The Daily Show: Ears Edition - JD Vance Bombs His Book Tour & Scottish World Cup Fans Drink All the Beer in Boston | John Early

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Jordan Klepper dives into how JD Vance’s book tour exposes his lack of rizz, Scottish World Cup fans drink Boston bone dry, and Trump blames his pitiful Iran deal on… Obama? Plus, Ronny Chieng enc...ourages people to keep their complaints about the Iran agreement to themselves to avoid Trump restarting the war. As Trump hits 80 and America counts down to the big 250, the president organized a patriotic event worthy of any 10-year-old: a badass UFC fight at the White House, complete with dirt bikes! Jordan went to D.C. to take in the hillbilly elegyness of it all, and to chat with attendees who were stoked to witness the American Dream of two sweaty guys fighting on the White House lawn. Writer, director and actor John Early talks to Jordan about 80s TV movies, food influencers, and his new film, “Maddie’s Secret” -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 sorts for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Joe. My accident, I bro out at the White House's UFC fight, and J.D. Vance has a new book out. It's the perfect book to read on the beach before walking into the ocean. So, let's get into the headlines.
Starting point is 00:00:49 To the FIFA World Cup. All over North America, I am so. I'm so pumped. I haven't used my hands for anything all week. Wiping my butt with my feet was a challenge, but don't worry, I'm still working on figuring it out. It's also been a big deal for the host cities, although some could have prepared just a bit better. Boston has found an unintended consequence of the World Cup.
Starting point is 00:01:27 They're running out of beer. Some bar owners say soccer fans are drinking beer almost faster than they can pour it. Boston ran out of beer. But how will they get the children to sleep? And by the way, it's not just bars. There's no beer at any of the places in Boston that serve alcohol, restaurants, taverns, libraries, hospitals, AA meetings. The city is bone dry.
Starting point is 00:01:54 I mean, how could this have happened? There's a decent chance Scotland had something to do with it. The right few, tavern. There was no beer. The Scott fans just drunk the place dry, and all they had was, like, bud-like. I love how even Scottish fans are like, we're desperate for beer, but not like Bud Light desperate.
Starting point is 00:02:18 In fact, I believe we have a clip of a Scottish fan in Boston being told there's only Bud Light left. It's a proud culture, a very proud culture. You know what, let's move on. Let's move on to the only thing more exciting than the World Cup, JD Vance. Now, he's been making the rounds to promote his new book. He was on Fox News.
Starting point is 00:02:50 He was on Megan Kelly. He was on The View. He was on CNN. And, of course, he also swung by the popular right-wing podcast, Fat guys with goatees and sunglasses. Now, obviously, this press tour has an ulterior motive.
Starting point is 00:03:04 It's no secret that J.D. Vance wants to run for president someday. But there is one little hiccup that J.D. is trying to overcome. J.D. Vance does not ooze warmth or charm. Who's not the most charismatic individual. He lacks charisma. Chui zero charisma.
Starting point is 00:03:21 None. He has no Riz, which means charisma for you guys. We know what I mean. You know what? You know what? If this student council president says J.D. Has no Riz. I believe it.
Starting point is 00:03:35 But this press tour is the perfect opportunity for J.D. to show off that natural charm and camera presence that will launch him to the presidency. J.D., hit us with a joke. What do you call a fly with no wing? A walk. Okay, very good. Can you feel the electricity?
Starting point is 00:04:04 I don't know how you do it, but you make Mike Pence look like Richard Pryor. I mean, seriously. Seriously, JD, for someone whose mom did a lot of drugs, I thought you'd be cooler. But if JD's appearance on The Five didn't show his presidential chops, it did show how he is such a good vice president for Donald. Trump, specifically, his lack of ability to speak up for himself.
Starting point is 00:04:30 He'll stomach anything that comes his way, even if that thing is objectively disgusting. All right, we got pickle cake here. Dozens of layers of creamy green frosting, complete with tiny chunks of pickle rind. I was going to do fudge because it's National Fudge Day for the VP, but I thought it would be too gay. So I did pickle cake instead. I'm not sure if I got it right. I got it right. Thank you for being here, Mr. Vice President.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Oh, okay. Wait. Hold on. You think fudge is gay, but the pickle cake is straight? Literally shaped like a penis. Oh, no. Fudge for me, I'm all heteroman. I'll have this dildo pie.
