The Daily Show: Ears Edition - TDS Time Machine | The Go F*ck Yourself Choir

Episode Date: July 27, 2025

Put your hands together for The Daily Show's Go F*ck Yourself Choir. Take a listen to their previous visits, and the events that force Jon Stewart to break into belligerent gospel. Jon responds to F...ox News responding to himself, but raises the ante. The choir is invited back to respond to violent threats against the creators of South Park. Jon again turns the choir's attention on the media's coverage of the Obamacare rollout. Most recently, Jon reacts to the news of Paramount cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and corporate cowardice in the face of the Trump administration's bullying, with help, of course, from the choir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:57 Fox News is on in the kids' day room and I see this. Tonight, Stewart slams Fox again. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Go f*** yourselves. Now Bernie Goldberg fires back at the funny man. Don't miss an explosive O'Reilly tonight. I was like, oh man, that funny man is screwed. And then I was like, wait, that's me.
Starting point is 00:01:23 I don't want to be fired back, hat. You see, funny story. Last week I mentioned Fox was upset about the media generalizing who the tea parties are and I agree with them. And I may have at that point then shown some of the very same people at Fox giddily generalizing about liberals and the left. And I might have, when presented with this rather bald hypocrisy, I may have told them to go f*** themselves.
Starting point is 00:02:00 And now they want to respond. All right, what did Bernie Goldberg have to say about me? So does Stewart have a point here? Are we being hypocritical by generalizing about some people? I'll just speak about me. He does. I am pleading guilty, and that's a sincere plea of guilty. You're welcome. I win again. But let me speak directly to Jon Stewart for just a few seconds, and I know he watches, he's a big fan of the show.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Guilty as charged. I watch it every night with all my friends. Continue Mr. Goldberg. If you just want to be a funny man who talks to an audience that will laugh at anything you say, that's okay with me, no problem. But if clearly you want to be a social commentator, more than just a comedian, and if you want to be a good one, you better find some guts. Okay, two things.
Starting point is 00:03:20 One, not all of us have your guts, Bernie. It takes a tough man to walk into O'Reilly's lion's den and criticize liberal elites. And two, to say that comedians have to decide whether they're comedians or social commentators, comedians do social commentary through comedy. That's how it's worked for thousands of years. I have not moved out of the comedian's box
Starting point is 00:03:51 into the news box. The news box is moving towards me. But I assume, I'm just doing what idiots like me have done for thousands of years. But I assume that you have evidence that I've betrayed my craft. When you had Frank Rich on your show, who generalizes all the time about conservatives and Republicans being bigots, you didn't ask him a single tough question.
Starting point is 00:04:21 You gave him a lap dance. You practically had your tongue down his throat. Oh! Woo! Guilty as charged! Was that televised? I don't wanna say anything, but Frank Rich hasn't been on the show since 2006. I mean, since I gave Frank Rich that lap dance,
Starting point is 00:04:43 I don't know if you noticed, but I went back in the champagne room with Bill Kristol, like, five times. And if you watch this show, as it appears you have, you must remember me and McCain f***ing like bunnies. But I guess that's besides the point. Here's the point. You can't criticize me for not being fair and balanced. That's your slogan. Which, by the way, you never follow. criticize me for not being fair and balanced. That's your slogan.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Which by the way, you never follow. Which brings us back to the essence of the whole go f*** yourselves piece. Guess what? You're not nearly as edgy as you think you are. You're just a safe Jay Leno
Starting point is 00:05:22 with a much smaller audience but you get to say the F-bomb. Oh! OK, that's going to leave a mark. Yeah, OK, that one stung. I'm not going to lie on that one. I took that one right in the testicles. That was, look, again, two things.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Whoever said I was edgy? I never said I was edgy. I never said I was edgy. I never thought I was edgy. And number two, if you think I'm Leno with the F-bomb, you know less about comedy than you do about media and politics. This is Leno with the F-bomb. Look, I mean, can you believe this?
