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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

This Week's Top Stories - Tragedy on Set, "Facebook Papers" Revelations & More

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots a cinematographer to death, Facebook is under fire for rewarding harmful content, and a man lives in an airport for three months.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:10.6

People all over the globe were sharing a story that was not only shocking, but also heartbreaking.

0:16.2

There was shock and disbelief tonight after actor Alec Baldwin was involved in a fatal and

0:22.2

apparent accidental shooting of a woman on a new Mexico movie set.

0:26.2

Alec Baldwin seen in Anguish Thursday after firing a prop gun on the set of Rust, an independent

0:31.8

Western, killing cinematographer Helena Hutchins and injuring director Joel Susa.

0:37.0

According to a search warrant released late Friday night, another crew member grabbed a prop

0:41.2

gun off a cart, handed it to Baldwin and yelled,

0:44.0

Cold Gun, apparently unaware it was loaded with live rounds.

0:47.9

A safety bulletin for the industry says live ammunition is never to be used, except for

0:53.0

the very rare occasion which did not appear to be the case for the movie rust.

0:57.7

So if indeed it was a live round, where did that live round come from?

1:01.8

How did it get into the gun?

1:03.2

Now the nation is asking, how could something like this happen?

1:07.4

Today investigators are trying to determine how in the world a prop gun, which is supposed

1:11.5

to be loaded with blanks, killed one person and injured another.

1:16.0

Okay, maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't get this.

1:19.3

Like why do they need to use real guns to make a fake thing?

1:25.3

Because Hollywood movies love using the fake version of real things for everything, except

1:29.5

guns.

1:30.5

Like in Hollywood they've got fake tigers, they've got fake houses, they've got fake diversity

1:35.4

and inclusion initiatives, but then when it comes to deadly weapons suddenly they're

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