Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. Return—Together!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 52 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?” Now, they are kicking off 2024 by joining 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 let fans know what they can expect from their ‘America: For the Last Time’ tour and 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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we have something very fun for you on this first week of what will surely be an insane presidential election year. |
| 0:16.9 | Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. have each been on this podcast multiple times. |
| 0:21.6 | But since they are heading out on tour together this month, I decided to ask them both to |
| 0:26.8 | join me for this first episode of 2024, and they did not disappoint. |
| 0:31.9 | We definitely talked a lot of politics as they gear up for their tour, which is called |
| 0:36.3 | America for the last time, |
| 0:38.5 | and is being built as a comedic town hall. |
| 0:41.0 | But since we were also talking in the middle of this very strange and public search for a new |
| 0:45.8 | host of The Daily Show, we got into all of that as well, including how Roy is feeling about |
| 0:51.1 | the whole thing after seemingly getting passed over for the job and then stepping down as a correspondent, and whether Jordan would still want the chair |
| 0:58.9 | if it was offered to him. And yes, they also weigh in on the Hassan Minhaj debacle. |
| 1:05.1 | As I said, this is such a fun and funny episode, so I want to get to it, but first, let's |
| 1:10.8 | listen to a short clip from |
| 1:12.1 | the very first Daily Show field piece that Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. did together |
| 1:17.2 | back in 2015 that asked the question, are all cops racist? |
| 1:23.2 | Over the past year, cops have faced increasing scrutiny based on their actions against minorities. |
| 1:29.0 | To get to the bottom of this, the Daily Show sent not one. |
| 1:31.4 | But two correspondents to go deep. |
| 1:34.1 | Super deep. |
| 1:35.2 | So we decided to sit down with some cops to see why they're... |
| 1:38.2 | Racist. |
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