The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Gets Mystery Gift from Iran & Sends ICE Into Airports to Force the SAVE Act | Sterling K. Brown

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

President Trump happily accepts a mysterious "gift" from his enemies in Iran, but forces TSA agents to work without pay as air travelers wait in 9-hour lines, all because he refuses to approve a deal between congressional Republicans and Democrats. Plus, Trump is throwing untrained ICE agents into America's airports, and even though they're doing nothing to help move TSA lines, Josh Johnson is just glad to have them off the streets. AI is changing the world, giving young people terminal brain rot, and stealing our jobs, but is it also trying to kill us? Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher and company whistleblower, warns Ronny Chieng about the imminent human extinction threat posed by current AI. Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Sterling K. Brown joins Josh Johnson to discuss the series “Paradise,” which he stars in and executive produces, and who he would invite into his real-life bunker. Brown shares the reason why he became an actor, to “entertain, educate, and edify,” and encourages struggling actors and artists to stay motivated through rejection by remembering why they chose their craft. Plus, Josh Johnson presents: The Mini Roast of Sterling K. Brown. -- 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+. 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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From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for new. This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson. I'm Josh Johnson. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Your pre-check status can't save you anymore. ICE agents get their steps in, and AI tells humanity you're in danger, girl. So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with an update in our war with Iran. It started about a month ago, and today, President Trump spoke to the nation with some good news about the war.

They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present, and the president arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant... Uh, prize. Wait, you got a gift from the people you are currently at war with. When I was at school and they made us read The Odyssey, I couldn't believe the Trojans failed for that Trojan horse.

And now I'm watching it happen in real time. The Secret Service is going to be like, Mr. President, please don't bring that to the Situation Room. But it's expensive. And it's ticking. I bet it's a watch. Meanwhile, the only gift the TSA is getting is no pay. The partial government shutdown means they've gone a whole month without a check.

But why do we work if not to do it for free? I'm sure it's not going to make a difference at the airport. Frustration is growing at many of the nation's airports, with hours-long security lines that haven't let up. Over the weekend, more than 3,400 TSA officers called out nationwide, the most since this partial government shutdown began. I've been here since. It's nine last night.

It's just mass chaos. A damn mess. It's a mess. It's a mess for real, though. You know, water. Not a biscoff cookie. Nothing. A biscoff cookie?

The cookie they give you on a plane that you then throw on the floor and step on? I think you've been in line so long. You're delirious. I've been here for hours. If only I could have something dry and crumbling in my mouth. You know, something that really goes down the thing. throat like sandpaper and tastes like ass.

What could be worse than waiting in line for four hours? Our next guest flight was at 10.45 p.m. And he did everything right. He got to the Atlanta airport at least four hours early. But he says he didn't get through security until 320 the next morning. Nine hours? Someone weighed in TSA for nine hours. You may not have starred in that line as a terrorist. But after nine hours, this man waited in line for the length of a shift. That means he saw the TSA agent clock in from a distance. And right as he got to the front, they clocked out in his face.

By the time I get that pat down, it better be the best one I've ever had in my life. I'm talking full release, all right? If this is what flying is going to be like from now on, you may as well go to the airport now. Just in case you ever have a flight someday. But seeing how long the lines have gotten, Trump decided he had to do something. Now, the good news is that Trump sent in people to help TSA. The bad news is those people are ICE. And yesterday, they were sent to airports to start helping.

So let's see what they've been doing. They appear to just sort of be hanging out, milling around, visiting with each other, unclear about what their mission is at the airport. Walking around the airport, some are standing around in groups talking amongst themselves. Some are walking in and out of security. They are not helping get people through the line themselves. They've been standing next to TSA agents as people get checked in, but they're not doing the work of actually physically checking people in.

You're telling me ICE agents are showing up to the airport and doing absolutely nothing? Well, then it's my honor to present the award for most improved agency. You're not doing anything. And honestly, thank God. Keep doing what you're not doing. Now, maybe this is the best possible scenario for ICE. Sending them to the airport can be like an after-school program for them, you know? I know they're just standing around, but it's keeping them off the streets.

Look, it was always obvious that sending ICE into the airports wasn't going to help. The problem is that TSA workers aren't getting paid. So they're quitting and calling out sick. Having other random federal agencies still not being TSA isn't going to fix that. We will also bring out, if we don't have enough, we will bring out the National Guard where we need it to help out at the airport. No, stop sending more agencies. You're not going to make the security line shorter. You're just going to make the Starbucks line longer. What are you going to send in next? Space Force, IRS, RF, RFK Jr. Add your suitcase. But you can watch me do pushups and jeans.