Starting point is 00:05:22 Thank you very much. Look, look, Fox News, Fox, Fox, listen to me, I'm here to help. Your homophobia is ruining your lives. You have, you have to do. Listen, listen, listen, listen. You have the opportunity to enjoy delicious fudge with your friends.
Starting point is 00:05:40 But instead, you're eating fucking pickle cake. Your ignorant cruelty has trapped you in a fudgeless prison of your own design. You know what? Yes. Let's move on. Let's move on from J.D. to the man
Starting point is 00:06:00 whose gold-slaathered office he hopes to step into. Today, today, the details of Trump. Trump's peace deal with Iran finally came out. And this is gonna shock you, but it doesn't actually include any of the big wins he promised. In fact, it kicks the can on Iran's nuclear stockpile while allowing Iran to eventually charge fees
Starting point is 00:06:22 in the Strait of Hormuz and committing the US to end sanctions and facilitate a $300 billion reconstruction fund. But, you know what? I'm sure like everything else, the entire GOP is going to fall line and support the deal 100%. The details of this agreement, as we've seen them, it does not look like we are the victors. This doesn't feel like a victory.
Starting point is 00:06:45 I thought somebody was spoofing me. Iran is the biggest winner of all this. Trump stages and Iran retreat. Tremendous foreign policy blunder. Makes absolutely no sense. Smacks of impeachment. It's not defensible. Inexplicable disaster.
Starting point is 00:06:58 They've played him like a violin. Excuse me, sir. I don't know if I'd equate Trump with the soft, dulcet tones of a violin. of a violin. He's more like an entitled kazoo or a Maraca filled with angry bees. So, Trump has a lot of work to do to appease this angry faction of his base.
Starting point is 00:07:23 He could appeal to their sense of reason or to the obvious need for negotiated settlement that will necessarily require some concessions. Or, he could just push the shit on Obama button. I mean, the JCPOA done by Obama, he handed him a billion seven in cash and they tried to bribe their way out of it and you know what the Iranians did
Starting point is 00:07:46 they laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch okay thank you very much you know what I never thought I'd say this but can you carry yourself with a bit more dignity in front of the dictator of Egypt dear Lord man there's a pack of poor French translators off to the side like a kiss-kise
Starting point is 00:08:11 stupid son of a bitch. Now, look, who knows? Who knows if this peace deal with Iran is going to work, but if all doesn't go well, rest assured, Trump has a very solid plan B. If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming J.D. You better be careful, JD.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Whoa. Look at that Trump, always playing 5D scapegoating. I tell you, J.D. is going to be so bummed to hear about this once he finishes shitting out all of that pickle cake. For more analysis on Trump's deal with Iran, let's go live to the G7 with our very own Ronnie Chang. Roddy, what is your analysis of this deal? Jordan, my analysis of the deal is that it's incredible.
Starting point is 00:09:19 I love this deal. I love how Iran gets $300 billion. I love how Iran gets control of the street. I love how he lets Iran pick the next James Bond. It's all great. No notes. You are number one, Mr. President. Wait, I mean, that all sounds bad.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Well, it sounds like you should shut the fuck up then, Jordan. Because this deal ends the war. Do you want this war to end or not? Okay, well, yes. Of course we all want the war to be over. Okay, well, then shut the fuck up. Because if he thinks that we think the deal sucks, he's going to go back to the war. This is not a man who takes an L with great. Okay?
Starting point is 00:10:03 I mean, Michael Jordan takes L's less personally than this guy. Which is why he won the war. Mr. President, yeah. Great job with the deal! You made a great deal with your great Big Peanut. But this deal almost makes it seem like we lost the war. Okay, well, then, you fucking tell him then. You tell him, you tell him he lost the war.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Do you remember what happened last time we tried to tell him he lost something? He tried to kill my pants. It tried to kill my pants. But if we accept the deal, no more missiles, no more global recession, no more AI Lego memes. But the terms of the deal are bad. Jordan, there's no fucking gas. There's no gas, okay? The world has like six gallons of gas left.
