The Daily Show: Ears Edition - U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns | Tyler James Williams

Episode Date: October 21, 2022

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns in record time, new research is published about the physical effects of long COVID and Tyler James Williams discusses his show "Abbott Elementary."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And Tyler James Williams. This is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah What's going on everybody? Welcome to the Daily Shoveno. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for coming out in person. So good to see you. Look at this. Oh wow, take a seat, everybody. Take a seat. Take a seat. Wow, this feels amazing. I feel like I've met you before. This is wonderful. We've got a great show for you tonight. Coronavirus has a fun new side effect. loses another queen and we'll find out why Florida now has the greatest gas stations of all time. So let's do this people, let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right, I'm gonna be honest people. With all the news that happened today I don't think we have enough space in today's show. We tried everything we could to pack it all in, you know, we try to tighten it, I even put

the news on a crash diet, you know, so it would get small enough to fit, but those diets don't really work so now there's even more news than ever and I've got a pantry full of tea. The point is we just don't have the the the the the the the the the the the the the time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time enough time is just enough time for a segment we call, ain't nobody got time for that. All right, let's kick things off with an old school story. That's an update on the coronavirus pandemic, or as we call it now, just life. Now that pretty much everyone has gotten through COVID at least what? Scientists are wondering what that's doing to our bodies. and the answer is not great. We have some more concerning news now about the long-term impact of COVID-19. A study shows that it speeds up aging. An epidemiology expert from Washington University in St. Louis studied long

COVID's impacts on your organs. In his research he noticed patterns indicating the kidneys, the brain and the heart all age faster after about with the virus. Yeah that's right.. We th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we have th, we have th, we have th, we have th, we have th, we have th, we have th, th, th, th, th, th. We have thi thi, thi, th. We th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We th. We have th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We have th. We have th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the the the the theat theat theeeat theat theeat theat the theat the theat thi. the. the. the kidneys, the brain, and the heart, all age faster after about with the virus. Yeah, that's right. Researchers say COVID can cause your organs to age faster than you are. I'm not even sure what that means. I guess you turn on the TV to watch euphoria and your kidneys are like, what about blue bloods?

Come on! No, for real, this is disturbing news. Fighting COVID is so difficult that it ages your body parts. I mean, that is a great excuse for the next time you can't perform in bed, though, you know? Baby, you gotta understand, my penis is like 85! And this is the scary thing about COVID. Because it's a novel virus, we still don't know what the long-term side effects might be. And what sucks is that it's always going to be bad.

We know it's always going to be bad. Like viruses never have good side effects. News anchors are never like, breaking news, we're learning now that nine out of ten people suffering from long-term strain COVID is going to put on the medical system, or how weird organs are in general. Like, why do we have so many? Why don't we just have one big one that runs everything? But we can't get into that important medical discussion, because while COVID-a keeps

coming up with new ways to attack our bodies, the virus. Vladyrusha, to attack Ukraine. Well, tonight, a third of Ukraine is without power after Russia destroyed power stations in the last eight days. President Zelensky says Russia has thrown the country into massive blackouts and is urging his nation to brace for a tough winter. For the last month, Russia has targeted Ukraine's electricity grid, especially substations that serve as junction points between cities. Just yesterday, Russia unleashed these, a swarm of kamikaze drones to dive bomb energy

facilities throughout the city. Yeah, after being beaten back by Ukraine's forces on the ground, Putin has now resorted to using kamikaze drones. Caddy bitch. And you know, if this doesn't prove that Putin's strategy is failing, nothing will. Because you never need to use kamikaze when you're winning. You know, it's like any time you see someone rushing somewhere with their hands full of paper towels, you know things are not going according to plan.

Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. And Kamakazi's from Japan. So this is a war crime and cultural appropriation. So you're canceled, Vladimir Putin! Yeah. Let's see if Twitter will do what the UN could not. By the way, an interesting detail in this story is that Russia had to buy these drones from Iran, which kind of makes you question their military might. You're supposed to be one of the most powerful militaries in the world, but you

ran out of shit already? Like you realize America never runs out of weapons. Never. America has so many weapons, sometimes it'll sell weapons to countries that it's going to fight just to make space, you know? All right,, all right, here you go Iraq. All right, now let's do this. Pia, pia, pia, pia, piap! Now, if we had more time, we could talk about how Russia's access to weapons from other countries reminds us that the global sanctions aren't as global as we think, because they still have ties to Asia, South America and their energy supplies, but we don't have the time to get into that. Because while Ukraine is in turmoil, there's another country in Europe that somehow is in even more of a shit situation today.

