The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Indicts Comey Over Seashells & King Charles Is King of Congressional Comedy | Ali Siddiq

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

King Charles visits Congress for open mic night, and Trump tries to out-tyrant His Majesty with another indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, this time for the "crime" of posting a photo of seashells spelling out "8647." Josh Johnson breaks down MAGA world's feverish accusations against Comey, and Grace Kuhlenschmidt decodes other treasonous hidden messages at the beach. Islamophobia is all the rage right now, with prominent public figures delighting in smearing Muslims as pork-fearing fanatics hell-bent on conquering the world. But in the interest of accuracy, Muslim comedian Mo Amer has some notes. Stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq sits down with Josh to discuss his NAACP Image Award-winning special, "My Two Sons." They talk about staying in Houston to pursue comedy and bring the community along with his success, connecting with incarcerated people to share how he changed his mindset beyond prison, why becoming independent with his comedy was a choice to preserve his agency, and going from small back room performances to selling out arenas in the U.S. and internationally on his Custom Fit tour. -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ 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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Those trusted journalists at Comedy Central is America's only sorts for new. This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson. How much to talk about tonight? Trump and King Charles hold a yes, kings rally. James Comey wishes he could 86 all his Instagram post, and Mo Amher stops by to talk about Islamophobia. Is it good? Is it bad?

Stay tuned to find out. So let's get into the headlines. Start with King Charles, the world's oldest nepo baby. He's visiting the United States this week because even though our country is falling apart right now, it's also our 250th birthday. So no matter how sad the party is going to be, our friends are still coming over.

Then on the ride home, they'll be like, she is a rough 250. So yesterday, King Charles dropped by and he brought some jokes to cheer us up. This is a city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or what Charles Dickens might have called a tale of two Georges. Wow, he really commands the state. I'm sorry. He really colonizes the stage. What's annoying about this as a comedian is that he is actually killing. I mean, look at him, feeling himself in the laughs. A tale of two Georges. He's even got like a signature move with his,

hands and Charles did not stop there. Two hundred and fifty years ago, or as we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day, dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French. You know, I've always wondered what white dev jab would be like. I kind of want him to keep going. Like, you ever notice that white people drive like this, and black people steal your son? But yeah, Charles is crushing. Hit us with another one.

Magna Carter is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances. He got us too good. No, no, it's funny because you see, because we don't have checks and balances anymore because The foundations of our democracy are slowly being eroded away. Like, are you crazy, Chuck? You're crazy. The best part of that joke is that right after Charles warned us about a leader with unchecked power,

Trump was like, that's a good idea. Breaking news, former FBI director James Comey, one of President Trump's biggest political adversaries, has been indicted for a second time. Now that's timing. Just to get you up to speed, a year ago, James Comey did the most retired old man thing ever. He walked on a beach and took a picture of seashells and even posted on social media

like we wanted to see it too. This since deleted Instagram post from Comey showing the numbers 86-47 written in seashells on the beach with a captioned, Cool Shell Formation on my beachwalk. Trump supporters condemning that post, claiming it was a call to 86 or kill

the 47th president. This, the Seashells? That's the threat? Are you sure he was acting alone? Because as long as we're inditing, I heard about a woman who sells seashells by the seashore. That's suspicious as hell. Seriously, how do you get from this post, James Comey wants to murder the president? James Comey is a very intelligent man. I would assume he knows what the term 86 means. I was a waiter for some time. When you 86 in order, you kill the order. When you 8.6, you kill the order. When you 8645, that is tantamount to saying killing the President of the United States.

He should have known that. When you 86 in order, you get rid of the order, right? But you're not actually, I mean, you're not killing the food. Yeah, exactly. That would be weird, wouldn't it? Like, Joey, Joey, it's ravioli. It's a little mushy. So take it out back and blow its brains out, capish.

Just so you're aware, this is probably not going to work in court. because I know it's scary to be indicted, but this is definitely going to get 86 by a judge. And in fact, if I could talk to the Department of Justice for just a second, I don't even think you believe you. Because if you're saying that those menacing seashells were a threat to the president, then why did it take you nearly a year to come after Comey? I thought the Secret Service on Saturday night was slow.