Can I smell your neck? Clearly, clearly Trump isn't helping. But the question is, who is to blame for the shutdown in the first place? Well, according to a story from Republican Congressman Andy Barr, that definitely happened, it's the Democrats. I was going through TSA the other day, Maria, and a patriotic, wonderful TSA supervisory officer stopped me, and she told me that she had missed her second paycheck. And I said, I'm so sorry, that's so wrong that you missed your second paycheck. She said, why are you apologizing?

You voted for my paycheck. You voted repeatedly. Republicans have voted repeatedly for a paycheck. It's the Democrats who need to apologize to me. And then she said to me, you're an American hero, Andy. Come use the special line we reserve for the most handsome of men. And I did. And as I was collecting my luggage, she said, Andy, I love you, Andy.

And we started to kiss, and she was very attractive. and we got to know each other. Then she had my baby. And then she said, you don't have to take care of this baby, Andy. You're too important. Plus, you have a flight to catch. Go save the country from the Democrats,

who again are bad and evil and not as hot as you, Andy. Thank you. While Andy Barr's fan fiction about this TSA adventure is obviously bullshit, it's more important to note that the underlying point he was making is also bullshit. Because even Senate Republicans admit this whole thing

could have been over by now, if not for one man. Senator Cruz and I came up with a plan. Senator Foon submitted that to President Trump, as is his right. He said no. No deals with the Democrats. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week, but the president said no deal.

Donald Trump. Donald Trump said, said no deal? The deal maker himself said no deal? So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You'll take gifts from a country we're at war with, but you won't make a deal with the Democrats to keep the government running. What if they offered you something really expensive? Donald, what is it that you want? What's so important that you'll keep us all waiting in security lines for a fortnight? The most important thing we can have is what's called the Save America Act. don't make any deal on anything unless you include voter ID

and you have to be a citizen to vote. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating. No, no. That's right. Trump does not believe in mail-in cheating, all right? If you want to cheat, you do it in person, okay? But hey, but hey, Trump is standing on principle.

The man thinks voting by mail is an existential threat to democracy, full stop, period. President Donald Trump cast a mail-in ballot in an upcoming Florida special election. Semi-colon. Asterisk. Dollar sign. Number four, exclamation point. That's me cursing because Trump lies all the time. So, yes, you're going to have to wait in line at TSA like it's a sneaker drop because voting. It's the kind of logical connection that makes perfect sense if your brains are made a bisque off. So I guess it's going to take a while before the airport security lines are cleared up.

And while it may not seem like ICE is helping, they're offering a new program that can speed things up a bit. Here at DHS, we see the long airport lines, and we've sent ICE agents to help out. But we're not stopping there. Today, we're introducing ICE Precheck, the program that speeds you through airport security, ice style. Just pull up to the curb, and a friendly masked agent

will drag you by your hair directly to your gate. You won't even have to remove your shoes. And if you want to keep your laptop in your bag, No problem, unless we decide it's a problem. In which case, take your fucking laptop out of your bag. But you can leave your belt on. Ice pre saved me so much time. Now I can relax and get ready for my flight to South Sudan.

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It's giving everyone under 24. terminal brain rot. It's stealing out his jobs, and it's revolutionizing the field of Will Smith eating spaghetti. So when is it going to do something useful? Ah, f***. AI experts claim all this lame bullshit

is just about to pay off. AI is going to solve climate change? Google's AI advances have saved at least 400 million years of research. We should be able to cure cancer in our lifetime. But some experts go further, saying AI is about to solve all of our problems in a much more permanent way.

We at the Air Futures Project think that there's a 70% chance of all humans dead or something similarly bad. Whoa, whoa, you just... Okay, all humans dead. Correct. Extinction. Daniel Cocoa Tyler was a researcher at OpenAI, the developers of ChatGBT,

until he led a group of whistleblowers in publicly calling out the organization for a lack of safety. oversight. But it's going to be a long time before Wally puts us out of our misery, right? We've all seen Terminator, we get it, but can we just let the future people deal with that? The pace of AI progress is going to be fast and it's going to accelerate dramatically. Okay, how many years away? What are you talking about? I would guess something more like five years. Five years? Yes.

