Correspondent Spotlight: The Best of Aasif Mandvi

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Former Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi explores Southern voter suppression laws with the late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis and a North Carolina GOP executive who is forthright with his true feelings and political motivations. Also, Aasif joins Jon Stewart to discuss the racist backlash to Nina Davuluri winning Miss America and the disastrous environmental waste and controversial GMO crop developments coming out of the mysterious Simplot corporation.

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0:00.0	I'm Moraka, and I'm excited to announce season 4 of my podcast, Mobituaries.
0:07.0	I've got a whole new bunch of stories to share with you about the most fascinating people
0:12.2	and things who are no longer with us.
0:15.1	From famous figures who died on the very same day to the things I wish would die like buffets.
0:24.0	People actually take little tastes along the way with their fingers.
0:27.0	They do.
0:28.0	No, Mo, I'm so sorry.
0:29.8	Do you need a minute?
0:31.1	This is the only interview where I've needed a spit bucket.
0:34.1	I'm so sorry.
0:36.1	We'll tell you about the singer who helped define cool.
0:40.5	And the sports world's very first superstar.
0:44.5	To call Jim Thorpe the greatest athlete in American history is not a stretch because
0:48.9	no athlete before since is done what he did.
0:52.2	Listen to Mobituaries with Moraka on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts.
0:57.9	Wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.9	You're listening to Comedy Central.
1:04.9	Earlier this year, the Supreme Court effectively struck down the Voting Rights Act, saying
1:12.8	that it had been immensely successful at redressing racial discrimination, so basically saying
1:18.9	enough's enough.
1:19.9	I mean, why ruin a good thing by continuing it?
1:24.0	House of Montvie reports on how states have responded.
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