The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Wanda Sykes Covers The U.S. and Germany Sending Tanks to Ukraine | Nia Long

Episode Date: January 26, 2023

Wanda Sykes covers the latest news, including the US and Germany sending tanks to Ukraine, and the FDA creating new regulations on how much lead is allowed in baby food. Actress Nia Long discusses working with the legendary Eddie Murphy in "You People"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, what's going on? Everybody. Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Wanda Sykes. And I'm back. And I'm back. And I'm Wanda Sikes. And I'm back. Yep. I'm back. But honestly, I never left.

No one told me how to get out this damn building. You should see them after the show. They just leave. But we've got a great show for you tonight. My girl, Neil Long, is joining us. Yes. So let's get right into it. Let's start with the war in Ukraine.

We're coming up on 11 months since the Kremlin, Grimlan invaded. And now, the Ukrainian military is getting some major reinforcements. The announcement came this morning. The United States and Germany will both be sending tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine has been desperate to get tanks as Russia prepares for a spring offensive. And this morning, it looks like more than a dozen German tanks will be on their way soon with as 100 to follow with the US expected to send more than 30 Abrams tanks. Ukraine wants the advanced German tanks as soon as possible. As for those Abrams tanks, the only issue is they will not likely arrive

for at least a year. A year? Oh, come on, US. Ukraine is fighting for its life. And America is like, all right, the delivery window is from June to December. Make sure you're home. I'll tell you, that damn Lewis DeJoy has really messed up the post office. You've got to go. Now, the reason it took so long to send these tanks is that Germany didn't want to send

tanks alone. They wanted another country to send tanks with them because, you know, it's not a great look just when it's a German tanks rolling across Europe. It kind of makes people nervous. I think it should have been Sweden. Yeah. And they send tanks to Ukraine and Russia. Okay, hear me out, hear me out. And then Sweden do that thing you do where you send the tanks and parts with a diagram for assembly. Yeah. See, that would bring the countries together because no one couldn't assemble that shit

on their own. You know, Ukraine to be like, hey Russia, do you have an extra one of those wooden peggy thingies? Moving on. The FDA has some good news for babies and if there are any babies out there watching, what you're doing? Go to the baby. And also, your food's about to taste a lot less like pennies. In tonight's health watch, we have important information for parents about baby food. The FDA today proposed new levels for lead in baby food, cutting the allowable level by about 25% to 20 parts per billion or less.

Now, that would apply to baby foods made with fruits, vegetables, and dry cereals, but not cereal puff and teething biscuits, which have been found to have some of the highest lead levels. The author of a 2019 report that found dangerous levels of lead in nearly 95% of manufactured baby food says the FDA's proposals don't go far enough to protect children. But at least now you know. But at least now you know? Wait, is that a thing? Is this how you break bad news to people now? Hey, remember that bump I thought was a spider bite? Well, it's herpes, but at least now you know.

For more on this news from the FDA, we send our correspondence out in the field. So let's go live to Desi Leidick and Dulce Sloan. Desk, let's start with you. I mean, this story is crazy. How does baby food even get lead in it? No one knows, Wanda. It could be from the soil. It could be from an old paint and the processing plan.

It could be the guy at the end of the assembly line who sprinkles lead into all the jars. You telling me they got lead bay down there. That's probably where the lead is coming from. It's impossible to say. But this regulation is necessary, Wanda. Lead is harmful to babies and they shouldn't eat it. Unless they keep screaming for it and then it's like, fine, who shit have it whatever makes and this tantrum stop parenting is complicated okay let's turn to Dulce I guess it's a good thing the FDA is taking action on this for

babies my fuck babies I'm in a supermarket in Jackson, Mississippi, trying to buy a bottle of water because look at the water they got down here. The government needs to fix this problem. Why the babies get priority? Why do babies get priority? Why are these babies getting priority? I'm the one paying American taxes. I mean, well, people love babies.

