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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Sneak Peek: The Problem With My Staff

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The content-stuffed first episode of the podcast drops September 30, so here’s Jon getting mercilessly bullied by his own staff to hold you over.

https://apple.co/-JonStewart

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. I thought I was excited about doing until we taped this segment that frankly

0:06.3

Womiting hurtful bullying but still quite funny

0:12.2

I need you to explain to me how podcasts work. It goes right in your years. Oh just right directly into yours with like a big fucking fire hose

0:19.6

All right, I'll start

0:21.6

Hello, I'm Henrik Blix. Yes, in our case, I'm Wilson. We're both writers on the show. Let me ask you a question

0:27.2

Why are we here? Okay, the writers will test writing a joke about how John looks it was basically just to

0:34.4

Oh, you can look off the paper you're gonna tell me what this is

0:43.0

We had an intro we were in trolling the top of the show. Uh-huh. You had been gone for some time

0:47.7

You'd been gone for some time. If you didn't know this and not everybody's not it was in your face in a little while

0:52.7

And there was just there was just a thought that we should clarify for the audience

0:56.3

Mm-hmm. Oh, a bit of times past

1:00.1

There was there was a John Stewart of before

1:03.2

And we need to bring the audience up to speed that you're getting a new stew

1:06.8

On my first day when we were in the studio and we were looking and I had you know when you're not on television

1:11.6

You just you're just existing

1:13.9

And I hadn't seen myself framed in that way before

1:17.8

And I looked into the monitor and I immediately went we have to address this

1:22.5

Ha ha ha can we get the guys to write just a shitload of jokes about how fucking old I looked now

1:28.8

We went way overboard we kept the writing this we can we kept writing more in we have over well over 200

1:36.8

You sort of were like hey, I'd like pancakes and we were like how about we waterboard you with batter

1:43.1

We still write them. This is the zip zip of the writers room. This is our this is our vocal warmup

1:49.2

vocal warmup scales. So this is going to be one one fun last thing for K and I before we're fired absolutely

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