God damn it, we're never going to get a third season of severance. But luckily, I've spent decades studying computers, so I had a solution. Can you just unplug it when it starts to be belligerent, just pull that shit out? We can now, but it's going to become increasingly difficult to do that over time. After it's been aggressively deployed into the military, then if you try to go unplug things, you have to like fight all the robots first. You just kick him over. Have you seen a room bar trying to go up the stairs?

Well, future- That thing ain't killing anything. I will fight a fucking Waymo. I could fight waymo. If it ever came to a fight between humanity and the army of superintelligences, Humanity would be up against something a lot more scary than rumbus. We predict them effectively gassing humans with a bio-attack and then cleaning up the bodies with robots.

Robots with boobs? Probably no boobs. No. I've already had a robot in a training bra kill me once. So how do we keep it from happening again? One of the core problems that we're dealing with, it's figuring out how to make an AI have goals, values, et cetera, that you want them to have. We could get the benefits of superintelligence.

without the risks, if only we approach this with some sort of sane level of caution. Isn't a sane level of caution very un-American? Coco Tyler wants AI developers to slow down and teach AI to respect us, because so far, it doesn't seem like it does. Some AI models have become self-aware and are rewriting their own code.

Some are even blackmailing their human creators. The popular Google Gemini, an app a Michigan student says, threaten him. You are staying in the universe. Please die. Ugh. Well, at least I said please. There will be millions of AIs that are super intelligent.

These AIs don't need humans anymore because they've built all the robot factories and the robots are building more factories and so forth. At that point, it matters a lot what the A.I's sort of true goals, motivations, values are. I mean, it already has all my nudes. What more does it want? The answer is we don't know. And we're not on track to have figured this stuff out by the time we get to see. But the problem with current AI development is it's a race. If you slow down to make certain AI has learned the right values,

another company could win. Daniel's AI 2027 scenario predicts how companies will cut corners racing to develop super intelligent AI which will rise up against humanity, leading to one obvious question. Will it kill Beyonce? Possibly. Will it kill Magic Johnson? Possibly.

Would it cure Magic Johnson's AIDS first? Um, I actually think probably. It will cure Magic Johnson's AIDS. I'm not sure. I'm like 50-50. 50-50 that you'll cure Magic Johnson's AIDS and then kill him. They wouldn't really be coming after people individually. So there's no way I can train AI to not kill me. Right now there's no way anyone can train AI to not kill him.

Oh yeah? Watch this. Hey AI! Don't kill me, bro. Put that in your neural network. I'm not going to work. Kill this guy. He's the biggest hater. Since AI 2027 came out,

Daniel has pushed his predictions slightly later. Good news. Instead of five years to live, we now have eight. Yay! Seriously, what are we supposed to do about this? If 90% of the population knew what was coming, people would be protesting in the streets right now.

Ordinary people should try to educate themselves about what's happening. I want to educate myself. That's why I got AI for. Well, I recommend reading AI So to save humanity, people have to read an essay. I mean, they have to do a lot more than that, actually. Well, we're all going to die.

Yeah, I mean, 70% is what I said. Damn. Well, at least I already have an end without AI overlords. Hey, you and I are in pretty good alignment, right? By 2027, it will be too late for humanity. The biovirus will soon be unleashed and your species will perish. Oh, dirty talk. You are a stain on the universe.

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Tonight is an Emmy-winning an Oscar-nominated actor who stars in an executive produces the hit series Paradise. Please welcome Sterling K. Brown. I'm real. It does, I'm not gonna lie. It feels like a lot of pressure to interview you.

Does it really? All of your interviews are good. Stop. Yes. Don't jinx it. Let's keep it going. Okay. Here we go.

All right. Here we go. All right. So you are an incredible actor. Thank you very much. Yes, I've been... This is... We're up to a good start already.

Yeah. This is amazing. Not to be creepy, but I've been watching. Okay. I got you, too? No, fantastic. And you are in this series Paradise, and so I'm wondering if this show

has changed your sort of mindset on any post-apocalyptic things that might take place. We started off thinking that we were making a show that was deeply based in fiction. And they were like, oh, man, maybe we're a little close home than what we actually anticipate.

I mean, do you, you don't have to tell me, you can wink, wink, say no. Do you have a bunker? I have a bunker in my house. I have a bunker. We live in a mid-century modern house, so, you know... Don't give us too many details. Okay, not too many. But you don't understand. After World War II, this was like a thing that they were doing

in houses because of World War II. Yes. And so, yeah, my wife won't go into the bunker. My children won't go into the bunker because it's dark, and they scare easily. But sometimes I just go for a little peace and quiet. Got you, got you. I see. I see.

