The Daily Show: Ears Edition - John Leguizamo Covers Trump’s Claim Of DeSantis Crying For Help | Diane Guerrero

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

John Leguizamo covers Trump's claim that Ron DeSantis came to him in tears asking for help, the Belgian scientists who used Wooly mammoth DNA to create mammoth meatballs, and the Republican representative who thinks there's nothing that can be done about school shootings. Actor and activist Diane Guerrero talks about the need for more representation in HollywoodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to the Daily Show. I'm John Legozo and I'm back for the Night toll and I'm back for the night two as your first Latino Daily Show host ever. Yeah, that's right. And if you change the channel now, you're racist, bitch.

But we got a great show for you tonight, so let's kick things off with Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, I feel you, and future president of Cel Block Dean. Yes. Yesterday Trump sat down for an interview on Fox News with Sean Mantidys. That's his real name. And it sounds like Trump isn't happy that Ron DeSantis might run against him. After all the help he gave Ron when he was running for governor. Ron came to see me tears in his eyes. He said, I need you to do me a big favor.

Would you endorse me? I fought for you. So I said, let's give it a shot, Ron, okay? And he was th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I. So I said, let's give it a shot, Ron, okay? And he was desperate. I said, okay, I gave him a nice endorsement. I got him the nomination. By the way, couldn't have never gotten the nomination. He would be working in either a pizza parlor place or a law office right now, and he wouldn't

be very hassle. He wouldn't be working in a pizza parlor. I guess in Trump's mind every Italian is working in a pizza place or a law office or even better, a pizza place that's also a law office. I put it on backwards. Ha ha. to put it on backwards. Hey, hey, hey, you, you, you, you, come here, your mook. Have you been injured on the job? And you're hungry?

Then come on into distefano and sons. And if we can't win your case, the garlic knots are to die for. Hey, strons, pangoul, rid of this touch, I got your, yeah, right here, bye. Now, you probably missed this because of the casual racism. But Trump said that Ron DeSantis came to him crying, though if you hear enough of his stories you probably notice that this happens to Trump all the time. I mean, I had a man come up to me who's a strong, tough guy, and he had tears coming down his eyes. People came to me and they saw me and they were crying.

I stood yesterday with 75 construction workers. Half of them had tears pouring down their face, and they walk into the over office, and they start throwing. This guy, he hasn't cried since he was a baby and probably didn't cry then either. And now he's crying. This happens all the time. This happens all the time. This happens all the time. Thank you. Tears.

Tears! Why? Why? Why are people always in tears around Donald Trump? What's up with this guy? Is his body odors so strong that people's eyes just start watering around him? Right? Is he constantly chopping onions?

Is he always just playing the beginning of up for some reason? All right, let's move on to some news. That has become all too common now. There was yet another school shooting yesterday and this time in Nashville, Tennessee. Yes sir, where six people were killed, including three children. For this to happen even once is unacceptable, but now it seems to be happening all the goddamn time. And like all of you, I'm sick to death of this.

And I want you to know, and I want to know what our representatives plan to do about it, okay? But because if you ask this, yes, oh yeah, because if you ask this represented from Tennessee, he plans to do jack shit about it. It's a horrible, horrible situation. And we're not going to fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals. And my daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, buddy, he said, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck

of a lot you can do about it. There's not a lot of heck you can do about it. That's the best you have to offer. You're a congressman. If if. If the, if. the the the the their, if. their, their, their, their, their, their, to, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the th. And, th. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, tho, thooooooo, is is. And, is. And, is. And, too. they. they. they. And, they. And, the th. And, th. And, the best you have to offer? You're a congressman. If you don't have any ideas for how to keep our kids safe, get the fuck out of the way. Yes. And go work at a paintberry or some shit. And by the way, no disrespect to his father, but if going to school then America feels like fighting in World War II, that should be a sign that things are seriously fucked up in America. Okay?

Now, now there's still a lot that we don't know about this crime. The police say it's possible that the shooter was born female and now identifies as male. So of course a lot of Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Green are now saying that trans people are the problem, which I know seems crazy. That's right. It seems crazy because since 99.9% of the mass shooters are not trans. But you know what, Marjorie, I have a proposal for you. Come here, come here, come here, come here. Here's the thing, Marjorie. I agree with you. I don't think trans people should be allowed to own assault rifles either.

So let's stop them. But just to be safe, we should also ban non-trans people from owning assault rifles, okay? Okay? Just, just in case they become trans, okay? You know what I mean? No assault weapons for anybody. That'll show them. And some people, some people might tell you that I'm trying to trick you into supporting gun control, but we all know you're too smart for that.

