Jordan Klepper: Equal Oppty B.S.-Calling & The Daily Show Renaissance

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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John is joined by The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper to discuss the return of Jon Stewart to the show, the challenges of covering the RNC and DNC live, and his signature forays into the dark, savage, achingly comical heart of the MAGA-sphere at Donald Trump’s rallies. The two pals—who worked together when John dragooned Jordan into guest hosting his Showtime series The Circus—also debate the merits of Chicago’s iconic but disgusting local liqueur Malort (and even more iconic and appalling style of deep dish pizza), whether Klepper has a crush on former Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas, and his resemblance to Gregor Samsa, the man-turned-cockroach protagonist in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome to in politic with John Heilman my
0:08.8	podcast for Odyssey and Puck coming at you every Wednesday and Friday with
0:11.9	fresh topical and candy conversations,
0:14.0	with the people who roamed the quarters of power and influence in America from Washington to Wall Street,
0:18.0	Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and beyond.
0:21.0	No modern media institution has occupied the nexus of politics and culture for longer
0:24.8	or more influential than the Daily Show.
0:27.7	And today we have with us one of TDS's mainstays and rising stars my buddy Jordan Clepper. Born raised and educated in
0:34.4	Kalamazoo Michigan, Clepper cut his teeth in Chicago's storied and
0:37.9	scary competitive improv scene as a performer at the legendary Second City, moved to New York to join up with the equally
0:44.7	renowned upright citizens brigade, and then was hired by the man himself, John Stewart,
0:50.0	at the Daily Show back in 2014. The next year Stuart fled the coop and stepped
0:54.3	down as the host of TDS while Clepper's presence on the show expanded. In 2016 he
0:59.6	started churning out the sly deft and hilarious field pieces from Donald Trump rallies that became his signature franchise on the show.
1:07.0	He also stepped in and hosted the show in the home stretch of that
1:15.0	the election year when new host Trevor Noah was sick.
1:14.0	Seeing Jordan as a rising star,
1:16.0	comedy central plucked him out of TDS
1:18.0	and gave him his own late night show.
1:20.0	It was called the opposition with Jordan Clepper in 2017 and 2018 and then a docueries
1:25.1	that Comedy Central had him do entitled simply Clepper in 2019 but Jordan felt the
1:31.5	calling to his roots and he rejoined the daily show later that year and has been there ever since
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