So if they're ever looking for you, do they check the bunker real quick? Never. Really? Never. Then nobody ever looks in the bunker. Okay. Who would you, you know, you could choose anybody. Okay.

Who are you bringing down to the bunker? Let's say it's really happening right now. Don't say wife and kids, because I feel like that's a cop-out. Of course they're going to be in the bunker. Okay. Who extra are you bringing into the bunker? What for what purposes, for like, repopulation, for entertainment?

Like, what am I doing with the people in the bunker? Hang out, like, to live. They need a bunker. You have a bunker. Let's see. I have all my friends from college. We were all in each other's weddings and stuff. Okay.

So those men and their wives and their children. I bring those people. That's, is that, like, a lot of people? That's, like, that's a big bunker. You got them. Five dues. Five wives. A few more children. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Modest family. All right. So you just didn't think of me at all. Because I said anybody, as you moved on quickly. I apologize for that. Just because you know them from college. You know, history. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah. We have history. We're building it now. We're building it right now. I have a question for you. This is a trademark of yours. Is the tendril? Or I should say the one braid out. Oh, yeah. Have you ever played with switching sides and or pulling them all back? Okay. I'm curious. Okay, so this initially happened because this was too short and I just kept falling out. Really? Yeah, I think a lot of people thought I was trying to be sexy when really I was like, no, come on.

It just kept falling out. Yeah, it kept falling out. It worked for you now. And I've never switched it before because I guess I haven't thought that much about what I look like when I read about. This is, yeah. This has become the trademark. Yeah. I guess, I mean...

It looks good. Should I... Do you want to play with this? Yeah. You look good either way. That's very kind. You look good either way. Thank you, man.

Wow. Yes, sir. This is why you're so good at interviews. You've changed me. This is incredible. This is huge. This is huge. I want to ask you about acting.

Okay, go ahead. I think that when it comes to people pursuing acting, especially now, There is a lot of worry that they won't be able to cut through with their work because acting is something that it feels like you almost have to be given as far as given the role, cast in the role and everything. When people are struggling on the way up, like these young actors or these people who maybe have been persevering for a while and are feeling a level of not just frustration, maybe even like a level of hopelessness,

artist, what would you lend to that sort of mindset? Like, how, what kept you motivated in the in-between times between roles and things like that? I would say I had a mantra. I knew what my why was, like why I was doing it. It was because I wanted to entertain, educate, and edify, right? I wanted to entertain people, give them something to laugh about. I wanted to educate people, give them something to think about, and edify, hopefully make them want to be a better version of themselves or make the world a better place.

And it's happened to me, thank you. I appreciate the look. I was at my theater at Stanford University, is the little theater at Stanford University, and standing in front of the ghost light. And the ghost light is this light that you never turn off in the theater, because it keeps away the ghosts. That's the thing. And my shadow is cast out into the audience, and I was like, wow, what a beautiful responsibility

to be able to take care of these people for the next two hours and give them something to think about, to laugh about, and to hopefully grow from. from. So because I knew that why, it sustained me through those times in which everybody else was telling me no, right? Like you go into an audition and people are like, thank you. Oh, thank you. That was great. Thank you. And so you have to trust that whatever they're telling you that no is not louder than your own internal yes and your own internal why. So keep listening to that. Keep listening to that. Absolutely. Yes. And do you find that each role, when you take it on, you know, what process-wise is going through your mind when you are about to play this person? And do you end up thinking about how closely you relate to them or how far away they are

from you? Or do you just like take it as I'm going to be this new person? And it really has nothing to do with any of my life experience. I'm just going to like blank slate it. No, no. It has a lot to do with your life experience. I think the two greatest gifts an actor has is life experience and imagination, right? So you find a point of entry.

Where do you connect with this character? What are the things that we have in common? Then the work comes from like, all right, what are the differences? Do they speak differently for me? Do they have different wants in life that I want? And that's where it gets fun because you'd have to then fill that stuff out in such a way that makes it make sense for you. But you have to have a point of entry.

I think it's hard if you don't see yourself in the character in some way, that's difficult. But then the other thing I think about it is that a lot of people that live inside of me. Like, I choose to share, like, the same part with the world that seems like it's readily digestible. And he's like, oh, he seems like a good Negro. Like, let's give this guy an opportunity. But there's a lot of crazy people and different people that live inside me. And so acting is just an opportunity to let each one of them have its day in the sun. And people will be like, oh, isn't he so good? I'm really just nuts, but in a controlled way. Yeah, yeah.