Come on, you can trust me, home girl. It's just you and me, baby. All right, and finally, let's move on to a fun story. We all know that as a planet, we need to find a more humane and sustainable way to grow meat. Well now, some scientists have found a new source of meat that makes absolutely no sense. A team of scientists from Australia has announced that they've created a meatball from the DNA of the extinct woolly mammoth.

It was created from the cells of a woolly mammoth and grown in a lab. And they took the DNA sequence from a mammoth muscle protein and filled in the gaps with cells And they took the DNA sequence from a mammoth muscle protein and filled in the gaps with cells from an elephant, the mammoth's closest living relative. Scientists say the meat should taste pretty good but they're afraid to eat it in case the ancient protein is deadly to our current immune system. The mammoth meatball is not for consumption, but instead is a symbol that we hope invite viewers and your audience to start thinking about where their food comes from.

Well, first off, as someone who was best friends with a woolly mammoth. For nine films, nine films and three TV specials, I've been dying to know what a woolly mammoth tastes like. The amount of times I thought about marinating Manfred and grilling them up, you have no idea. It's just good to know that there are some scientists who are focused on the important problems of our time. Because they're like, well, listen, we don't have a cure for cancer. But we can tell you what Mr. Snuffer Lock, but it's tasks, law. That's something more cockney than Australian, but that's all right.

For more on this meatball story, we turn live to Dulce Sloan at the laboratory. What's the news over there? What's the news over there? Listen, what's the news over there? Listen. Why are we doing this? Scientists out here making meat they're afraid to eat. When there are so many animals we've never bitten into. And we haven't tried, you know, eating a sea otter, hippopotamus, or most birds. So why are we going back in time?

I mean, I don't know what sea lions taste like, but they don't walk, so I'm sure they're buttery. No, I understand that. I understand that. But let's think about the scientific discovery, okay? Now, no, because Dool said, this is an incredible feat. I mean, the mammoth's been extinct for, what, of years and they're able to make a sustainable meat source? Come on, it could change the whole world. So what?

So what? Give a damn about eating an unshaved elephant? All right? Use this science shit to bring back what the world really needs. Cave men. Wait, wait. What, what? What? What? What? What? What are you talking about? Cavemen, really?

You heard me? They're out here playing with test tubes, regenerating shit. If you're gonna bring back shit, bring back something I could use. Bring back those cavemen. You know, they were built like Morris Chestnut, like a real man. Well, you know. You know, you know, you all see Morris Chestnut?

We can make it men like that no more, come on, listen. He got pectorials and they got big beers and they got real calves, no implants. Because have you seen men today, oh, they ain't got it. They got us out here talking about Short Kings, please, tha's th. th. th. th. th. th. Tets, th. th. Tets, th. th. th. Tets, th. th. They's, th. They's, th. They's, th. th. th. They's, th. th. th. thoes, th's, they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're, they're, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. thoes. thoes. thoes. toes. togea. toge. toge. toge. the. thea. they're they're they're they're they ain't got it. They got us out here talking about short kings, please. Short kings, there's a lie. Don't start with me. They can't pick nothing up. They're walking around anemic in these skinny jeans and legs look. You look, you look.

Like the knees just look like leg knuckles. You know what I'm talking about? I want a man who looks like he can provide for me, all right? Go and kill a whole antelope with his hands because he don't know his own strength. Like, do you know how many men have hit me over the head, throw me over a shoulder, took me back to that man cave? None! And I'm waiting for it. Woman, even if you were able to bring back cavemen, their brains were different. They might not even be able to pick up a language. Ooh, the strong silent-tank.

I'm so take my money. So take my money. Okay. the today. Bledd-dood. Plus I heard rumors that them cavemen were hung like curtains, okay? Listen! They get to run around and that thing just swing like a ceiling fan! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh God, oh Jesus, Dulce, I don't think the scientists had the resources to bring back cavemen just for you.

Oh no, no, no, they don't need to. Listen, I'm already on it, okay? I'm doing science, I'm back in school. You know, I got a whole five-year plan. I get my master's, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, then, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, their, thin, their, thin, thin, their, I'm their, I'm their, I'm their, I'm their, I'm their, I their, I their, I their, I'm their their their their, I'm their, I'm their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their their, I their their their their their thin, I'm thin, I'm thate and then I get my man. Because if you want to get women in stem, then you got to get a caveman in me. All right. Okay, well good luck with that is all I can say. Do you say Sloan everybody. Okay, well good luck with that is all I can say.

