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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Late Night Hosts

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Get your late night fix with these interviews with after hours comedy luminaries. Former correspondent and current host of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver stops by TDS to chat with Ronny Chieng. Jimmy Kimmel joins Jon Stewart before his late night hosting debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Conan O'Brien talks to Jon about a recent visit to Cuba. Jimmy Fallon sits down to talk hosting The Tonight Show and his new collection of thank you notes. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert stands with Jon as Conan challenges them to hand-to-hand combat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:17.4

I guess tonight is a former failed correspondent at The Daily Show.

0:22.5

He's done nothing since then.

0:23.9

Please welcome Mr. John Oliver.

0:27.8

Oh, my God.

0:33.3

Thank you. Hello. Thank you.

0:43.3

Right, all right.

0:46.3

All right, we get it.

0:47.3

Enough, enough.

0:48.3

I agree with you more than I agree with them.

0:51.3

Well, well, well.

0:53.3

Well, look who's come crawling back. Yes. Where all started? I know. It's pretty weird to be back. I do not like being in that guest room at all. Oh, really? That was the one room where I worked here. You were not allowed to go in, and I don't like being in it now. It feels like I'm doing something wrong by being inside it. You never snuck in to see a guest? No, no, no, no, no, no. No. We were never allowed to really be in there because it had to be kept nice for the guest. And it never really occurred to me. One day I might be that, and I still don't feel it. So I put my bag in there and then stood in the corridor for the rest of it.

1:29.5

I don't want to be in there at all.

1:47.1

Yeah, but this place brings me memories. You were here. You are in this building. I was very much in this building. Yeah. This was the reason I came to America. And I was here for eight years. Yeah. Same. Yeah. That's why I was so happy you came on,

1:49.1

because people don't know by looking at us,

1:51.6

but we actually have very similar backgrounds, because we both joined the show.

1:53.1

I moved to America to do this show,

1:54.7

just like you.

1:55.4

And when I first joined the show,

1:57.1

you know, the Daily Show Alumni Network is so strong.

2:00.3

I asked to meet up with Mr. Oliver. Yeah, and I thought this. Mr. Oliver. And I thought, he was Mr. Oliver. I was like, there's no way this guy's going to let me meet up with him. And you were like, no, come before work. There's nothing. There's nothing I like more than talking to people who have questions about how to make field pieces.

2:17.7

Yeah.

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