Month: April 2023

Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s latest attack is being roundly criticized for being beyond the pale even for her. In what’s becoming a recurring theme, the Georgia congresswoman went off the rails during a House committee meeting where she essentially implied that stepmoms are not real moms.

The exchange happened during a hearing on COVID school closures, which saw Greene attack American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for adopting her partner’s children. Via Rolling Stone:

“Are you a mother?” Greene asked. Weingarten responded that she is a “mother by marriage.” Weingarten is married to Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, and a stepmother to Kleinbaum’s children from her previous marriage. “I see,” Greene responded.

She’s “not a medical doctor, not a biological mother, and really not a teacher either,” Greene went on to say. “People like you need to admit that you’re just a political activist, not a teacher, not a mother, and not a medical doctor,” Greene added.

Greene was quickly chastised by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Ca.) who instructed Greene to respect the decorum of the chamber.

“The decorum of the attacks on the witness were unacceptable,” Garcia said. “It would be nice if we didn’t attack the witnesses, particularly making a decision about whether or not she is a mother.”

Garcia also posted a video of the encounter on Twitter where Greene was widely slammed for criticizing adoptive parents, particularly given her aggressively anti-abortion chance which hinges on the narrative that babies should be carried to term, under any circumstance, and given up for adoption.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Rolling Stone)

Kendrick Lamar‘s latest record Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was a massive hit last year. It earned the most first-day streams for a 2022 album on Apple Music. He brought the songs to life on the Big Steppers Tour, and it looks like that did well, too.

According to Hypebeast, the tour was the highest-grossing rap tour in history, generating over $100 million and selling a total of 929,000 tickets for 73 shows and earning $110.9 million. It ran through the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It featured Baby Keem and Tanna Leone as supporting acts.

Last year, the “Humble” performer also sold the most vinyl of any hip-hop artist in 2022. However, it was actually not for Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Instead, it was the 10th-anniversary reissue of Good Kid, MAAD City, his critically-acclaimed 2012 debut. It also became the first hip-hop record to spend 10 years on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

If you didn’t catch Lamar on the Big Steppers Tour, he’ll be playing a bunch of festivals this year that will definitely be worth catching. He’ll be headlining the major stages at Outside Lands alongside Foo Fighters and Odesza, Life Is Beautiful with The Killers and The 1975, and Lollapalooza next to Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Jack Harlow is less than a year removed from his last album and only a month away from his film debut. So, perhaps that makes it a perfect time for him to announce a surprise album, Jackman, just a few days before its release.

Unlike many releases, this truly does feel like a surprise; we don’t know much about the production, features, tracklist, or themes of the album — although it might be safe to assume that Jack has a chip on his shoulder about the lukewarm reception of Come Home The Kids Miss You. His last album was perhaps a little too forward-looking for fans who haven’t quite decided that they approve of him yet, giving many fans reason to write him off.

So, don’t be surprised if he goes back to the introspective, lyrically-focused vibe of his debut, That’s What They All Say — or eschews the thoughtful songs for a more accessible, party-rap style to win fans to his side. Obviously, the most fun outcome is if he doubles down on the throwback sounds of Come Home… and brings the early 2000s all the way back. We’ll find out soon enough.

Here’s everything we know about Jackman so far.

Release Date

Jackman is out 4/28 via Atlantic.

Tracklist

No tracklist has been shared. We’ll update this space when it is.

Features

Jack hasn’t teased any features but we’ll update if/when he does.

Artwork

Singles

No single has been released yet.

Tour

If Jack is going on tour, he has yet to announce the dates. However, he does have a Las Vegas residency at Resorts World’s Zouk Nightclub from March 18 to May 27.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

You’ve surely heard about and enjoyed the Jimmy Kimmel vs. Matt Damon faux-feud, but there’s also a much less palatable (and more sincere) version always simmering in the background. That would be the beef between Kimmel and Ted Cruz, who the late-night host has likened to Nickelback, among other choice labels.