Dulce and everybody. All right, when we come back, I go head to head with the legend himself, Crazy Lake, so don't go away. Bye. Hey, hey, welcome back to the Daily Show. Now, one thing I wanted to do this week is to introduce y'all to my New York. So, I decided to go catch up my brother from another mother, the man who gave New York. to the throwne to my New York. So I decided to go catch up my brother from another mother, the man who gave New York street creed.

Yeah, I had to look at Day Over 35, but I actually grew up in the 70s, in New York City. At the time, hip hop was the dopeest thing on the planet. And through the culture, I met amazing people like my friend Crazy Legs, a pioneer of the art form that white people call break dancing and everybody else calls breaking. Crazy Lake started dancing at age nine. He was part of the legendary rock steady crew in the early 1980s. He was even Jennifer Peel's body double and flash dance because she sucked at breaking. He was instrumental in turning breaking into a worldwide phenomenon.

Crazy, what's up? What's up? What's that? How you're trying? What's your name? Like, thanks? Like, thanks. So, look, you're called crazy. So, look, crazy. You're called crazy legs. Yeah.

Is that one of their friends? First, I was like, you, why, he biting my name? Oh, you thought I was biting. No, you did, you did. It's okay. You're a little competitive. You always been a little competitive. So, how'd you get the name Crazy Legs? I would practice after school in an auditorium and the captain of the cheerleader was all me practicing. And she was like, ooh, he got some crazy legs. But now that you're older, do you think you need to change your name from Crazy Lakes or something a little more mature like stable legs?

Yeah, yeah. Crazy's kind of like become a ablest term, you know, so maybe something like neurodivergent legs, some things like that, not? More like give it up legs, pretty much. Right. When did you meet me? I met you on Avenue A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. we connected on Freak. Yes we did, yes we did. For the choreography. Oh my god, you made me look like I could really do shit, like I could be damaged on stage. I hurt myself. You did?

Yeah, like, I'm pretty broken right now. I didn't know that. Break dancing means you're gonna break something. Goes with the looks, yes. Look, good provech. Don't be shy, man. Oh, God damn, please. Thank you. You know, we've both been involved with the Puerto Rican community forever.

You especially working on the island for relief. Yeah. And I've been cast as a Puerto Rican by Hollywood. Do you think I'm believable? I think any Latino from New York is believable because for real that's true. We're so interchangeable with each other we understand each other's accents so you got the the body body yes yes yes a deal of approval oh my god it's delicious so hip hop culture man it started underground nobody knew about it it was a black and Latino thing and now suburban one out of five suburban dads want to break dance and maybe like you know yeah I can bust the move yeah

I can do that break dancing thing it's fantastic for us to come from nothing and create something that has impacted the globe it's pretty amazing we're looking at dancing in in the streets of the Bronx to breaking going to the Olympics in 2024 in Paris. My current mission right now to the Bronx to breaking going to the Olympics in 2024 in Paris. My current mission right now to see how much money I can raise to support some of the dancers to have the same equal playing field in the Olympics really only takes about $100,000 to secure. One- Just a hundred thousand dollars.

When you think about for the year, that gets him to national and international qualifiers. It allows them a trainer, a meal plan, and just to like not have to work. Can't be doing, driving, Uber and still doing a living. You can't do both. Everyone else who has that ability to support, hit us up, hit people out. Send thethat right here. Hit us up, send the money to me. Yeah, John got it. He could distribute. I might give it 10.

Yep. Might not. Depends. You know. What? What? I tapuria. Say, body O BX in the house.

You know, back in the day, they would settle their fights through breakdancing, through battling. Well, here's a thing. That was a fallacy about us solving beefs with dance. Oh, was it though? There were dancers. If you disrespected me, I'm not going to pay man. to dance now.

Come on, man. I'm gullible, man. I believe anything. But I get it, I mean, you know, you got information late, you're from Queens. No, that's cold letter, man. I think we're going to have to settle this beat the old-fashioned way by break break boy dancing. Oh, we're going to battle? Queen's against what? BX versus Queens? Come on!

Come on! Can you get his ambulance on a standby please? You can get a big quarter-eat-the-monged before we did a dance song? I'm gonna pick up the winner. You mean, crazy next one, make some noise clapping up one time Crazy Next One, Make Some Noise Clapin' Up One! One time! You think John Likazano won, Make Some N' the tomorrow! Make some noise, to thrown. I'm gonna hit tonight, John Likzano, make some noise! I really won. I got it like that.

All right. Stay tuned because when we come back, Diane Guerrero will be joining me on the show, so don't go all the Delhi show. My guest tonight is an activist, author, an actor you may know from Orange is the New Black, Doom Patrol and Encanto. Please, welcome Diane Guerrero, please. My guest tonight is an activist, author, an actor you may know from Orange's the New Black, Doom Patrol, and Encanto. Please, welcome Diane Guerrero, please. Yeah. All right, calm down, time down.

