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🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Leap into the squared circle with The Daily Show's fake news coverage of the world's realest sport.
Jon Stewart unpacks the WWE hitting the stock market with help from Stephen Colbert, and reports on the 2008 presidential candidates dropping in to campaign on Monday Night Raw. Wyatt Cenac tags in wrestler Mick Foley to help explain political strategy. Ronny Chieng jumps in the ring to take on The Progressive Liberal. And Mick Foley joins John Oliver to tackle immigration.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:07.8 | Wall Street gets a kick in the NASDAX. |
0:10.8 | The World Wrestling Federation is going public on the New York Stock Exchange, |
0:15.3 | hoping to body slam the market, pile drive its competitors, |
0:18.7 | and put a sleeper hold on investors in a story that can only |
0:21.9 | be described as full of dumb metaphors. |
0:25.3 | To welcome the WWF to the big board, today's trading session ended with Stone Cold Steve Austin |
0:29.8 | slamming Alan Greenspan's head into the closing bell. |
0:33.7 | Now, Daily Show chief financial correspondent Stephen Col, has been following this story very closely. |
0:39.4 | We go now live to Wall Street for a report. |
0:42.0 | Stephen, what's the advance word on the trading floor for the wrestling public offering? |
0:47.7 | Well, John, the WWF IPO is creating quite a buzz. |
0:51.7 | Investors are looking for product branding and long-term growth. |
0:56.6 | You want more geek? |
0:58.2 | I will kick your short-term bonds so far up your withholdings. |
1:02.1 | You're gonna be picking Fannie Mae's out of your ass |
1:05.2 | for a week. |
1:07.5 | Stephen, wait, I... |
1:12.6 | Stephen, what? Is everything okay down there? |
1:14.6 | It's nothing, John. |
1:15.6 | Some of the Morgan Stanley foreign debt guys are, uh, they're trash talking. |
1:20.6 | Has this wrestling IPO really changed the mood down there on the floor? |
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