Come on, they're cute. I'm cute. Babies? Hit a miss. I mean, you see them. You tried to be nice, but that baby was a gremlin. Listen, besides, how is this helping babies? OK? You've seen them. You tried to be nice, but that baby was a gremlin. Listen, besides, how is this helping babies, okay? They're not getting rid of the lead, they're just lowering the amount.

How about we don't eat any harmful chemicals? That's, that's a good idea, right? they're not the told you. So I wish it's just not possible. You know, lead is in the soil, mercury is in the ocean, animals are full of plastic, it's called the ecosystem. Desi's got a point, Dulcy. I mean, chemicals are everywhere.

Especially everywhere black people live. I mean, my first boyfriend was exposed to so many chemicals, he glowed in the dark. Wait, but I never heard of that before. Are you sure that was the chemicals? I mean, it's hard to say he had a lot going on. I see. So, Desi, is this the best the FDA can do? Just try to make sure babies aren't eating too much lead? It's not a bad strategy. If babies are going to spend their lives eating chemicals, and we may as well get them

started early to build up immunity, you know? I mean, that's why I've decided to eat more lead. You know, personally I'm just starting now. Okay, I don't think you should... Here's how I see it. If I start now, then by this time next year, I should be able to eat a whole car battery and be fine. Huh. That's not a bad idea. I mean, you know, I guess. I can try. Dulse and don't do that. Mmm. That's a good year. Tire!

Oh my God. I saw Jesus. Oh. This lead is not bad. Mmm. They're really good. I'll tell you what, Wanda. I'll tell you what else.

Uh, Daisy? Dazzy? Huh? Yeah. What were you going to say? Oh, uh, just that if babies and humans can come together, it's fervor America great. Oh Lord, she had lost her damn mind. Oh, I'm just, I'm just glad that nothing happened to me.

Oh, I'm just glad that nothing happened to me. You know what I mean? Who, just out here being healthy. This water wasn't that bad. I want to say it's good. Don't see, you're glowing. Mmm. Thank you, sis, I got new skin to everyone. Lord, I hope the insurance here is good.

Desilette, Leigh, and Do say Sloane, everyone. All right, when we come back, Roy Wood Jr. visits Comp City. You don't want to the Dalym. Atlanta is in turmoil right now. And if you're waltz. And if you're wondering why, it's because the police shot a protester in Copp City. And if that has you even more confused, weig. theylla is in turmoil right now. And if you're wondering why, it's because the police shot a protester in Cop City.

And if that has you even more confused, we sent Roywood Jr. down there to help explain. Tonight, we take a look at Atlanta, where shit's getting crazy. I'm talking Waffle House crazy. Atlanta's busy downtown descended into chaos over the weekend. Hundreds of protesters marched in the streets in the wake of the death of a 26-year-old environmental activist.

The activist was killed on Wednesday as officers cleared protesters from the site of a planned police training center. But these guys are trained, right? This isn't an armed militia of interns. Back before things got this bad, I went to Atlanta and met with local activists, Jasmine Burnett. The Atlanta Police Foundation is building a massive urban warfare training facility with bombs testing, tear gas explosions, a shooting range. Didn't people march to defund the police? It looked like they refunded the police. Activists have dubbed this development, Copp City.

An 85 acre 90 million dollar complex including a shooting range, burn buildings, and a mock city that includes apartments, a school, even a bar. So this is basically like six flags for the police. Yes, it's a playground. You can't call it a playground. But I had a dream about how they could make this project more appealing to activists. We name it after Montalutican. It doesn't matter.

Talipari presents the training facility. The name doesn't change the impacts. Until you don't watch no Talipere. Activists like Jasmine have been campaigning against Copp City using legal avenues, but others have been like, screwing in full madmast. Protesters throwed to a construction workers truck. Activists calling themselves forest defenders have been occupying the woods around the cop city building site for over a year.

It's an effort to protect the surrounding black community from increased flooding and other environmental impacts of this development. So against my better judgment, I headed to one of their encampments. Yeah, barricades, burnt out truck, pretty normal place. I met with Sabo and Greengrass, two forest defenders who were going to give me a tour of the... Wait, wait, wait, who the hell is this? All right, I think that's the police rolling up. Yeah, because we're trying to obstruct their project. Greengrass just took off. Greengrass on f-foom with the police. I understand, it's a black thing.

