Using the comedy central good evening everywhere, I write five, a view. One of me. You can be nice, to each other or you, nice to you. Yes, that's how I have at my ok great. So, let's take with its five thing for a second five words: what do each of you? Do you each get five words, not in five words, one word: what do you do in five words? We each gets words for what we do. That's correct, but it's not a sentence is just five words. It can be a sentence, If were always give you five words news politics, jokes, Trump fun as my five words you got screwed news

ok, we use the same one now more completely different, ok, honey. I can't really can decide what about what we do. It's about what you do. Ok, I like everyone to know what each of you five do. Oh problem solving some times. Always trump That's what I heard you do. That's perfect, ok, keep that shit together. Every day five unrelated words, just randomly put together would be help help were hits me unrelated about data. I do this social media,

press, freedom, that actually summarizes what they all do. I ve been studying this for like five weeks and they just summarize that real quick, Graham so I came to watch the show four weeks ago I came to a taping got to see your offices have a lot of dogs at the office sets a thing that we have. A dog friendly office, which I inherited from John Stewards and general plans, is basically, I feel like the the arbiter of old dogs. Not yet, the executive producer, but also the dog wrangler, and so when I came to this is the first time I thought maybe was like a dog episode, and then I came back, as I was along episode and then I found out, a dog friendly office and gin actually thought when I joined, I was gonna kick out all the dog said sure fire way to have everyone on the staff turn against you take away the dogs well she's daughter, because you I'm gonna, kick out all the don't know what people, Ask me they said: do do you, love dogs and

I said you didn't like your dogs and then they would like yeah, I know, because I don't know them? I don't just love random dogs and I think they took that to mean that I would get rid of them and anyone who has read your book knows about yes. I love to have to ask that all so the dogs of all state at the show it is a dog office. I shouldn't be rather conversation on the dogs. It seems by so one of the things I I was shocked about it. The show is that you guys do I love life to tape daily show. I had forgotten that there was. This tape show that runs on tv every night cause I seed on Twitter. I watch on Youtube. I follow you on Instagram. Do you guys think of the show? So, as a tv show, I like to think of the show as having a home based on tv, because there are still many people who show me hey. I dvr the show I watch it in the morning when I get ready for work, I watch it at night. Sometimes people record the entire weaken comedy central and then they binge watch the entire thing. So what I've always loved is thinking of the home,

the show on tv, but what has become wonderful is the new cycle. Truly has now become twenty four hours. It feels like you know, just before wasn't like it just people making it up trying to full time but was a change at a very high level in this country and that really impacted When news broke, and so I think it on its given us an opportunity to to engage with the news and information, other data show doesn't live in one's. Basically, news doesn't live in one space oh it's you before the danish all may needed tv because that's when used was happening, but then you get to a place where the president is basically holding press conferences on You know, if he's engaging in foreign policy with foreign leaders on Twitter, treating them back and forth than it feels only natural that you would then do the same thing with, show is how do you adapt that commentary? You know, and then politicians Instagram video showing you how natural they are, and so we figured what we

jump onto those platforms and commented on and on other than that which we have to create a completely new division of the daily showed that remain heads that moves us in in a parallel direction. We're doing the same thing, the true or informing each other, but we have to give it as much attention as if it were something airmen. I love tat the name of the team. Iran has its social media. No, we called digital expansion because, as Trevor said, were expanding upon the linear version of the show, and often they were doing jokes that you can do on the show. You, like, we created a whole presidential, Twitter Library for Donald Trump, and it's it's an actual space. You walk into a Alex in feels like presidential library but it's Turco version of that. We cannot just like a different away at it, a different way to do a joke that we couldn't do on the show. So that's what kind of that that expansion

that's actually were the best things about having to show me in all these different formats. Is that every format its own style of joke, making like twitter the grand videos and we can make jokes that that work in those formats, we're not just putting up click. Of our show onto Twitter in a way that doesn't make sense for the format loathing, remain especially, is a really good at his easel is getting down to what exactly works in each of the many different formats we do jokes in and then making them unique to them. So it doesn't just feel like where this old man, into a for my being like about this fleet. I was just kind of what's going on, which is my. Catch raising the office just by the way what this flake and you ve been with the show for how twenty you anyone twenty one years. How

was gone. The thing tat and she drinks at work now in the shower longer than I have this audience, it seems and what I mean expansion team is something somewhat knew. But what is bloody thing has been the biggest change in the production of the show in that time world that is a huge change, because it's like an immense amount of work that still goes into writing producing. We do it at the same level that we would do for the shower. So it's you know, I would say it's a third more work added to the day every day and then the biggest change and that the transition Urim and last four years however, that is the point of view of our host, is, very you know its unique to travel. Let me just say it sees black hosts became black. I was gonna. Take firing remind me every day that office vibration virus

But yes, I mean it's a different like when you came to this. I think we started looking at different guests. We made a real effort to make sure that we are booking women people of color and they didn't have to be the biggest celebrity it we are taking. People that might not be telling the same story on every land I show. Maybe you know, and that big stars all get on the genome every show they want. But what about like? The third actress in a movie that isn't getting a spot on late night will have her come here and waste, Adam. I think we have the most female gas of anyway yeah. I think three on this. We agree we do and we do not We got to a point where we didn't count anymore, either of them. If I wasn't counting there. Nobody but genuine- I was one of the greatest gifts of the Show- is like how do you creates a space where you're, not you not trying to implement tokenism, but rather to representation? You know because a lot of people speak about like it's a chore but funding

for me, it's about trying to find and creates a space where you are tapping into different conversations just for a competitive advantage. How do you keep the show fresh? How do you keep it interesting, so you're, not just having the same author the same actors, the same produces the same. Everything on your show you trying to tap into what people are doing watching. Seeing etc- and so that's what's great about everyone that, like Jen, will just tap me sometime to be like YO as a woman. This is what I'm singing genuinely. Sometimes you can see those things is a manual have a blind spot, you know, sometimes you will say, has a black person. This is what I see you know you Yuvan is from IRAN he's having a great time in life right now, so let s go when he couldn't fly home, when he couldn't fly home or people can't fly to him because of the muslim ban? I mean like it. It was in the office in in an interesting and different way, you'd also the fact that he's funniest person, I know is, is the main part of the reason is there, but then it became like an extra bit of texture. There was like, oh, how can we talk about this on the show in it in a different way that connects with people

