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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.2 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's podcasters, going on TV, only to be put back into a podcast. Take a listen to these interviews with podcast hosts (or hosts-to-be) when they visited The Daily Show. Joe Rogan sits down with Jon Stewart years before he would go on to conquer the pod world, to talk Fear Factor and dodgeball losers. Trevor Noah is joined by the "Pod Save America" hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor. Jameela Jamil visits Desi Lydic to talk her podcast "Bad Dates." "Revisionist History" host Malcolm Gladwell talks to Trevor remotely to talk social justice. Ryan Holiday of "The Daily Stoic" talks to Jordan Klepper about bringing philosophy into everyday life. "Pivot" co-host Kara Swisher joins Desi to talk about her tech bro takedown "Burn Book." And Stephen J. Dubner breaks down his "Freakonomics" legacy with Ronny Chieng. -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:03.0	Tonight's guest.
0:05.0	Tonight's guest starred on sports Night and Six Feet Under.
0:21.2	Oh, I'm sorry.
0:22.4	News Radio.
0:24.8	Now he's the host of NBC's reality series.
0:29.5	I can read.
0:32.1	NBC's reality series Fear Factor.
0:34.9	Here's a little taste of that.
0:36.9	Fear Factor. I'm Joe Rogan. Welcome to Fear Factor. There's a little taste of that. Fear Factor.
0:39.3	I'm Joe Rogan. Welcome to Fear Factor.
0:41.3	The stunts you're about to see were designed and supervised by trained professionals.
0:45.3	They are extremely dangerous. Do not attempt these stunts anywhere, anytime.
0:50.3	So I should try them.
0:52.3	Please welcome Joe Rogan. Joe!
0:55.0	Come on.
0:56.0	You're on.
0:57.0	Hey, what's up?
1:02.0	What's up, dude?
1:06.0	It's very nice to see you.
1:08.0	The last time I see you, you're on the set of news radio, you're having some fun. Then I turn around and you're pouring rats on a... Well, I wasn't porn, man. I'm just hosting. You're just hosting. You're just hosting. Who are these folks that are coming out to have rats board on their heads? Regular folks who want to be on TV. Now, doesn't that make you sad? Does it? No, no. It makes me laugh. No. It doesn't make you laugh a little bit, right? It makes me laugh a lot. Yeah, it really does. Afterwards, like the one that doesn't win, because I know they get some money, right? There's a lot that don't win. Five of them don't win. There's six people every week and five people have to go home with nothing. And what are they, like, as they're leaving her, they're like, thanks for the t-shirt.
1:46.0	Like, what do they, what do they say?
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