Yeah, let's go this way. I'd rather take my chance with the Georgia Ewoks than the cops. So I followed Greengrass and Sabo into the woods. So I just got here and the police just ran us into the forest defenders have a $25,000 th th th th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho thous, tho tho ththrough Friday, just to terrorize us like police do. Some of the forest defenders have a $25,000 bounty on their head, so they mask up to disguise their identity. And some are even taking a cue from old school tee pain. This is a plantation historically and an ex-prison farm. I'd be honest. I wish I had an auto tune I

could speak in because you just made prison farm industrial complex sound so melodic. They led me to the living room, one of their encampments with kind of a A24 horror film vibe. Press in the living room! Yeah, don't just say press you got to say Roywood Jr. You know from deaf comedy jam HBO is one of the best comedians to do it. Oh no, no. This living room is used as our community function. Hey, bingo. Y'all got bingo night? Yeah. Where is the maltaltof cocktail station? Where's the gun training station? The majority of us just want to live in peace with each other. We work here on ourselves and we do yoga and we meditate.

You get massages here. But you'll get massages? You do yoga, meditate, stretch, and deal with your inner, like therapy. Yeah. their construction only, like therapy. Yeah. Has that had any type of effect on stopping Cop City from coming? Yeah, their construction only got in like two days in the past year. And one of the primary construction firms dropped out.

According to leak documents, the cop city building plan is months behind schedule. This crunchy gruntilola shit seems to be working. But forest defenders say law enforcement has stepped up raids on their camps, so they built barricades and they avoid police by living in tree houses, like some sort of Antifa Swiss Family Robinson. Okay, so that's about 50 feet in the air. Yeah? Tree sitters may drop things.

Body, grab these. You just said that they drop paper bags of shit. Well, if the cops are in here and you can't come down from the tree. It's a lot of different ways to protest. Why is your way living the treehouse 80 feet up and drop shit and paper bag? We have to stop Cop City because they're practicing to murder us. They're practicing how to come into our homes more effectively while we're asleep. The alternative is staying here, shiting in a bag sometimes, or lay down and watch the world

burn. Anyone up there? Please don't drop shit on us. This is my only suit. Since my visit to the Atlanta forest, police raids and arrests have only been more frequent, culminating in last week's shooting. Police don't usually target protesters like this in America. What if they go after celebrity journalists next?

Good thing I got rid of my phone in the woods so the police can't track me. Oh shit. Am I supposed to get an Uber out of here? Thank you you Roy. All right, stay tune because when we come back, my friend, Mia Long, will be joining me on the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a friend and an actor who is starring in two new films, Missing, which is in theaters now and you people, will be streaming on Netflix January 27th. Please welcome my girl, Nia Long! I'm gonna sit over here. Okay.

These are nice tall chairs. How are you? I'm doing really well. It's nice to you. I was just going to say the same thing. I know, yeah. So, uh, you have two movies out. It's crazy.

What the hell? Won't he do it? He will do it all the time and I just said to myself I was like boy I better hurry up and get another job because I'm gonna have a whole year where nothing comes out. You know how this goes it's Feaster Famine. Right, right. So how did you do that? You shot one movie Monday, Wednesday, and then Sunday too. They had me working on a Sunday. Wow. I actually it just just, th. It just, th. It just, the the th. It's, the th. It's, th. It's, the th. It's, th. It's, the th. It's, th. It's, to, to, to, to, to, to to, to to to to to to to do, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to do. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the the the the the the the the the the the the to. I. I. I will. I, to. to. to. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I Sunday too. They had me working on a Sunday. No, I actually, it's just the timing of the release stage. It's worked out this way. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. And okay, so on you people, you got Eddie Murphy, Julie Louis Dreyfuss, Jonah Hill, I've worked with all of them, and Kenya too. But see, what you got to actually work with Eddie Murphy. When I worked with Eddie Professor too. And I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just just, it just just, it just just, it just, it just, it, it just, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it just, it just, it, it just, it, it just just just, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the ti, When I worked with Eddie, it was Nutty Professor, too,

and I pretty much worked with a tennis ball. Because he was... Some days I'll get one Eddie Murphy, but he was, you know, all in the makeup as granny. Yeah, and then it's exhausting. So sometimes the off-camera stuff, I know the tennis ball thing. I did that with Martin Lawrence. I kind, you kind of, with Big Mama's house, right? Same kind of concept.

