Behind the Show: Jordan Klepper Discusses MAGA’s Putin Obsession

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Jordan Klepper sits down with TDS Supervising Producer, Ian Berger, to break down the motivation and takeaways from their latest special, ‘Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools.’ As pro-Russia and pro-Putin sentiment grows among Republicans, Klepper details the significance of Americans shifting their views on Russian authoritarianism at the direction of Donald Trump and with the help of Russian disinformation.

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0:15.2	podcast.
0:16.2	You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to the Daily Show Ears Edition. This is Ian Berger, supervising producer for the Daily Show. We're here with
0:35.1	Daily Show contributor, fresh off a trip to Estonia right near the Russian border.
0:39.5	Jordan Clepper, welcome. Thank you, Ian.
0:41.6	Jordan, we're talking about your special.
0:43.4	It's called Jordan Clepper's Fingers the Pulse, Moscow Tools, which is available to stream on
0:47.8	Paramount Plus.
0:49.4	The Daily Show's YouTube channel and video on demand.
0:52.2	Jordan, what was it like making this special?
0:54.0	Yeah, well I'm going to say it's our special.
0:56.0	Thank you. We've done, we've done four specials now.
0:59.0	A lot of specials.
1:01.0	And they're all special.
1:02.0	They are all specials. This one was,
1:04.3	honestly I really like the process of making this special. I think we're
1:08.0	we're finding an interesting rhythm of like this one we were discovering
1:12.4	something on the road we go out in the road we do
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