How Jordan Klepper's "Trump Diet" brought him to "the fringe"

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🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Jordan Klepper, comedian and host of Comedy Central's "The Opposition," joins Chuck to talk about the blessing, and curse, of having a news cycle defined so clearly by President Trump.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	And joining me now is the host of the opposition
0:11.1	on Comedy Central, Jordan Klepper.
0:13.8	Jordan, welcome to the show and nice to meet you.
0:16.0	Nice to meet you.
0:17.0	Let me start with this basic question.
0:19.1	Yep.
0:20.1	What are you?
0:21.1	Comedian, entertainer, journalist, human?
0:23.0	Oh, well, alien.
0:24.3	Alien, let me start with human.
0:26.6	That I feel pretty certain of.
0:27.8	And then let me move to Comedia.
0:29.0	And then I feel most comfortable in, I would say.
0:31.0	You feel as if you're coming.
0:32.2	Because your host to show, call the opposition.
0:34.0	I do.
0:35.0	It's clearly tongue in cheek, but it's got a point of view.
0:40.0	You have a movement on guns.
0:42.6	You could be easily called an activist.
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