The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Kash Patel Denies Excessive Drinking & Labor Sec.’s Family Plays HR Violation Bingo | Noah Wyle

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

The Trump administration gets in trouble for partying too hard, with FBI chief Kash Patel suing The Atlantic for putting his alleged drinking on blast, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigning over allegations of affairs and strip club trips, and her husband getting banned from department headquarters over reports of sexual misconduct. Plus, Michael Kosta gets the scoop on the Department of Labor's updated HR training video. In the midst of an unpopular war with Iran and a heated pope fight, Jordan Klepper went to a TPUSA event in Phoenix to see if the MAGA crowd was still on board the Trump train. Writer, director, and award-winning star of the HBO Max series “The Pitt,” Noah Wyle joins Michael to discuss how Season 2 examines mental health issues through his character, Dr. Robinavitch, and how the show manages to strike a balance between tragedy and hope. He also compares the ways audiences consume “The Pitt” to the ways they consumed the first medical drama he starred in, “ER,” and the perspective he has gained since his Dr. Carter days. -- To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is The Daily Show with your host Michael Cod. We have got so much to talk about the night Cash Patel drunk dials his lawyer. Jordan Klepper talks to young Republicans and the Labor Secretary resigns to spend more time with her very weird family. So let's get into it with another edition of the worst wing. What a bunch of losers.

Let's begin with Cash, tell. FBI director and man who starts every day by looking in the mirror and saying, freeze, freeze, FBI, freeze. And his tenure as FBI director, he's almost solved dozens of cases. But this time, the case is about him. FBI director Cash Patel is now suing for defamation over a bombshell new article. Sources told the magazine, The Atlantic, that Patel, quote, has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. He wants a quarter of a billion dollars in damages.

A quarter of a billion dollars? Hour, cash Patel? Excessive drinking? I can't imagine such a thing. I mean, yeah, he does always have the look of a drunk guy trying to convince you he's sober. But I've never seen him actually drink, although, hmm, now that I think about it,

there was that one time. Yes, I remember my first 10,000th beer. I guess in retrospect, if a room full of 21-year-old concussed hockey players thinks you're a good hang, you probably shouldn't be in charge of the FBI. You probably shouldn't even be in charge of the rental skates at the rink. By the way, fun fact, cash was already in there drinking. He didn't even know the Olympics were happening.

That's why he was so happy when the hockey team showed up. But so what? The guy partied. When Team USA wins a gold medal, that's not worth a quarter of a billion dollars. How bad are these accusations? On multiple occasions in the past year, members of Patel's security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated. At one point, the article claims even prompting a request for SWAT-style breaching equipment because the director had been unreachable behind locked doors.

Okay, I mean, that sounds pretty bad. Look, I've been hung over, but I've never been so hung over they had to wake me up the same way they killed bin Laden. What else you got? During Patel's tenure as FBI director, the FBI has had to reschedule early meetings as a, quote, result of his alcohol-fueled nights, adding that director Patel is often away or unreachable.

The story also goes on to report, Patel is a frequent guest of the Poodle Room at the Fountain Blue Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Okay. It is a little weird that a man whose job is in Washington, D.C., also frequently goes to something called the poodle room in Las Vegas, but I'm sure the poodle room is a distinguished, respectable, hypoallergenic social club where important men network and exchange ideas.

So it's a Coke den. Ladies, if you want to get an STD on a circular waterbed, might I recommend meaning a gentleman at the poodle room? Imagine you're this guy at the poodle room just having a good time with your shirt unbuttoned all the way. And all of a sudden you're like, is that the FBI director throwing up on himself? And there's more in this article that just stories about cash drinking. There's also stories about him being stupid and a little high strung. Back on April 10, Patel had trouble logging on to an internal computer system.

It was just a technical glitch, but Patel quickly became convinced he, had been locked out and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce he had been fired by the White House. Whoa. Calm down, Cash. How paranoid are you if the moment you have trouble logging into your computer you think you got fired? Oh, no, they fired me.

Get me on a plane to China. I'm going to tell them all my secrets. I hate this country. And everybody in it. Oh, wait, I just had the caps lock on. Everything's cool. God, I need a drink. But it is concerning that the guy who's supposed to be the country's top investigator

can't crack the case of logging into his own computer. No wonder he's pissed off. What else does he have to say about this article? We're not going to take this laying down. You want to attack my character? Come at me. Bring it on. Yeah, that's right.