Starting point is 00:11:11 I went to the gas station and fell up my car and, like, dust came out of the nozzle. Okay, so listen to the words of Yoko Ono's weird white boyfriend with the glasses, okay? Just go, give peace a chance. No, so, whoa, so we're just going to be slaves to this man's ego. We can't criticize the deal. Of course you can. Quietly. In private.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Like this. Talk like this. This deal is shit, okay? We lost the war. And then you come out and you tell the president that he's a special boy, and we love his big penis deal. Gordon, do it. All right, all right, fine. Mr. President, you made a great deal. What did he make the deal with?
Starting point is 00:12:11 With his big, beautiful penis. Oh, okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't be gay about it. It's his big pickle penis. Right, okay, yes, yes. Roddy Ching, everybody. Jonathan Walton here from Queen of the Khan with a brand new podcast series to tell you about. It's called Hardcore Khan. In each episode, we not only tell you a crazy con story,
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Starting point is 00:13:17 UFC show brought to you by Monster Energy drinks and America's lost dignity. So, I went down to D.C. to be a part of history and check out the vibes. As America's counting down to the Big 250, Trump has been hard at work renovating the place. And he's maybe cutting a few corners. But this past weekend was Flag Day, so Trump had to party. It was also his birthday, so he threw the classiest of celebrations. He had BMX jumps, birds of prey, fighter jets, and one big UFC fight
Starting point is 00:13:53 on the White House law. And I traveled to our Capitol to tap in for the fun. I'm at 2.50, baby. U.S.C. 250. You want people knocked out. You want people knocked out. 250, baby? 250.
Starting point is 00:14:05 250, you're here for the fight. Everybody's in a really positive attitude. They're happy to be here. Dude, even the homeless here, man, that's cool, man. Yeah? The homeless here are, like, clean, man. They got, like, f***ing outfits and shit. They're, like, riding on scooters and shit.
Starting point is 00:14:16 Those aren't homeless people. Those are people who used to work for the federal government about a year ago. Why are you here? Freedom and beer. My future. your ex-wife, hopefully. Thank you for your honesty.
Starting point is 00:14:27 People just coming here because they want to see, like, the American dream, and this is it. This is the American dream? This is the American dream? Two sweaty guys fighting on the White House lawn? Yeah, why not? Well, it feels like the American fever dream to me. What the time to be alive, right?
Starting point is 00:14:40 I'm here with my daughter, trying to embarrass her a lot. Yeah. She's trying to find a boyfriend. She's trying to find a boyfriend. You brought her to a UFC fight. Exactly. God bless, father of the ear over here. Players can always defend against anybody
Starting point is 00:14:51 trying to get after my daughter. I'm pretty sure they can defend him. Yeah, that's what they're known for. Healthy masculinity. Yes. So I was alive during the 1976 200th anniversary. You were there. 76, and I was there.
Starting point is 00:15:01 Who fought then? Nobody fought then. What? Nobody fought that. Everybody loved each other. Everybody was shaking hands. We need to just love each other. We need to act of peace.
Starting point is 00:15:10 We need to put that on a stage so people can try to aspire to something. Absolutely. And we do that by finding some guys who'll just beat the shit out of each other. Well, maybe, if that's what it takes, yeah. It's a wonderful gift for a man who's been a fan of fighting since before the 1970s energy crisis. What do you think about Trump throwing a fight on his lawn on his birthday? It's like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Probably the most American birthday you can have. Oh, my God, there's guys jumping dirt bikes. Yeah. There's guys fighting in the front yard. Yeah, yeah. This is like the best birthday a 10-year-old could have. We're all 10-year-olds at heart, right? We're all 10-year-olds at heart.
