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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Best of Ed Helms Pt. 2

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Revisit Ed Helms' top-notch reporting on speedos, conservative "Coming Out Day," and camera phone Ed-iquette in this compilation of some of his most memorable moments on The Daily Show.

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0:03.0

Kate May, New Jersey, a charming little beach town that set the standard for taste and sophistication

0:16.0

we've come to associate with the Jersey Shore.

0:27.6

But in recent years, tourists have taken their fanny packs elsewhere. To bring visitors back, town leaders developed the Cool Cape May campaign.

0:32.6

Cool, Cape May was an expression, was actually used back in 1896.

0:36.6

It's cooler down here that's in the city, so that's where it came from.

0:40.3

We were cool back then, we're cool today.

0:42.3

Kind of a double entendre, if you will.

0:44.3

Forgive me, but I believe the proper pronunciation is...

0:47.3

On Ton.

0:50.3

Okay.

0:51.3

I took two years of Spanish.

0:53.3

Okay. To attract tourists years of Spanish. Okay.

0:55.0

To attract tourists, the town has relaxed some of its more excessive rules.

1:00.0

Among the changes, opening more beaches for kayaking,

1:03.0

adding a five-minute grace period at parking meters, and then there's this.

1:08.0

Come to Cape May. Be cool, play, and feel free to wear Speedo.

1:12.9

Cape May has lifted its 30-year ban on men in skin-tight bathing suits,

1:18.5

commonly referred to as Speedos.

1:21.1

Atlantic City has gambling.

1:23.0

Wildwood has broken bottle fights.

1:25.5

Cape May has Speedos.

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