He's not going to take this laying down because then they'd have to get the SWAT team in to wake him up. But now, as a part of his lawsuit, Cash argues that under his... leadership, the FBI has achieved historic law enforcement results, which even if that were true doesn't prove anything. People can accomplish incredible things when they're drunk. If Tiger Woods can successfully park in a ditch, then Cash Patel can be like, hey, go arrest some bad guys. Hell, I'm a little drunk right now, and I think we all agree. I'm fucking nailing it. Moving on. I'm really glad you responded that way. It would have been awkward otherwise.

And moving on, let's say hello to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Riemer. She's one of the more obscure cabinet secretaries, but it's never too late to get to know her. Lori Chavez de Riemer has resigned. Damn it! Not you too, Lori. It's always the ones you never heard of. But that's right. Secretary Lori has resigned over a scandal.

And if you're wondering which scandal, the answer is yes. Her departure comes amid multiple scandals and investigations, including drinking on the job, allegedly taking staff to a strip club, and using department resources for personal trips. Chavez-Dur-eamer is also accused of having an affair with a member of her security team. What the heck? Was she going through her workplace anti-harassment training? Like, challenge-accepted.

Taking your staff to strip clubs, really? I can't think of a more inappropriate place for a government official to be spending their time. Well, maybe a strip club isn't so bad after all. Before you jackals in the media go tearing Lori down just because she knows how to party, don't forget, this woman has a family. Have a little respect for what her husband is going through. Her husband, also in hot water. He was banned from the department's headquarters earlier this year after two women accused him of sexual misconduct.

What? My boy was banned from his wife's office for sexual harassment? I've heard of men cheating while their wife were at work. I've never heard of a man cheating at his wife's work. This guy's unreal. And to do it all with resting, I'm going to sniff your neck face, that's so impressive. This cannot get worse for Lori. I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than your staff being sexually harassed at work by your husband.

The New York Times reports that the secretary's husband, quote, exchange text messages with young female staff members, as did her father. Oh! Her dad? They're saying her dad is trying to. to tag team his daughter's staff with his son-in-law? Well, no wonder she's drinking at work. No, no, no.

This must be a misunderstanding. In an April 2025 exchange, Richard Chavez wrote to a young female staff member, quote, Hearing you are in town, wishing you would let me know, I could have made some excuses to get out and show you around. Please keep this private. Don't worry, buddy. No one's ever going to say. this.

Lori's probably like, God damn it, Dad, now you know how to use your phone? This is creepy and disgusting and also such a classic parent text. Even when they're being perverts, they're like, well, it would have been nice for you to give me a heads up. You're coming to town. But this is crazy.

There's no way Lori knew about her husband and her dad, right? Right? Some of the young women were instructed by the Labor Secretary herself to, quote, pay attention to her husband and father. Wow. Wow.

The Labor Secretary heard Cash Patel had a scandal, and she's like, hold my beer. And my wine, and my stack of dollar bills, and my dad's penis. Now look, I'm as surprised as you are that an upstanding businessman like Donald Trump only seems to hire corrupt perverts and messy drunks. But until more Americans come to realize

that Donald Trump is the huge, equivalent of the poodle room, we're gonna be stuck with this type of representation. And until then, the Department of Labor is gonna need to make some big updates to their HR training video, which luckily, we have an advanced copy of. If you've reached this part of video,

then you've completed HR training. Congratulations, new cabinet secretary. And now, it's time, thanks to recent stupid f***ing events, to bring in your husband. Let's start with rule number one. No one wants to fuck you. No one's going to that cabinet job thinking, oh, you know what?

I hope I see my boss's husband's gross dick today. If you can't help yourself, there are over 20,000 bathrooms in federal buildings. Go jack off in the mint, you fucking psycho. Okay? Now send in a father. Okay, fathers. Rule number one.

No one wants to fuck you. How much porn do you have to watch to think? Oh yeah, I have a real shot. my daughter's coworkers. Maybe one of them will get stuck in the copy machine and need me to bang them out of it. Let's do some role play. I'm you at your daughter's office.

Hi, nice to meet you. Wrong. You should not have even been there in the first place. Why are you at your daughter's office? Last time I checked, there's no, take your horny father to workday. If you have to fuck off, do it at the mint with your son-in-law.

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So we sent Jordan Klepper to find out how it went. In the midst of an unpopular war with Iran and a heated Pope fight, President Trump dropped into a turning point rally in Phoenix and he brought his creepy uncle energy. So I traveled to the Grand Canyon State to see if the crowd outside was still on board the Trump train. What stuff has he done that you're proud of? Everything. Everything. Like America is free.