The war of words also once extended to Kimmel photoshopping Cruz’s face to look like he rode a hot dog while naked, and the two enemies haven’t had enough yet. On Wednesday night, Kimmel aimed at Cruz after rehashing leaked audio (between Cruz and Fox Business host Maria Baritromo) of the much maligned Texas lawmaker discussing a shady plan to overturn the election. Kimmel, naturally, was disgusted by this and summed up his thoughts by telling Cruz to go to Cancun.

Ted then decided that the best response was to re-post a video (again) of “my kicking his ass at hoops” during a 2018 charity match. Ted’s suggestion is that Kimmel is obsessed with him: “It’s almost as if he can’t get out of his head.”

Hmm. Kimmel never claimed to be a basketball stud, and this was a charity match. Also, Kimmel generally mentions current events and controversies during his monologue, so it’s not as though he could ignore Ted being in the news, especially when it comes to the Baritromo audio. As well, Ted also made headlines due to a Senate hearing, in which a Texas resident called out Cruz‘s support of Texas’ draconian abortion law as the reason why she was denied emergency medical care.

Serious stuff, and the silly stuff still exists on top of that. Because despite all of the grave Ted Cruz-associated news out there, he’s somehow claiming to be a basketball champ. This isn’t new either. The New York Times once published a Cruz profile that revealed how his Supreme Court clerking days include him angering colleagues during basketball breaks by shouting “my bad!” while he “elbowed wildly” to beat them. Well, he does love to throw elbows, but the people are not here for basketball-stud Cruz, as these tweets reveal.

Also, yes, it’s wild that senators have so much time to tweet when the debt ceiling issue is hanging over America.

As the host of The Late Late Show, James Corden slowly but surely has become a household name. While the show’s beloved segment, “Carpool Karaoke,” helped to secure his popularity amongst the younger demographic.

However, even after racking in millions and millions of views and too many viral moments to count, when he goes on vacation with his friend Harry Styles, fame goes out the window. The host is demoted to the singer’s designated fan photographer, and Corden is positively ok with that.

During his recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM radio, the on-air talent spoke about how those humbling moments are quite necessary, in his opinion. “I think it’s quite good for me. I think anytime you can have a little bit of humbling is great,” declared Corden.

“So when someone comes up and goes — and this has happened quite a few times, and I get it,” he added. This is arguably the most desirable famous man on the planet right now. ‘Omg, can you take a photo of us’ and then they go, ‘Oh, hi,’” to finally acknowledge him. “I think it’s a positive thing in your life,” said Corden.

Earlier in the conversation, Corden shot down the host when he suggested that it could be annoying to deal with fan encounters because of Styles’ massive fame. “I didn’t find it annoying in any way because I just think he’s so special as a human,” said Corden. “That actually, you don’t have any of those feelings. There is someone who wants to embrace the world that they’re living in to the absolute best that he can. You never ever feel [annoyed].”

Watch the full clip above.

The Indiana Fever introduced Aliyah Boston, their first overall pick in the 2023 WNBA Draft, to the public and media on Monday, officially entering a new era for the franchise.

The Fever haven’t finished above .500 since 2015. They haven’t won double digit games since prior to the turn of the decade. That’s not to rub salt in the wound, rather to state the gravity of the moment as they welcome Boston in as the centerpiece of their rebuild.

Elation has surrounded every moment of the Fever’s draft process and eventual selection. Boston was all but a lock to be the first overall pick — provided she entered the draft, of course.

Head coach Christie Sides recalled a story from the college season in which she and assistant coach Jessie Miller flew to Columbia, South Carolina to meet with Boston and the Gamecocks’ coaching staff. The trip had been planned before there’d been buzz that Boston might use her COVID-19 waiver to return for another year at Carolina.

“There was a time there where she had us all in a little bit of a panic when we weren’t sure what she was gonna do,” said Sides to a laugh from Boston and all in attendance. “The whole time on my way out there, I was trying to figure out, what is my play here?”

Sides ruminated heavily on trying to strike the balance of eagerness to draft a franchise-altering player and the want to be genuine and meet on Boston’s level. She and Miller entered practice early, walking in on Boston coaching up her teammates before the first buzzer even rang out. Sides and Fever general manager Lin Dunn have repeatedly highlighted Boston’s intangibles as a a substantial reasoning for what makes her such a pivotal player and person, praising her communication on and off the court repeatedly.