Starting point is 00:06:00 It's a typo. Sickest judge? What kind of ass makes that kind of mistake? Goddamn f***ing second f***ing a** stick. You hear me? With the f***ing f***ing f***ing phones, I can't stop myself. Wow, he's so dirty. No wonder Prime Time couldn't handle him. You're just a safe Jay Leno with a much smaller audience,
Starting point is 00:06:27 but you get to say the F-bomb, which gives your incredibly unsophisticated audience the illusion... You're generalizing. ...the illusion that you're courageous and that you're a renegade, but it's only an illusion. Wait, wait! I'm not a courageous renegade? But I've always considered myself the Lorenzo Lamis of late
Starting point is 00:06:48 night. And as far as my audience being unsophisticated- Balderdash! Wait, I'm sorry, who said that? It is I, your biggest fan, Toppington Von Monocle. Unsophisticated? How dare he! If I may quote Catalis, pedicabo ego vas et irrimabo.
Starting point is 00:07:09 I'm sorry, Mr. Von Monocle, I don't speak Latin. It means I will sodomize you and face-s*** you. There we go. By the way, I thought my audience was elitist. Are they elitist or unsophisticated or unsophisticated in their elitism? Look, I'm sorry I told you to go f*** yourself last week and that other time like six months ago I told you to go f*** yourself. I know that I criticize you and Fox News a lot,
Starting point is 00:07:46 but only because you're truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization. Oh wait, no, you know what? That's, no. That's the wrong approach. That's the wrong approach. That's not, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna be confrontational.
Starting point is 00:08:00 I wanna take a minute to talk directly to Bernie Goldberg. ["Burn It Go-Burn"] I want to take a minute to talk directly to Bernie Goldberg. -♪ Baby, I don't want to fight, baby. And I know you've been hurt before by them liberal elites. -♪ They done you wrong, Bernie. -♪ Don't let that close your heart, brother. I don't hate you. I mean, you're not Dick Morris. -♪ Yeah, what is wrong with that guy?
Starting point is 00:08:26 Yeah, seriously. He's starting to look like that guy from Men in Black. Which one? You know, from the first one, the guy who came down and walked around in other people's skin. A Shalhoub? No. Oh, oh, oh, the Vincent D'Onofrio guy. That's the one.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah, that's right. Okay. You see, I've learned people are complicated, Bernie, and hard to categorize. I mean, I've got some conservative views. He's a pro-military mother-fucker piece to the troops. I've got some libertarian views. Legalize it. Gay marriage.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Uh-huh. Pot. Uh-huh. Pot. Uh-huh. Gay pot marriage. Now you make a **** up. And I know that I can be intolerant. Lactose and otherwise don't let this man eat any blisters. And I believe this country should provide some kind of social safety net for our most
Starting point is 00:09:23 vulnerable citizens. Communists. And I also believe power should be passed down to the firstborn son of the reigning king. Monarchists. And I believe in ghosts. Boo! But I will tell you this, Bernie Goldberg! Oh, Bernie Goldberg!
Starting point is 00:09:40 I will tell you this! Bernie Goldberg! I'll tell you funny! I'll tell you funny! I'll tell you funny! I'll tell you funny! Oh yeah, Bernie Goldberg! You can criticize my interviews! They're good! Yes, they can be!
Starting point is 00:10:00 They weren't here! That's the editing. Not funny! I try to be funny. Why don't you watch the movie? I don't have time to watch all the guest movies! My point is this. I'm telling you Bernie, he's got a point now.
Starting point is 00:10:16 He's got a point now. He's got a point now. He's got a point now. Bernie Goldberg, I don't need to satisfy your version of what fair satire is or should be. I'm not fair. I'm not balanced. He's unstable. That's not what I meant. He's cocoloco. Thank you. You're criticizing me for not living up to your tagline. Oh Lord! And you've dismissed any criticism as further evidence of how the rest of the media persecute you. You like to pretend, Boone and Goldberg in
Starting point is 00:10:51 Fox News, that the relentless conservative activism of Fox News is the equivalent, all the equivalent of the disorganized liberal influence you find on NBC, ABC, and CBS. But Fox News, you may be able to detect a liberal pathogen in their bloodstream, however faint. But Fox News is such a crazy overreaction to that perceived threat. You're like an autoimmune disorder. I'm not saying the virus doesn't exist in some small quantity, but you're producing
Starting point is 00:11:26 way too many antibodies. Fox News, you're the Lupus of News. So, I guess what I'm saying is this. Go! As long as fair and balanced is how you sell yourselves. Guess what I'm saying is this. Yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself!
