The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Thirty F#@king Years| Ronny and Jordan's Favorite Segments - Full Length

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

In our first episode of ⁠30 F#@king Years⁠, Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng broke down their all-time favorite Daily Show segments. Now you can catch those segments in full. Brian Unger visits a man addicted to Disney. Come On! Rob Cordry argues his case against the sun. Michael Kosta talks to a man that got a constitutional amendment ratified. Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell debate the death tax, and contemplate murder. Jordan Klepper attends his first ever Donald Trump rally, and in a three part series, John Oliver goes to Australia to learn about gun reform after tragedy. -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. Sounds like Bethlehem, Pennsylvania are ripe targets for Disney infestation, where the unfortunate are victimized by this growing scourge. One of the unfortunates lives here, wracked by a lifetime of abuse consumed by an insidious addiction. Do you admit to yourself that you're an addict? Oh yeah. You're addicted. Oh, yes, definitely.

George Rieger has been using Disney since he was a boy. Do you remember the first time you tripped? Disneyland. My grandparents, 13 years old. In fact, George says he's copped Disney paraphernalia more than 13,000 times. If there's an item out there that's Disney, I have to have it. I'll get it one way or the other.

How much has it cost you? We figured out once I spent well over half a million dollars for Disney stuff. Where do you get the money to support this habit? Well, I work for the post office, okay. Plus my magic. I do a big illusion show, basically the same stuff you see David Copperfield do. And George's body bears the scars of his expensive habit.

Rides are above the knees, villains are below the knees. They're all group, basically, all Lion King, all Peter Pan, all Jungle Book. By next year, year 2000, I want to have at least a thousand tattoos. There's nowhere you haven't done it. Right. You done it in the butt? Right. What do you got back there?

All the poo characters. Poo characters. So you got poo back there? Yes. As with all addicts, it's the people who love them that suffer the most. Tell me about your first wife. Just, we had her honeymoon at Disney, but after a while I got tired of it. Tell me about your second wife?

It's basically the same thing. Just got tired of going to Disney all the time. Tell me about your third wife. Same thing over and over. She got tired of going to Disney. Tell me about your fourth wife. Same thing, but now we've got a kid involved in a couple more trips, but she eventually got tired of it, too. Tell me about your fifth wife.

Another kid involved, but she got tired of it totally. Tell me about your sixth wife. That one's working out good. Mm-hmm. George has finally found a wife who understands. Not surprising, she's a user too. Now the cost of feeding the habit has doubled. We started getting into the big money with the house.

It's going to run you, how much? 400,000 easy when I'm done. It's actually taken away from my Disney trips, but it is Disney. Sure. So all of this will eventually be a monument to your addiction. Oh yeah. There's 40-some acres of land, and there's me and Disney. One thing is clear.

George Rieger is hopelessly hooked. Do you ever think I'm giving it up. I'm gonna quit this time. I'm gonna kick it. Never thought it once, not even when I'm old. I mean, my children are gonna push me in a wheelchair. Disney, never stop. Summer fast approaching, everyone's talking about the sun

and how great it is. But do we really need the sun? I mean, come. If you believe the media, the sun is a happy breakfast friend, or a disembodied baby head. And scientists would tell you it has more practical uses. I spoke to NASA employee and sun apologist Dr. Ronald Miller.

Do we really need the sun? I mean, come on. Well, we just depend on the sun, of course, for light. Come on. Well, the sun is also necessary for plants to grow. I mean, come on. Ultimately, all life on Earth depends on the sun. Excuse me. Hello? Come.

But here's what Dr. Miller and other sun fetishists are telling you. Our perceived need for the sun is a scam. The sun's the only source of light and warmth? Come on. Only the sun grows plants? Please. I had no trouble growing this plant using a simple grow light, far away from the sun and any law enforcement.

In fact, man has improved on everything the sun does. We tried two different methods of getting a tan, which looks sexier to you. And further research shows the sun is actually harmful. And when we got tough with Dr. Miller, the truth was revealed. The sun is hot due to a nuclear reaction. That's right. The sun is an evil nuclear super. which explains how it can turn these beautiful grapes into inedible terns.

Given its obvious dangers, why is the sun so popular? I decided to follow the money. And the money led us straight to Mr. Softie. Is it true your business is dependent on the sun? What are you hiding? Hey! Hey! What are you afraid of, Softie? The only saving grace says that the sun won't always be there. Eventually the sun will explode, it will collapse down into a very small and a very dark and a very dense body.