After a quick hello, an exchange of pleasantries, and sitting down to watch practice, time flew by.

“Practice is over, she comes up from behind me, and so I walk up and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, ok, here we go, what is it?’ And I really just had this sense of, you know what, if she has an opportunity to stay and that’s what she wants to do [she should do that]. I just said ‘Aliyah, I really wanted to meet you and talk face to face for a second, but really I hope you’re not stressing yourself out too much, you need to do what you need to do for you and no one else.’ And I think she looked at me like I was absolutely crazy in that moment,” says Sides before flashing a grin.

They’ve talked about that conversation multiple times in the past few weeks. Sides wanted to show who she was as a person. If Boston went back for another year, was in the draft next season and the Fever had a chance to select her, Sides wanted her to feel excited about what that could be.

“That was just a great moment really early between us two when we first met,” says Sides.

As soon as Sides leaned back from the mic, Boston leaned forward, asking Fever PR if she could weigh in on what Sides had said.

She illuminated that shortly after that conversation, she called her mom reiterated what Sides had said and the genuineness within it.

“It just really stuck with me,” Boston said. “People can say, ‘Oh just come out. Why not? You know you have a lot more opportunity,’ even if staying in college could have been better for me for many different reasons. Her saying that, it made me feel that she really wanted the best for me in that space. Knowing that they had the first pick as well made me feel comfortable.”

The Fever are about to embark on a remarkably important season in their franchise history, one filled with hope, youth, and a commitment to the future.

Boston enters with a skill set that will allow her to impact winning at an incredibly high level on both ends. Sides is ecstatic about the versatility she brings, the way she can anchor their defense, and what her offensive game can look like at the pro level after years of seasoning at South Carolina.

The organization continues to make clear from top to bottom, they drafted a great player, and an even greater person, something they view as perhaps the most important angle in a holistic rejuvenation to competitiveness. They rave about her ability to galvanize teammates and be a leader, believing she can be not only a force with her play on the court but also in creating a positive culture in the locker room.

With Boston as the centerpiece of Indiana’s impending renaissance, setting the foundation with trust, mutual understanding, and a genuine approach is crucial to setting the tone in year one. Thus far, all indicators point to a great start from the Fever, and our view will be further painted as the season unfurls.

James Corden and Adele have flaunted their special friendship over the years. Earlier this week, they cried together during the final Carpool Karaoke segment. The singer even shared that her song “I Drink Wine” was inspired by a conversation she had with Corden following her divorce.

Corden appeared on The Howard Stern Show yesterday (April 26) and discussed their friendship. He explained they met in Cardiff before the album 19, Adele’s first, was a hit, and that his wife is friends with her childhood friends. Stern asked him what it was like watching her rise to stardom, and Corden said he wasn’t the least bit surprised.

“I couldn’t have been less shocked,” he said. “I couldn’t have been less shocked. That’s how I went up to her — I went up to her because she has the cover of [Bob Dylan’s] ‘Make You Feel My Love’ on that album and I’m always of the feeling of, ‘How can any cover version be better than the original because it couldn’t exist without the original.’ But I think that there’s a couple that come real, real close, like Amy Winehouse’s ‘Valerie,’ James Blake’s ‘A Case Of You,’ and Adele’s ‘Make You Feel My Love’ and it’s extraordinary.”

He continued, “What’s amazing with her is that there’s this seismic gap between the artist and her. Spend enough time with her personally, you can forget. And then she’ll just sing along to something and you’re like, ‘Oh my god.’ I think she is a generational talent. I couldn’t be less shocked.”

Watch the clip above.

The shock of the 2023 NBA postseason occurred on Wednesday night when the Miami Heat beat the Milwaukee Bucks in overtime, 128-126. With the loss, Milwaukee, the 1-seed in the Eastern Conference, was officially eliminated from the playoffs in its own building, with Miami securing a 4-1 series win to punch its ticket to the conference semifinals.