It is interesting as one young when, when them, and travel ban happened, I was to to get married so in order to bring the basically because of I had a whole bunch of aunts and uncles and causes Europe going to come to my wedding, but but the travel ban. Other from coming so which save you a lot of money, saving that one day out and knowledge where he did say that at the time a boat to invite is be less with. How did say that at the time present from saving twenty thousand dollars, which is very nice David. I want to ask you cause you, you ve known Trevor for a long time you right some of the right moment jokes, it sounds like most of us every every single joke. He write some sort of weird like a system. That's happening right now travels through the air into two Travers brain, I think of something, that you're him or see how we can all see it when you guys are thinking about writing in Travers voice of been tat. How does that work and is? Has there been a big change for the show

Well, I think at the beginning it was like it was a huge change, because I was I mean I've worked with dreadful like fifteen years or something so I sort of was more closely. Within the rest of the people. But at this point in time I think everybody can right in your voice because of the work we ve done over the last four years, but it was at the beginning of a real battle, especially like when he would tell like they would ride jewish but you could not say what you like this. It's not gonna work. You know, but now it's now I'm going to ask. Is there a joke that traveller or an impression that Trevor thinks he's really funny that you guys have to kill like every day? Please don't say it: you may expansion, we try and kill it everyday. We're not gonna lose it now. You know I will. I will not do it, but I know I know that this is a trap. We know today is I'll. Do it I'll? Do it trap? We should do it

thanks we they should do it. I won't do it. You know none alone and explain the context. Let me old man just the context. This is what's interesting. This guy pulled up is forty. Was I got him compound? Put your phone down calmed down these things. We live stream anyway, so so he turned in my region. The daily show ended. There were laughing, it went up in flames. No, so so here's what's interesting! This is one of the hardest things to understand in and around comedy is just what David said I got. You wish Oh, that had been defined in many ways by the hosts background. You do you had a host who is talking about being from New Jersey, ETA, hosted dude, make jokes about being jewish and allow the rights would jewish, and so it was a space that other than the show operated in comfortably, and then I would get a script like that. I'd be like I can I can I can I make this job feels weird, maybe like oil is by and then everybody that oh yeah, but when you say no, no, no, it doesn't work and the same goes for, like, let's say accents or certain act out through like stories that you're telling context changes when you change borders and its it

the trial and error process united, tell a joke in South Africa to south guns and every single year we're on the same page. We laugh about this. You tell that same joke to Americans about South Africans and it seems like you're laughing at people as opposed to with people, and so the hottest challenges figuring out how you can targeted. Look in such a way that everyone- it was many people as possible, understand what direction you're going in. So there would be. Some things I would do well to do. Next. I like impersonating everybody and so like we'd go. World leaders and do Trump and that our dual Burma and then I do not need another leader and I get to one led enable it would we can't do that actions in America that, unlike the that's, that's his axe and they like here? No, no, we just got. Then I realized it's because of America's history of racism that I'm not limited in the jokes that I can tell, because we don't have that burden in South Africa because we never oppressed a certain group of people. Who they are will leave you to guess. Yeah, I'm sorry! It's way

and we ve you gave me trying, so it was like a fair trade. I may not. America went about generous to judge, we represent America, yes, definitely and we're women. So it's I think so. Yes, like for the jokes. Yes, I know what you're saying for the approval of the jokes. I think so I put the question: was it's not a question? Oh, it's a statement. And then the statement s statement, I say the grid. Trevor, too, is that he is also very he's very good finding the funniest version of what the joke you're trying to make so at times you'll see a pitcher jovial? So I go about summit this and ever will we all recognise, even if it wasn't funny, why kind of. Can you are what style of joke you tell best, and so what you really probably meant to say and he'll say: oh you mean like going

like this and say the joke much better than the way you said it and you really get yeah, you got it yeah you, you got a job, I can use that really works. Let's talk quickly about the success of the show online on Youtube behind the scenes are between the scenes has become huge, headed that come to be, and did you expect that this would become as big of a thing I don't think It's like that to be such a head. I think it's just started with Trevor in between acts of the show was telling these stories in kind of just maybe opining further on events of the day and was very compelling and- and he said, we rolling on this are. We do are the cameras link as they should be. We should probably just get this out oh yeah, let's do it so then we breathe the cameras on and was kind of a little looser, vibe and it's just a more aloof

version of what Trevor. Don't you know? The show like Trevor always says, is like Joe premise: Joke premise: joke like you have to get through a really fast you of a limited time. And in between the scenes he can take us time and explore topic. A little further can work out his feelings on it, and you can barely speak to further yeah. I think I think for me between the scenes came about, I think in two ways- one I love speaking to people so fundamentally, that's why I stand up and and its also, why, like engaging in politics, I think politics is best when it is engaged in. You know not Spoken at not shouted at, but rather spoken about, and so what I want, I realise, as every day we had two hundred or two people sitting with us in a studio who human beings I got

no everything I'm Leavin Turn act like. I know everything I'm giving you my perspective on what is happening in the world, but I would like to talk to you, the people, and so I would talk to the audience. What are you watching the news? What do you think about the story? Would you have any questions for me? Let's, let's engage in this and it was actually an audience member who said to me one day an abundance of them outside on then they like, hey, I can do do would. Are we going to see that anywhere and as I see what, unlike the conversation we hadn't was ignored, was a conversation

I would have loved to show it to my friends. Oh, it was something different and that's when I supposed to remain- and I said: hey, is there a way you could put this out and keep it as with intake as it is. You know, don't try to overproduce it, let's just keep it as organic as it should be and created a different space for the show to exist to them, because I still like keeping the the daily show as as polished and as as propelled as possible, but between the scenes is fundamentally an exploration of a different idea on on social media. Will you do have more time. You do have a different space where you can, when you can give people a vignette of what you're thinking and, as I say, I'd it's not supposed to be right. It's not supposed to be wrong. It's just me ruminating, I'm going through it. And thoughts with an audience whose live and feels less on edge, because the cameras not on them at that moment and- and we put it out and genuinely- I don't think anyone thought it would be as big as it is now end and we ve gotta, and I was at the taping couple weeks ago and now I was a bit nervous,

You'd call on me, even though I know that's how it works. Like he's, gonna call on me about it, but if genuine, they felt like a conversation with you, where I sitting there and you can't even believe that that conversation that having there is going to then hit the internet and have a two million views from an amazing you and do you watch the numbers there. Watch the view counter. That's I rely on were mean to do that genuinely worm I just I just gotta learning. I just have a background of that one day, a good story about it to good you just give him a facebook. Ion thumbs up and he's a great. Surely the comments can I can? I tell you know over the commons, never reanimate audience lie. The common zone between the scenes are great, but general rule of social media that only the comments because these things can get crazy just now. You know what I think it is is, and that's what's great about the team. Is we try and focus on what we best of doing so

remains grated guiding the show in helping us grow in a digital space that the data show wasn't always within and part of his job is to alleviate my stressing that I'm not trying to create viral content. I hate when people say that we should make a viral thing like that's, not how it works. It becomes viral, you are very seldom can just create by reality. You don't know what it's gonna be, and so I'm just doing me we creating for the show and then Romena Fantastic Athens, Taylor, making that all or reconfiguring it or creating a new from that, an idea that will work organically and that's it So that's what it is between, since he doesn't say to me. Don't do that. Do this, what have you just goes like hey man, that there was a great piece connected or I really like You said they somebody's, I don't even think it's a thing and remains like oh no. No. I want to put that out, and so that's what's been great about it is I'm I'm not. I let go when it comes to that element of the show and and and I trust other people to push the show forth and that's really what the Danish all it is about for me. Trusting people who, I believe, can do it in a slow.