Starting point is 00:12:08 Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! By now, those of you with access to media have probably heard that our good friends and colleagues Matt and Trey got in a little bit of trouble during the airing of their
Starting point is 00:12:31 weekly animated series South Park. And by trouble, I mean veiled death threats. It was a provocative episode where they addressed the Islamic prohibition on depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Their solution, of course, as is the solution to many of life's problems, a bear suit. It's actually the same way I got out of jury duty. By the way, it turns out it wasn't really Muhammad in the bear suit. It was Santa Claus.
Starting point is 00:12:57 And I say that not to enrage the elf community. But I guess when you're dealing with irrational anger, the facts of what the show was aren't really the issue. Comedy Central decided to censor the episode. It's their right. We all serve at their pleasure. I have more than once been called out of my home on a Sunday to dance for the head of programming at his winter chalet. Can I put my clothes on now? I'm not finished. The censorship was a decision Comedy Central made,
Starting point is 00:13:36 I think, as a way to protect their employees from what they believe was any possible harmful repercussions to them, although after forcing many of these same employees to work on Mind of Mencia and Krogh Mondoon, I think, I think, I think,
Starting point is 00:13:51 I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think,
Starting point is 00:13:57 I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think,
Starting point is 00:14:04 I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, our great and hilarious and intelligent and sweet comedy brethren Matt and Trey now find themselves in, purely for expressing themselves, is this. The threats that they received come from Revolution Muslim, a group located in New York City. This group,
Starting point is 00:14:23 residing in the shadows, or should I say former shadows, of the World Trade Center, are allowed to praise Osama Bin Laden, celebrate the anniversary of 9-11, and try and intimidate the creators of South Park, all while enjoying our lovely theater district, our many diverse restaurants, including some of really the best Jewish deli you'll find. And our new Highline Park. It's a park made out of an old elevated train line. It's a really super thin park in the sky. Let's play frisbee.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Little help. And these numbnuts get to enjoy it, all because of how much we in this country value and protect even their freedom of expression. But as I witness the reaction to this episode, it makes me realize that I myself actually owe a lot of religious people an apology. Not for making jokes at their expense, but for not appreciating and thanking you for how well you've handled it. Because I mean we've been ass****s to the Jews. Shalom ladies.
Starting point is 00:15:47 Took two moils to do that. Oh, is this good matzah ball soup? That's my cousin, Rabbi Wallenstein. These fish looking to schmucks in Congress. I don't want to do this, or maybe I have to atone for that later. And I quote. For Passover, the lame shank, friend or foe? Baruch atah adonai!
Starting point is 00:16:05 Oy goboiga, oy goboiga! You people are focacta. Completely mishugana! Hey! You call that a Holocaust cartoon? I'll show you a Holocaust cartoon, and it involves my sister! That, we put that together, very kind of you.
Starting point is 00:16:28 That, we put that together, that's very kind of you. That's all we could throw together in two hours. We've actually made mention, I believe also, of Christians. You've ever talked about gay sex with a Methodist, you know there's only one thing they demand, graphic detail. Catholicism, the religion that makes high school girls either no fun at all or pretty wild. David Brinkley's the David Brinkley Lutherans are doomed sissies report. What the rapture might be like? Other faiths are more cavalier about foot hygiene. For instance, I'm a Lutheran.
Starting point is 00:17:09 That's a Mormon. The Jehovah's Witnesses. Your best chance to talk with old Jamaican women. My God, the Pope's plane is invisible! No, the Pope is Wonder Woman! Check it out. It's a bedtime movie! And to the other religions, which I guess you would call them off beat or miscellaneous.
Starting point is 00:17:39 The sacred Ganges where the Hindus take the ashes of their loved ones does sound a lot like something you get from a whore. Voodoo. The only religion where you can become a doctor without going to grad school. Atheism. The religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. Wiccan Yule. It's like Christmas for people who hate their parents.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Rastafarianism. Scientology. Buddhism. The official religion of chubby chasers. If there is mutual respect, mutual friendship. I am ready to talk with the Chinese on this proposal anywhere, anytime. The dirty Amish pillow talk. It must be like oh oh Jebediah oh yee. What are they? What are they? The Cathars? Thor, the Norse Thunder God.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I am an American Moslem. I know it's called the pigskin, OK, but it's not against your religion to catch it. We tried to get people on board with Kwanzaa, but it was just too retarded. Boom! That's everybody. Boom!
