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🗓️ 24 June 2024
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TDS Correspondent Josh Johnson chats with writers Kat Radley and David Angelo about writing for The Daily Show as stand-up comics. They discuss what it’s like adjusting to a topical late night show compared to writing and performing for themselves onstage, as well as their approach to pitching jokes in the writer’s room and writing for different guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, |
| 0:06.4 | it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself |
| 0:12.6 | T. G. I. D. |
| 0:14.6 | Thank God. It's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things |
| 0:18.7 | that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they |
| 0:21.2 | obsessed me. The election, economics, earnings calls. |
| 0:26.0 | What are they talking about on these earnings calls? |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches and I know that I listed |
| 0:37.2 | that fourth but in importance it's probably second I know you have a lot of options as far as |
| 0:45.3 | podcast go but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean talk about innovative |
| 0:53.4 | listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:57.6 | You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to The Daily Show Ears Edition. I'm Josh Johnson |
| 1:15.9 | correspondent for The Daily Show. I'm here with Kat Radley and David Angelo, |
| 1:19.4 | writers for The Daily Show. We're also all-stam comedians, so today we're going to be talking about writing for the Daily Show. We're also all-stamp comedians, so today we're going to be talking about |
| 1:23.9 | writing for The Daily Show as stand-up comics, and let's get into it. |
| 1:28.0 | Thanks for having us, Josh. |
| 1:29.7 | Really great to be here. And thanks everyone at home for listening listening and those of you in the car eyes on the road yeah yeah |
| 1:37.2 | people in New York a car is a car is a car is what your Uber is for the person who owns it. |
| 1:44.5 | It's that thing you sit in the back of. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.0 | So I guess starting off, we all started when Trevor was here. |
| 1:50.3 | So what do you think the biggest adjustment was for each of us having done stand-up to a late night show like this? |
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