And on that day, I'll breathe a sigh of relief. That'll happen at about 5 billion years. So thank you very much for talking to us today. I would love to give you this. Thank you. Thank you, Rob. Michael Costa. Civic activism, does it work?

Can one person make one person make you this? one person make a difference. Tonight on Thank Me Later, we'll meet one man who did The Impossible. No, not me. He changed the United States Constitution forever. I sat down with this American hero. And you can thank me later.

Hi there. Hi. Who are you? I'm Gregory Watson. I'm responsible for the ratification of the 27th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. That's right. This Lone Star Scholar got an amendment ratified to the Constitution, like the Supreme Law of America Constitution, as in the 1787 Founding Fathers Constitution.

You're not a founding father. You're more like a weird uncle of the U.S. Constitution. Stepfather. Oh, stepfather. So you are nice sometimes, but then sometimes you come home drunk and treat the kids crappy because they're not really yours. Sometimes. I'm very familiar with the Constitution. I'm a huge fan. Why don't you tell our viewers what the 27th Amendment is? Again, I'm very certain I know what it is, but go ahead.

It says that when members of Congress Congress, exactly. Want to adjust their salaries, they must wait until the next election has intervened. Now, for you dumb-dums who don't care about our country, three-quarters of the states are needed to ratify an amendment. So how did this egghead get it done? It all started in 1982.

With a college paper that I wrote, I found a book in the library that showed amendments that Congress had approved, but which not enough state legislatures had ratified. And I found this one from 1789. Whoa, wait. You're an undergrad. Yes, a sophomore. You're a sophomore who realized that this amendment, which was introduced in 1789, was still available to be ratified.

Yes, March of 1982 during spring break. During spring break, when I'm at the wet t-shirt contest in Cancun, you're realizing that an amendment can still be ratified in the U.S. Constitution. Yes, yes. So you write this paper. Yes. I turn it into the TA and get it back a few days later with a C on it.

With a C? A C. And I appealed the grade up to the professor. She said she'd take a look at it. And when she came back a few days later, she saw me sitting in the aisle, and she physically tossed it at me and said, no change.

I decided right then and there, I'm going to get that amendment ratified. Wait a minute. Are you saying that this guy actually got a constitutional amendment ratified? John, could you just stick to the reenactment? Also, you're meant to be 19 years old, so can you act like a hot teen?

No, I can't. And so what happens now? Well, then I start writing those letters, pleading with members of the legislature, in those states to introduce a resolution at the state capital to ratify the amendment, and it needed 32 states. And when Maine ratified the following year in 1983, there was just no turning back.

And that's the story of how Gregory Watson got a... Oh, no, you don't have to look at the camera. Why are you talking? I was just delivering my line. You don't... You're not narrating. Hang on, hang on. I'm John Fibing Hodgeman. I'm still on television sometimes. Okay. We're done. Okay, so now we can see what happens?

So I pestered and I badgered and I cajoled the state legislatures over the course of 10 years and they ratified it. This whole time I thought you'd be some Harvard law constitutional scholar lobbyist to elicit change. You're really just a pain in the ass. Yes. Yeah. When the 27th Amendment was finally ratified, what did they give you as a sign of respect

for your work? Absolutely nothing. You didn't get a thank you card from... No thank you card from anyone. Man, I was afraid I was going to hear a sad, depressing story like that, which is why I made this for you, Gregory Watson. This is a trophy commemorating you on getting the 27th Amendment ratified.

Beautiful. I shall treasure it for all time. You've just made me vomit in my own mouth. What's the weather like up your own ass? Is the death tax good for America? Yes. No. Yesterday, I was beside myself with joy.

Over last week's vote by the Senate to retain the death tax. It's a big revenue generator that affects only the nation's wealthiest 1%. It sends a powerful social message that even the children of the very rich must make their own way in the world. But more than that, in the same way

that taxes on smoking, discourage smoking, and taxes on drinking, discourage drinking, hopefully this death tax will keep people from dying. It is a filthy habit, and it has to stop. But I suppose you and your fat cat friends in Washington won't be happy till everybody's dead. Steve, the death tax is inherently unfair. It taxes the same money twice, once when you earn it,

and once more after you die. It goes against everything Americans hold dear. Money... The point is... It's not... It's not the dead who are going to suffer. unless, of course, they've been sinful. Then they'll burn forever in a lake of fire.