This marks the second year in a row that the Bucks won’t win a championship, as the team was eliminated in the conference semis in seven games by Boston last year. After the game, Giannis Antetokounmpo was asked by Eric Nehm of The Athletic if this season was a failure, which led to Milwaukee’s MVP candidate giving a lengthy, passionate answer for why he doesn’t believe that’s the case.

Antetokounmpo brought up that the same reporter asked him last year if the Bucks season is a failure, and spun the question around before going into a passionate speech about how this year went in Milwaukee.

“Do you get a promotion every year in your job?” Antetokounmpo asked. “No, right? So every year you work, it’s a failure, yes or no? No. Every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal, which is to get a promotion, to be able to take care of your family, provide a house for them, or take care of your parents, you work towards a goal. It’s not a failure, it’s step towards success.”

After stressing that he did not want to make his answer personal, Antetokounmpo brought up Michael Jordan and how he only won six championships in 15 years, which Nehm and himself agreed wasn’t evidence that Jordan was a failure. This, in Antetokounmpo’s eyes, is proof that “there’s no failure in sports.”

“There’s good days, bad days, some days you’re able to be successful, some days you’re not, some days it’s your turn, some days it’s not your turn, and that what sport’s about,” Antetokounmpo continued. “You don’t always win, sometimes other people’s gonna win. And this year, somebody else’s gonna win. We’re gonna come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to play better, not have a 10-day stretch with playing bad basketball. And hopefully we can win a championship, so 50 years from 1971 — 2021 — that we didn’t win a championship, it was 50 years of failure? No it was not, it was steps to it, and we’re able to win one, hopefully we can win another one.”

Antetokounmpo then apologized to Nehm and said he didn’t want to make this personal, but explained that he was not in the right headspace to properly answer the question when it was asked last year.

Tucker Carlson has finally broken his silence after being abruptly fired from Fox News on Monday. While the veteran TV personality didn’t specifically address his departure, or the potentially many reasons for it, he did go on a bizarre rant about the state of the media as if he wasn’t just doing his normal ranting last Friday night.

“You notice when you take a little time off how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,” Carlson said in the video that was shared just 48 hours after he was fired. “They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years, we won’t even remember that we have them. Trust me as someone who’s participated.”

Carlson also seemed to be teasing his next venture.

“Where can you still find Americans saying true things?” he said. “There aren’t many places left, but there are some. And that’s enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.”

After posting the video on Twitter, Carlson was roundly mocked for having the nerve to call the media stupid after infamously airing segments on how M&Ms aren’t sexy anymore and testicle tanning. “Unbelievably stupid debates” is practically his middle name.

“Guy who made a documentary about testicle tanning has a lot of nerve complaining about ‘unbelievably stupid’ media stories, not to mention how hilarious it is to hear him complain about ‘liars,’” tweeted Sarah Rumpf.

“‘The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,’ says the guy who whined on primetime about how the Green M&M was no longer sexy,” Justin Baragona wrote.

You can see more reactions to Tucker Carlson’s video below:

(Via Tucker Carlson on Twitter)

The opportunity to permanently host The Daily Show has been a realistic possibility for Roy Wood Jr., Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic (this week’s host), and several other contenders since it was announced that the show would turn to a long list of guest hosts following the wrap of Trevor Noah’s impactful run last year. Recently, CEO and President of Paramount Media Networks Chris McCarthy indicated that he has a “running shortlist,” though it’s anyone’s guess who is on it. Honestly, it’s the kind of slow burn process that might break a brain if you were on the inside, but from our most recent conversation (and previous ones), Wood is clearly and calmly looking at the whole board.

