Ed Helms and Jordan Klepper on Finding Authenticity as a TDS Correspondent | Behind the Show
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Past and present generations of Daily Show correspondents unite as Jordan Klepper and Ed Helms discuss Ed’s journey to The Daily Show, how Ed found his voice as a correspondent, and how he’s picked projects since then, including The Office and his current podcast, SNAFU with Ed Helms.
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| 0:15.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome to the Daily Show Ears Edition, this is Jordan Klepper and I'm excited to be joined today by a Daily Show Trailblazer, the great Ed Helms. |
| 0:34.1 | Ed, welcome. |
| 0:35.1 | Well, hello, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:37.6 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:38.6 | That's a pleasure. |
| 0:39.6 | What's it feel like to come back into the Daily Show studio and fold? Like, what are the first thoughts that run through you have when you come in here? |
| 0:46.0 | I immediately barfed when I walked in the door. |
| 0:48.4 | Is that lots of tension, anger, frustration, |
| 0:53.0 | decades have just built up anxiety. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, contempt. |
| 0:58.0 | No, I have to say like, for one thing, the the studio is and not just the studio itself but the offices |
| 1:06.8 | the building everything it's so beautiful now yeah back in my day I'm probably |
| 1:12.2 | gonna say that a lot, |
| 1:13.5 | it was just a little more, I don't know, frumpy. |
| 1:18.2 | And now it's like sexy, it's like a cool, |
| 1:20.7 | it's like very, like a cool workplace too sexy do you get oh no like like just |
| 1:26.6 | right it's got good it's got good vibes and of course there's there are a lot of |
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