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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Filmmakers Pt. 2

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What says summer movies more than a sequel?! Here's part two of The Daily Show's interviews with filmmakers. JJ Abrams joins Jon Stewart to talk his personal blockbuster, Super 8. Spike Lee sits down with Trevor Noah to discuss the wild true story BlacKkKlansman. Ben Affleck tells Jon to Argo f*ck himself. Ava DuVernay digs into the real person behind the legend of Martin Luthor King for her film Selma. Judd Apatow talks taking comedy seriously with Jon for Funny People. Ryan Coogler and Trevor talk legacy and family for his movie Creed. Kathryn Bigelow visits to talk truth, tragedy and modern relevance in her film Detroit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating on your local takeaway,

0:06.2

the setting on your razor, and whether the party actually is fancy dress.

0:11.1

The other thing you should check is your Experian credit report, especially if you're looking to borrow money.

0:17.2

It lets you understand what lenders see so you can increase your chances of getting the best deals.

0:22.8

It's dead easy to check it and completely free.

0:26.6

See it in seconds.

0:27.9

Download the Experian app today.

0:30.6

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:36.5

You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome JJ Abrams! Thank you for joining us.

0:59.0

Thank you.

1:00.0

Thank you.

1:01.0

Congratulations.

1:02.0

The number one film, not just in this nation, this great nation of ours,

1:07.0

but in the entire of the Americas as well as I'm gonna go with

1:12.7

Indonesia and parts of Brazil thank you very much it's very exciting thank you

1:18.9

thank you very much is it difficult you know we do this show every day and

1:23.0

some days it can suck but when it does we come back in the next day and we do it again.

1:30.3

A film, you invested, how much time did you put into making just this film Super 8?

1:35.3

The movie was, I took about a year or so from the idea to actually start shooting, and then we started shooting last September, so it was a very quick... That is for filmmaking. That's awfully quick. It was a very quick production and post-production schedule, insanely tight post-production schedule. But even within that, how difficult is it to lay something like that out and wait for that one weekend? What do you do on that one weekend when all this effort, all this creative energy, all this writing goes into the opening. Yeah, you're a nervous wreck because the idea that it's actually out there. It's a weird thing, you know, in post-production, it's like eight people. It's the editors, it's like the assistant editors. And they're all just like working together for months in this cave. And then in an instant, it's just out there. you're meeting strangers who are like, you know that scene where you're like, how do you know? Like it's weird, the idea that's suddenly not just the eight of you, you know? Have you thought about not being in a cave? Because, and again, I don't know, I don't know Hollywood and I don't know how things work out there, but a man of your, you could do this from, let's say, a grotto. Not a cave. Next time I'm going to try not editing in a cave. I think that would be the smart idea. That would be the choice there. Do people feel that they can speak to you like that? Do they, like, people just come up to you on the street and be like, that one scene. Yeah. I didn't care for it. Like that kind of... Uh, dad?

2:34.5

No. Like, people will just come up to you on the street and be like, that one scene. Yeah. I didn't care for it.

2:51.2

Like, that kind of...

2:52.4

Dad?

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