After our lengthy talk over Zoom, while he built a remote set for some Daily Show web content, it’s clear that Wood proved something to himself when he hosted, even if it wasn’t the full measure of what Roy Wood’s Daily Show would be (an impossibility, due to the abbreviated timeline). He’s excited by the possibility of being what he calls a “news sommelier,” guiding the audience through the good and bad while adding useful and unique context. He says he couldn’t say no to the opportunity to tell stories through a Black perspective that’s missing from late-night (historically, but especially in a post-Desus & Mero, Ziwe, and Sam Jay landscape), and he’s down to explore and satirize how news is disseminated. Wood is aware of the success of the guest host experiment (his stint, with its Jon Stewart cameo and ex-president arraignment included) and somewhat intrigued by the idea of a world where correspondents might be asked to carry more creative weight on a show where the guest hosts to continue. But that’s not what he really wants. He wants to host The Daily Show, but, and this is me summarizing: he can’t wait forever.

In our conversation, we discuss Wood’s thought process around The Daily Show and when it’s time to walk away from the table, the guest hosting experiment, the responsibility of hosting the show, and late-night term limits. This before discussing his approach to his latest high-profile gig: hosting The White House Correspondents Dinner, an event where, as he says, he’s focused on trying to figure out what he wants to say about where we are as a society in addition to being funny. And also maybe not setting in motion events that’ll get him haunted by Mitch McConnell.

I’ve been watching all the guest host shows, but you’re the only one where I used the free trial on one of those streaming things on TV to see it live. I wasted one of my emails from my spreadsheet for you.

(Laughs) Oh, shit. You burned your fucking email doc.

There’s going to be a nationally broadcast Mets game in May that I’m going to miss because I was like, “No, I gotta use my free trial to watch Roy.” But it was a good week.

(Laughs) Man, that was fun, bro. That shit was fun. The Trump shit helped. But for sure, in terms of having nerves about doing the job and can I do this, I feel like I’ve at least answered that for myself. If not everyone else. I feel like a lot of it is out of my control in terms of who they choose. But if they don’t choose me, it won’t be because I can’t do the job. So I worry about the shit I can control, man. That’s really kind of where I laid my focus. But thanks, bro, because that shit was fun.

Is that an example of the show that you would do, or is it not the full idea of what your show would be if you had it just because of the abbreviated timeframe with everything and the Trump news breaking?

No, I don’t think anything that anyone is doing right now in the guest host capacity is the totality of what they would do creatively. I liken it to a basketball tryout or the NFL combine. We need to know the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the show are having some degree of humor, being able to be compassionate, and being able to come through the camera. Can you read the teleprompter? Basic stuff like that. Once you get past that, then I think you can get into answering the bigger questions about, creatively, what would you want to do? Because we can’t explore the different creative avenues that a host would want to do until you know they can do the basics. There’s no point in discussing what kind of offense you want to run until we know that you can dribble and pass.

Being a correspondent is such a different thing. God damn, that was the biggest thing I learned. It’s just how much different correspondents are from hosts. Like, you know it, but until you’re asked to play a different position on the team, that’s when you realize it. Because as a correspondent, I get to come in and just be silly, but as a host, I have to be funny. But you also have to be, I believe, touching or have a warmth to you. So I think that part of it, that was a new feeling, because I feel like I haven’t had to be like that since I did morning radio, bro. Even with morning radio, it was only on days when there was big news.

I was doing morning radio when the Trayvon Martin incident first happened in Orlando. So being on air and taking calls at what was such a visceral moment for society, where normally you’re supposed to just fucking be funny for four hours in morning radio, but then on this day, nah, you don’t get to be funny. You have to also have some emotion. So I’d say that’s probably the biggest difference between the two roles. When the Tennessee Three happened, we had already had the show kind of set. The jokes were about the possible expulsion, and then it turned into an actual expulsion. So now it’s like, “Oh, fuck. Okay. Maybe this isn’t funny yet. Maybe we have to wait to see how all the facts start happening.”

It probably goes without saying, but do you feel a greater sense of responsibility with that, and was that anticipated, or more than you expected?

You know there’s a responsibility, but you don’t realize until you actually sit down in the chair and go, “Oh, okay.” We’re also kind of guiding people through the news, and in some cases, it’s bad news. Sometimes it’s good news. I think the first night, I jokingly called myself Uncle Roy, just kind of on some, “That’s what your uncle does. Your uncle helps you, the good uncle. The good uncles help you through tragedies and problems and issues in the world.” It was a blessing to be able to do that.

