Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. on ‘The Daily Show,’ Biden vs. Trump and More
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The first time Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. worked together was for a 2015 ‘Daily Show’ field piece that asked the question, “Are all cops racist?” In 2024, they joined forces once again for a series of “comedic town halls” across the country. In this episode, Klepper and Wood return to the podcast (for their fourth and third appearances, respectively) to share their thoughts about the inevitable Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump rematch nobody seems to want. The pair of ‘Daily Show’ correspondents also speak openly about that show’s very public search for a host to replace Trevor Noah, including why Wood decided to step down when it seemed like it wasn’t going to be him, whether Klepper is still gunning for the big seat and what they both thought about everything that went down with their old colleague Hasan Minhaj.
This episode was originally published on January 3rd, 2024.
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| 0:38.8 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:41.2 | And this week, like I hope you are, I'm on vacation for the July 4th holiday. |
| 0:46.5 | So instead of a new interview, we are listening back to the very fun episode that kicked off 2024 on this podcast with two of my absolute favorite comedians and |
| 0:56.1 | daily show correspondence, Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. When we talked just about six months ago, |
| 1:03.2 | Jordan and Roy were about to set out on a tour that they were describing as a series of |
| 1:08.0 | comedic town halls ahead of this year's presidential election. |
| 1:12.0 | So we got into some politics in this conversation, but also talked a lot about the future |
| 1:16.7 | of The Daily Show, which felt a lot more uncertain at that moment. |
| 1:21.2 | This was, of course, before Comedy Central lured back John Stewart to host the show on Monday nights. |
| 1:27.4 | But six months later, the Daily Show still does not have a permanent replacement for Trevor Noah. |
| 1:32.3 | So, in that sense, not all that much has changed. |
| 1:35.3 | Before we get into the interview, let's listen to a clip from the very first field piece |
| 1:40.3 | Jordan and Roy did together in 2015 that tried to answer the question, are all cops |
| 1:47.1 | racist? |
| 1:49.2 | Over the past year, cops have faced increasing scrutiny based on their actions against |
| 1:54.0 | minorities. |
| 1:54.9 | To get to the bottom of this, the Daily Show sent not one, but two correspondents to go deep. |
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