Great Britain. And that's one story we definitely need to make time for. Breaking across the pond a political earthquake, just 44 days. That is how long Prime Minister Liz Trust was in office before resigning just in the last few hours. I recognize though, given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. This makes Trust now the shortest serving Prime Minister in 3001 years. God damn Britain another Prime Minister,

another Prime Minister? And this one only lasted 44 days. Boris Johnson had COVID parties that were longer than that. You realize how hard it is to get tired of somebody this quickly? Usually politicians get a period of time where you like them first and then you hate them. But Britain hated Liz Trustust basically from day one. Imagine being on a first date. On a first date with someone and they're like, oh, I'm so sick of all your shit.

But we just met, it's like, I know and I'm suffocating. Actually, if this was a relationship, I feel like at this point Britain's friends will be sitting down with it like, listen, honey, you've been through four prime ministers in six years. They can't all be the problem, huh? I'm just saying maybe it's time to turn the vote of no confidence on yourself, yeah? In fact, for the next prime minister, maybe, maybe the UK should take things a little slow. Yeah, this is chaos. For the next one, maybe, maybe don't put a label on it. Man, so much pressure, the Prime Minister. Maybe just have them be the person who lives at 10 Downing Street.

In fact, don't even live there. Just sleep over here and there. Yeah, then maybe leave a toothbrush behind, you know, and then they get a draw for their clothes and then when you're sure that this is the Prime Minister for you, then you bring them to meet your friends at the G7. How about that, you know? And you're like, yeah, yeah, we're a thing. We're a thing. Oh, and by the way, remember, the reason Liz Truss lost her job is because she came into office making worse

decisions than a company's social media manager during Black History Month. Terrible budget plans, firing finance ministers, going back on her own policies, sending the Queen to meet Jesus. Things were going so badly, so badly that the British press trolled her with vegetables. In a sign of just how tenuous her standing was, and perhaps how brutal UK politics can be, a British newspaper began tracking ahead of lettuce to see if the embattled trust would last longer than the produce, and it did. Oh, that's humiliating.

That is humiliating. Imagine being so bad at your job that you lose a joke contest. Yeah, because at first people were like, Ha ha, I bet she can't last longer than a head of lettuce. And then by the end of it, they were like, should the lettuce be prime minister? And maybe the lettuce will be the only one that wants the job. Because right now, Britain's Parliament sounds more chaotic than a family reunion at Herschel Walker's house.

Yesterday was a shambolic day for her. We heard early in the day that her Interior Minister, the Home Secretary Seweller Braveman, had resigned over an issue, over improper use of her emails. And then later in the day we heard that she had, in fact, been fired. And then there was a vote in the House of Commons, which descended into chaos. Some lawmakers alleged that government officials were actually physically pushing them, intimidating them into making decisions that they wouldn't otherwise have made. One lawmaker even alleged that some MPs were crying, swearing, the toilets of the House of Commons. What a shit show?

Did you hear that? People were shoving each other, crying, swearing, quitting, unquitting. It's almost like the whole government turned into a high school drama club rehearsal. I mean, members of parliament were crying in the toilet. Multiple members of parliament. Like, how many? Was there a line? You know?

Are you almost done? Are you almost done? Other people are waiting to cry, you, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, there's people like, are you almost done in there? Are you almost done? Other people are waiting to cry too, you know? It's coming out, hurry, it's coming out! It's actually too bad that this happened in Britain and not in Japan, because, you know, at least Japanese toilets so advanced, they can, they can probably actually help and console you. You know? There, there, Trevor, you're doing, th are, th are, ther, the you're doing, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi thi, tho, tho, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, to to thooo, tho, tho, tho, there, Trevor, you're doing the best you can. Thanks, Toto. Don't forget to wipe. Yeah, I remember.

Wiping is very important. Remember what happened last time? Shut up, Jo. Just shut up. Shut up, you're not helping. No, shit, shut up, Jo, you're not helping. Shut up! No, shit, shut up! No, no! You're not helping! You know,

the craziest part of this whole story is that Liz Truss only became prime minister, the craziest part of this whole story is that Liz Truss only became prime minister because Boris Johnson was embroiled in so many scandals that he was forced to resign. That's the only reason she got the job. So you'll never guess who might be replacing her. The big issue, though, for the Conservative Party and for this country is that no one really knows who's going to be able to replace her.

