meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Emmy Nominated Guests

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Throw on some formal wear and start rehearsing your speech, it's time to sit down with some Emmy nominees. Jason Segal joins Desi Lydic to talk Shrinking, and what Harrison Ford thought of his penis. Colman Domingo, nominated for The Four Seasons, talks to Jordan Klepper about his film Sing Sing. Lauren Greenfield and Ronny Chieng discuss her documentary series, Social Studies. Bowen Yang and Desi talk TV comedy and his comedy film The Wedding Banquet. Top Chef Tom Colicchio joins Ronny to talk food, restaurants and TV. Paul W. Downs and Michael Kosta talk Hacks and life in late night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:17.8

We are all huge fans of yours.

0:20.7

Thanks. I'm a huge fan of yours, actually. Yeah, thank you. I think what you do is of yours. Thanks.

0:21.6

I'm a huge fan of yours, actually.

0:22.6

Yeah, I think what you do is really important.

0:24.6

Oh, that's very kind.

0:25.6

True.

0:26.6

Very kind.

0:27.6

I have loved you since Freaks and Geeks.

0:29.6

Yeah, the good old days.

0:30.6

Oh my God.

0:32.6

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is still, I think,

0:35.6

one of the greatest rom-coms of all times, still holds up.

0:38.8

Thank you. Wow.

0:40.3

Yeah.

0:41.3

And nominated for an Emmy last year for season one of shrinking.

0:46.4

Yeah.

0:47.4

Now you're back at it, season two.

0:49.1

Yeah.

0:50.4

You're not just starring in this show.

0:52.1

You co-created it with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. How did that all come about? I'm really lucky. I got kind of a free ride on this one in that I got a call from Bill and Brett. They had both had an idea about a therapist going through a nervous breakdown and they got in touch with me and asked if I wanted to play the guy. Actually, the truth of the story is apparently I was a walk, and I was listening to, I know what I was listening to at the time. I was listening to Sign Sealed Delivered by Stevie Wonder. And I was like, yeah, I was walking along, kind of dancing to myself. And apparently the producer texted Bill Lawrence, just saw Jason Siegel. He seems happy. Let's do a show with him. That's a true story. I love that. Yeah, yeah, life's not fair at all. I have got to start dancing in the streets more often. I couldn't agree more. I changed my life. I have to say, if I did that, I feel like people would be like, someone needs to pay that woman to stop moving like that.

1:45.8

Yeah.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Comedy Central, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Comedy Central and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.