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The Last Laugh

John Oliver and Sam Bee's Lessons from Jon Stewart

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Interviews, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Tv, Movies, Film

4.6661 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Last Laugh listeners, please enjoy this excerpt from the latest episode of The Daily Beast's new podcast! This week, guest John Oliver and co-host Samantha Bee take a trip down late-night TV memory lane, sharing fun times and lessons learned from their time as correspondents on ‘The Daily Show.’ Joanna Coles and Sam dive deep into the Beast’s exclusive story of the consultant making serious bank on Trump’s campaign payroll, and obsess over Kanye West’s sexploits as well as other, unrelated sex toys. 


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0:00.0

Hello, just dropping in here to share an excerpt from the newest episode of The Daily Beast

0:05.8

podcast, hosted by the Daily Beast chief creative and content officer Joanna Coles and

0:11.8

late night legend Samantha B, brought to you by 5'9. Want to hear more? Subscribe to the Daily Beast

0:18.5

podcast wherever you're listening to this podcast to catch a

0:21.7

new episode every Thursday. So it's now time to introduce our Beast of the Week, none other than

0:28.4

John Oliver, the brilliant comedian, writer and political commentator, has redefined Sunday

0:34.8

nights, born in my homeland, John rose to prominence on the daily show

0:39.6

with Sam and John Stewart before launching his own show last week tonight, where he blends

0:45.5

biting satire with real investigative reporting. He's won multiple Emmys. We're not going to

0:51.2

mention that because I don't want it to go to his head. But his show is

0:54.4

essential viewing. And I laugh every time I talk to John. So take it away, Sam. We are in the

1:00.2

room together, and this interview has already gone off the rails. Joanna can't handle her technology.

1:05.3

Everybody's swearing. Let us begin. And I just want to say that John Oliver taught me to use

1:10.4

the word fuck with

1:11.5

enormous, enormous efficacy, I would say. Oh, sure. That's what. I think you deep down knew

1:18.3

how to use the word fuck. Yes, I think I've encouraged you. It was always in you. The way you've been

1:23.9

brought up. It's in there. The skills were in there. You were born with them.

1:32.9

Okay. How do you two, you two know each other. Do you only know each other because there's a club of British expats that you have to join, like it's a requirement? Or do you know each other,

1:38.1

know each other? Tell me everything. All British people know each other.

1:41.4

There's not many of us. So, you're kind of, especially if there's British people overseas.

1:48.0

Historically, less of us than they used to be centuries ago.

1:50.8

You know, we really traveled to a fault.

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