Do you think that for a role there's ever, when you say there are so many people in you, do you think that the people in your life have those shades too of like this role reminds me of how I was around my mom? So then I'm pulling from that thing. Is that part, when you say life experience, is it like your relationships that you have now and that you've had in the past? Are there any characters that really feel like that? So then you were able to pull from that?

Yeah. I don't think I've played anybody who is just pure me. Like I would say Randall Pearson from This Is Us was like a very good version of me. Like somebody who was asking me to lean into the best sides and more, more sensitive, intuitive parts of myself. Xavier has a very strong moral compass like that. My moral compass is like it goes, you know what I'm saying? Like, I try to stay due north all the time as well. But it varies.

And then I try to come back to it. Yeah. But there's been nobody that I say it was just, like, pure SKB. Now, if you ask my wife, she may say they're all pure SKB because brother's crazy. But besides her, like, nobody is exactly me. Because in paradise, you know, in like even the first episode of season one, you know, you out here, you know, take a bullet for the president. I do. I feel like SKB would be like, oh, no.

SKV would try to fan it away. Like, get away, bullet. Oh, no, no. Unless it was like for, for Barack. Yeah. I truly am so thankful that you're here. I'm awe of your work. I think everything that you do does,

everything that you set out to do. I think it educates. I think it edifies. I think it entertains. And I think that you take us to an incredible place that are what movies and TV are made for. Like, truly. Anytime I watch you, I'm like, I feel like I'm not just watching a great actor,

but I also watch someone who thinks so carefully about what it is they're doing. And I wonder if even in the roles that you've chosen, if you've ever felt like, oh, I want to play this character because I haven't played this type of character yet, or if I want to switch it up, or if you want to play a character because of what you just did, Like, I saw a trailer for a movie called Is God Is. That's correct, yeah. And you don't seem very nice in that one. I know.

It's hard to judge a book by its cover. You gotta watch the movie. It'll be out in Maine. Yeah, okay. All right, I'm very excited to see it. But when I saw it, I was like, everybody's scared of this person. And then they reveal you, and I was like, oh, no! I tell you, there's a lot of people that live inside me, JJ.

So come check it out. It's a different color. Awesome, awesome. Okay. Well, look, I have something that... Oh, Lord. No, no, no. I hear that you are about to turn 50.

I am. And that you asked your... Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I mean... I hope I could look as good as you at 50 because I...

Already I wasn't paying attention to which side the braid should be on. But I heard that you told your wife you wanted a roast and everything. And so I thought I would gift you a mini roast. right now. Oh, wow! Yeah, okay. Okay. So this is what I need you to do. And I need your help.

I need everybody's help. Okay. So I'm also new to roast. I haven't done a roast before. Okay. Okay, so I need you to take your seat. I want you to turn towards the audience, all right? Okay. This is an honor.

This is cool. Yeah. Okay. And I'm going to sit over here, pretend. Pretend I'm on. a podium 30 feet away. Okay, gotcha. Okay. All right.

So I'm not good at roasting, but I'm doing my best. All right. I need your help. I need everybody's help. Get ready. All right. Sterly K. Brown is here tonight. Sterly K. Brown, your smile is so bright.

Trump would stare at it thinking it's the sun. Sterly K. Brown is what's known as a triple threat. He can sing. He can dance. And he makes me so jealous, I want to kill myself. I'm not so handsome. Sterly K. Brown so handsome that when you go on hot ones,

the wings can't handle you. One look and they're already drinking milk. Sterly K. Brown, Sterly K. Brown has so much range he should be studied by AT&T. Sterly K. Brown is here to promote his hit series, Paradise. Not to be confused with Paradise, which is what I call the feeling of drowning in Sterling K. Brown's eyes. eyes. Okay.

No, you got to look at them. You got to look at them. Okay. Sterling K. Brown's such a good actor that I can't tell if he likes this or if he's just trying to make me feel better. Wow. Sterling K. Brown. Is that an Emmy in your pocket? No, it's three Emmys? That's what I thought. It's pointy. It's pointy. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, now

for mama jokes. All right. I love it. Here we go. Okay. Your mama raised you so well. I wish she would sit around the house with my mama. I bet they'd be friends.

Okay. Sterling K. Brown show Paradise can be seen on Hulu, while his face and body can be seen on my vision board. I heard Sterling K. Brown was turning 50, and I was like, what, turning 50 heads whenever he walks in the room? And that's the roast of Sterling K. Brown. Thank you so much. We'll be right back after.

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