The Daily Show: Ears Edition - TDS Time Machine | Jon Stewart Talks to Comedy Icons - Part 2

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

Jon Stewart sits down for a chat with some of the best in the comedy world: Larry David, Tina Fey, and Adam Sandler.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Now. Look at that. It's very humbling. Who's the who's the worst guest you ever had on this show? The worst. The absolute worst guest. I've been here 10 years.

I want to give them a run for their money tonight. You think you can do that? I think I can try. I've had some bad guests. I really think I'm up to it. Bishop Desmond Tutu. Really? Drunk off his ass.

Wow. You know who was not good? Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid. We had him on the show and he was like in a coma. It was so weird. He have you familiar with him? I know who the majority leader is, yes. If only you'd been in Times Square for us

He'd written a book about his life I was asking about his life and it was literally as though I was telling him a story he'd never heard before Look look at the house you grew up in and he was like Well, I'm from Brooklyn are you from Brooklyn yes Well, I'm from Brooklyn. Are you from Brooklyn? Yes. Are you from Brooklyn? No, I was just telling you about my life.

I remember my life, yeah. You do remember your life. You're from Brooklyn. Yeah. I could be worse than Harry Reid. We'll see. I don't think you're going to be worse than Harry Reid. Already?

I'm having a much better time. Is that right? Already. Ah, good. How are you doing otherwise? Are you, you would like to be the worst guess first of all Kirby enthusiasm is a great show But why do you mind if I lean back It doesn't bother me at all. How about my foot up over here? I don't mind. Is that a problem?

It's it's not very sturdy. Are you jealous that I'm not wearing a tie. I Am somewhat jealous that you seem very fit. You almost seem athletic. You see you have like an athletic build to some extent. Can I tell you something? Please. People are a little surprised by my athleticism when they see it, when I demonstrate it. For example, if we were playing basketball, I'd go like that, you wouldn't know what to

do. You'd be stifled. I'd go around you so fast. You'd go, jeez, Larry David, he can play basketball. Let me tell you why I would have been stymied if you had done that. Because I don't play with a ball that small. You were doing the gesture you were working with. If you'd be playing with a ping pong ball, you'd say, hud-hud-hud-hud. I would be stupefied.

So you feel if I went like that. Yes! Now I feel we're playing basketball. That's hard to mind though because your hands go like this. It's got no definite space. But please put your feet up. No one has put their foot up. Can I tell you something?

Yes. I'm a little concerned that I don't have the right sock length to do it. I'm gonna try I want to say we'll just let's let's look at the sock length. It's a beigy but the thing is you can't show any skin at all on you know ever in life right when you cross your legs on a man-core you can't that. Let's see. I've got the sock length. Yeah Aristocratic to some extent I see you have a suede shoe a suede sneaker. Okay, that's very very Warjoke I didn't pick it up. Is that true? Yes, wardrobe. Yeah. Everything I'm wearing is wardrobe. I still... In your life, you have a person that picks out your clothes?

No, I steal it from the show. They buy it and I take it home. What would you wear? This, this, wardrobe, wardrobe. All of it? Underwear, I got the underwear. Would you have them do the underwear? Is that stepping up your relationship with wardrobe to a more intimate place? Underwear, I got the underwear. Would you have them do the underwear?

Is that stepping up your relationship with wardrobe to a more intimate place? To say to them, you know I enjoy... Yeah, I could go Hanes 34. I could say that, yes. What was giving your your druthers is this the outfit that you would or do you feel are you costumed? Do you feel or or in life is this your show are these your show clothes and right after this you're like I can't wait to get this pullover off so I can put on my tuxedo. What's your what would you do I? Walk out of the house with this

And I'll wear it all day. Yeah. You'll stay with it. I'll stay with it. You won't get a grass stain playing in the yard or anything. John, this is me. You're talking to me. But you know something?

I'm not talking to you. What? I'm not talking to you. That's not how you dress. You're right. You know what this is? This is, I run a funeral parlor at night. And so I always dress there because when you see the families and they're obviously grieving

and you don't want to show up obviously looking like a ball of a ball. Can I do something now as only a friend would? Please. Your collar's up a little bit. Is that true? Yeah. They were telling me that earlier and it's... Yes.

Yeah. You know what that is? If I may say it. You got a runaway collar. No disrespect to you. It's a signal I send to my children every night Let them know I say I say kids watch your daddy, and if you see I'm gonna take one aspect of my clothing

That is so sweet, and I'm gonna roll up Carol Burnett had to you, but I would like a piece of cake right now. I don't know what it is. I honestly feel like Passover is over and now we're going to have a piece of cake. Bring it out. Come on. Let's nosh. Yep. I remember, you know, Saturday Night Live is grueling.

Yeah, you hosted. You were great on the show. I was tremendous. I was. Maybe... I was so good, they said, don't come back, you would shame the other hosts. But you know, I don't know if people realize the difficulty. You guys are putting on a 90 minute play.

Yeah, that's a long show, every week. And it was crazy to see just the sets and the makeup and the costumes and the writing and just how much had to come together. Yeah. Technically. And the crew never messes up. They never accidentally put up the hooker set for the president sketch. They never mess up.

