INTERVIEW: Josh Johnson Talks 2026 Webby Awards, New HBO Special, The Daily Show, Comedy Vs. Journalism + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Josh Johnson Talks 2026 Webby Awards, New HBO Special, The Daily Show, Comedy Vs. Journalism. Listen For More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalamey Nagy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lonal Roses here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. He's hosting the 2026 Webby Awards. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Johnson. Welcome. How are you feeling? Pretty good. How are you all? Can't complain. And he's not just hosting the Webby Awards. He is a host and contributor on the Daily Show as well. He's got HBO comedy special coming out called Symphony. Symphony on May 22nd. Yes, we're going to get to all of that. But he's hosting the Webby Awards that's coming around on the 11 for this month. Yeah. Yeah. How do you all wake up so early and seem so bright? Okay. Yeah, okay. That makes a lot of sense. And we just go crazy no finti yeah okay all right well they're holding it back for me me too I'm still |
| 1:00.0 | getting used to waking up this early yeah they should pass the Coke everybody looks great |
| 1:03.9 | thank you yeah for it to be early oh okay you know yeah like I you would expect |
| 1:09.8 | everyone to look great by like noon. |
| 1:11.6 | This is our new. |
| 1:12.6 | Right now, this is our new. I know. That's what feels insane. Do you feel like, how do you, like getting up this morning, how did you feel? You didn't feel like you looked great because it was so early? Yeah. Oh, man. I felt like I was hit by a truck because then my alarm went off |
| 1:28.5 | and I usually wake up a little later to get to the show. |
| 1:31.6 | And man, those couple hours make a huge difference. |
| 1:35.1 | Have you ever really been hit by a truck? |
| 1:37.6 | No, no. |
| 1:38.4 | Why do people say that? |
| 1:39.1 | Why do we say that? |
| 1:40.2 | Because you know what it is? |
| 1:41.8 | It's like this is what I imagine it would feel like. |
| 1:44.8 | Got you. |
| 1:45.4 | And so luckily I was in bed. I wasn't hit by a truck at all. But I think, you know, if I got hit by a truck, I don't even think I'd know. That's right. People have people in heaven right now screaming down. I got hit by a truck and I never walked up. What are you talking about? Yeah. Honestly, when I die, I'm gonna die so fast. |
| 2:02.7 | I'm gonna, ooh. |
| 2:03.6 | If I got hit by a truck and i never walked up what he's talking about yeah honestly when i die i'm |
| 2:01.3 | so fast i'm gonna if i if i got hit by a truck i wouldn't even fight that hard to stay i'd be like |
| 2:08.4 | no you got me you got me no fair enough that for that 1 5th yeah yeah no no i don't even want to see |
| 2:15.5 | myself post truck post truck. Post-truck. |
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