A better way than I can in the department that therein just quickly ask about ratings, because right now, you're number one about amongst millennial man, Wasn't always that way, the two millennium man real big, port from iranian man out here your children. Whenever it wasn't always that way and you're quite successful on on social and how do you gauge ass is it ratings. Is it com, and says it hearing things and the media. I mean, I think, for us, it's like making sure we put out a show that were proud of and having fun doing it during the day, because, where their every like it's a long, if you're not having a good time over. There was not that long. We have undergone gun and saying, if you, but think that at the end of the day like we know when it's like an occasional or when it's like, it feels like weather rate show and usually the yet, if you can leave the day feeling like this was a great

version of the daily show. We covered things that I'm talking about or things that no one is talking about the we're interested in and so radio. I think once you start worrying about rating, like the network will tell us when it gets rural, bad you now you will hear if we're gonna, that's how I think, but I think like not worrying about it, that much into making a show that were proud of virgin. Since you were here and you, you live through the John Stewart transition. When do you note Trevor like an answer, this is well. When do you feel like it? Transition from John Stewart Daily show to the Trevor chef Trevor. Now I shall like well. Is it September twenty eight twenty five be nothing but like the died, I knew my in. I don't I'm, so I think it was a little bit at a time, so I can actually put like time frame I think it was in the end of your two I was really like this is Trevor show this is the whole staff knows that faced with a show now I'm where we're going with it, we were,

expansion teams doing a lot like things that we never did on the old child, and you know I think like theirs great things about the John Show that we keep and then their great things. They show now that, like wouldn't, have worked back then so, but I do feel like kind of like mid year too. I think for me the moment, I noticed, a difference in the direction we a very tangible change was when we went on the road. So when we covered z, the conventions, the Republican, invention the democratic convention. This was a completely new experience for Many of us, in fact, all of us in that we were all in a new place and we're trying to do the show in a new way, and so what that did was it removed us from the comfort of knowing how it was done and we have to figure out how to do it in always new candidates, a new story and now we're on the road when I'm

I mean like we did things like, I wasn't. A sketch was a Buckle Hiram Sketch Dave jumped into that is well. Whenever I needed like an extravagant onward, I can so we did like a book or Hiram thing, because I think it was was it. Chris Christine, who was saying like bookworm, should thank Heller Clinton or something like that, and so we just didn't new things that you know you're, not many people. It seemed a host in a sketch like you, we like the years that maybe John like towards the end of John Kenya, and that I think that changed what we were doing a little bit and so too gents point it has been gradual, though, and I think within late night show with any daily show. It is going to be a gradual, incremental change, especially when there's a legacy that was entrenched in the hearts of many Americans did. Did John Stewart leave any parting advice you at ideas about what how to make Europe. The show your own, oh, he was amazing. John gave me like the best advice that I couldn't understand. And not because of

John Stuart Mill, the funniest human beings over one of the most profound people ever, but he like he doesn't hit countries where people may think you know he doesn't like to let you know Jam his opinions down people's throats he's very much in as in asean dish. Space, and so I remember one day he called me in and you know, I've just been announced his host and it was this crazy whirlwind and he brought me into his office and he said, and he had his history. Any socks, and he said to me the shoes on the ground. Then he said hey, you want to try these on and I was like what and I was like what Anyone know what size Eu Asylum size Eleven and then use like oh no, no than they try, Furthermore, I try and those doesn't fit than is. I guess you don't listen to anyone who says you you, you confident my shoes, you got big issues to create for yourself why that was fancy I was France and, as you can see that you could have told me that without the foot fungus, what I mean it stuck with me so well done, and then he left

were the cryptic messages and what is the daily show? John would like everyone to see. What is it, and he said the daily show is what the host thinks it's supposed to be, but he that's what he says genuinely it's an extension of what I think and what I communicate and how I how I absorbed the world with my friends and so that's been a wonderful journeys realizing you know when I came to the daily show, but first thing people showed was what does a South Africa Noah american politics is totally. What are you gonna? Do how you got it. You know, and it was like. Well that's a good question. As I got I dont know anything then I realized. No politics is fundamentally the same in most countries around the world is just the characters, the change you will find corruption everywhere. You will find a pressure, everywhere. You will find systems that are created in ways that benefits or hurt certain people everywhere, and so what I came to me. Lies was we were telling the same story with just a different version, so it was like the british Office versus the American One. Like all yea. I know exactly what this is about. You know and it jumped

times for nothing. Davy remember when Donald Trump came in because I'll never forget, we watch Donald Trump everyone else's. We admit Conall and what's girl, Paul Ryan and filibustering, and all of this and then Donald Trump came on screen, so to speak. And we looked at each other like I know this guy and we would like this. This is Africa all over again we home and I will say I will say that what he did leave you the cryptic message the smell issues, and he left a incredible stuff. I mean there definitely we live by John Stuart and they have been instrumental in taking to show to where it is now the new of the show. So we cannot underestimate how difficult it is to to find pearls like and there's thankful for the dogs, Oh definite, dogs. Where would we have found dogs randomly is not as easy as people think and offers train dogs. Dogs p and offers no those poor and offers. Are we leaving a good life? Gents dog is fairly new. Is the puppy

becoming that's an exception, but she's pretty well trained, yeah yeah we're doing wind in two weeks. I want to ask you a couple of personal questions: we're gonna turn to twenty twenty in the future, but one of my favorite things is your impressions and the way you impersonate people have done a little bit on onstage. Here and again, I want to ask if there are any of their one of you. Let me start with. Did you always have this talent? I I've always have the ability to mimic people Do I get to know you know, I don't do random impressions, I'm up that person, but if I get to know a person I find overtime, their cadence is something that becomes apparent and it's risky to have a distinct, cadence and everyone Donald Trump start out, just like man, I don't really. I mean how does he sound and then every day I would just like repeat, somebody says because he says some of the funniest craziest things and then I would just thereby myself and I would be like so many people, so many people, so many people because, like rhythmically, he has looked like a musicality to him, and I would just like

