How Viral Videos Brought Grace Kuhlenschmidt To The Daily Show

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, News, Daily News

4.2 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this podcast exclusive, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, the newest member of The Daily Show news team, chats with segment director Sarah Hamblin about how her viral social media videos led her to The Daily Show. Grace also talks about the advice she got from former correspondents, her audition process, and how she hopes to bring a queer perspective to the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now streaming on Paramount Plus,
0:01.9	gather your besties.
0:03.0	You're very exclusive.
0:04.5	And get ready.
0:05.6	Mom go make snuts.
0:06.4	For sure, a jean, again.
0:07.6	For the movie that hits like a bus.
0:10.0	In a good way.
0:11.2	No one died.
0:12.1	Mean Girls, made it PT13 13 now screaming on Paramount Plus.
0:16.1	You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey Daily Show Year's Edition listeners, this is Sarah Hamblin, segment director for The Daily Show, and I'm here with one of the newest members of the daily show news team
0:36.1	Grace Kool and Schmidt. Welcome Grace. Hey thanks. Yay! Yay!
0:41.2	Yay! Welcome to the family!
0:43.0	The studio audience is going wild right now.
0:46.0	You can't hear them, but they are losing it.
0:49.0	The rat that lives in the corner of our building is absolutely dying in a glue trap. Grace, did you ever
0:57.5	imagine that your daily show debut would be debating with Michael Costa about
1:01.8	whether you should take $500,000 or have lunch with Jay-Z.
1:06.3	It's crazy I've always had this vision that it would be that.
1:08.8	No, I definitely not.
1:11.7	But I was like so thrilled and working with Costa for my first piece was like really really fun.
1:16.7	He is like actually unbelievably kind and made me feel so comfortable and I felt really really grateful.
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