Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock? (with Aasif Mandvi)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Aasif Mandvi joins Sam for a major Daily Show catch up, and to talk about juggling his return to Broadway in Fallen Angels with his new TV show The Miniature Wife. They bond over the perfection of theater shows with no intermissions, but disagree about when they first met each other. They talk about meeting Bruce Springsteen at The Daily Show, how Kid Rock used to be a huge fan, and what it would be like if Aasif was still the Senior Middle East Correspondent. They share their concern that AI actors are going to replace extras and actors just starting out, how journalists need to be willing to risk everything to ask the right questions, and how there are no politicians to look up to anymore. Keep up with Samantha Bee @realsambee on Instagram and X. And stay up to date with us @LemonadaMedia on X, Facebook, and Instagram. For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus here, and I can't wait for you to hear our new episode of Wiser
0:09.5	than Me with Cindy Lopper on Amazon Music.
0:12.9	Cindy may be a girl who just wants to have fun, but for 40 years she has brought playfulness
0:18.2	and a dash of punk to some serious activism. We talk about her lifelong
0:23.4	LGBTQ plus advocacy, her astonishing music career, and pick up a whole lot of wisdom along the way.
0:31.0	Listen now only on Amazon music included with Prime.
0:40.9	Look. included with Prime. Look, I know you may think the only thing that gets me excited these days are my cats,
0:47.1	and mostly, you are exactly correct.
0:50.4	But I also love seeing women get their flowers.
0:54.0	And by flowers, I mean dollars, which is why I have some good choice words.
0:59.7	That's exciting for the recent collective bargaining agreement made between the WMBA and the Players Association,
1:06.1	which will increase salaries by an average of 400%. And it's not just the salaries. The new agreement also has
1:13.9	tons of benefits for working moms, like ensuring players' children are able to travel with
1:18.7	the team, if need be, and paid leave for non-birthing parents as well. And while the players are
1:24.8	always their best advocates, who what I really love is that Nobel Prize winning economist Claudia Golden served it as an advisor to the players using her decades-long knowledge of gender-based labor practices.
1:37.4	Oh, it's so nice to say positive things sometimes. Gosh, you just love to see it.
1:55.3	Thank you. things sometimes, gosh, you just love to see it. This is Choice Words.
1:56.6	I'm Samantha B.
1:57.8	My guest this week is my former Daily Show co-star Asif Mondavi. Oh my God, I miss him so much. We had such a fun conversation. Oh, you're going to love it. After you enjoy this very special episode, be sure to look up spring dates for my How to Survive Mountabaz tour, now up on samanthabahs.com.
2:19.7	Until then, I would take a lesson and make good choices.
2:30.0	Hi, Asaph. How are you?
2:33.1	How are you doing? I'm doing you? How are you doing?
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