This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and after today's episode, I will have had every rotating host of the Daily Show on this podcast. She has three Emmy nominations this year for the Daily Show and for her short-form side series in which she fox explains the biggest conspiracies of the Trump era. Desi Lydic, welcome to The Last Laugh. Thank you. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I'm bringing us home. You're the last one. Well, I will say I still have not had John Stewart on. But he's like a separate entity, I think. Sure, sure. He's a very busy man. He's also a

lazy man. He will only work one day a week. Yeah, what's that about? I don't know. I mean,

come on. Step it up, John. It's the only negative thing I can say about him is that he'll only give

us Mondays. But it allows us to pick up his shifts the

rest of the week. So that's okay. It allows you all to flourish. So that's wonderful. And you certainly

have this year. You have three Emmy nominations, as I said, which is unbelievable.

Thank you for saying that, yeah. Something must have gone terribly wrong. I demand a recount. It can't be right.

I did notice that you and Jordan Klepper both have three nominations this year. Is there a

little healthy competition happening there? Do you, uh, I'll take it down. I will gladly

take that Michigan, uh, lanky boy down. Please. Yeah, you are, you're in separate categories for the most part, so that helps.

So you don't have to compete against each other directly.

No, I will actually tell you full disclosure, he was hosting the day that they announced

the nominations and I couldn't keep my mouth shut.

So he was having a very small,

intimate meeting about the guest who was on that night on the show. And I said, can I tell

him? I'm going to tell him. And so I burst into the room and screamed that he was nominated.

We were all very excited for him. Yeah. Well, he's been on this podcast four times. So you have a

long way to go to catch up to him there.

He just, he loves eating up the air. He just can't stop talking that clever.

Well, the Daily Show is on hiatus as we're talking right now. You're on this sort of extended summer break.

So how's that going for you? Are there stories that are happening? They're like,

oh, I wish I was there to cover that and I want to be on the air. Are you feeling good? Or how's it going?

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