It is the living, rather, the children of the insanely wealthy who will suffer by being rendered merely sanely wealthy. But tax away, comrade Corelovich. A grateful motherland salutes you. Wow, you are taking this so personally, Stephen. You'd think this was a tax on pompous windbags who make me sick, you fat ass.

Steve, let me give you a hypothetical example of someone who would be directly hurt by your regressive tax. Now, this person is not rich, but this person married someone because her father is, hypothetically. Now, this rich old bastard, whose daughter, by the way,

has a face like a Hieronymus Bosch nightmare, was barely functioning when this person married her. I'm talking catheters, iron lung, beep, beep, but against all rational expectations, he's hung on for seven years. It's like he's staying alive out of spite. You're saying, when that shriveled hospital, finally kicks, the government should get more than half of what's rightfully the person in my examples?

Well, for now, under current law, the tax is scheduled to expire in 2010. The person in my example can't wait that long. All the nagging and the carping. I just, I swear the person in my example is just going to lose it. I'm sorry, I just get, I just get so upset when I think about the person in my example. Well, you know, Steven, sometimes the people, the people, In hypothetical examples just die. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, no, no, you're not listening to me. Sometimes the people, hypothetical examples just...

Imaginary nurses can be bribed. Accidents can be postulated to have happened. Bride. Now, let's further speculate that an opportunity My opportunistic associate was willing for, say, a million dollars... $500,000. Eight. Seven.

$7.50. Done. To facilitate this, shall we say, early retirement, what would the person in your example say to the person in my example? I think he'd say, let's do it. Oh, but the person in my example still us to pay the damn death tax. Well, half a buttload is still... A buttload. Yeah.

All right, all right. You make a strong, all right, man. I might have to... concede this one. As long as this argument can never be traced back to me. I'm Stephen Colbert. And I'm Steve Correll, and this even Stephen never happened. What even, Stephen? Exactly. Thank you. You heard the news. Donald Trump is on fire. Donald Trump, fresh off a landslide victory in New Hampshire.

His success has baffled the mainstream media, but it turns out the secret to Trump has been right under their noses the whole time. This is a circus unlike to anything that we have seen in modern American politics. This is the greatest show on Earth. He's the greatest show on Earth. Now, if you want to understand the circus that is Donald Trump, don't ask these idiots. Ask the guy with a sword down his throat.

Circus performer, Adam Real Man. People like the danger element of a circus and a sideshow. You know, when the lion tamer sticks his head in the lion's mouth, tell me, you want to see the lion just chop his head off. Yeah. The audience, I think, always wants to know that this stuff is real, and it is real. We're watching a loaded gun on stage,

and it could go off at any moment and say, Mexicans are rapists. Boom. It could say anything. So there's a dangerous... Mexicans are rapists. Okay, so maybe he hasn't been to many Trump events. But real man taught me that the greatest show must have a ringleader who can work a crowd.

You gotta give them the pitch. You have to impress them. You gotta impress your crowd, exactly. Your poll numbers... It's super high. Correct. I'm leading every poll nationwide. You're the best.

That's it. Best businessman you've ever seen. Yes. I make great deals. Look at this show. This is the greatest show on earth. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to, hey, let's bring out the snake charmer.

We bring out the snake charmer. You bring Palin out. Okay. You betcha. It has to be something that an audience will want to see. Everybody had a good old time. You bought a hat. Hell, I want to see this freak again.

Exactly. This guy got it. Trump really is the greatest show on Earth. Right Adam? Well, you know, by calling him the greatest show on earth, you're kind of insulting. a lot of the circus world. Okay?

Regardless, I had to see Trump up close. So I headed to one of his rallies and got to hear from some die-hard trumpeters. I think he's the only candidate in the Republican side who's actually going to build a wall. And who's going to make him pay for it? He's going to make China.

And you know what? People say, oh, you can't make China pay for it. You know what, that's a bunch of horse crap. It's pretty easy to make China pay for it. China will be paying for the wall. Should Mexico pay for the wall? Oh, Mexico. Sorry. Either way.

It doesn't... One of those... One of those countries is paying for that wall. One of those countries is paying for that wall. Donald Trump is inaugurated. He becomes President of the United States. What's behind that curtain? Deficion of ISIS.