I owe them an apology. Just so we're all clear, 86 means getting rid of something off a menu or kicking someone out of a place. It's been understood to mean those things since the 1930s. It's actually one of the last good slang terms that white people invented. Since then, it's been nothing but Bazinga

and a mazeballs. And a few new slurs. Mostly the slurs. So I'm not worried that James Comey is actually going to prison. But what's bumming me out is the fact that our president feels totally unencumbered to use the power of the Justice Department

to go after people he doesn't like. This whole thing is so depressing, I could use a pick-me-up. As Oscar Wilde said, we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oh, damn. Get them, Chuck, get them. I honestly don't even know what that means. For more on the indictment of James Comey and the fallout, we go live to Grace Kuhnschmidt.

Grace, the courts are going to throw this case out, right? That's what I thought at first, Josh. So I went to the beach to investigate, and now I see that the beach is full of threats to the president. Like what? More seashells? Even worse, Josh. Look at this. It just looks like a bucket.

Yeah, as in the president should kick the bucket. What I grabbed this from was clearly implying that That because he had the same haircut as Rachel Maddow. I think you just stole a child's bucket. Agree to disagree. Well, okay, what about this? I found this flyer that verbatim says DJ trap night at Club 69. As in tonight, we trap DJ, Donald Jay.

It couldn't be more clear. Then what does Club 69 mean? It means that club is fucking cool, bro. This all sounds like normal beach stuff. Yeah, that's the problem, Josh. This kind of threat is just becoming normalized. You probably don't even think this used condom I found in the sand is...

Oh, grace. That's just gross. Put that down. Oh, is it gross? Or is somebody threatening to suffocate Trump's penis? Back on America. That is not what that is. Now, drop that before you catch chlamydia.

To tone down the beach rhetoric for guys. God's sake, there are jackdudes walking around in tank tops with violent messages, ordering people to take their gunses out because the suns is out. That's referring to their biceps. Biceps? Biceps? Here we go again with the DEI, heteroceps anymore. Grace, how long have you been on the beach?

You sound like you have sun poisoning. Wrong again, Josh. The chlamydia has reached my brain. Go get that checked out. Grace Coolidgeman, everybody. This episode is brought to you by Defender. With its 626 horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine, the Defender Octa is taking on the Dakar rally.

The ultimate off-road challenge. Learn more at landrover.ca. Welcome back to The Daily Show. We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend Mo Amor. Thank you, Josh.

What's up, guys? I'm Mo Amher. Before we get started, I should confess something. Mo is actually my nickname. My full name is... Muhammad. You welcome. It's the most popular name in the world. Lots of Muslims are named Muhammad.

Muhammad Ali, greatest of all time. Soccer legend, Mosala. Hell, Sabrina Carpenter just changed your name to Muhammad. We accept your apology, girl. Be cool, just chill. But for some reason, being afraid of Muslims is really trendy right now. Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.

That's not a religion, that's a cult. They are here to impose their way of life on all of you. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Deport them all. Randy Fine of Florida explicitly saying, quote, we need more Islamophobia, not less. Stand with radical Islam and you can Allah Akbar your butt all the way back to the Middle East. What? What? Allah al-A-A-Qabar means God is great. You want me to God is great my Tukkah's back to the Middle East? Are you having a stroke? You need to Allah-A-A-A-P to a doctor, ASAP.

Sheesh. It turned up the Islamophobia all the way up to a 10. Or at least somewhere between 9 and 11. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. Birch Bush did it. Anyway, this is where your old pal Moammer comes in. I grew up in Houston, Texas, with the first name, Muhammad, so I'm kind of an expert in Islamophobia.

Although, although some people assume my name was Hector Gomez. Saludos, misamigos. But I want to tell you something right now. I've been hearing your Islamophobia, and I'm offended. Not from the hate, but because it's so inaccurate. For example, I've been seeing you, a lot of you do this. Here's your kryptonite, Muslims. Here's your kryptonite.

