Josh Johnson writer and host of Daily Show on navigating the current comedy culture, being apart of Jimmy Kimmel's return, lessons from Jimmy Fallon, identity theft on a date, why he doesn't play football and Crocs cant be worn in NYC.
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4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Comedian Josh Johnson is not a large man, but he knows how to take up space in any room. |
| 0:05.0 | From the moment he walked in, you can see why one of the new hosts of The Daily Show is having his moment. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, he's a Louisiana boy, but he made his way to Chicago and finally landed in New York a decade ago. |
| 0:17.0 | He recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel during Kimmel's Brooklyn run, and the diminutive comedian |
| 0:21.9 | dazzled the crowd with humor, storytelling, and a floral suit that even made me a little |
| 0:26.9 | jealous. |
| 0:27.9 | He doesn't just answer our questions. |
| 0:29.7 | He paints pictures. |
| 0:30.8 | We dove in a free speech, catfishing white supremacist, court trials, New York's finer |
| 0:35.6 | qualities, and the proper shoe wear for the streets. |
| 0:39.7 | We even learn how to handle getting your identity stolen while on the first date. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, and it turns out that me, yeah, R.C. would be a terrible attorney, and it seems I attack |
| 0:50.8 | our guest insecurities. |
| 0:52.6 | I mean, all I wanted to do was talk about bedwetting and where he found his passion for comedy. |
| 0:58.1 | I didn't mean to touch on sore spots. |
| 1:00.4 | But we had so much fun in this sit down. |
| 1:02.9 | Josh is truly a mix of funny and real. |
| 1:05.9 | So please enjoy as me, Chan and Freddie T. |
| 1:09.0 | Chop it up with comedian Josh Johnson. Excited about being on time. That makes sense, though. Passionate punctuality. Yeah, Josh is not on passionate punctuality. What up, though. How you doing, man? How's it going? Great to each other. Yeah. How you doing? What's that, Doug? Oh, thanks. My bad. |
| 1:27.8 | You went straight to Louisiana first, huh? |
| 1:29.8 | I feel like it's because I didn't know where to go. |
| 1:33.7 | So I was like, this is at least familiar. |
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