2025 Year End Precap Hostravaganza | Jordan Klepper, Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Josh Johnson and Michael Kosta

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Join the Daily Show co-hosts as they take a look back at the biggest stories from the Very Normal Year that was 2025. Jordan Klepper, Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Josh Johnson and Michael Kosta get together to highlight the weirdest news moments of the year, the characters that grabbed the spotlight, and their favorite bits from their Daily Show co-hosts. They also lay down their predictions for 2026, assuming we still make it that far. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to https://RocketMoney.com/DAILYSHOW today. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.6	Thank you. Hello, Daily Show fans, it's the end of the year, and what a normal year it has been.
1:08.2	To wrap up 2025, we thought we get all of the hosts of the Daily Show,
1:11.9	cram them into the smallest room in the building and force them to talk to each other. I am one of
1:17.7	those hosts. You're already laughing, Ronnie. I love it. I'm one of them. I'm Jordan Klepper.
1:22.2	Let me pass it to Ronnie Chang so everybody can introduce themselves in case we all haven't taken
1:25.8	the time to learn each other's names. Oh, I'm Roy Chang.
1:47.1	Desi Lytic. Josh Johnson. Hi, I'm Michael Kossom. Good to meet you guys. Yes, to meet you guys. I'm really happy to finally meet some of the other hosts. Yeah. It is nice to be together because we are almost never. That's true. Not all of us, you know. usually maybe four out of five or like a good three.
1:47.8	Yeah.
2:05.9	But. almost never. That's true. Not all of us, you know, usually maybe four out of five or like a good three. Yeah. But yeah. Much less than a sweat lodge. Yeah. But you know that everyone thinks we're always hanging out all the time. Do you guys get that? Yeah. People always ask me like, what's it like hanging out everybody all the time and I say I don't know who you know. We hardly know each other. No,
2:10.8	I think we actually hang out more than we don't hang out as much as the public things, but we hang out more than that would be normal. Most coworkers. Yes, correct. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. The Daily Show
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