, how happy are you when, like, so like you're saying, you know, like America was in this place where you couldn't really make fun of these people. And then you got... Then I became an American.

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in politics, in like who are really famous worldwide, like Melania Trump must have been a gift from God. Yeah, that's like a pure gift from God. But I don't play her. I got a beautiful model to play her. See, I know my limitations kid, you know. I'm so sick of being a sex symbol. I thought, you get tired of it. I thought, I'll let someone else do that. And I played the Russian who is behind her because I think that the millennia is a Russian thing put in years ago. She's like West World robot and but now she's like mere space station and she's old and she needs to be dropped into the sea. So what I've put her done in my show, she's

this bot that we keep having to come into the White House and reprogram her because she's running out of steam and she's going wrong. So that's my take on it because, you know, even Trevor's confused. My show used to be a lot simpler when you were that little ad in South Africa, didn't it? I'm loving like all of the takes that you have on these people because for you to impersonate them, what I really enjoy is you create a different world that they exist in. You create a character, like even in that clip that we saw there, it's a Teresa May who's grappling with standing up to Trump whilst at the same time being afraid of standing up to him, trying to find the human in all of them? Yeah, yeah, I mean Theresa May's not my politics, not my sort of thing but she's a vicar's

daughter, you know and she and like she just breaks my heart she looks like a cross between Oscar Wilde and Osferato and did you see her dancing in Africa last week? I mean oh bless her heart! Did you see it? I mean. Oh, bless her heart. But then somebody told her it looked terrible, so she did it again. Is this what they told me to do? Oh, bless her heart. Oh, I'm excited for this new season, specifically because I heard that you have decided to

make the show more topical. So you started making the show and then Trump happened and then you went, no we've got to like we've got to make everything now we've got to add more Brexit we've got to add more Trump we've got to add so you've got to add more. So you're going to add things weekly? What is going to be topic that you're really enjoying about? Well I would shoot extra bits like two days before it went out. Oh nice. Because it changed. The news cycle's like 36 minutes. Now it's crazy. So and that was exciting for me. That's like my own little mini Saturday night live thing.

It's jolly exciting in England. It's jolly exciting for us. Do you like England? You come to England? Yeah. You're exciting for us. I' thi. the royal wedding. I like how you were from, do you come to England? I think you're like, wait a minute, I saw you in England.

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Wow. She's like the way it's sort of wonderful, you know. It shouldn't really remove her mouths, actually. It's awfully, it's awfully like, yeah. I think she's a wonderful, wonderful grandmother and she takes the, she takes the grandchildren and let them do thrown kittens Do you know what I mean? I think she's a lot of fun. I think she, you know. I could literally do this all day.

I could just like shout people at you and then just watch you enjoy it. Before I let you go, I have to know, like, what is your most favorite? There's got to be like the one character that you have always loved doing the one person you've you just go to whenever you're feeling sad. I used to be a woman called Ruby Romaine who was an old alcoholic bigot who lived in Hollywood. And I just say I was drunk and say anything I wanted about anybody.

And people like that. She was, I was so relaxed being, you know, this woman and I had breaths down to here. Nipples on the hips. And it was so relaxing and I could say anything. I like that. She's so American to me. See, you've come to America to do a show like I did.

I was from outside. And I noticed I can see, I just love what you've done. I love your book. I think you are a force to be reckoned. I think you're amazing. I love your energy and your spirit. You've had a tough time. I had a tough time. I'm a working class girl from England. It's not easy. Look where we come. Look at how far we've come. Look at how far we've come. So excited. Thank you so much we've come. So excited.

Thank you so much for being on the show. Season 3 of Tracy Oman's show will premiere on HBO September 28th. Tracy Oman, everybody! The Daily Show with Trevnoa, 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, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. Hey guys, this is Tom Segura. And I'm Burke Chrysher.

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