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Hello and welcome to the Precap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next.

I'm Scott Hirkman, a writer at the show, and I'm joined today by your host this week, Mr. Jordan Kleber.

Hello, everybody. Happy to pre-cap for you.

Yeah, I'm very excited to be here.

Scott, you've been here for a while. I've worked at the show

almost 10 years. People don't know that by my face usually. You look very young. They think

I'm a PA. Yeah, you look like a PA. Yes. You have the air of somebody without authority or status.

Exactly. That's how I look at myself every day when I walk into this building. But I was actually, PA, when you started at The Daily Show, which was super exciting. I remember your first couple months, very vividly. I've always wanted to ask you this, and I never have, and now I finally have the courage to because I'm allowed to speak. Because there's cameras on us? Because there's cameras on us, yeah. Usually you won't talk to me when we run into each other in the hallways, and that's sort of by design, contractually, I believe.

Yeah, you're too. Because there's cameras on us? Because there's cameras on us. Yeah. Usually you won't talk to me when we run into each other in the hallways, and that's

sort of by design contractually, I believe. Yeah, you're too tall for me also. I'm scared. I'm scared. My neck doesn't go that high. You can tell that you were brought on in the first John era because of your height. Yes, yes. Jewish and height. they're like this person is perfect to be a VA at the daily show. But my first year, when it was your first year also, I feel like every chat you did was you being mangled or physically harmed in insane ways. And as a PA, I didn't know what was going to be on the show. And it'd be like, oh, Jordan Kleber is coming down to the the studio and you would have like a waffle iron burn on your face or like green all over you.

Did you feel like they were just trying to injure you?

It's so interesting you bring that up because I don't, I think I blocked out most of that partially because it somehow affected who I am as a person, that they were just like, this is a piece of meat that we can make look ugly and strange. So let's do exactly that. And at the time, I believe Jason Jones was like, I don't want to do these pieces. Give it to the new kid. I was so grateful. Still am very grateful that I had the opportunity to be on the show. But I was sort of a blank canvas.

Again, a blank canvas, I think, with the bare minimum amount of respect.

So if the joke was, waffled iron to the face, let's paint this weird, gangly person,

waffle iron on the face, and then put them on camera.

And that I do think is always a weapon of

comedy is, is a lack of conventional attractiveness. I think we're too harshly yourself.

Well, you know, I feel confident enough to say that, but my gangly weirdness was utilized by the

great writers at the show. I like your, so in your head, it was, I already look weird.

Please make me weirder so that it's funny.

At some point, putting a waffle iron and a bunch of feathers on me.

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