Deficion of ISIS. What should we do to ISIS? Bomb the . Where officially should we bomb ISIS? Probably like Israel area, but not like, not necessarily there, but around the area. I think he's going to help with the ISIS. What's he going to do with the ISIS?

He can't tell us right now. If he tells everybody, then the next thing you know, somebody else is going to copy what he says. They knew their Trump. Once I was under the big top, we were all grooving to Trump's power playlist, which included Tiny Dancer like eight fucking times. Finally, there he was. And he wasted no time shining the spotlight on the main event himself.

It takes guts to run for president, believe me. You've been number one in the polls every single week. I've been on the cover of Time magazine so much lately. When I was on last week, I didn't even know they were putting them in the cover. can you mention that's when you're really hitting it big he made the audience recoil at the freak show look it back there look at the press turn around and look at these people look at it six they start booing he whipped the crowd into a frenzy with a high-wire act of political incorrectness she said he's a pussy that's not and then something strange happened we're going to do

something that's going to be whether you like Dwight Eisenhower no matter what you do Dwight Eisenhower I like I everybody said he started to I just asked the tickets. I wanted tickets for the debate. No post office in Washington, D.C., right? People got bored. It's an incredible building. But then like any great showman, he pulled them back in with his greatest routine. A feat of xenophobic strength.

Who the hell is going to pay for the wall? Sick bit. Trump had delivered. I laughed. I cried. I reinvigorated my irrational fear of foreigners. Mexico. I even joccurated. for selfies with a couple of reality TV stars. Donald, great Joe!

Great Joe! Free that will last for possibly four years. God help us all. Yesterday, Americans watched in shock, as even watered down gun legislation died on the floor of the Senate. But that is exactly where it belongs, according to gun lobbyists like Philip Van Cleave

of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. The Second Amendment, you know, is sacrosanct. You hold up this sign. up this sign whenever I make a suggestion that you think is infringing upon your Second Amendment rights, okay? Okay. Assault weapons ban. Boom, there it is. Increased background checks.

Really? Yes. Just for background checks. We don't do background checks for the First Amendment. Okay, so let's just try this one. Okay. Nice and easy. Sure.

A mandatory one-hour waiting period if you buy a gun. Why, why Amanda? Are you kidding me? Unless I could see a reason. No. I can't think of anything that I support. Because at the end of the day, none of it works. Exactly.

Gun control does not work. What if, hypothetically speaking, what if gun control could work? Which obviously it can't. So we know that it won't, so that's not a problem. But what if it could due to that time that it did? Okay. When was that?

Australia. Yes, Australia. In 1996, a conservative, Prime Minister John Howard instituted sweeping gun control laws following a mass shooting that shocked the nation. So should we be learning from this effective example? Of course not. I guess if we're going to go to planet X and say it's not the United States, it's some other planet, different people, different everything. I don't know, yeah.

But in the real world with human beings, it's not going to work and gun control isn't going to work. Unfortunately, not only is Australia actually in the real world, even their animals, animals can holster weapons. So who was right about gun control? There was only one way to find out, confront the man responsible. Mr Prime Minister, let's begin in the formal Australian way. G'day.

How do you do? Obviously, gun control doesn't work, it can't work, it will never work. So how was your scheme a failure? Well, my scheme was not a failure. We had a massacre at a place called Port Arthur 17 years ago, and there had been None since.

Zero gun massacres. Hold on. Did gun control actually work? It stopped one thing. That could also be a statistical anomaly. Yeah. It was just their mass shootings disappeared. But there were so fewer than whoop-y-doo.

Whoop-de-do? Yeah. Whoop-de-do. Yes. Yeah, shootings were rare anyhow. Exactly. They probably barely had a massacre before 1996. There were about 13 in the previous 18 years.

In the 18 years before, Port Arthur, there were 13 mass shootings. Yes. Almost one a year. Yes, I was unaware they had that many. Mass being, what, more than two people at a time? More than four. More than four. Okay.

Whoop-de-doo. But perhaps there were other non-whoop-de-do side effects. The homicide rate involving the use of guns has declined significantly by factors of up to 50 and 60 percent. And the incidence of youth suicides involved. involving guns has declined dramatically. Whoopty-y-hsion do. Help me out here, Philip.

Homicides with guns went down. Suicide with guns also went down. Zero mass shootings. What did happen, Australia still has murders, rapes, and robberies last eye-check. Unless you can get rid of 100% of crime, it's not worth doing at all. Well, put it this way.