Man, you have a pig on top of a stick right now. What made you bring a pig out here today? I just want to stay safe, and I know they won't get close. hugs. Lady, you're doing too much, right? You don't need that pig head to keep us away. That hat and that eye patch are enough. And by the way, we're definitely not intimidated when you leave the price tag on.

Are you planning to return it? I mean, that poor guy at Home Depot is like, ma'am, I told you, all pighead on the stick sales are final. But listen, Islamophobes, bacon is not our kryptonite. I mean, what do you think happens to us? You think I walk into a denies and go, what's that smell? Ah! My powers! My powers!

I lost my Sharia supersight! Oh, no! And for the record, we're not supposed to... And for the record, you're not supposed to eat pork either. All right? That's in the Bible, too. Leviticus, chapter 11, verse 7. I stay at a lot of hotels.

I'm lonely. Y'all give us way too much credit. You even act like we've taken over entire continents. Islam has conquered Europe. They've been taken over by the Muslims. London is basically London-Stan. Germany, fully conquered by Islam, it would appear. We lost New York. During Ramadan, New Yorkers are now waking up to this.

That's not Iraq. It's not Afghanistan. That's Times Square. Time Square? Wait, wait, wait, wait, time square? You're going to blame us for noise in Times Square? It's time square. These Muslims are keeping us up all night, all hours in a city that doesn't sleep. Hey, I want to be a part of it. Islam, Islam starts spay. All right, all right, all right.

I'm getting carried away here. Listen, guys. Listen, listen, listen. Here's my theory. You say you dislike Muslims, but I think you just hate New York. You're not Islamophobic. You're New Yorkophobic. because you constantly blame us for normal New York stuff.

The New York Mets, they are on an 11-game losing streak, including, oh, right after the mayor met and hugged the team mascot, Mr. Mett at City Field on April 9th, a phenomenon people are calling the mom Donnie curse. Don't you dare put the Mets on us, okay? They curse themselves. You think we would waste an ancient curse on the Mets? In fact, in fact, if the Mets really want to win, okay, maybe they need Islam.

Maybe, yeah, maybe they need to pray five times a day. Yeah, pray five times a day. That's how you'll get angels in outfield. Please understand. Muslims aren't trying to take over the streets of New York. Well, maybe just one street. Mr. Rami, what does Salam al-a-a-a-a-a-m mean? Well, Salam means peace, and it's a way to say hello in Arabic.

That's so sweet. Yes. That's so sweet. Peace for everyone. That makes sense. Wait a second. That makes sense. Elmo's full name is El Mohammed.

That's why I've never seen him with Miss Piggy. I mean, a message of peace and joy. Who could be bad at that? I wish Sesame Street would stick to. teaching kids about letters and numbers, Laura, and leave the Arabic immersion to someone else. By the way, there's no record of Sesame Workshop posting a Jewish Heritage Day, Italian Heritage Day, or Irish Heritage Day. We looked. Oh, you looked? You looked? Well, I don't think you looked hard enough, sweetheart.

But I think we're going to. Ramos with Daddy. Rigatoni. That was a hard R, Elmo. I got to say. say, I'm a rigged Tony. I don't feel comfortable. But see, why wouldn't they celebrate multiple cultures? Sesame Street is a diverse show. They got birds, frogs, coked out elephants. I mean, look at his pupils. Who let this guy on a kid's show?

He's doing lines like, all right. All right, all right. And that brings me to my final critique. Islamophobes, do your research. Because I have, and here it is, Muslims invented algebra, hospitals, universities, the camera, even algorithms, just to name a few.

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Muslims also believe in Jesus Christ. He's mentioned in the Quran, which has an entire chapter named after his mother Mary, and we also believe in the virgin birth. Stop using lazy tropes to divide people so you can bomb other countries, creating even more refugees, making you more upset at Muslims in America, being doctors, engineers, lawyers, are selling you streetmen out of delicious salmawks. There's more to life than finding the perfect car. But finding the perfect car can help you get the money.