Starting point is 00:18:42 By the way, I just want to point this out. Typically, the angriest letters we get tend to come from the Amish. Surprising! But their letters? The calligraphy? For more now on the South Park controversy, we are joined by our senior Islamic correspondent, Asif Manvi. Asif, what do you make of the South Park controversy, censorship, et cetera? Well, I mean, what am I, John?
Starting point is 00:19:11 Every Muslim in the world, I mean, I represent all Muslims? Come on! Well, in this building, actually. I mean, for you, would a depiction of Mohammed in some form upset you? John, look, I'm a pretty liberal Muslim, meaning during Ramadan, every now and then, I'll sneak a Diet Coke before sundown. But yes, it would make me uncomfortable, and I can understand people being upset about
Starting point is 00:19:41 it. Even though it's a cartoon? Yes. But here's what's more upsetting. Someone in the name of a faith that I believe in threatening another person for doing it. Wow, that's... Why is that? Why do you think that's so...
Starting point is 00:19:58 Well, A, it's just so 12th century, and B, I don't like having to walk around wearing this suit You you had to have a special suit made no, it's a Tommy Hilfiger, but I I had to buy it Thank you very much. I'll see if my view everybody In conclusion I had to buy it. Thank you very much. Asif Manvi everybody. Asif Manvi. So, in conclusion, I think there's only one thing left to say to revolution Muslim. And I hesitate to use this phrase, because it's a phrase I've used before in reference to other people.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Fox News, Bernie Goldberg, Kramer, the crew at Chick-fil-A on 8th Avenue, they can't seem to get a salad, right? And I don't want to lump these people in with revolution Muslim and extremists like that. Because even in our angriest and most contentious moments, people over there, Fox and those things, they're basically decent human beings I disagree with. They are at worst worthy adversaries, opponents, rivals, disputants, aspergioners, nemesi. But we're not enemies. Revolution Muslim, your type of hatred and intolerance. That's the enemy.
Starting point is 00:21:23 And so... ["The Last Supper"] ["The Last Supper"] ["The Last Supper"] ["The Last Supper"] I say to you... And I know you get cable... And I say this to anyone who's threatening death in the name of religion of politics Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now!
Starting point is 00:22:06 Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself! Go f*** yourself!
Starting point is 00:22:22 Go f*** yourself! As we've been hearing, President Obama's health care plan rollout is now being called the worst product launch since crystal meth Pepsi. And it's made the president some fierce adversaries, one in particular. If you've lost John Stewart, you're in deep trouble. You lost John Stewart, you got problems? Even John Stewart this week taking shots at Obamacare, what impact does that have on the whole public dialogue? What impact does me have on the public dialogue?
Starting point is 00:22:58 Well, it introduces to the health care debate the term f*** punt, which I don't think had been used prior. care debate, the term, **** punt. Which I, I don't think had been used prior. And is now, according to the Affordable Care Act, covered. But I guess it is very significant that even John Stewart, even John Stewart has turned against this.
Starting point is 00:23:22 I can't recall even John Stewart ever doing that before. The Daily Show host, John Stuart, joked that the White House staffers haven't been reading their emails. If he's lost John Stuart, I'm just saying. Even John Stuart's been hammering at this. Even John Stuart was turning on the president, saying,
Starting point is 00:23:40 oh, he learns everything from the news. Even John Stuart poked fun at President Obama for the poor debate performance. Even the comics lampooned the president's various statements about a public plan. I was wondering what's going to happen to the Daily Show when Barack Obama, when they got what they wanted, and that is a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate,
Starting point is 00:23:57 a Democratic president. And I got to give him credit. They're going after it. Who is that young whippersnapper mocking the president? Look, making fun of something, that's nothing new for us. So don't act like us making jokes about a certain program or president is evidence that that politician or issue has reached some kind of tipping point for action. Although that apparently is exactly the case that they are making.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Should Sartorius Sibelius step down or be fired? I have called for her resignation. I think when Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live are making fun of the job that you are doing and the website, you know, what that speaks to is the fact that young Americans are laughing at the secretary and the website. If that causes things to end,
Starting point is 00:24:42 why was the network you were on still on the air? The Senator from Wyoming believes that when young Americans laugh at a federal official, it is time for that official to step down. You didn't happen to ever mention that to this guy, did you? I was talking about that one! How did he survive our vicious poking-oh-fun? And I seem to remember there was another fellow with that president. Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face gate. Two glorious days of Cheney shot an old man in the face jokes.