Starting point is 00:15:39 How many fights do you think he'll stay awake for inside? Don't you hear he's up 20 hours a day? He doesn't ever sleep? But I do think he sleeps because we watch it on television. No, you watch them freeze-frame the camera when he blinks his eyes. Okay. I mean, there's some of those are. long camera freezes.
Starting point is 00:15:55 No. Rest in his eyes. He might rest his eyes. So for anyone not resting their eyes, what will this UFC 250 event actually look like? Who do you think's gonna win the big fight tonight? My favorite fight is definitely Pereira versus Conn, and I got Pereira by knockout in three.
Starting point is 00:16:10 No, the big fight. The, I assume, the J-Sixers versus Capitol Police. Oh, um. Is that not happening? My money's on Capitol Police, though. Always root for an underdog here. Of course, there is a very real historical press to spectacles like this.
Starting point is 00:16:25 Kind of going back to gladiators. It does. It feels gladiatorial. You know what? The Romans loved it. The Greeks loved it. Everybody loves it some kind of gladiator. Is it sort of like our Coliseum?
Starting point is 00:16:36 Like we all come together? But yeah. Yes. The emperor is given us bread and circus. Yep. Yeah. Or monster drinks and circus. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:46 So which emperor is Trump? Is he like Niro? Bro, he's like... He's like Anakin Scott Walker. Not like Darth Vader. Not like Darth Vader. No. And he had those authoritarian leanings, right?
Starting point is 00:16:55 Yeah, yeah. You know, he had some power, and, you know, he knew how to use it. You know, with great power comes great responsibility. Hell yeah, that's exactly what Spider-Man said. He might be like to Ligula. It's true. Tulligula tried to get his horse voted into the Senate, I believe. I mean, Trump tried to get Mark Wayne Mullen in there.
Starting point is 00:17:10 So maybe that's not a fair comparison. I mean, I have seen horses count, so that's not a fair comparison. But ancient rules don't matter because this crowd is still giving their champion a big thumbs up. How do you think Donald Trump would do in the octa? Who is he fighting? Barack Obama. I think you win that. Do you think Donald Trump would beat up Barack Obama?
Starting point is 00:17:28 How tall Barack Obama? Wingshans. I mean, is that really we're going to get that nitty-gritty? You think it's going to be that close? It goes down to that, man. Donald Trump is pooling blood at his ankles and falls asleep at MSG. Donald Trump versus Barack Obama. Who wins?
Starting point is 00:17:43 I don't know. Trump's 80. What about? Yeah, that White House medical people say he's in great shape, so. You trust that. Are you trusting them or are you trusting your eyes on this one? I don't know. JD Vance pre-Ozempic thinking Donald Trump is Hitler
Starting point is 00:17:55 versus J.D. Vance as Donald Trump's Vice President. Who wins? I'm still working on J.D. Vans. But you're not sure? Nope. Would you watch a J.D. Vance fight fighting himself? Somebody tells me this fight is happy and has had all the time. It could be. Mm-hmm. As the combat sports event sponsored by American institutions like Crypto.com and Pollymarket
Starting point is 00:18:14 play it out on our actual White House lawn, viewers everywhere saw some of the uglier side of the culture. Moselle Obama. It's a man! I wondered what does this say about America to the rest of the world? I can understand the criticism. Like, I get what people are saying. You know, it looks bad on the country. You've got a lot of countries that are jealous.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Well, some people see America as sort of like a land of boorish folks. Yeah. Trashy, no class. I don't think we're any more trashy than any other country. You know, like I read something today. Oh, it's a big redneck yard sale. You see that as that spin? People spins it.
Starting point is 00:18:50 There's people having a fight on a, front yard in front of an open construction project with a guy who's bragging about an above-ground pool and somehow that feels crappy. Yeah. Do you have any fear that there's criticism that this is a little trashy? No. Hey, are any of us trashy?
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Starting point is 00:21:05 Yeah, what do you think? This is... I have a BFA so I know that I can sling I can cheat out and still address you. Yes, that's good. Okay. To the crowd. This is your audience, yes, and they'll just cut me out.