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Oh, man. Thank you for having me, man. Absolutely. I have to tell you that you are someone who's like body of work and, like, work ethic. I've admired for a very long time. Like, I find you incredibly inspiring as a storyteller. Like, you made me want to tell better stories, you know. So I appreciate everything that you've done so far. I'm so excited about the things that you have coming up.

Like, truly, truly, truly, truly. I'm so glad that you're here with me. Yeah, thank you. So I want to ask you because you're someone who has created everything that you've created out of your hometown. Like you've created out of your city. You didn't move to New York or L.A. or any of that. I wanted to hear from you of what it means to you to build everything from the ground up somewhere

that maybe doesn't get as much industry looks as the two coast cities. We have a long history in Houston of comedy. You know, you have Sam Kinnisson. You have Thiel Bedou. you have Bill Hicks, you have Billy D. Washington, you have Roushawne McDonald. So I stayed there out of straight-up anger. You know, somebody told me that I had to move,

and I felt like that was crazy to me that I would have to move somewhere to start doing stand-up to go somewhere else to start over. So, you know, I took there personal, and, you know, most of everything I've ever built is out of anger. Somebody said, I can't do this. That's why I don't tell people not to get mad.

You know, misplaced anger is the problem. You know, this is very well-placed anger. I was upset that you tell me that I would have to go somewhere else. You know, just like when I got out of prison, this dude told me I would be back, and I got mad about that. Like, as a visitor, you know.

I won't be here staying at all. This is it. Used to me one time. Yeah, so that's, it's always a big thing to stay in Houston. You know, I felt like if I did, so happen to make it, how would my community benefit if I was someone else? You know, the people who I went to school with, the people who I

stay in the neighborhood with, how can you not, you know, benefit from me if I'm somewhere else? You have to see me in the city and then be able to take from my experience and me be able to teach. I'm saying, one of my guys that I taught works here, you know, Ashton, you know, I'm a Houston guy and I was doing my thing and I would tell him how terrible he was and he got man. And then he became a write on the show and I was so proud of him. I know. Ashtha's incredible. That's not. Oh, man. And so your special, my two sons, which by the way, when you drop specials, I get very excited. I get very excited to see. I was, when I tell you, I was excited for Monday.

I was telling people about Mondays, like Mondays was coming out in the theater. I was literally like, hey, y'all want to go see Mondays? And then where are we going to go? Like, my house? It's going to be on YouTube. And the way that you do it, the way that you release for the people and everything, and you have done everything once again yourself and you've created the platform that you have now, I mean, you winning an award for an independent special. Crazy. Yeah.

Crazy. Yeah. The award is really not even for me. It's for other independents to give them more motivation that you can actually win an award without the machine. You know, I probably never get that Emmy, you know, because that's a whole different political thing. But, you know, to win any type of award and get recognized for your work as an independent is incredible. Yes, absolutely. You also have a piece you put out from inside where you talk to current inmates, like people who are incarcerated right now.

And you actually, in your spare time, go and do shows for people who are incarcerated. Yeah, you know, just to let that officer know that I'm back and I'm looking. I'm going to see you again. And to put it in his face, you still work here, huh? Yeah. So I go there for motivation, you know, because I need them to see somebody who was in the same condition. I'm not one of the celebrities or one of these people that go in

and then you try to tell people who've never been in their condition how they should behave or what they should do. But now you have somebody who was here, you know, that came from this space, tell you the steps that you're going to need to take in order to once you get out because the the rehabilitation starts inside you have to change whatever mindset inside because once you get out it becomes harder because now you have to be the person that you said that you were inside you know and I'm that exact person you know I'm saying I never um dealt in prison politics you know I wasn't