Relax, y'all, relax. Hi. They're excited. They're excitable. Hey Diane, do people believe you when you tell them that you do the voice for Encanto? Because when I tell kids, nobody believes me. I have to sing the entire song. The whole song?

But then they believe you? Then they believe me,to sing the entire song. The whole song. The whole song. But then they believe you. Then they believe me. Yeah, the kids start. And I have to like do like a few lines to like, yeah, I'm stuck. And then they get it. And then they get it. And then they get it.

Now I got it. Yeah, no, they don't get it. Even when I do the voice, you know, like, I don't know who I am, I don't know, they don't get it. Because his face scares them. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, you got, you got to sing this. You got to do the rap part that you do. Oh, yeah, forget that's a hard one. You're a child of immigrants. That's right. And every immigrant, yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Colombia and were. Colombia were f-a-a-a- Me v. Me ver. Okay. What do you want people to know about your experience growing up? Yeah, well, when I was 14, my parents were separated from me. I, I'm a child of a separated family due to deportation,

and it, I mean, it ruined a lot of, it ruined me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you were 14 years old. I was 14 years old, yeah. Yeah, yeah, the immigration, INS, ICE came and took away your parents and... That's right, and I had to grow up on my own and I had to make very, very difficult decisions on my own throughout my entire life. Can you imagine a kid just left alone at 14 to raise themselves so crazy? Not right. Not okay. Not okay. I mean, I've gone through a lot of therapy and I'm still going through therapy and I'm still going tho- beautiful. I've, I've relied on my community to support me in this and I have been very candid. I wrote a book in 2016 above my experience

in the country. Yes, thank you. My family and I were separated like, for 20 years. I mean, I've been able to go back but theythey haven't been able to come here. And so, you know, pandemic happened, and I was like, what am I gonna do here? Like, die in LA by myself. So I bought a farm in the mountains of Colombia, and now I'm living there.

My dad sadly passed away a year ago. But, I'm sorry to my family and no one's ever going to separate us ever again. Oh, good for you. Good for you. Now, I also hear that you're the leading actor who recently joined, no, you join a whole bunch of leading actors in the visionary lines for the National Hispanic Media Coalition. I had to read that because that's a long title. You're not the leading actor.

No, I'm not the leading actor. You're not the leading actor. No, I'm not the leading actor. I'm one of the actors. Oh, one of them, okay. Yes. And then, and what is the mission statement of the coalition? Look, I'll give you numbers. I'm not a math girly, but I'll give you some numbers. three women of color directed a top 100 film. In the span of 16 years, okay, 21 female directors, women of color directors directed 21 films out of 1,600 films.

That's crazy. I'm not a math girly, like I said. And people of color are at least 40% of the population, if not a lot more, because white people are only 59% of the population. Right, right. So, I mean, that's getting into more numbers than I rehearsed. Oh yeah. But I'm a math boy.

You are a math boy. Well, all I know is that that's cultural apartheid. Yes. Right? And I know that's the term that you use a lot and I follow your work. Thank you so much Johnny lets. Thank you. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. I thi. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm that's that's that's that's th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm a th. I'm a th. I'm a the. I'm a the. I'm a the. I'm a the. I'm a the. I'm a the. I'm inspiring me to do the work that I'm doing alongside you. I need allies and we need people like you. We need soldiers out there. Thank you. We want representation. We want the right kind of representation.

We're tired of the only things getting made about us. Negative. Crips. Right, drug lords, criminals, cops. Right, right. Mades. Hookers. Right, right. Right. What we, we, we want to be represented as we are real, beautiful, curious, you know,

existential crises have been. And yes, maybe, and yes, maybe even mediocre. Right, right, someday. Sometimes, right? And if some people get to be mediocre all the time. Oh my God. I mean, I'm jealous because white people get to fail upwards. Just peruse.

I can barely succeed upwards. Agreed. Likewise, just peruse through the canon of like mediocre films of dysfunctional life families. Jack and Jill. The canon is rich. Yes, it is. We deserve to be... We're allowed to fail on camera, people.

I want to fail in big movies. Can we make crap? Yes. Can we make crap on television, on streaming? I want to be like white people. I want to make mammoth, mammoth, meatball, crap. And get paid for it. Ain't nobody paid for a test to do that? We have to work really well in sushi kitchens,

pizzerias. We've got to cook all the food to this goddame country. Just like we deserve to be excellent, we deserve to make crap as well, and everything in between. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, okay, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. Got that's our show for the- Well, that's our show for tonight.

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