4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Daily Show traces Chris Cuomo's career as a chest-thumping news bro and highlights the aftermath of his bout with COVID-19 and his ethically dubious advisory role to his brother Andrew.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:06.0 | What makes a great journalist? Curiosity? Persistence? Ignoring your parents when they tell you not to major in communications? |
0:14.0 | Or is the greatest journalist one who simply knows that he's the greatest and is willing to throw down with anyone who disagrees? |
0:22.0 | You're not better than me. You think you're better than me? That's a mistake. |
0:25.0 | This is the Daily Showography of Chris Cuomo, Epic Newsbro. |
0:35.0 | Christopher Charles Cuomo was born in Queens, New York to an immigrant family with a boundless appetite for pasta and politics. |
0:44.0 | That's my pop Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York. He spoke for years about his Italian heritage and the struggle to make it here that led to not one but two men. |
0:54.0 | Holding the highest seat in the greatest state. |
0:57.0 | The Cuomo's left their tiny villages up in the hills and came down to the tyranian sea. |
1:02.0 | But when they looked out, they didn't just see open water. They saw their future. America. |
1:08.0 | Ooh, someone's been doing their duo, Lingo. |
1:12.0 | Chris was a child of the city. He graduated from the School of Hard Knocks and got a law degree on the Mean Streets of Manhattan. |
1:21.0 | Chris could have used his family name to go into politics, but that wasn't his style. |
1:26.0 | Instead, he used his family name to go into TV news. |
1:31.0 | His old man was heartbroken when he went into journalism. |
1:35.0 | Well, sucks for you, Dad, because little Chris was going to journalism harder than any journalist had ever journalistic before. |
1:43.0 | I am here at the one and only the Grand Canyon. |
1:49.0 | This is the largest protective arena area in the world. |
1:53.0 | You can see these flames. They're up to a thousand degrees coming at us now. |
1:56.0 | It looks cooler than I do right now. Nobody. |
1:59.0 | Epic, bro. Did Woodward and Bernstein ever bungee jump off a skyscraper? |
2:04.0 | I don't think so. |
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