There are a number of names in the mix, including, I have to say, Boris Johnson, who's currently on holiday and on vacation at the moment in the Caribbean. There are a number of conservative party members who are calling for Boris Johnson. I went to my constituency at the weekend, and the strong message that I got was bring back Boris Johnson. Some supporters and some allies and allies thiiiiiiiiiiioleoleoleoleoleoleoleoleooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thi thi thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. th. th. tho tho tho tho tho. tho. the the. the the the the the the the the the. the the. the. thei. thei to to to to to to to to to to that I got was bring back Boris Johnson. Some supporters and some allies of Boris Johnson say that he may throw his name into the ring, which would be pretty remarkable since he was forced out by scandal just six or seven weeks ago. Oh, that's right people, old Boris Johnson is looking pretty good right now, isn't

he? Not physically, of course. Physically, he looks like a Pomeranian who got stuck in a dryer. Politically, though, people are like, he's not bad. Here's an honest question, though. Britain, are you, are you really going to put Boris back in office? Boris Scandals, Johnson? There is nobody else who could do this job. Nobody? In the entire country? Like, what about Paddington? Everybody loves him?

Yeah. With that voice, he could even have bad policies. No one would care. I want to burn all the migrants. Aw. You crazy tyrants. Now, look, if we had more time, we could try and figure out Britain's next top minister,

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My guest tomorrow is an Emmy nominated actor who stars in the hit show Abbott Elementary, which is now in its second season and airs Wednesdays on ABC. Please welcome, Tyler James Williams, welcome to the Daily Show. It is great to see you here, that's yours, yeah, enjoy it. You can take the mug with you and everything. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, one of the perks. First of all, congratulations. It of your success, your continued success. You know, I fell in love with you as an actor on Everybody Hates Chris. I've been following you ever since. Thank you.

It was so good to see you. I mean, you know, you've obviously done cameos in other shows and you've played other parts, but Abbott Elementary is a force. You got an Emmy nomination for it congratulations on that as well you've been phenomenal the whole cost has been phenomenal you know you know what's amazing about the show isn't just the fact that it is a network show that everyone said was everyone said everyone said network is dead TV comedies nobody wants anymore people

want procedu people want to and you brought a show that people watch together people want to speak about the next day what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. You they. You they. You. You. they. You they. You've. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I the. the. I the. that people watch live, that people watch together, people want to speak about the next day. What do you think, you know, is part of the reason the show is so successful in resonance? I think people want to feel good, man. I think after 2020 and what has continued to be the pandemic, and our political climate, I think, we found a lot that we could be mad about, and a lot of things we could yell at each other about, but not much that we could laugh about together. And this is one of those shows that kind of brings people together and, you know, you can talk about it the day after and kind of laugh at what we know to be a broken educational

system. But if we can't laugh about it, then what, it's kind of, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th.. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, than, that, that, tha. And, tha. And, tha. And, tha. And, that. And, that. And, tha. And, tha. And, th. And, th. I mean, this is this thing right here. This thing, yeah. What I've loved about the show is how beloved it has become in the education space. Like teachers love the show. You know, on multiple occasions, Abbott Elementary has, for instance, given away its marketing budget to buy supplies for teachers around the country to raise awareness for how they're not getting paid enough or they don't have enough............. what's happening in the American schooling system, but with grace. I think that's one of the things I've really appreciated is that it's not like a mockery of teachers. No. And it doesn't it doesn't shit on anybody, but it's really honest in people's failings. Yeah, I mean, it's, if we can't look at where we're thr't incredibly divisive, then I don't

know what we're doing. That's what network TV is supposed to do. It's woven into the fabric of American culture, you know what I mean? We've always sat down together and we've watched something and we've talked about it at the water cooler or whatever. So the American sitcom kind of can't die. If the American sitcom dies, we're f-ex. You know it's it's it's actually interesting you say that because I was talking to a friend about this the other day and I was saying people take for granted how powerful and how connective it it was to have shows that people shared. Yes. You share a reality you share an experience you share

something that brings you together as opposed to politics which always divides people you've been in this business for ever since you're what? Four years old? That was four. You're normal though? Enough. I'm normal enough. How? I really like the work, man. I really like telling stories and representing people and you know empathizing with characters and going into people's living rooms week to week. You know, when you look at your journey, I know everyone talks about being grateful, and it's always easy to be grateful for for the momentous moments. What is the most insignificant seeming moments in your life that you're the most grateful for because of how it shaped you or how it's you know shaped the life that you live now?

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Habit thank you so much for being here. For real man. One of the funniest human beings I have ever watched and have the pleasure I'm speaking to. Tyler James Williams everybody will take a quick break and we'll be right back after this. Man for real. Finding great candidates to hire can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. You might get a lot of resumes, but not enough candidates with the right skills or experience. But not with Zip Recruiter. Zip Recruiter finds amazing candidates for you fast. And right now you can try it for free at zip recruder.com slash zip. Zip recruiter's smart technology identifies top

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