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Comedy of the Week

Strong Message Here

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, we have a very special guest, Jon Stewart! Jon joins Armando and Helen to discuss whether Trump is the political equivalent of Miles Davis, the quaintness of UK politics compared to the US, Jon does a flawless Margaret Thatcher impression and they answer the age old question... are escalators the most emasculating form of travel?

To hear more episodes from this series, search Strong Message Here on BBC Sounds.

Have you stumbled upon any perplexing political phrases you need Helen and Armando to decode? Email them to us at [email protected]

Sound Editing by Charlie Brandon-King Production Coordinator - Sarah Nicholls Executive Producer - Pete Strauss

Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Audio production for Radio 4. An EcoAudio Certified Production.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.2

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:44.4

Before you listen to this episode of Strong Message Here, just a warning that we will be using

0:48.4

strong language from the start.

0:53.9

Hello and welcome to Strong Message Here from BBC Radio 4,

0:57.3

a journalist and a comedy writer's guide to the use and abuse of political language.

1:01.1

It's Amanda Unucci.

1:02.3

And it's Helen Lewis.

1:06.1

And this week we are joined by John Stewart of The Daily Show

1:09.1

to talk about the language of American politics. John, you had, I noticed, great fun looking at Trump's ability to come up with

1:18.4

words that no one has ever thought of before. I think the word was equalize a couple of weeks

1:22.9

which he said, he was talking about trade tariffs and carrying their own back and Europe and whatever.

1:31.3

And he said basically what we're doing is equalizing.

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