at the end? I would find myself just like seeing them like they were songs such below. Walking around the office and be like they're coming they're coming, so many we build, a Y gotta build a wall will the war, and I would do that the time and literally one day, out of the blue it like it popped out of me as a thing, so I went from like singing it's all of a sudden agenda. So may so many people here folks are all year caravans and here I would listen to that pod pass or some remakes of that on spot. So that's that's an idea for you down there, the latter s among yeah. We can talk after. I also want to ask about. Well I've been listening to your book. I've got forty minutes left before. But what happens at the end? Can I live spoil alerts? I don't like to spoil it at all

thirty minutes, I got yet like forty minutes left. You did digital, ok. Well, so I mean you have all the stories about your mom or just just so impact for when she is absolutely just such a bad, ass woman and you ve gotta pee pee here whose absolute bad ass women and it's just like your you, you know the future. You know that women are already running the world's well. I like the idea that women are running the world, but I know that it's not the truth yet, unfortunately, and for myself as somebody who grew up in a matriarchal society, I do find myself more comfortable in a space where have powerful women surrounding me, my mom. My grandmother. My aunt had for many women who guiding the where lived my life. So, for me- and gin knows this for a fact like within which there are times when, like we will just share a joke and the we'll boys and then everyone else's like they? Just don't for they don't ghettos. Like it's a thing, I only grew up in a world of women. Like I mean like when it comes to clothing. Like Jenin, I became best friends because of clothing. Is I've been on my guard, those shoes, but that's just because that's how,

raise with my mom. I helped to pick out high heels. I helped to pick out a outfits roots going to church or life, so there is. There is well that I'm familiar with, partly because I was forced to live with mother and my grandmother, because my father couldn't level are so it it's a by product of who I am, and What I do love is, you know, Dave knows about me, like I love finding the jokes that everyone loves it. So when you asked previously What how do I measure our successes? Ratings is one metric, yes of a financial metric. I find this great for me on the show was to see how many new audiences we can reach. So and since the data show has always been particularly popular with male millennials, because you know That'S- that's, watches The daily show has been here. You know, because a comedy central etc, but but what I've really enjoyed is seeing us growing our numbers in terms of women, HU, a viewing the show you know seeing that that change takes effect because you start putting on more content and telling more jokes that aren't just for a young french guy,

guy in college or you tryin, expand YO, YO yo. You try and open your aperture little wider. You know and then seeing black people watch the daily show like there was the craziest things. I remember when I joined the show and literary my favorite thing was I Americans just come up to me like a man, you do they got their show right? How can I get you but I have now my anger. I origin as shit another issue for me and ask what we would you why dont you watch the show is like a man. I got nothing against boys like, but I did, Mona Shoal for me and then I ll cycle? Will I'm in your world? You know like like black twitters is a twitter. That's connected all over. You know in black sea, South Africa, black people, Nigeria, black people in America, have had storylines narratives that title get a given different ways with its musical with its storytelling aware that just ancestry nonsensical why brindle stories into the show? How do how do I create that, and I think you know that's what widgeon has been instrumental. That's where Half of our staff has been instrumental its having women the building. We owe you not just here, just as it it's like. No, we need you help

figure out a thing help us given extra point of view, help us dissecting idea you talking about abortion. I have my opinions, of course, but I cannot truly stand. The impact of limiting a woman's right to control them Body, because I'm not a woman, and so what helps to have a building that has half of the staff being women, because then you go like hey. How do you feel about this? Allow me to be your mouth peace, allow me to put you on the show. Allow me to create a sketch where you can. You can speak your truth, but I know that I am not the arbiter of the story, nor do I wished to be yet another stallion ally I wished I mean I like is as great yeah she's wonderful. We have em like anyone in the building can pitch. So there are so many different kinds

people ages raises genders people of different mindsets. Like liberal conservative, we have all different types of people that work there and anyone can pitch and the best thing gets on, and I think that we really take into account. If a story is a story like abortion, it just so happens that the best pitch for that day came in from one of our, female writers? Lauren had a great patent rights. Happen that she was a woman, it probably cuz. She felt really connected to it, and you know she sent out of your pictures. So it was nice to be able to have a woman right on that thing, but this was the vagina corporation yeah. Exactly our watchwords verify it got a lot of people. Tweeting me incorporate that pussy, that's what they had for a second, I forgot what that wasn't. I just woke up to this and I was like I some I've done something very wrong with very rights, and then I realized it was dizzy and do say doing the Lauren created sketch

Did they were like I text? Does he handles anaemic, hey if you saw Laurens Pitch on pitch the end, they were both that form. We like the best it so it just usually works out like that where we're not like, This is a woman headlines. Are we should get some women on it, but like theirs? It is kind of a woman in the Vienna others. Now that we ve made sure you know make sure the staff is as balanced as it can be right now. The room in just the same one kind of person. It's usually different points of view are experts like can be expressed in any room, the writers room. The rewrite room the genome morning meeting like we kind of the dog room, the diagram, my office, that's what we call the Zagreb. But it's nice that it doesn't feel like we're doing it just to be This is now a headline about what, men so, let's make sure it feels more organic in it.

People that are impassioned about different topics are usually the people at effects, so that ends up being the people that work on those projects, because they have a passion for talking about it here like when Arnold Schwarzenegger was kicked in the back by a south African did not find it as funny as most of my american colleagues cuz. I was like this made. Our country look bad, so I had a completely different. So that's literally what Jen you know. That's a great example of an opiate very ex don't get me wrong, but yeah. I had wailing brain show same episode. It was on the very same episode. Yes, and we even have conservative voices in the building which gets really interesting so and when the president does something that is good. Sometimes we go, we overlook it and they will bring. Up to now in a very truly way, but there was to bring it lacks. So we have everyone web, it's good to have people that I beg you out of the bubble. That year, you know

You don't want to be an angle chamber. You mentioned South Africa and it struck me and when I went to the taping there was I was, it was really global audience. Somebody from Sweden asked the question you had some South Africans. Have you felt that impact also on online, especially where they are airing every night? They will do so. I mean I can answer that beginning partner think remain can speech. This is well, what's been really amazing about taking the daily show into this future of being a digital sperience that exists beyond just the linear. We ve been true, we able to expand. The show from I think when I took over it was in seventy odd countries and territories. Now we're in a hundred and thirty three, and so what was great about that is we realised that we were into acting with more people than ever before, so we would initially just do America stories and then obviously south african uncle guys some really funny shit. That's how South Africa is also interesting. That can inform you one on how people see politics or the world list