It's illegal to have crack cocaine anywhere in the United States. Do you think if somebody really wants it, they can get their hands on crack cocaine in America? So unless we can completely get rid of drugs, there's no point in having drug laws at all. Let me think about that for a minute. Well, I guess effectively, it doesn't work. You can't argue with Philip.

Even his logic is bulletproof. Well, let me put it to you this way. There are more drownings in backyards where they have pools. If they don't have a pool, there are no drownings in backyards. Okay. So the U.S. has a very high number of guns. high number of guns. Therefore, there is going to be more chances for somebody to be killed with a gun. Right. Right. Right. That's my point.

Philip might think that living in a society with dramatically reduced gun violence is a whoop-de-do, and people in Australia couldn't agree with him more. Whoop-de-do. What do, mate? Whoop-de-do? Whoop-de-do? For whatever that means. In 1996, following a massacre, Australia's conservative government enforced a national buyback of semi-automatic weapons, while also heavily regulating the purchase and storage of other firearms. The result was dramatically reduced levels of gun violence, so why can't we do that here?

To find out, I sat down with longtime aid to Harry Reid, Jim Manley. The NRA is still a very powerful force in this country. They have four million members who are very very... very, very determined to get their way. And how can a nation of 300 million compete with that? It's difficult to understand sometime, isn't it? But the fact of the matter is that you've got to think long and hard before you'd support gun control legislation, because taking on the NRA can be political suicide.

And the Democratic Party is working tirelessly to reduce the rate of political suicide among its members. Surely, Australian politicians weren't stupid enough to end their political lives for gun control. Well, I did. What? I did. You did what?

I took the stand. I was prepared to face the political consequences, and we delivered gun control. Meet Rob Borbidge, former Premier of Queensland, Australia's most conservative state. In 1996, he was instrumental in enacting gun control, knowing it would cost him his political career in the next election. We paid a... high political price, but we did the right thing. Look, there are Australians alive today because we took that action. I mean, how much is a life worth?

But Jim Manley knows that a true public servant has more important concerns. What makes a politician successful? Getting re-elected by his or her constituents? Right. Yeah, that's how you judge success. Okay, that's... Well... Well, getting legislation done.

It's second. Is second, yes. That is second. Holy . That is second? Uh, if I could rewind this tape, I'd say getting legislation done and getting re-elected by your constituents.

But, as soon as we can't rewind the tape, let's just go with the answer you gave on instinct. If you don't get reelected, you know, you're just roadkill in the political process, and you're just a note. another loser. Tragically, not everyone understands this. What makes a politician successful go? Making society a better place?

No, no, no, Rob. No, look, we can, um, we can actually rewind the tape. Are we rolling? What makes a politician successful? Well, it's your responsibility to govern in the best interests of the people that you serve. Right, Rob, I, I'm going out on a limb here. I've already told someone else that I can't do this when I can. I hope you got a lot of tape.

True success is a lifelong politician like Harry Reid, whose watered-down gun legislation was carefully designed to protect those who needed it most. He has a responsibility as the Democratic leader to protect the caucus. Right, the caucus needs to be protected. The caucus does. They need to be protected.

How many political careers have been tragically ended by gun control? We've lost some good folks over the years because of their view. Right, you have a perfectly healthy political career and then bang. Just like that. Which means former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has blood on his hands. Do you ever think about the innocent victims of your gun control? There were no innocent victims of my... There were no victims at all.

Yeah, that's a photograph of Rob Borbich. He was incredibly courageous politically in supporting our laws. But politically, he's dead. Bang. Just like that. Well, he lost an election that we all do at some point. But Howard is not alone. His Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher also refuses to accept responsibility for these career massacres. So you don't look at these faces and feel guilt.

Well, they're alive. And... They're dead. They're politically dead. I hope that those who totally veto any move to bring sensible, semi-automatic and automatic weapon control to the suburbs of America are also politically dead but physically alive. Not if I could help it. Never again will a political career end in a senseless act of meaningful legislation. It's just all of these...

All of them are dead politically. Okay. Not physically. Physically, they're probably safer than they've had to have been before. World's a very dice thing. I mean, again, just to reiterate physically, they're absolutely fine. But it makes you think. Sure does.