Right now, this is the best the country's ever been. Talk to me about the accomplishments. Venezuela, big. Big. Border big. He originally brought gas prices down, and he's going to do that again. He gets to do it twice, isn't that amazing? Yeah.

Some goals have been achieved. Yeah, some have. Ballroom. Face on money. Well, the ballroom is something different, and Obama put in a basketball court, so who complained about that? Nobody. Which wing did Obama knock down to put up that basketball court? I don't know.

Probably the East Wing. Probably the East Wing. He goes in, gets done what he says he's going to do, and he does what he says. Promise is made, promises kept? Absolutely. No new wars. Yes. Yeah, nobody wants to go to war.

Nobody does. Yeah, of course. What do you think about the war with Iran? I don't pay attention to it, so. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so still, no new wars. This particular rally was located at a mega church in the heart of God's country, and Trump's holiness was on everyone's mind.

When Trump made his acceptance speech in 2015, I swear I saw the hand of God reach out And touched Trump. Was Trump touched sort of like this? Recently, Trump caused a stir when he posted this AI picture. The image appearing to depict the president as Jesus, drawing backlash from many of his own supporters, some calling it blasphemy. I can see a lot of people being offended by Trump. Trump's not perfect.

He's not perfect. He's just literally breaking the very first commandment. I don't think Trump thinks he's Jesus or anything like that. I think he told it thinking it was a beautiful picture. Turns out Trump also. denied the Jesus comparison. It was me. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor. He posted because he thought he looked like a doctor.

I see a healer. He's here to heal the sick. He's beautiful. He looks like a doctor. Look at, he's got his magic. He's got his magic hand. Do doctors traditionally have magic hands? Well, to you and I, they do. Do you know how to carve somebody up in the stomach and cure whatever if they have like an intestinal ailment? Can you do that? I'm poor with a scalpel. You're correct. Fair enough. Point Maga. Point Maga. But Trump's brush with organized religion didn't end there.

Podus versus the Pope. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo. Blasting Leo for opposing America's war in Iran. Pope needs to stay, just stay religion. Keep politics out. Pope should stay out of politics? I believe so, yeah. Should politics stay out of religion? Uh, yeah.

Should there be the Ten Commandments in schools? Yes. Mm-hmm. There should be pledge of allegiance in school. There should be prayer? There should be prayer. But going back to that whole thing about Pope, Stay away from politics. Politics, stay away from religion.

Yes. Ten Commandments, put it in school. Yes. Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Yes. I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. It makes me feel crazy.

So while they might not be devoted to the Establishment Clause, it was clear they remained faithful to Trump's America First policies. How do you feel about this war with Iran? I think if it needs to be done, it needs to be done, and Trump will get it done. Do you think it needs to be done? If Trump does, I do. How do you feel about the war in Iran? I'd say bomb the shud them and get it over with. Wasn't the whole thing though?

No new wars? It's a conflict. It's not a war. Not a war. It's a conflict. Now who says copp? I know Trump calls it a war. Well they say it's a conflict because a war would be you'd have to you'd have to declare war.

Right, right. Yes. It's a conflict. If you go illegally around it, you can have a war and call it a conflict. Exactly. Count this as a war. Even if you do count it, it's a necessary war. This is what's taking out the trash.

Have we won the war? Are we winning the war? Yes. Yes. Which one? The Iran war. You're confident about this war? I'm confident, yes.

Once we win this war with Iran, where is Israel going to have us invade next? That I can answer. I don't know that. But what Maga does know is that this war is actually very close to home. In fact, Iran might be up to no good even. in suburban Phoenix. Those people standing right there, they're all getting paid

from the Iranian regime. The protesters playing musical instruments out here are getting paid by Iran? They're being paid by sources from Iranian regime. Look at them. You have to go look at them. They do not have teeth. They don't have a right dress,

on a welfare, because they don't work. How does a toothless person get money from Iran? Do they have a Venmo situation? Yes. These toothless Iranian sleeper cells were out in full force with their comfortable hokas and tasteful sun hats. But then, big news hit on the day of the rally. The Strait of Harmos is fully open and ready for business.

Straight is open as of this morning. Who do we have to thank for that? We have to thank President Trump for that. Yeah, Joe Biden wasn't trying to open the straight. Exactly. He had the balls to do this. To open the straight? Yeah. I mean, to do all this.

