TDS Time Machine | Pride Month
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Salute Pride Month with a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of pride, progress and corporate promotional synergy.
Desi Lydic recaps the history of the pride movement from its beginnings. Jon Stewart reports on early victories in the marriage equality movement. Steve Carell boldly goes to the Gaylaxicon 2000 convention to discover the links between pride and sci-fi nerds. Ed Helms travels to Canada to meet a lone straight pride warrior. Josh Gad reports from the field on New York's gay marriage legalization. Trevor Noah celebrates recent progress in the movement but warns about workplace discrimination. Jaboukie Young-White joins the Pittsburgh Pride Parade. Dulcé Sloan connects the dots on corporate pride participation, and Ronny Chieng enlists help from Grace Kuhlenschmidt to talk disappointing pride backlash.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:12.5 | Happy Pride Month, everyone, or as it's called at Mike Pence's house, June. |
| 0:17.7 | Pride is a celebration of queerness, acceptance, and club remixes you can actually dance to. |
| 0:22.6 | And today, I'm here at Rupal's private pool to tell you how Pride Month came to be, |
| 0:27.6 | because just like all queer people, June has a coming out story of its own. |
| 0:32.6 | You could say Pride's roots go back to the 60s with Philly's Reminder Day pickets. |
| 0:36.6 | Reminder Day was like the precursor to what Pride is now in the same way that Madonna was the precursor to Lady Gaga. |
| 0:43.3 | And if you don't get that reference, you should probably stop watching now because this is a Pride segment and you're a terrible ally. |
| 0:49.3 | The 60s also saw protests all over America, like the Black Cat Tavern Riot in LA and a protest at the |
| 0:55.0 | White House demanding equal employment opportunities for gay people. |
| 0:58.8 | That's right, it used to be legal to fire people just for being gay, which makes no sense. |
| 1:03.9 | Who you have sex with should have no bearing on whether you get to keep your job, unless you |
| 1:07.8 | do it on the copy machine. |
| 1:09.0 | Well known fact, that is how most paper jams get started. |
| 1:12.6 | I learned the hard way. |
| 1:14.6 | But then, of course, came Stonewall in 69, when police raided a gay bar in New York |
| 1:19.6 | City called the Stonewall Inn, and the queer community fought back. |
| 1:23.6 | It was such a significant moment in America's gay rights movement that to this day, that |
| 1:28.1 | whole block is now a historic site visited by people from all over the world. |
| 1:32.4 | The only way that corner of Christopher Street would attract more gay people is if Brittany |
| 1:36.0 | had a residency there. |
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