Starting point is 00:21:23 I can already sense the director in you, you know? This is what's amazing. Yes, this is it. You are a director in this, you wrote this, you star in this. This is pure uncut John Early. Uh-oh, okay. Sorry, I'm getting turned on. Were you all, were you all afraid if this went poorly,
Starting point is 00:21:40 you wouldn't have someone else to blame? No, I actually actually. I wanted to do all those roles so that, you know, no one else would get any of the blame. So I could spare my friends any of the blame. This is, so this is an act of kindness. Yes, of course. Yeah, it really shows through.
Starting point is 00:21:54 So what was that, for people who haven't seen it yet, which is it's not out yet, so they're not as cool as me where they get to see screeners football around. What is Maddie's Secret about? Well, I won't tell you Maddie's Secret. Thank you. But, no, Maddie's Secret, it's about a kind of bright-eyed, optimistic, plucky,
Starting point is 00:22:13 humble dishwasher at a big kind of content farm food media company called gourmeti. I'm proud of that. And then and and she gets kind of promoted to an on-camera position. She makes a viral recipe and she kind of becomes a reluctant food influencer and this kind of rising fame reawakens these old demons. She struggled with an eating disorder as an adolescent It's in many ways a kind of contemporary retelling of this old 80s TV movie called Kate Secret starring the great Meredith Baxter,
Starting point is 00:22:53 which is a TV movie that a lot of gay men pass around to each other. And you're just like, I'm going to make this, but we're going to update it for this. I want to do that. Let me do that. What is so funny about the food influencer culture? Well, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:12 I can't really explain what I find. I mean, I have all these little earworms from, you know, living in L.A. and New York and being around all these, like, kind of trendy foods. And it's kind of mysterious to me what I find funny about it. Just hearing little, like, you know, hulumi with a Yuzu Koshu crisp. Like, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I can't explain that. But the tone is so fascinating.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Yeah. I think what I was so struck by is it seems to walk the line of both, like, an homage, a bit of an ironsorice, a bit of an irons ironic wink, but also it's remarkably sincere. Yeah. Is that sort of the intention from the get-go? Kind of. I mean, I have to say when I started writing it, I really thought I was making something,
Starting point is 00:23:55 or I was going to make something that was a little more sharp-toothed, a little more like kind of hard, kind of brash satire. And then, you know, I don't know. Maybe I would have been able to sustain that tone if I were 23, but I'm 24. Play to that camera. You play to that camera with that one.
Starting point is 00:24:23 I'm 24. Yeah, great, great. No, I'm 38. And I guess I just kind of almost immediately found out that I just felt a little maternal towards her. I felt very protective of Maddie. And so as I started, as I kind of wrote the script more and more, the satire of it all sort of kind of melted away.
Starting point is 00:24:44 And it became very like kind of, kind of, big-hearted and sweet or something. Yeah. I mean, it's many things. I don't know. Well, that's what I think is kind of remarkable. It seems like there's, I don't want to say there was a shift halfway through in tone, but it seems like the beginning to me is an invitation to people who might know you for your
Starting point is 00:25:02 comedic work. Yes. And the right, yes. If you know generally for his comedic work. It's good. But then there's a shift to some dark themes. Yeah. Like were you conscious of that in the writing and in the directing of how to welcome people
Starting point is 00:25:20 into maybe a genre they're not as aware of? Yes, I was. I knew it was a risk. I knew it was like a kind of, I knew it felt to me like a kind of tonal experiment and one that I would never know the results of until the movie was fully edited. Basically, I was just kind of following the demands of the genre.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Like these kind of old TV movies, they actually have these like Greek stakes. You know, it's like people die! And they're like, you know, and there's betrayal. They're very intense. And I was like, OK, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it. And so I knew that, like, basically I was asking this kind of ensemble of largely comedic actors.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I was like, we're just going to like commit to this and tonally we'll let the chips fall where they may. I had a feeling that if we just threw ourselves into it, it could be extremely funny and possibly extremely moving too. And sometimes it's both. I think that's what's kind of remarkable about it. But you do have very funny people. You have Vanessa Bear, you're Conroe O'Malley. Are you, are you finding, like, turn it down? This is not a moment for comedy.