Right. He was there. He was there for every single shot. Wow. Yeah, no prosthetic makeup in this one. So he was there and he was wonderful. And I was so excited to finally be old enough to play his wife. For years, it was like, the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their the no, you're too young. Like, you know, right.

And now the men always get the younger women, so here we are. There you go. There you go. So and then your other movie, Missing. Yes. That's kind of like, you like the black woman, Liam Neeson and taken, right? Well, that would be Storm Reed Reed because she's on a mission to find me. And you know what's great about the film is everything is shot through some sort of technical device.

Right. So it's either an iPhone, a ring cam, you know a secret phone that's like planted on set somewhere. So every, every rule that I've learned about, you know, film and television, I had to throw out the window because there were no overs. There were no, it was just shoot and don't ask questions. Because if you asked questions, you will be more confused. So I just had to trust the process. Yeah, I would have been like with the camera. I get that from th questions th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. throw 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. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. throw throw throw throw throw throw throw throw out throw throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out throw out the ust the process. Yeah, I would have been like with the camera, I was like, hey, get that from under my chin. What you doing? Bring that up there. I had, I had, my mom's on ladders. Oh, yeah, shoot me from up there.

Can I tell you. Can I tell you. There's a moment in the film, I'm like, no, thrown, tho, the cell phone and I'm like going like this I'm like nope don't roll it yet nope nope nope okay there we go stop a woman knows her light in her angles after a certain amount of time yes yes I think it's it's great to see you know a black woman in this this type of role you know it's like taking over like a drama thing so like maybe you can like tak over like a drama thing so like maybe you can like the the the the there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there th th i th i thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi tho thi tho thi tho thi thi thi there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there a black woman in this this type of role you know it's like taking over like a drama thing so like maybe you can like take over like the John Wick movies you know yeah it could be like John Wick is like they killed her edges and now and she wants revenge yes no more lace front that's right

that's right. As long as I can wear this coat, I'll play whatever character. Me, my little. It is fancy. You are very fancy, me, along. Well, you know what happened is I went to Dubai right before I came here to see Beyonce, and she was incredible. I was like literally crying. Wow. I was crying in the audience. I was like literally crying. I was crying in the audience. I'm like a true fan and that was my first Beyonce

concert. So to see it in Dubai was like one of those moments that I will remember for the rest of my life. So everything in Dubai is blingy and I'm kind of not blingy but everything I packed... Kind of. Okay, then we go. There we go. Okay, but everything I packed was blingy, so. I'm sorry, Wanda, but this is just blingy. You're blingy.

You're blingy. Okay, I got to ask you something real quick. I have to ask you something because I know how it goes. So recently, I'm read read I'm tha, I'm tha, I'm tha, I'm tha, I'm tha, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna read it, there was a headline, right? Yeah. Where you said, I quote, black movies and black famous only hold us back. Yes.

You want to clear that shit up? Because you know, you know how it goes. Because, you know, they take one headline and turn it to read that again. Let me say that again. Turns like black movies and black. tham. tham. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black. And black famous. And black famous. And black famous. And black. And. And. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. There was. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the the th something. So, read that again? Let me say that again. How much time we got. Turns like black movies and black famous only hold us back. Okay, so what I mean by, you know what I mean. Yeah, I know, but, but so, for them. For the white people in the audience.

For the white people in the audience. What I mean by that is if we continue to practice this idea of separatism, we continue to divide. And I will always and forever hold my fist up because I understand the experience. But I also believe that the more we understand about one another, and the more accepting we are of one another, this thing called art should be representative of all of us. Thank you. Okay, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. That's our show for the. That's our show for tonight.

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