Starting point is 00:25:22 Did he leave? No. We did a running segment called, You Don't face jokes. Did he leave? No. We did a running segment called You Don't Know Dick. Did he leave? What did it accomplish? Dick. It's an arms race. Still on television. Arby's. Arby's.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Still making sandwiches filled with with filled with sliced something what what was what was that what where's that beautiful sound coming It can't be! It can't be possible! Are our friends back? Oh my God, people! They're back! Oh Lord! People, I am here to say that the jokes we do on this program seem to accomplish very little. I am here to say... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Maybe on a good day. Maybe on a good day, right. But most of the stuff we complain about never changes.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Because testosterone is weak. I don't know about weak. You know, that's exciting. Early onset osteoporosis. I have osteoporosis. I have fine bone density. The point is this. Don't you use our jokes as evidence that the thing you hate must be stopped.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Because I'm sure when we joke about **** you like, you're more than happy to ignore. Like most of the time. We add insult, not injury. If anything, you're just weak, dulling the populace anger that could really change the system. Somebody's been reading salon.com. Hey John, there's one other thing. What's that?
Starting point is 00:27:36 The thing we always say. Oh, I forgot about it. One, two, one, two, three. I forgot about it Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself now! Go f*** yourself! I guess in Trump's mind, he doesn't have to keep his promises to MAGA as long as he continues to attack the people that MAGA hates. That's his get out of jail free card.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Trump believes he has immunity as long as he remains a petty tyrant demanding only liberal institutions surrender to his wins. And what's crazy is liberal institutions. Columbia University is bowing to President Trump's demands ABC News settling a defamation suit with President Trump paying out 1515 million. Trump collected a big check, $25 million from Metta.
Starting point is 00:28:50 A powerful law firm is caving to growing pressure from the Trump administration. The president pressuring two more law firms, and they have relented. Wilkie, Farr, and Gallagher became the latest major law firm to enter into one of these settlements with the White House. Really?
Starting point is 00:29:07 Wilkie, Pharr, and Gallagher? We know Gallagher wouldn't put up a fight. And Pharr was always a coward. But this episode has long last brought shame to the proud name of Wilkie. Oh, Wilkie! Not since John Wilkie Booth assassinated Abraham Linky. Too soon?
Starting point is 00:29:55 But since we're on the topic of corporate capitulation, to the whims of a pussy-grabbing enigma, last week, as you may have heard, CBS, which happens to have the same parent company as the network this program currently airs on, unceremoniously canceled the late show with Stephen Colbert. And yes, in this case, I'll allow it. Now, obviously, I am certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter. Many of you may or may not know Stephen and I worked together on this very program together from 1999 through 2005.
Starting point is 00:30:41 Oh. Haven't changed a bit. And then, Stephen began our sister program, The Colbert Report, also on Comedy Central. A show which, in my mind, if I may, a show which in my mind remains to this day, one of the most astounding accomplishments in satirical television, rendering a fictional character in real time four nights a week for 10 years. So seamlessly, many viewers believed him
Starting point is 00:31:19 to be the boorish high status idiot he was portraying. They were heady times, my friends. We were two pretty good-sized fish in a reasonably small basic cable pond. Both of our shows reached an inflection point in 2015. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman in, quite frankly frankly a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in.
Starting point is 00:31:50 And I quit. I quit. I quit. Stephen challenged himself. I passed away. Stephen challenged his abilities in the biggest field you could and I literally went to a farm upstate. It's true.
Starting point is 00:32:12 He did it. I did it. And if I may, watching Steven exceed all expectations in the role and become the number one late night show on network television has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend. And now... And now... applause
Starting point is 00:32:39 Stephen has been canceled for purely financial reasons. And by the way, not just Stephen's show, CBS has canceled the entirety of the late show franchise. Gone! Now I acknowledge, losing acknowledge. Losing money. Late night TV is a struggling financial model. We are all basically operating a blockbuster kiosk inside of a tower records. But when your industry is faced with changes, you don't just call it a day. My God!