So what other president would have done? done this. Nobody else before him is in it. Biden wouldn't open the straight. No, Biden wouldn't open the straight. Wouldn't do it. Clinton wouldn't open the straight. All because the straight was already open until Donald Trump became president. So now, is that the genius that like you can't open the straight unless you close the street? Thank you. Create global pandemonium. Raise gas prices. Exactly. And then open the straight and still, no one's talking about the Epstein files. Well, that is true. Sadly, the street was closed again just a few hours later. But hopefully we're near the end of this Terrible war.

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Level up your business with FedEx. The New Power Move. My guest tonight is an award-winning actor, writer, and director who stars in the HBO Macs series The Pit. Please welcome Noah Wiley. Wow, wow, wow. Thank you, man. Thank you for coming. Thank you for making the pit.

It is, wow. I just, I feel everything. I feel everything when I watch this show. And more than other shows, you know, there's a pit in my stomach, and I can't. I can't think that's why you named it this. But that was the intention, yeah? It was intended to hit you specifically in your heart. That's true.

And you and you and you and hit everybody in their collective heart to show that we're not as different as we pretend to be sometimes. And then we all end up in certain arenas, like hospital emergency rooms, where it really doesn't matter those lines of division that we all play under outside that arena. Right then and there, you just want someone to take care of you. It is so true. When you're sick or injured or hurt, that's all you can think about.

And that is very true. It's a great point. One of the things I've noticed, there's no music. No, we early on wanted this to feel as immersive as possible. So a couple of things. Take the music out. Take all those cinematic, artificial sort of techniques out. You know, we tried to not do any trick photography. Everything is shot from almost a human eye level. Really to make you feel like you're a participant, that you're at the same vantage point as the characters that you don't have the objectivity of looking down on it from outside the pit. You're in it with us.

I mean, I'm sometimes watching TV, then I go to the kitchen, and then I hear strings or drums, and I go, oh, I better watch this scene. But when I watch the pit, don't go to the kitchen. No, no. Because you got to watch. And even the phone, I'm like,

this is pit time. Put the phone over there. And because it plays in real time over 15 hours, There's all sorts of little details embedded into the narrative to make it more rewarding viewing, the more closely you pay attention. You can follow a whole storyline that's taking place just in the background of you.

I feel like so many shows are dumbing it down for us, and I feel one of the things I want to thank you and all the producers and writers for is you're actually honoring our viewer's intellectual capability. I think something changed after COVID. People started watching content differently, more intensely, and it started to have more relevance and meaning in their lives.

And so, you know, that old adage of dumb it down doesn't apply anymore. People are extremely sophisticated. And they're viewing habits and in their tastes. And that water cooler conversation is back. People are banding storyline ideas and plot twists around. It's cool.

Anyone that watched my act one knows that we don't dumb it down. No. This is a particularly good episode, by the way. This thought did cross my mind. Forgive me if this is insulting. But is the pit good, or is it just, that I'm so happy to see people that are good at their jobs. You realize all day, all day, I'm watching clips of our FBI director pound beers.

So it's just there is a beauty in watching competent professionals. I think that's true. I think it's both kind of a wish fulfillment exposure therapy. If you get there, you want to make sure that those guys are going to be good. But I think there's also an aspect of watching people do work that has real meaning and makes a difference in the world. You know, I think that's something we all kind of want in our lives is to know that the labor that we're doing is not replaceable, that it does have some meaning. And the pit sort of identifies that.

How do you balance the really awful, sad realities of what happens in an ER with the inspiring and hopeful things that happen in ER but also happen on TV? I mean, I, you know, I've seen some things in the pit that have had me take a second before clicking on the next episode. That's not good for TV business, but also in ER, sad and bad shit happens sometimes. Yeah, as do really amazingly heroic and comical things too.

You find the whole human experience in there. And we try to take scenes positive, negative, so it's not just a drumbeat of misery. We try to show those quirkier aspects and mostly those resilient aspects of the human character that refuse to take in and on everything that they're seeing and choose to sort of retain a sense of human.

and a sense of humanity in the face of it. How did you approach playing Dr. Robbie this year because it's so clear that mental health was a major theme in this season and really who is helping the people who help people? Was there, and as it kind of went on, you, Dr. Robbie, you know who I'm talking about, right? Your character.