There are one of those stories in the still another one and you know, and then someone who go hey. Canada is one of our biggest markets, let's let's some stories from Canada and the Show- and we, initially, I wanted to do it all at once, and then I realized all you have to introduce your core audience to the story so that people get invested. So who is just an trudeau? You know and then, and then who is Teresa, may what is a briggs? It How do we begin this conversation and what s interesting is where we once lived in a space where we thought there was no appetite, we came to realize that it extended our rights. Into the globe as a show that was commenting on everything that's happening, but from I hope that is in New York City and we don't claim to be the experts on everything. I know. Every single political issue has its own nuance. Innocent people don't feel we covered all. Could people do get angry, the guy? Why didn't you say everything about everything and because we don't have the time unfortunately, so we can just give you the nugget, but it's nice to know that maybe an american audience member who may have never known about

an election that's happening in Austria or a prime minister that retain their position in Australia or or d, you know doing really well in the indian election, maybe maybe they wouldn't have known about those things, it's nice to expand and I think Romena seen how that can change how we interact with you can say it. Also. You see the comments on line on Facebook and twitter and people are just so thankful that you know this content is reaching them. Where would and otherwise I think for us too, like it's. It's nice to get out of the Trump bubble a little bit so to find these other stories that it gives us a break as we're all consumed by at every day, as we all our citizens such a part of our lives, so anything that kind of releases that valve is is really nice for us and for our audience thing of good, separate that getting out of the tramp of all, because we can talk now about the future and the future is very soon upon us. In twenty twenty and we ve got the we ve got.

Going on in twenty twenty four all sorts of media, but how does? How does the daily show plan to step it up? What is the what is going to look different for this season or this this, presidential election for the daily show than any of the other previous seasons wool. First foremost. We have an intensity in America's politics that I think is unparalleled. You know I I can distinctly remember different phases in the show that matched where America was in its full political conversation. When I took over the daily show You know what I was handed the reins by John. I was living in a space I was. I was exploring a world where, for all intents and purposes things were going well, you know when I felt like people which still trying to be outraged

there wasn't really anything to be outraged about conversations we're fractured. People were divided in what they were looking at untoward and then Trump came in, took the White House and immediately you felt like that, were very distinct lines about what people with thinking about and how they would defining the country as a whole, and that gave the daily showed the propulsion that are needed in many ways, similar to how the daily show, with John really took off. When George Bush became. Because now you understand where the focus is and what you're trying to do and and so for us now. What's really exciting is the conversation and the story line around the Democrats. You know because people always talk about Trump Trump Trump, but it's like yeah but like they are as much a story in his journey as he is in there. You know the demo.

And how much they succeed or fail is going to determine the history of America. You know whether they reach out to the right people, whether they communicate in the right way, whether they step on their own dicks as they trying to get there. This is going to be the story that defines American, so what's great for us now is now we're starting the journey. You know, for instance, we have a segment called World WAR Ii. We just focus on the democratic primaries and what's gonna happen in the race, we just because on the story, that's happening and what's funny, as some of our audience was shocked by the way. How how can you make a joke about Joe Biden, now a guy and also get yet, but we can tell the truth. You know I mean I mean, I don't think I dont think people that you love should be free from criticism or critique doesn't mean that I am now going to see the Joe Biden made this mistaken so trumpet him all the same. I am not saying that, but I dont think I want to live in. A blue and world. Will we not analyzing everything critically, because I feel like you get so they do? You know you get your big debates and then people like why didn't we notice that and so for the show was exciting. Now is for us to be on a journey here. We go

How do we tell those additional stories as reminiscing? How do we? How do we get the daily show geared up for this twenty? any challenge that its first gonna be just Democrats amongst themselves. Traumas watching the royal rumble with pop on having a great time he's getting ready for his bout, but we telling that story we get. Ready to follow the journey of each of these candidates as they narrow the field down from a hundred and twelve to three were true, and then me one and then it's it's going be how do you now covered the story in a way that is still authentically satirical funny, because I believe the jokes what propeller show? I'm not gonna, stop telling jokes, because things get serious, that's how we get through the seriousness, but then, at the same time, what we are trying to do more than anything is remember what mistakes people made in the previous election with its ourselves. With its media. Will it where you know with its news organizations you know politicians all voters themselves and and ourselves, so that we're not doing the same thing and repeating the same story and that's what's exciting for us as it is

thinking about how we're getting to that next place, and how are you rejuvenated? What are you really going to do? What's gonna be different? What about this over about your coverage, but will be owing to the conventions in twenty twenty, which I think I'll be on the sixth time. The show is actually gone on the road to go to the conventions which it's great to be it's great, to put survive of like presence. There will get all correspondence out there into the mix being on the scene and and really just making people say great stupid things and I think, that's all sides, humblest idea. I think I think that the great thing about the the best thing and the worst thing about America that every two years it we spent two years talk about everything in the context of the presidential campaign. So what whether it's a nuclear bomb goes off in a city, the media First question: we like ours, evoked twenty twenty and everything discuss through that lends.

Intensity naturally bills anyway, in the country and its, I think the bigger challenge for us is not is not here right that intensity because it comes at you like a tidal wave, it's more. How do you absorb it and comments on it without getting showed locked into the day by day that and up thinking kind of what a lot of people didn't twenty succeed, which is I, while every day the strong guy goes out, makes an asshole of himself ill areas this isn't a bag for Hilary you now, and that is, I think, what the challenge will be for both the the political world and also us to keep the kind of prospective going in so when it throw this, give you that's all you're so see if we can bring the magic of the show and what may happen in twenty twenty two. The stage see if we can happened in twenty twenty or we're going. What I'm gonna. I'm gonna predict the full, ok, ok, revellers I'll, wait, a dominant role in the future and a headline see how we all kind of you guys all come together and create what might be whatever ends up on the show

why I said: are you asking cave see for the eleven herbs and spices right now? That's what you're doing nobody call of secret and Sierra spy. Ok, we're gonna be good he's gonna lie but ask your question: okay, so here's the headline and you guys you're gonna, let everyone knows what you do now. I really still understand what everyone does. Europe gets a headline as Bernie takes Iowa. Bernie takes. What does it take it to resist physically or just neutral, not the result. There are just making sure I live in a crazy hagen. I shall never know Bernie I just feel like I'm home with taking your with NATO Vermont and then would now in Vermont, and then they headline would be like a bit like. Oh my god guys, I didn't know. A senator could physically take place, apparently like a loophole in your constitution where this can happen, and then we would

discussing and I'll be back. Did you guys know the Americans? Did you know that Bernie couldn't take place movie ears like its yeah and then we would we start discussing this about taking place and then Dave. You would say guys. We need a calm down and positive right and then I would go down. I can't believe Bernie took Iowa to Vermont, and then I got a german man. You know to be funny is if he took it somewhere else like wouldn't have been funny. If Bernie took a true whenever you're gonna say next great reverently wherein and there I feel like remain, would run into the room and be like you to do so. That I always missing its blowing up on line and then