Starting point is 00:26:28 I mean, comedians aren't necessarily known for their restraint more often than not. They can own a scene or find a joke. They like to find and fill those spaces. Yes. You know, I don't know what I like about the genre. And I say that very loosely, like TV movies or old school Hollywood melodramas.
Starting point is 00:26:46 They're very forgiving. you know, like, you can kind of like fling a line out there and you can really miss the mark. You know, you can do poorly. Like I do a lot in this movie. And it still can kind of hold that, you know? And that was sort of by design, because we didn't have a lot of time.
Starting point is 00:27:05 We didn't have a lot of money. This is a very humble film. And we shot it at my house, and it was very kind of done in the style of like a sleepover, you know. But like, I. I guess I chose a style that could, you know, when you watch a TV movie, you kind of expect some people to be bad.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Yeah, you want shit to go down. Yeah, and you want fangs to come out? Well, I more mean bad, like, in the acting sense. Oh, too. Right, okay, yeah, you want people to be bad at their jobs and execution of it. Okay, yeah, that's not what I'm hoping for at the beginning of my entertainment choices, but yes, continue. But, you know, I think there's joy in that.
Starting point is 00:27:50 I mean, I think there's, like, it's, you know, when they don't, TV movies were, like, trying to do this thing that big old school Hollywood melodramers were doing, but with no money, you know. And so, like, and that was the position I was in. So I don't know. I kind of, I think they're very charming. I don't know. I read something, like, camp, the tone of camp,
Starting point is 00:28:12 there's both intentional and unintentional camp, right? And whether or not unintentional camp is something that can be achieved anymore. Was that something that was in your mind? Definitely. I mean, I think, like, maybe what I started making was kind of intentional camp, or it was camp that knew itself to be camp. You know, and then, but it was striving so hard to be the first kind of, like, pure, naive kind of camp, you know, and then it lands somewhere in between.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Well, there's a wonderful dance sequence in this world that has a, of emotional core and center to this film. I'm curious, having seen your past work, how early on did you know there must be a dance sequence in this film? I'm always trying to narratively justify dance. Always. I'm always trying to find an excuse for dance.
Starting point is 00:29:11 And I, at first I was like, oh, I can't. I have to be honest, when I was writing this, you're going to think I'm insane. But when I was writing this movie, I wrote it exclusively to the shaft soundtrack. Really? I was very, I was really going through, I really haven't left this. I was in a very intense Isaac Hayes moment of my life.
Starting point is 00:29:32 Listening to a lot of Isaac Hayes. And I wasn't high. No good creative ideas ever come out when you're high, no. And, but, you know, I was really getting to the Shaft soundtrack. And I, you know, the kind of the sunny kind of 70s horns of the Shaft soundtrack, I was like, oh my god, this is the tone of the movie. I was like imagining Maddie, like, jogging through the city and, you know, and be like, hey, Maddie, you know.
Starting point is 00:30:00 And so, why was it? What were we talking about? Oh, dance, dance, dance. And so as I was listening to Shaft and I wasn't high, I was thinking, like, you know, I couldn't help but, you know, get into the groove to quote, Madonna. Yes, oh, I was thinking Shaft to that.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Like, as much Madonna did it as well. And, you know, and I was like, oh, if I put dance, there's no way I can put dance in this. That's too broad. That's too silly. But then I was like, no, like, in all of these movies, there's always a kind of, all these eating disorder TV movies. There's always some sort of physical form of exercise that pushes the ingenue over the edge, you know. And I realized I could kind of, I realized it could be a dance class. I just found my way to dance, as I always do.
Starting point is 00:30:49 So you write yourself into a corner and then dance out of this. Right? Yes. And to me, I wanted to do, like, to me, this was like, can I make showgirls, basically? Like, can I make show girls with my friends with a really low budget? Like, that is kind of the prompt of this movie. It has a very showgirls spirit. I mean, I would say you are 2026 as Elizabeth Berkeley.
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