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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Jordan Klepper On Meeting People Where They Are, Comedic Activism, New Stand Up Special + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today on The Breakfast Club, Jordan Klepper On Meeting People Where They Are, Comedic Activism, New Stand Up Special. Listen For More!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.7

Hold on.

0:19.8

Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. We're all finished or y'all's done? Uh-huh. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess O'Larene Gailoran the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawn the Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed.

0:21.5

We have a comedian, Jordan Klepper.

0:22.0

Welcome.

0:22.6

How are you feeling?

0:23.4

I'm feeling good.

0:24.1

How are you guys doing?

0:24.8

Doing well.

0:37.5

Doing well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have a comedian Jordan Clepper. Welcome. How you feeling? I'm feeling good. How are you guys doing? Doing well. Doing well. You always keep a project. Last time you was here was your last field piece, right? This time it's, not field piece. You had a whole documentary. Yeah. Now you're here for your special. Jordan Klepper fingers the post, give the man a prize. Let me tell you.

0:38.0

It's nothing but projects.

0:38.9

You know how hard it is to keep health insurance in this country. You have to keep working constantly. And contractually, I'm obligated to go out in the field and do special after special after special. But that could make you sick. So you're going to need all that health care. I need that health care. Trust me, I'm getting old too.

0:52.6

I got bad feet.

0:53.6

I got weird shoulders.

0:54.9

I wake up now.

0:55.6

My hip doesn't work.

0:56.6

So, yeah, I need to keep.

0:57.8

I need to health care. Trust me. I'm getting old too. I got bad feet. I got weird shoulders. I wake up now. My hip doesn't work. So yeah, I need to keep I need to keep out there talking to people about politics. Are you really a people person, Jordan? Do you like the people? Do I like the people? No, not like the people. Do you like the people? You're using that as a verb. Yes. Do I like to people? Yes. I do. I feel comfortable peopling. I think it's my Midwest nice that makes me like jump into spaces, try to find commonality. I've met a lot of people though. I definitely have a love-hate relationship with people as a general idea.

1:46.7

I've seen their good. I've seen their bad. There's a lot of them live somewhere in the middle. But I like getting to know them a little bit. I'll tell you, people off camera are so interesting to me. And those are the people that I like the most. You know, I go into these mogul worlds. I go into these strange spaces. and the camera shifts the way in which everybody talks about stuff,

1:46.7

makes them more certain, makes them more... I go into these Magu worlds, I go into these strange spaces, and the camera shifts the way in which everybody talks about stuff,

1:49.3

makes them more certain, makes them more argumentative,

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