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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Jordan Klepper's Daily Show Debut | The Best of Klepper as Guest Host

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Klepper reminisces on his start at The Daily Show in 2014, including Jon Stewart's sage advice: "Don't f**k it up." As guest host, Jordan Klepper covers: Fox News's $787 million settlement, an interview with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, "wrong place shootings," a tantrum on Southwest Airlines, and the reason why young boys need better role models than Andrew Tate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.5

Pfff.

0:03.5

I remember my first night on the show.

0:06.0

It was while I auditioned on, I think, a Friday

0:08.0

and they told me, come back four days later with a suit.

0:11.0

Uh, because I had no money to pay for the suits.

0:14.0

Uh, luckily I had one suit because I got married

0:16.0

a few months earlier and I came back with a suit

0:18.0

and the day was bonkers.

0:20.0

Uh, I arrived and oddly enough, it was the day...

0:23.0

uh, Crimea wasn't baited.

0:25.0

And I know.

0:27.0

Uh, we actually know where that place is now.

0:29.0

Because I didn't that morning and I showed up.

0:32.0

Uh, and I went to this morning meeting

0:34.0

which is an amazing thing at the Daily Show.

0:36.0

Um, so many funny, thoughtful people in a room

0:38.0

and I get thrown in there in such a welcoming place

0:40.0

and there's John Stewart, someone I've watched

0:42.0

since I was very little.

0:43.0

Uh, he's very old and decrepit.

0:45.0

Also very short, small man.

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