He's the guy with the beard, yeah. He's really good. He's really good. But he was being shittier to people as time went on. True, true story. You know, we don't always act in our most graceful when we're at our most desperate. And we wanted to show what it looks like

to go through a mental health crisis, honestly. And there are a lot of telltale signs, and they're not all things that would immediately trigger your empathy. Sometimes they may trigger your curiosity, and they may even trigger your distaste. But those are calls for help that just take a different form. And so, yeah, Robbie was going through a tough time. Even before we met him in season one,

season one and it's sort of been a revealing process to himself that he is in trouble and that he needs to find some help. I also love the balance of the character Joy who leaves the ER. And they say, well, what about your patience? And she goes, I'm gone. And in some ways, healthy people that don't just create but enforce boundaries. That was a very small detail that was given to that character. And that little bit of self-care has. resonated so loudly with people as they realize, no, it's okay to put a boundary up. It's okay to

not have to give you all the time to everybody, but take a little back for yourself. I think that's healthy. I love riding motorcycles. I own a triumph Bonneville. Your character has a Bonneville. And so during this whole season, you keep saying, oh, I got to go on the motorcycle trip. I'm sitting there going, go on your

f***t trip, man. The bike is right. The bike wants you to ride it. Anyways. Fun bike. Fun bike. Fun bike. You were... Do you ride motorcycles? I had to learn for a TV show I ended up in Canada called Falling Skies

where we were all riding dirt bikes around in the apocalypse. My mother was an orthopedic nurse. So she raised us, calling them donor cycles and forbade all of us ever to get on one. So every time I ride,

I hear my mother's voice in my head saying, you know, I'm going to do a total hip on you. Were you riding the bike in that first show? That was you. That was me. I had to take an actual training course

to do that. That four seconds of film was eight weeks of weekend courses at a parking lot with a lot of cones. But it was super fun to learn. And that bike is really fun. That's a fun bike. We're a helmet, everybody. Wear a helmet.

I think one of the things that I'm responding to so much in the pit also is just so refreshing to see a big TV production. 15 episodes? 15 episodes. Elaborate cast, set. I mean, you know, I'm just so thankful that it's being made. And coming back on an annual, not having to wait two or three years between seasons. You're working already on season three.

We're back to work in the writing room on season three. We start shooting it in June. You've been on two huge medical dramas, ER, back in the 90s. The Pit Now, how do you see audiences absorbing the shows differently? If you see them absorbing it differently or reacting to it differently all these years later? More of a fractured, sort of a siloed audience

as opposed to the old network days when everybody was watching the same three channels. More people were watching those channels then, but people watch more intensely now. I think that the fan bases is, you know, the internet is tied what used to be a very small silo to the small silo in Italy

and in Germany and the Philippines that also exist. So now you can scale your club globally, which is very exciting. But I'm just amazed that the show can still break through and still command popular attention because there's so many choices, there's so many channels

that to be on something that really doesn't rely on a lot of special effects that's a very human story. To have that connect right now feels extremely gratifying. In ER, you play Dr. John Carter. Yes, sir. And here's a picture of Dr. John Carter.

Oh, no. And, you know, what... Well, There is the little boy I knew. What advice? A couple Fiddler fans out there. What would you say to that man now? Oh, what advice would you have?

Talk less, listen more, worry less, relax, it's gonna be okay. Oh, so much wasted energy, worrying and obsessing about things that don't really matter. I've had in a really incredible year, but I had some less than incredible years to give me a really healthy perspective on this year. And so I'm just, I look back at versions of myself

that I just wanna go, it's okay. Like, where you are right now is good. You don't have to try so hard. Were you trying to advance your career? You were younger then? Was that what you mean? Is like a kind of an- Well, you just think, you're always thinking

in terms of trajectory, and sometimes you don't really realize where you are is as good as, it gets or is as it's as good it's going to be for the next 30 years of your life. So you want to take time out and smell the roses. You also want to appreciate something that's working when it's working and not necessarily want to use it as a stepping stone to get to someplace else. You know, I used an analogy with this ensemble when we first started.

I said, don't think of this as a springboard. Think of this as a surfboard. And if we stay on the board, this wave's going to carry us as far as it possibly can. But if we jump off thinking that we could get higher. or find better, we'll probably fall. You shared that with the cast on the pit? Yeah. That's amazing.

Yeah. Does anybody listen to you? I don't know. I mean, that's always the problem is you get hit with great advice and you don't always listen to. But how do you have perspective unless you have the life experience? So it's that old adage that youth is wasted on the young. You have to go through the road in order to appreciate the journey. And, you know, everybody's on this cast extremely emotionally mature for their age and experience.

And they don't need a lot of advice from me. They're doing fine. But I love that. I hope that they realize how special it is. I think they do. I think I'm going to just think about that in my life as springboard versus surfboard. This is a pretty good gig you got in, man. Let's go surfing.

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