again I mean we're gonna, do it on the show. What do you think we could do to cover this online remain? I think we should do social media stuff. I think we should like you know. We should like come up with some tweets and we should get em out and it's going to be great. It's gonna be great what he writes. I mean they talk about. You got me AMOS like that. Do me, what did hack tax will do like air? Be awesome, that's what would do and then I would look to Jenin. That's a gene which is why do we have? Who can we get to where I was before? Who can we get to amount to see how Iowa is dealing with pink can by someone from four months and the fact that there are islands screwed over by this of a month, and then we get them. We realised that everyone's happy, because the populace of both places could fit in one space, and so now we re is that it wasn't that bad off the roll and then Bernie's like an emperor or something, and then he just stopped a new thing in America and then Trump losing his shit is like where's eyewear. That guy no way, communism. Folks, though words so much worse.

Burn. He's got his thing on that side, and then we turn into fox and then Janine is like he did a great job, our great leader wrought against Bernie anywhere and then see it and will bring seven people onto shouted each other. What do you think? What do you think I head and then we'll come back on and there will be like guys so now there are only forty nine states. Let's see what happens in the rest of election will see you tomorrow, but then again kills at all. Why would generally little can kills? It actually says we're not going that there's. No, no, no would gender JANET know TAT. One thing I love about general genies, the. How do we make this happen person and I'm a good audience. I laugh at home is like crazy. Jim goes. If I go let's blow something up, she'll be like how much explosives gin makes everything

when at the show, with its a balloon, dropping or a library being built? That's like our proportions. I tell you she's, my jean I just gonna go Jane. I always ask Can you do this on American TV and then should be like my out, like one day I was like we can burn something in the studio. I think, if only we could and general that we can do that, we can make fire pop out of the best kind of like work and the like today, like men, will be qualified in order to achieve that, we can get you in Oreo and other similar aims at areas can ask this actually, whether they are. You worried that if currently Trump leaves the White House there will be no do you will be out of material no, not at all, because a year, First of all, the tram material starts to get repetitive rights and he's not going. Anybody we may not go anywhere. I didn't know what I mean the White House. Minority means we

not really sad, sorry had carry on Alexander you're getting in January on the numbers nation like ever, but no if he get. If the Democrats take the twenty twenty election wool, like make jokes about that too. We did. Obama was the coolest and you can have its hard to make jokes, but we did for eight years at the daily show. So I am not scared at all that if he is not president anymore, that this show will be of, It will start talking about the Congress. The Senate we lost, I mean the law a few years like, I don't think we ve talk that much about any the major players in, unresented because he's sucking the oxygen out of everything. But we do you know we struck Mama kind, all the time, Paul, Ryan painter I mean our audience- would know a lot more about that branch of government. But right now it's all executive. I would, I would say what Two things are given example. Today was a great example of this on the show,

You had been caution at a hearing. The had secretary and as many people know been Carson. Does not know much about housing. Right the UN's brain surgeon, very bad at housing rights and so he was being asked questions. He failed to understand. What one of the questions was: that's where the real thing came from, they said to him, are you familiar with our egos and he was like Argos and they will ignore. Our egos needs are not like do not. Oreo stands for and use their rulers, and then again the Owen who earners and the like. No, no ownership know, and so like that That's one of those moments when I say it to the audience. Today: s men, you forget, because of Trump, how many other people and in running America that are really crazy people that you could put a spotlight on, and so I think those people would always be there. It all and secondly, toward remain was saying, I always says: I'm gonna kill. This is trump when he has to report to the White House.

It isn't your how he complains when he's one now imagine if that Do you guys think that guy would lose an election and then just be like I'm getting? No, we will see him every day. Twenty four! You will be on every fuck if he doesn't studies on network around rallies or his favorite thing. He s doing rallies now Yale guess: grouping nicknames yes, candidates, it would be it would. He would get to do what he's doing now without having to act like he's at work, because There is also the thing I like who would come in true, because if Bernie came in, then, oh, my goodness, yeah mothers jokes the sudden people who have like a lot more character about them like burn he's, one of those in what's greatest you'd like Bernie, like a lot of France, for instance, they hated when we joke about him on the show, but Bernie laughed with me. Only she like this was right about burning Bernie like he doesn't take himself.

Sleepy seriously he's doing a serious thing, but he still human being so he can laugh with me. You know he'd like it and that's that's, what's great about the characters that are in the races like you can still make jokes about Joe by Israel tell jokes about Bernie Bernie Sanders, you know accommodate Harris, regardless of who would take the White House. I think we would of enough material to grow with them as a character it just as you said now, trumpet sucked out the oxygen. So it's hard to learn. Anyone story when that story is the predominant one, and I one good thing the Trump has done is that he has made people. Literally engage. Definitely, so I think that there was a bit of a law when everybody for things were going well and now, if Trump leaves people hopefully will still be politically engage. Otherwise the new trample come in then I've been trumped up Y know verges, that'll be like and even worse version of trump here. This is

scary, part of the conversation ass a little bit about the reach that you guys have, especially in the twenty twenty election. With more people focus on politics, then you even form a big part of the electorate. More people may watch your Bernie impression than they actually see of burning on the news or of of of his stance is due worry about that. What is what do you think? Your responsibility is no that I think of it as an opportunity, as opposed to an obligation you one of one of the best, mediums I have had the pleasure of speaking too was Dick Gregory And- and I asked him how he creates the jokes. He did. Why was so successful and he said to me he said the young man, if you you go looking around for four jokes. You got you going what is your tail, but he said, but if you, if you look for the true you can find things funnier than you can ever imagine, and I got stuck with me I like, while that's that's that's all I need to do is find the truth, and I can tell I can tell the jokes

so, for me what I tried to run the show- and we try and do this- is I specifically want the daily show to be a place in a space where you can escape the idea that the world is ending. I wished to provide committee catharsis because that's what I love. If I didn't love my family, didn't love my country didn't love, we wouldn't have gotten. Anyway, we ve had to use human to heal our wounds, and so that's what I like to do on the show is create space where we can do that, and I do the same thing and we do the same thing. When we talk about what's happening, we go yes, there's a joke, but then we try and slip in the important parts of what you need to know, we'll strange strip away all the noise, because America what is the news of politicians really good at adding superfluous statements and words and phrases that nobody really understands, but just make people look cool. You know what it's like. No just just tell me the basics of what I need to know right to know. Right now is that America, trade war with China. All you need to know right now is that additional tariffs have been imposed. That's what you need to know right now. It's gonna raise them

