Jordan Klepper Rides Again!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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‘Daily Show’ contributor Jordan Klepper returns to ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast to talk about his insane year spent going to Trump rallies amidst a pandemic and delivering some of the most scathing political comedy of the 2020 election cycle. He reveals how a new sense of “desperation” has pervaded MAGA world compared to 2016 and what he’s learned about Trump’s chances by trolling his supporters. Jordan also opens up about how his own experience with the coronavirus back in March makes him skeptical about the president’s rapid recovery this past month.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest literally risks his life going to Trump rallies just to make the rest of us laugh. |
| 0:11.0 | On the day Donald Trump most likely contracted COVID at an event in the Rose Garden, |
| 0:18.0 | he hosted another slightly different kind of super spreader event, |
| 0:21.6 | a campaign rally. |
| 0:22.9 | These rallies are a known vector for spreading many of Trump's favorite lives. |
| 0:26.9 | So I traveled to the battleground state of Pennsylvania to see just how many people had caught |
| 0:31.9 | Trump's version of reality. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm here to Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:36.8 | We are weeks away from the election, months away from finding out who wins and probably about a year away from losing the loved one to the inevitable civil war. |
| 0:45.3 | Let's do this. |
| 0:51.3 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and I am so excited to welcome Jordan Klepper back on my podcast this week. |
| 1:04.8 | Jordan was one of our earliest guests on The Last Laugh. |
| 1:07.9 | We talked in person in New York City last spring, but I really wanted to have |
| 1:12.2 | him back on during these final few weeks before the election because he has just absolutely |
| 1:17.6 | been crushing his Trump rally field pieces for The Daily Show. I had so many questions for Jordan |
| 1:24.8 | about how he pulls off these incredibly cathartic confrontations |
| 1:29.6 | with the most embarrassing Trump supporters he can find. And lucky for us, he was willing to reveal |
| 1:35.7 | almost all of his secrets. Jordan also talked about his own bout with the coronavirus early in |
| 1:41.6 | the pandemic and shared his most optimistic hopes for a post-Trump |
| 1:46.3 | America. All right, here we go. This is me with Jordan Klepper. So it really does feel like |
| 1:53.4 | it's been a very long time since our last conversation in New York. And I wanted to have you back |
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