Starting point is 00:33:29 When CDs stopped selling, they didn't just go, oh well, music, it's been a good run. The fact that CBS didn't try to save their number one rated network late night franchise that's been on the air for over three decades. Is part of what's making everybody wonder, was this purely financial? Or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger. What's killing the show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president so insecure, suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency.
Starting point is 00:34:11 It's a terrible disease. It's a terrible disease. Truly, it's a vicious disease. I believe CBS lost the benefit of the doubt two weeks prior when they sold out their flagship news program to pay an extortion fee to said president. At that time, poor Andy Rooney must have been rolling over in his bed. That's right. He's alive. Andy Rooney is alive. I probably buried the lead on this entire bit. Andy Rooney is alive. And he's just turning over in bed.
Starting point is 00:35:07 You know what he's probably doing? Biding his time. For when the network calls him and says, is anything else bothering you, Andy? Yeah, the thing is. Ask your parents. He was on 60 Minutes. Look, I understand the corporate fear, I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have
Starting point is 00:35:30 with $8 billion at stake, but understand this, truly. The shows that you now seek to cancel, censor, and control, a not insignificant portion of that eight billion dollar value came from those fucking shows shows that take a stand shows that are unafraid and not to believe me this is not a we speak truth to power we don't we speak opinions to television cameras but we try we fucking try every night.
Starting point is 00:36:13 And if you believe as corporations or as networks you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king's radar? A, why will anyone watch you and you are fucking wrong? You wanna know how impossible?
Starting point is 00:36:35 Is it true? Do you wanna know, do you wanna know how impossible it is to stay on Lord Farquad's good side? President Trump says he will sue the Wall Street Journal and its owner Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News. Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, the man other than Biden, maybe most responsible for getting Trump elected. Fox!
Starting point is 00:37:08 Yeah, I fucking snuck that in there! Yeah! Stupid! Yeah! Stupid! Fox spends 24 hours a day blowing Trump, and it's not enough. Imagine suing someone mid-blow.
Starting point is 00:37:34 How could you? Finish up, finish up down there, and I'll see you in court. Laughter and applause court. So here's the point. If you're trying to figure out why Stephen's show is ending, I don't think the answer can be found in some smoking gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives or in CBS's QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night. I think the answer is in the fear and pre-compliance
Starting point is 00:38:05 that is gripping all of America's institutions at this very moment, institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our pubic hair doodling commander-in-chief. This is not the moment to give in. I'm not giving in. I'm not going anywhere. I think.
Starting point is 00:38:28 So to those institutions, to those corporations and advertisers and universities and law firms, all of them, if you still think that bending the knee to Trump will save you, I have one thing to say. I know you're scared. I have one thing to say. I know you're scared. I know you're weary. I know your plans don't include me
Starting point is 00:39:12 But these are troubled times So sack the fuck up We pause Up! The pause! This ain't the time to shrink! This is the time to fight! This is the time to rise up! Not too fast you're old! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're old! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're old!
Starting point is 00:39:30 Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young!
Starting point is 00:39:38 Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! Not too fast you're young! This is the time to fight! Time to fight! This is the time to rise up! Not too fast you're old!
Starting point is 00:39:58 I am old, that is a true point. Obviously the blood pressure, etc. But compliance and complacency is not the answer. We reject the mindless, machine-generated slap that offends nobody. And we affirm our shared humanity. We must continue to have humans make things that inspire and provoke other humans. Tad LGBT wrote that. But if you're afraid and you protect your bottom line, I've got but one thing to say, just one little phrase.
Starting point is 00:40:45 You tell them. Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Wait, wait, wait. Bring it down.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Bring it down. Let's bring it down. Little bit quiet. Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself. Just go fuck yourself. Everybody! Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself. Just go fuck yourself.
Starting point is 00:41:14 Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself. Just go fuck yourself. Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself. Just go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself. Fuck, fuck, fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself!
Starting point is 00:41:30 Come fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself! Come fuck yourself! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhkuhhhhhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhkuhk uhk uhk uhk uhk uhk uhk uhk Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Explore more shows from The Daily Show Podcast Universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts.
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