of american goods and China may be, can afford to to suffer a little bit more because their people don't have as much say: that's all you need to know right now. I don't mean to take him to the macro economics of what's going on. I just need you to follow the story and we do the same in politics, but the jokes is what keeps us going forward. The jokes is what separates from the Wall Street Journal? Is our ability to say no here's the humor for what you know. If it's the only thing you watch. I am not completely happy about that because I would like you to know about the news when you watch the daily show but I do created so that if it is your only exploration into the news to you not walking away, not knowing what's going on and so with, when I do a Bernie impression, I'm doing it in the context of what Bernie is doing and how he's doing it's. You know today we covered Bernie Sanders going on Fox NEWS, and yes did a joke about Bernie Sanders, but also commented on how he had an interesting take on how you can speak to people who are place when a space that is opposing to yours. What you believe. So

in your in your in your platform and new ideas that you know you can win them over and he did well in Town hall when we spoke about the same thing with be Budapest, we joke about him, we joke about how he looks he's cute little face, and so for then we also talk I'm trying policy and how he engages in a different way in a space, not gonna would consider a space of of adversaries, but you will watch me, telling a joke about his policy speech that may engage in his policy speech, because you want to see what he said versus what I said and then I feel like I've contributed in some way to how you engage with the news that in full, policy speech that may engage you in his policy speech, because you want to see what he said versus what I said and then I feel like I've contributed in some way to how you engage with the news that in a couple of minutes, but so think about your questions that we might runners running around some.

A bunch of follow up? Don't have another, we're gonna go to audience culinary in a couple of minutes, but so think about your questions that we might runners running around someplace out there, but I too to more forward looking questions for you all. What would I do that will do the first one as a group, so we'll do are five were and when you come to work in ten years, I'll I'll start by saying this, I dont know that I will be here. Baron trump my resident on a chair, what what what the future holds. But what? What are? What do you think? Each of you have your job change. What are each of you doing every day when you come to work in ten years, I'll I'll stop by saying this, I don't know that I will be here in ten years because I don't take for granted that I will be here tomorrow, so I try and work within a space where I'm thinking of it as the daily show. Yes, I have an idea of where would like the show

to go, but I think towards human was saying earlier: there is a propensity for american NEWS in politics to focus so fond. What's at the top that it doesn't look at what's happening right here, and so in many ways I mean that's what Hilary did in her campaign. She looked at the White House and forgot to look at Wisconsin and What I'm trying to do on the show is exist in the space where I'm really looking at the date, danish of it all so to what David was saying about all conservative writers and people who work on the show, I do watch what Trump is saying and listen to how he's connecting with people, because you may want to act like it's not happening, but he does know how to connect. And so I try and listen to that message on a daily basis, because if I spend two time looking ten years ahead, then I'll miss what's going to happen today and I won't cover what's going to happen tomorrow and so for me, that's that's what I'm doing genuine, because I just go what happened yesterday? How can I

prove on it and that's what we do have to every single show. We sit down and we go man. We could have done that better. That was great. That was wonderful. Let's improve on that lets. Expand on that idea and for myself I would be lying to you if I said anything to about ten years five years to use, even I genuinely dont know, I also don't shoot that we will be alive? Ok, I don't know you don't know. What's going to happen with IRAN, you to know, what's going to happen with Kim Jong Boone, you don't like you genuinely the road. We as the future of every right, not reach, we assume lotta robots, but I don't think anyone you in America that that nothing, anyone knew that you're gonna go to war with Iraq. I think that you're gonna me things like that just happen, and so I I try to be careful of planning everything as if everything is not going to happen was what I like to specialise in is feeling thinking, reacting and basing our opinions on the information that we have at hand, and so that's what I hope to be still doing in ten years in some way shape or form we're going to need to change the name of this conference. Do you have any

that's, I only think continue gaps. God, yes, well, I think when I'm about his deal remains answer which is due to give it or shut. What are you is how do you know what he's gonna say? Knives is special skill, no idea. I think that I'll be involved in comedy in some way, from hopefully be data show whereby, like my part, takes me, but I am, I think that we were but these people always will always need to love and so we will find something to laugh about in ten years time if we're alive- and you know it could be like that- you know The warming is hit us and will make jokes about our remember when land and you know it s a life of girls budget.

I figured tedious ivo I'll, be involved in providing the service of jokes, helping anyone old, Iowa yeah not just you know. Yes, if we give the on if the business will have made, I like that answer about our thinking wow. Ok, I'm very like live in the moment person. So I because the show happens every day. I kind of like doesn't give you time to think about. What's gonna happen, I I don't like to plan that far in advance in my own personal life, but in the daily show, I would say there is constantly new platforms that we're gonna be better in ten years, who knows where tv will be? Will there be tv is evolving? I I mean I think streaming, albeit by them. You know. So I do think like Kabuki said comedy will need to exist wherever that is whatever

form. That is, I hope, to be working in it. But you know I don't know what it'll be obvious: our probably started podcast or something in ten years is gonna cool opera. Where one say a newspaper you? Certainly here we're gonna go back we're gonna the other way we're going back I mean, I, you know Trevor is gonna evolve as a host and as a person, and I think my job is just too to translate his voice to an audience on whichever platform were existing, whether its twitter, Facebook Tik Tok. We need to have a conversation about Tik Tok, I'm here for you

I didn't know it Trevor like it's a thing now and we have to do its remaining. Does this all the time you just come and tells me about a new thing. My Trevor, I don't take them seriously, have because he lies about some of them. So one timing, Toby there's a thing. He said we need. We need something more mish mash outside I, let's do it and then I was waiting in a room and then asked what it, what its mishmash and then is ignored. Now it's happening, and then I like what Nothing happened April, fool's even now when he says Tik Tok, just because you said that I believe it but yeah soon see. That's that's! That's the job, that's the role! So beyond that, I have no idea what my last question is: gonna, be for you travel, but you already answer back due to the shop for sixteen years? Yes, at this pace and all that you guys do in terms of digital and the tick talks are gonna be doing in the future, and the tv show me do you think you could do this for sixteen years while Adam I mean you're, you obviously on irish Land, Charlie on the show as long as Eleanor's on hers. You know she she gives.

