I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, March 11th.

What a treat. Jordan Klepper from The Daily Show joins us for a few minutes. For those of you who don't stay up that late or don't look at the videos the next day,

Jordan Klepper had the very bizarre assignment over the last year of covering the Trump campaign for a comedy show.

And as it turned out, something that I'm sure he will never forget,

covering the January 6th Capitol Riot for a comedy show. How the heck do you do that?

Just as a sample before he comes on, here's 12 seconds of Klepper with a guy who arrived at the

January 6th rally on a bicycle. Yeah, how'd you get your bike in? Right over here.

What kind of bike best works for a futile

attempt to thwart democracy? Is it like a cross-track situation? That's just a weird question.

And a few weeks after January 6th, Klepper asked a pro-chump MAGA protester who was still there

what she thought about the riot, and she said.

What I saw and what there's a lot of evidence showing is that many of the initial people who entered the building violently were leftists.

I was here. It seemed like a lot of people were Trump supporters.

A thousand people broke into the Capitol, erected a news outside, and tried to kill the Speaker of the House and the Vice President. Hey, I literally think that you have added the tried to kill all those things and you have ignored... I got to share some videos. I want to show you want to trade videos? Because I'd love to share video with you as well. I'm not going to give you my email. A small sample of the work of Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central.

Maybe you know some of Jordan's other work. His Comedy Central show The Opposition with Jordan

Klepper or his Comedy Central special. Jordan Klepper solves guns or other things. Hey Jordan,

thanks for some time today. Welcome to WNYC. Brian, thanks for having me.

How did you approach that assignment in general covering Trump rallies for the 2020 campaign

for a comedy show? Yeah, you show up for a comedy show and you end up at an interaction. I can't

say that was the plan to begin with. I think initially when I, you know, drew that card,

you know, we were going to, we were just following Trump as he began to run four years ago,

five years ago now. And it was fun. You wanted to get the flavor. It was a, it was a new idea.

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