TDS Time Machine | Black History Month
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A Daily Show salute to Black History Month. Take a peek back at what TDS might have sounded like in 1965. Trevor Noah unpacks the lives and legacy of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Roy Wood Jr. recalls the history of civil rights marches in CP Time. D.Ll Hughley challenges Los Angelenos to a Black History quiz. Trevor and Roy dig into the surprising origins of Peanuts character Franklin. Finally, After the Cut, Trevor remembers legendary singer Aretha Franklin.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:03.0 | February 1st, 1965. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Black History Month Daily Show. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Daily Show. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Trevor Noah, my guest tonight, up-and-coming comedian Bill Cosby. |
| 0:24.5 | This guy's jokes are going to knock you out. But we begin in Selma, Alabama. If you aren't |
| 0:31.5 | familiar with Selma, it's a small southern city located 10 miles east of no Negroes, please, |
| 0:36.6 | and five miles north of say, boy. |
| 0:40.5 | And it's also where today, recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., got into some legal trouble. |
| 0:47.3 | Dateline Selma. Civil Rights Leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested today while |
| 0:51.8 | attempting to lead a mass march of 300 Negroes |
| 0:54.3 | on the Dallas County Courthouse to protest voter registration procedures. The Negroes were taken |
| 0:59.0 | into custody on charges of parading without a permit. For more, we go to our junior civil rights |
| 1:04.7 | correspondent, Roy Wood Sr. Now, Roy, what did you see out there? I saw a bunch of bull, |
| 1:09.9 | Trevor. Proud Negro men and women being arrested for no reason. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, now, Roy, the police said there was a reason. |
| 1:17.6 | They were parading without a permit. |
| 1:19.6 | Oh, I'm sorry. |
| 1:20.6 | Did the Klan fill out their paperwork before marching in my neighborhood? |
| 1:24.6 | What have you ever seen white people arrested for parading without a permit? |
| 1:29.3 | Well boy, that's just the world we live in. |
| 1:31.3 | Black people aren't ever going to get the same treatment as white people, and that's never going to change. |
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