Jordan Klepper Drops the Act
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Former ‘Daily Show’ correspondent Jordan Klepper discusses making the transition from playing an Alex Jones-inspired madman on ‘The Opposition’ to revealing his true self on the new Comedy Central docuseries ‘Klepper.’
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| 0:00.0 | It's simple. I'm raising money to hire Hillary Clinton to record an audiobook of the Mueller report. |
| 0:05.0 | I have the Mueller report. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, let me start it. I'll be happy to do it. |
| 0:09.0 | The investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency. |
| 0:15.0 | A couple notes? Yeah. Like you mean it. |
| 0:17.0 | The investigation established that the Russian government... Feel it. |
| 0:21.6 | Secretary Clinton. |
| 0:22.6 | Feel it. |
| 0:23.6 | Just imagine like you have a history with this. |
| 0:25.6 | Okay. |
| 0:26.6 | The investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency |
| 0:34.6 | and worked to secure that outcome and that the campaign expected it would benefit |
| 0:41.1 | electorally. |
| 0:42.1 | The president slumped back in his chair and said, oh my God, this is terrible. |
| 0:48.4 | This is the end of my presidency. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm . Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:58.6 | This week on the show is a very funny man who I've loved watching since he first joined |
| 1:02.5 | the Daily Show as a correspondent back in 2014, Jordan Klepper. |
| 1:07.5 | I was a big fan of his show The Opposition, where Jordan played a sort of alt-right conspiracy |
| 1:12.5 | theorist. |
| 1:13.8 | If Stephen Colbert was doing an homage to Bill O'Reilly on the Colbert rapport, then this |
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