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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Zoya Akhtar On Netflix's "The Archies" | Vir Das on “Landing” & Demonstrating Love with Laughter

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Kal Penn is back guest hosting The Daily Show this week! He interviews director Zoya Akhtar to learn about her Indian film adaptation of "The Archies" for Netflix and how she infuses Indian culture into her work. Plus, International Emmy award winning comedian and actor, Vir Das, comes to the show and shares how Kal inspred him to attend college and his 33-country stand-up tour, "Mind Fool." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.8

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0:13.2

You're listening to Comedy Central. My guest tonight is a filmmaker and a screenwriter who directed and

0:26.8

co-wrote the Archie's on Netflix. Please welcome Zoya Octar. Goya Ochter. Wow. Wow.

0:45.0

It's a lot of wooing.

0:49.0

And I know why you are you are one of one of the top five if not like the top director

0:56.4

coming out of India right now which is no small feat given how much incredible

1:00.2

talent there is between Bollywood and the streaming platforms and

1:03.2

independent cinema I'm also biased and the South cinema I sort of I mean you're in

1:08.3

America so everybody views it as the whole subcontinent yeah I think well I'm biased because we've also been friends for years.

1:15.0

You've had me over to your home for dinner.

1:17.0

Do you remember that night?

1:18.0

Yes, I do. Of course I do.

1:20.0

Are we going to share that night? What do you remember about that night? I remember that my dog almost killed himself.

1:28.0

My dog attacked the Bree from your plate.

1:34.5

Yes, I did have Bree on my play.

1:37.0

Yeah, and then you had to like.

1:38.4

And he choked and then I was like my dog's gonna die, my dog's gonna die,

1:41.1

boogie's gonna die.

1:42.3

And this is that Cat pen was staring at what's going on and then

1:46.6

my assistant flipped him around and he was...

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