The joy that I need and then use that joy to propel my show and so like a day night synergy that I have going on and Ellen just signed for three more years read today and so than ours like well, then I'm definitely gonna be staying, and then I just match myself by what else is doing and they and then I should be good, but Virginia would you like? I genuinely think it's probably serene. Yes, you should plan for the future, but if I look at twenty sixteen as an anecdotal story, Donald Trump, one thing that he'd redid really well, because you didn't believe maybe is that didn't plan, he just focus on each rarely and each event focused on each person and on each day, and I guess a lot of the established when politicians thought and broad strides about what was gonna happen, because it had always happened, and I think sometimes the trap we fall into human beings is that we use patterns to define the future

in fact the futures defined by the now, and so when it comes to technology, when it comes to how we shearing content, how we communicating with each other's human beings, there is no defined path that that's going to take. You know who would have called Microsoft starting out would have said that that's going to become the global giant. That would connect what six billion people or whatever it is on different platforms, vision. What's up Instagram Facebook, who would have said that they would become articles power, entities in the world. I don't think anybody could have seen that, and so I think of you, if you're, not careful, you forget that genuinely the future is happening right now on a very simple level and then what people do as they create ideas or platforms that connects to the now idea that then becomes ubiquitous in also Google was, is doing what p we're doing in some way people were giving people rights they formalised that they created a now. Think that then took us into the future. Ebbene be people sharing people's houses, and then they moved us into the future, and so no two

we're doing didn't, realize near mass media and then they just made a future and so I think. Sometimes we forget that, like that's really what the future is in many ways it it's an extension and maybe a simplification are an improvement on what we are doing right now and so for me. If we focus on the right now, I think the future becomes apparent between the scenes was us embracing what we had now to create a future peace of the daily show. You know that the Donald Trump President Twitter Library, was us embracing him now in the moment, Saint Charles ourselves. If he only communicates in tweets what will his presidential library one they look like and that helped us create. What we believe would be a future and we created a physical representation of of a joke that you know that would that we manifested and- and so that's how I like to think of it. I think it is good that we do live in different times, because that's what propels the daily show into the future determined by the now

ok. We we can keep the name of the conference you can. You can keep in sheep that ok, we can go to probably two audience questions. I feel bad. I made a promise without running out of time got one great over here we will be taking questions from young millennials mail, Ok, you know that in on you think the amount money but guess hi I'm just so. My question is actually not for you to her room. Great Tom and have my whole shaking. I'm sorry, I'm shivering out here, Jan you finning, given in the space for so long. How have you know when you look at some jokes that you were making the pass a lot of it was at the expense of women. You know making jokes like what are you gonna do and I'll? Let you know what I'm saying: how have you seen the space change and how have you, as a woman in such a position of power in the comedy world? Now, how do you use and how do you empower other women and had yet

I read, it has changed tremendously and not just for women, but for like, if you look, twenty years ago, but the daily show was doing you. I cringe you now like there are things we said and did on the show that at the time were totally fought or whatever Totally fine was but but it certainly not anymore. I think that that better question as like what do we do with the women that work with man? I am like get you in the rooms like getting the rooms. I need you to talk and encouraging women. I mean it really is a collaborative environment Annette it I mean we throw out good I'm bad jokes, all the time, good and bad ideas, and I think once and I try and remind the women that work with me that

guys throughout bad jokes, all the time you do a to come on, so I I think just reminding the women, because I think women are brought up and they say that this is like elementary school kids, you can see it. If, there s. A question guy raises dial, just shout out like a boil just blurred out whatever they think the girl sit there and wait until she thinks it is the exact she knows. It's the right answer and most girls will not answer a question: unless they know it's right so sitting in a so. I'm at a late night who is a hard space, because it is about blurting things out in it now, just like saying the first thing that comes to your mind, because that not necessarily what's gonna end up on the air, but like letter, our conversation, and I think that so I think that comedy and late night was a hard space for women, because their brought up to wait for the perfect answer and in those rooms there isn't a perfect answer and so

train in person Are you trying to impart that to the women at work with me? You know that I can only do so much for women in tv, but I like at least try and encourage the women that work with me at the show to speak up on there, the room because we can get you in the room like getting but I need you to talk and I think shaking them thing that you know from when you were in third grade like waiting for that meant that you know the exact great answer. It's a really hard thing to shake and myself included so that nothing like a answer two mansplain by, but the other part agendas issue. Success into shape as well. Getting guys to understand you know like how do you know not is not about respecting women but how to undo and on this point of view as well, to get us to listen to, you know be receptive. To that does not. She helps she teaches us lot. Has one too many

the joke, sometimes- and I say guys- I laugh at the really good ones, but we can't just but any dick jokes on the show must be really fun. If you have one right, I'm like I'm not laughing over here. I think we have got time for one more high. My name is water. Sorry My name's Walker, Brown Adams. I was wondering you know you touched on this a little about the fact that some people- this is an informational and almost educational experience, freedom, because they're not watching other news outlets. Are there not reading these stories? How do you kind of handle the responsibility of knowing that for some people, you may really be affecting change in their viewpoints and affecting change on a larger scale war. Think that question is also by a combination of everything and everyone on the stage as an extension of the show

Every time we engage in a story with thinking of who the story affects how they process. That information and what it may mean to them with its politics with its social. Just whether its economics would have it isn't the world we try and think of it from that point of view, and so neither honesty in that is best explored by people who are most affected by it, and so when one whit, when we're doing when we telling Oh come on we're telling a story: all I'm trying to do is get to the most genuine space of what what that story? What that Europe should be about and Jim was just alluding to it. Now it genuinely is, like I mean as guys, we very seldom think there are too many dick chokes in any converse should a laugh at almost yeah, because that's the world we ve grown up in many times many instances. You know you, you may find that a white person may not be as cognizant of how ostracize a black. May feel, especially in America and its interesting to have that conversation. You know, how do you tackle conversations wrought in

on international affairs etc, and that's what we were trying to do, and so what I find as if, if you start sounds joke you just go. What is happening? How do you feel How do you process this in an honest way? I find that because the formula for comedy in my opinion is comedy, equals tragedy plus time you not invent that, but that's what I truly believe it is comedies. Try kitty plus time we tried exist in the space where we acknowledge what a tragedy it may be large or small. We take the time to process that information and then hopefully we get to the comedy once we ve had a little bit of

of time to to feel and and so when someone's watching the show, I hope that those elements come through. I hope that they go. Oh, we see what happened the truth of it. We understand how you feel about it, and then we get why you making the joke, because this is what the show is about. It's not that you dismiss. It is not that you don't take it seriously. It's not that you don't care it's rather that this is your coping mechanism and that's how I worked to bring people in that's how we work on the show when we make jokes with each other all day we fight, we laugh, we love each other. It is truly a family that raises in every day, and we try and and and broadcast that true, the audience. That's watching every single day, that's a great great way to end thing. Thank you all so much earlier So the terminal, here's a dish wants unavailing, show weak nights at eleven ten cents, Tommy Central and calmly several watch episodes. Those are the daily showed. I was on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. An to the daily show on you, too,

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