Is that the error that everyone's trying to avoid? Nobody ever enters the Oval Office in a hamburger outfit. They always get it right. Hamburger outfit in Oval Office. Done. I'm submitting it. You know what's so funny? When I was doing Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon, we started and then you were doing

this, and all this press, you know, this show's like so popular and exploded, and there'd be all these press things that said like, John Stewart, America's best fake news anchor. And I was like, I'm kind of the only other fake news anchor. Because Jimmy's like a sketch comedian, and Colbert wasn't doing his thing yet, and I was like, dag, dag, America? It's kind of a two-man horse race at that point,

but now you got Colbert nipping at our heels. And I'll tell you what, I've seen that kid. He's the future of fake news. That's what I'm thinking. When I was at Second City, I was at Second City in Chicago back in the day. And when I first got there, I was a student. And Colbert and Steve Carell were on the main stage.

And we used to go watch them all the time. And one of the two, I will not say which one, was a notorious ladies man. Can I guess? Can I guess? Okay, but I'm not going to... But let me guess. Okay. Neither.

Was it... One of the two was very popular with the ladies. Here's what I believe. I believe both could be flirtatious. I believe Colbert could seal the deal. I'm not gonna say. I can't say. I believe at the end of the day,

Carell would say this. I don't want to go to Bennekin's. You know, Colbert would be there with the artistic guitar. Right, exactly. He'd be up there with the harpsichord. ["The Harpsichord"] Hey, Ben! I got... I just... I came out here, I want to remember three things to tell you.

Tell me. I can't remember any of it. I can't remember any of it. I got none. I got none. How are you, pal? I'm doing very well. How is the, the corduroy seems thick.

It seems thick for this, uh. I had corduroy pants on too and somebody said don't wear corduroy on corduroy. So I switched it up. This is a whole new thing. My wife has been going out and getting me new clothes. Because I look back at my old thing. I've been on television a long time. And I've been wearing the same clothes,

literally, on every show. So she went out and got me this corduroy shirt, this other flannel one, and a t-shirt. But see, I would, and again, this is nothing against the wife, but that is not a shirt. You're wearing, that is clearly some sort of coat-shirt hybrid. That's not... This is in New York because I was going there and she was being nice and I knew I was going

to be cold. Also, I don't try on things. I refuse to try on things. So like when I go to a store, she goes, hey, you want to... And I just get it. And then it's either too big or too tight, but I have to wear it anyways. Because it's... Now it does seem like underneath the new...

Is an older shirt. Shirt jacket or shacket. That's why I had it buttoned, to cover the oldness to show the wife respect. That's the key to a happy marriage. It's those types of compromises. At what point in that, because I've been married, we've been married probably the same amount,

how long have you been married? I've been with the same girl, 14, and married about seven or eight. Oh, very similar. I've been with my wife for about 15 years, married for 10, and I am just getting to the point where I don't have to change my outfits.

Ha ha ha. This is a new thing. She was cool about it in the beginning and then started realizing, you know, she dresses nice and I have the two daughters who yell at me for not dressing nice. So that became like a factor in the house. When I would come downstairs in the morning

and all three of them would say, please don't. Then I said, all right, go get me some new stuff. You know what I get in the house, and this is new as well, daddy, I don't like the way you smell. That's not you. That's their nose is stronger at that age. But yeah, no, no, no.

My kid, if I... She'll say, brush your teeth a little better. Brush your teeth a little better and maybe I'll kiss you. That's nice, though. And also a concern for your health because plaque, one of the bacteria, one of the leading causes of all kinds of distress they're finding these days. Absolutely. So I very much, I appreciate that.

That's nice of her to do that. She loves her dad. You say she, but only one loves the dad? The other, because you said there's three. The other one is young enough to get past the stench and get right in there and start kissing me. Oh, that's nice. It's the five-year-old that just goes, this is really horrific, what I'm smelling right now.

All right. I appreciate, though, the use of the vocabulary, horrific and all that. That was giant. That was giant for the Sandman. Oh, is that true? Horrific was as good as it gets. Horrific and Metamorphosis is a nice one.

That is a nice one. That's all I got. Are you gonna stick around and watch the Jet, I know you're a big Jeff, are you gonna stay around and watch? I would like to see that. My kids want me to get back to LA. They demanded I come home. I said it's one extra day if I could see the Jets-Pats game.

You can watch it on television, they said. So I'm gonna go home and... When was the last time you made a decision? Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one, Johnny. When, when, when... I mean... That's a good one, Johnny. I mean, you're wrapped in corduroy, you can't watch books. You're like a Shelley yourself. You're like a microwaveable burrito in that thing.

Here's what happens. Kids fall asleep, maybe nine, eight thirty nine, maybe ten. The wife falls asleep, maybe 1. From 1 to 6, it's bananas, what goes on. You guys got to see it. I put on my old clothes and lay there. Sandlot time! Yep. That's when the boys come over to the house. wherever you get your podcasts. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime

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