Unfortunately, what spending time with politically dead Australian politicians made me think about was how horribly wrong we have it in America. Thanks for speaking with me, Rob. You are a great human being. Thank you. It's just by all Americans. You are a politician, and the fact that that is true is why I am now going to walk into the ocean. In America, we're told gun control is not possible, but in Australia, they've shown it is.

Providing a fantastic lesson for America to ignore. Previously, I went to Australia, where I learned that in 1996, their government enacted sweeping gun control laws. The result, reduced gun violence, and zero mass shootings. So are there any lessons for America here? Virginia gun advocate Philip Van Cleave has a clear answer. We're not Australia. It's a very different culture. Different people, different everything.

Right, there's no similarity with Australia. Australia is a former British colony with a wild frontier that was tamed by brave men who also wiped out almost an entire indigenous population. And we are... Not similar to that. Right? Right.

Because unlike Australia, we Americans know when the guns are taken away, tyranny inevitably follows. The Founding Fathers knew that governments tend to grow beyond their means. In America, we're stepping in the direction of a police state. Is that really happening, Philip, or is that some kind of crazy paranoia? We have police. They're now working. wearing ninja suits, if you will. I mean, you don't even know they're police necessarily. They got the black masks on and everything.

So it really isn't crazy paranoia. You're justifiably frightened about ninja police. Yeah, ninja police, yes. Yeah, ninja police. Yes, yeah. Sadly, without access to semi-automatic firearms, Australians wouldn't know a thing about real freedom. Bloody oath for free.

We just sit here doing whatever we want. Everybody's just hanging out and having a good time. People don't have the same concerns anymore about getting gun down when they're at a tourist resort. Yeah, but was that worth it? Yes. Was it worth giving up your fundamental freedoms just to not get shot in a gun massacre? What the **** are you talking about? Australians must now live in this well-regulated nightmare because of ex-politicians like Rob Borbidge,

who smugly thinks that his country has something to teach us. I hope that they would have a look at what has happened here. here. Why would people want to live like this? Because they might want a safer society to live in. But it's pointless for us to study the Australian experience because their fear of gun control back then has no parallels with ours. What kind of things were you hearing when you suggested gun control?

That government was becoming a dictatorship. All right, that's one. We were told that people would not have the right. people would not have the right to defend their property and their families. Okay, that's definitely too. The democracy is at stake somehow if government decides there should be a background check. Yeah, all right. That's...

Three. We're about to be invaded by the Indonesian. That's completely different. No one in America is afraid of Indonesians. Are they afraid of Mexicans and Muslims coming? Maybe? Sure. He claims Australians were angry, but where is the proof? People's rights are being taken away from them.

But I'm not going to give up any guns that they're going to take off me. Are you going to give yours up? OK, there it is. But how do those angry, rural conservatives feel now? My immediate reaction was that it was an overreaction. But as time went on, the regulations were quite manageable. So hold on. You didn't want to give up your high-powered gun.

No, but I felt as if I had a bit of a duty to the rest of the... As a society. And if you think that sounds bad-shund crazy, this effective gun control was enacted by conservative politicians against the will of their own base. There's no other way. There's no other way. But our politicians are different.

They know that... Gun control doesn't work. Or even if it does... It takes a long time. And to be fair, John Howard and his Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher have had since 1996 to enact their sweeping reforms. It took less than three and a half. less than three and a half months.

What? What? After massacre was on the 28th of April, 1996. Yep. In a 12-week period shortly following that, bulk of legislation was devised, drafted, debated, and implemented. But it doesn't work. Zero massacres since 1996.

Yeah, you keep saying that, but gun control doesn't work. So... My head was spinning. I had to clear it the traditional Aussie way. B. No, not that way. A walkabout. The second amendment is the secretary saying...

Political suicide. Zero messages. It's not in... From my cold dead hand. Ninja police. It's a blue bunnies. So hungry. Bluebon onion.

What the... After three days in the bush with a guy in a kangaroo suit, it became clear what the real issue with gun control in America is. If guns aren't the problem, Philip, what is the problem? People. People are the problem. Yes. Do you know what? After spending this amount of time with you, Philip,

I'm starting to believe that that's partially true. Good. Good. Well, I'm glad you understand it. People are the problem. That is becoming just painfully obvious. After investigating the issue on opposite sides of the earth, I discovered that if Americans really do want government,

control, there is actually one thing they can do to get it. Move to Australia. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.