trying to be here you know I've had you know you know first two years it was different okay so let me be honest yeah first two years I was a wild man yeah because they gave me 15 years and I thought I was gonna do all 15 I'm 19 I'm like I'm not getting out of 33 this is my life and so but then in somewhere in there older guy told me hey man um if you change your behavior you can get out and you have to change your mindset for when you are out so I went on this road of trying to be more diplomatic and go back revert back to the the person that my mom and them raised you know I come from a good family I was embarrassing my family by being inside. You know, when your mother works at the college, she used to build computers, and you're like, where your son at? Oh, he's... Yeah, yeah. You know, so that's, that was a whole,

that was a whole thing. So I didn't want to embarrass my family when I got out. So I changed a lot of things, you know, and I never spoke, you know, prison language. So when I got out, people didn't even know I was in prison until I said it on ARI show in 2015. You know, I've been doing stand-up since 97. So then, now, Now, you know, I'm like the prison go-to guy, you know. But I think that the most benefit of me is going to see those guys, letting them see my face, letting them feel my energy and understand, hey, you can't trick me in this. I'm going to tell you exactly what you're in here doing and what you're not doing and what it's going to take for once you get out.

And once you get out, bro, you're going to have to humble yourself. You are, because that was, you know, in comedy, I've humbled myself multiple times. I remember when D.L. told me that I was going to have to take a back seat in order to get on the mainstream. I'm on the Chittling Circuit making plenty of money, like almost like dope money again. It was crazy. It was crazy. And then he was like, yo, Rob Stapleton was the actual person who told me first, and then D.L. called me for a show, and I was like, how much?

He was like, $50. I was like, back seat. This is the trunk. And, but going on, going on that, taking that $50, going on the mainstream, has gotten me to hear. You know, I've been on multiple other shows and why I went independent, really, when people ask me why I went independent. It's not a big, fascinating story.

It's I did a special with Comedy Central, bigger than these bars. I took a clip and put it on my social media, and they copyright infringed me for my own face and then we called. I say, well, I can't promote things, and they say, well, we own it. And I took that we own it as they owned me. And I was like, oh, never again. So I just went independent. So you're also on tour, this custom fit tour, is not only international, but it's your first arena shows.

Yes, yes. That is amazing. That is incredible. It really is. It really is. If I look back from where I started, you know, and, you know, and, you know, and I'm just, you know, And it's like all comics start in these smaller rooms, and that's the beauty of it, that all of us start in the same place, and you can grow if that's what you're trying to do.

You know, and it's not a disrespect to small rooms or bars or wherever you're performing that. It's just the growth of how you marketing yourself and how many people want to come see you. So to sell out the Chesapeake Arena in Baltimore and then add a show, and hopefully that sells out, you know, and go to Europe and do all these things. I can't get into London no more. It's crazy. I've been there and they say, if you've ever been convicted of a felony,

you can't come back. I was like, but I've been already. I should be grandfathered in or something. That's wild. That's wild. And so the custom fit tour, people think it's about to close, even though, you know, it's a lot of custom outfits.

I mean, they do look great. This is fantastic. This is, you know, Gucci. Brand of choice. But it's really about the people that you put around you. And in your life, you're going to have to custom fit your friend circle

and your business circle to what you're trying to do. You know, you can't take everybody with you. And some people are going to fall off along the way. But I want to be a benefit to the people that I'm around, and I want the people that's around me to be a benefit to me. And so that's...

That is absolutely incredible. Thank you so, so much for being here with me. Truly, truly, it's an honor and it means the world to be able to sit with you, especially across the desk. Man, thank you. I was going to, I was going to wear some like normal clothes, but I see you not in your hoodie, so I say, I'm a, I don't want to feel. Yeah. I don't want to feel like an outcast, I'm going to wear a suit as well.

Oh, I appreciate you. We both look great from the South. Absolutely. Be sure to check out Ali's special My Two Sons on YouTube. The Custom Fit Tour dates on AliSadique.com. Ali Sadiq, everyone. We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after that. RBC Training Ground has discovered potential in over 20,000 Canadian athletes and counting.

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No, it came out this morning, but basically very much narrowed the Voting Rights Act. Was you considered a win for a win? Win for Republicans. I love it. But my question. This is a very good. We can end this news conference. I want to read it.

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