The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Roy Wood Jr.'s Favorite Olympic Moments

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

Roy Wood Jr. gives a rundown of his favorite highlights from the Tokyo Olympics, including a runner's unlikely comeback, a tennis player's temper tantrum and a basketball-shooting robot. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. You're rolling? But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Seth Done of CBS News, listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17th. Hey what's up? It's Roywood Jr. and I'm here to look back at some of my favorite moments from this year's Super Weird Tokyo

20 Olympics. Is it 21 or 2020? First up, a runner from the Netherlands falls down, middle of the race, gets up and wins the damn race. Look at this. How does she catch up with them so fast after falling? It's like she got the invincibility star from Mario Kart. Here's the downside to falling in the Olympics and getting right back up and winning a gold medal. Now in your real life, if you fall down, ain't nobody gonna be worried about you. Yo'ass can slip and fall down some icy steps. Everybody's just gonna be like, yeah, you need to get up.

I saw what you did in Tokyo. Shake it off. Next up, a British diverts, in the stands and just, oh yeah, don't pardon me. I'm just gonna knit me a sweater at, alright? Which goes to show you just how underfunded the Olympics are this year. The divers have to make their own towels. I think that this is a more useful skill than the actual diving itself. The apocalypse is coming, people. Pretty soon, we're all gonna be fighting and killing each other. Probably want somebody on your team who can make a sweater. You don't need nobody that could do two triple back flip

South Cowles. Is that a swimming maneuver? I think that's gymnastics. Moving on. Well, well, well. If it isn't Novak Jokovich not handling pressure well during the Olympics. Got pissed off doing this bronze metal match and took his racket and smashed it and threw it off into the stands Screeming and hooping and holl in the the Olympics and holl and holl and holl and holl and holl and holling him and holling him the Olympics and holling him the Olympics and the Olympics and the Olympics and the Olympics and the Olympics and the Olympics. If the Olympics. If the oared the oared the oared the oared the o' the o' the o' the o' their their their their thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. that. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. Is te. Is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Is. Is that's. Is th. Is t. took his racket and smashed it and bashed it and threw it off into the stands and screaming and hooping and holling him. If you'd have done all of that to the ball, your ass would have won the match. Why are you blaming the racket? The racket does what you tell it to do? It ain't the racket.

If anythea's fault man smashing a tennis racket. Here's another one of my favorite moments. It's when a robot that came from the future to kill Sarah Connor started playing basketball. Now, I don't know how y'all like your apocalyptic creatures, but I like mine without a jumper. You're gonna kill me, just kill me, don't cross me over too. The s ro robot is robot is robot is robot is robot is robot is robot is robot is robot is good at basketball it's about to start dating a Kardashian. Seriously, this dude is so

impressive that Drake probably about to start sitting courtside to watch it, sitting there rocking a Boston Dynamics jersey. One of my favorite things from the Olympics is the fact that the country of Russia is banned but Russian athletes are not. So they just compete under the name ROCC or Russian Olympic committee or rock. the to rock. 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 I I the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. t. t. today today today the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the.OC or Russian Olympic Committee or Rock. I'm gonna be real with you, I saw the rock. I thought Jay-Z took some of his title money and started an Olympic team. So let me get this straight. Russia is allowed to compete in the Olympics under the name Russian Olympic Committee.

But every time I try to show up to the International Olympic Committee for sending a strong message to the rest of the world. Do all the drugs you want. Just make sure you set up a shell country first. Those are my favorite moments. Congratulations to all the athletes who competed except for the Russian Olympic Committee. Fake ID having motherfuck. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ears edition. Subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television.

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