TDS Time Machine | How Not to Celebrate MLK Day

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Show unpacks the many ways Americans have found to misunderstand and misappropriate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Leslie Jones confronts people on the streets about how they’re celebrating. Dulce Sloan reminds us our heroes aren’t perfect, they’re people. Roy Wood Jr. on the exploitation of the holiday. Vann R. Newkirk II and Trevor Noah discuss the civil rights icon’s real legacy.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:07.0	Since The Daily Show finally hired a black host, we can properly celebrate Martin Luther King Day by asking New Yorkers how they celebrate his legacy.
0:18.0	I think you'll watch him on Martin Luther King Day. Shut up! Don't interrupt me on Martin Luther King Day. That ain't cool.
0:24.6	So, let's do this.
0:27.6	Do y'all know what today is?
0:29.6	Uh, we're lost.
0:31.6	We're lost day?
0:32.6	Do you know what day it is today?
0:34.6	This is Monday.
0:36.6	What you do today? Well, today we just woke up.
0:39.3	We just checked out of our hotel.
0:40.3	Check out of our hotel.
0:41.3	We're going to go get coffee and we're going to walk around.
0:44.3	So which one of those celebrates Martin Luther King Day?
0:48.3	Well, none of what we've talked about so far.
0:50.3	2.32 pushups for Martin.
0:52.3	So this ain't reparations, but this is enough.
0:55.8	That's right.
0:56.8	Give me one hand once.
0:58.1	Yeah, that's right.
1:00.0	What's y'all doing to celebrate?
1:01.0	MLK.
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