Republicans Play "War Plan" Semantics as Journalist Brings Receipts | Steve Coogan
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ronny Chieng dives into the churn of Signal-gate as Pete Hegseth downplays the war chat, Michael Waltz makes excuses, and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg releases texts.
Chris Distefano jumps in to solve America's issues, from export tariffs to immigration to DOGE cuts to Canada and Greenland sovereignty.
Comedian and actor Steve Coogan joins Ronny Chieng to discuss his expansive career and new film, “The Penguin Lessons.” They talk about their experiences at Edinburgh Fringe, his West End run portraying four roles in a “Dr. Strangelove” adaptation, why comic characters like his infamous Alan Partridge speak to both political parties, and his experience on-set with real and robotic penguins.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:06.7 | From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, |
| 0:10.8 | it's America's only source for new. |
| 0:14.0 | This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie T. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you. Ronnie Chang. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello, welcome to a daily show. I'm Roy Chang. |
| 0:31.6 | We got so much to talk about tonight, |
| 0:33.6 | so let's get right into the controversy |
| 0:35.6 | that's still rocking Trump's cabinet in another installment of the worst wing. |
| 0:40.3 | What a bunch of losers. |
| 0:51.3 | None of that was AI. |
| 0:53.3 | By now, we all know that Donald Trump's meritocracy brain geniuses |
| 0:58.8 | planned an attack on Yemen in a signal group chat |
| 1:02.1 | and accidentally invited a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg. |
| 1:05.9 | And this story might have ended on day one |
| 1:08.3 | if the administration had just owned it |
| 1:10.1 | and made some bullshit statement like, |
| 1:12.2 | sorry, we're taking accountability, hashtag listening and learning and blah-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 1:19.5 | But they just can't help themselves because whenever they're in trouble, their default response is to punch their way out of it, |
| 1:25.1 | which only makes things worse. So now, we're still talking |
| 1:28.5 | about this three days later instead of what I wanted to cover tonight, which was 23 and me going |
| 1:34.2 | bankrupt, and what they're going to do with all your DNA. One word, face off Okay |
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