Do you feel if you had that role permanently, that the weight of all of that would wear you down after a time?

I don’t think the job of Daily Show host is anything anyone should be doing more than, I don’t know, five to seven years, if that. It’s like the president. Two terms. There should be term limits on late-night hosts. I would argue that part of why John Oliver is so energetic is because he’s smart enough to take those times to rest and have a couple of months just away. There will be plenty of chaos when we return.

If they go with somebody else, do you envision yourself sticking around for a while, or are you starting to look for something else at that point?

I think it depends on who they choose to host. I think my staying at The Daily Show, if I’m not a host, starts and ends with whether or not that host wants me there as a correspondent. Then, secondly, I think I’ve earned the right to at least look at the market and see if there’s something else that I want to do above and beyond The Daily Show, because if I’m not serious about being a correspondent through the election, as a correspondent I have the responsibility to get out the way so that they can replace me as quickly as possible so that new correspondent can learn the ropes before 2024. To me, that’s the big thing.

It’s not fair to the new correspondent to be broken in the middle of a presidential primary. The audience needs time to warm up to these new faces and to the new tone of the show. I think that’s the thing that when I talk about honoring the show and what the show’s mission is, I think it’s that, and that’s not just about me going and hosting something somewhere else. This could be also scripted stuff. I was blessed enough last year. I sold two scripts. One, I was EP on, and the other I was attached to star. Neither one of them went the distance, but to even be in that space, that’s something worth considering.

I think that myself and the other correspondents, as late night starts this new metamorphosis… late night is no different than TV as a whole. It’s contracting, and when it comes back out of this cocoon and expands again, it has to expand into something different. It’s not going to be a repeat of what it has been. So where I fit in that as a co-star or a sidekick, that’s not completely for me to answer. There are constructs under which I would consider it (staying), but for lack of a lack of a better phrase, if I have an opportunity to drive a car, then it has to be the right situation if I still want to ride shotgun somewhere else. You know? We’ll look at that when the time comes, man, but everything’s on the table for me right now.

You have a really refreshing, really clear view of things when we talk about this stuff that I really appreciate. You’re doing what anybody would do. They would evaluate their options. It sounds like you’ve got a plan waiting for a plan at least to kind of reveal itself.

Yeah, or the writer’s strike could hit and it could change Paramount’s decision schedule. When they’re going to choose a host is as important as what happens if myself or some other correspondent gets an opportunity that comes before Paramount is ready to choose.

Have there been any indications about a timeline for that?

No. All they told us is that we’re doing guest hosting through June. That’s the only thing I’ve heard. There was an op-ed where they were hypothesizing guest hosts in a permanent sense and letting that be the new norm. So any and everything could be on the table. I just think that the way entertainment is going right now, if you have an opportunity to have a project that you can get off the ground and work that project at a time where everything is contracting, I think it is a very, very dangerous gamble to pass that up to wait on something else.

Yeah. And even if it’s the dream job, the dream job is the job that has security.

I’ve lost enough money at the casino to now know when it’s time to leave the table. I’ve been very blessed the last seven years, and whatever opportunity I get first that lets me leave the table, I’m leaving the table. I’m not splitting aces. I’m not doubling down. I’m not going to risk it all. “Let it ride! One more roll!” Nope. (Laughs) I got a kid to feed, man. I can’t sit here and wait around for corporate politics. Because that’s what a lot of this is, man. It’s not even creative. Our ratings are up. So yeah, it’s probably good to just keep having guest hosts.

It’s cheaper too, I imagine.

Yeah, I’m sure it’s way cheaper. And I have a lot of respect for the brother that wrote the op-ed, and I don’t say this in some challenging way, I just think that if The Daily Show is to parody the news, the news gives you the same faces every night because there is a trust that comes with that. I think that once people trust a host and know where the host is coming from, it gives the host so many new places to go with their humor. Honestly, I would’ve argued that every guest host should have gotten two weeks in the chair, just because you need a week to get used to it. The audience needs a week to get used to you. Then, let the second week be the money. That would’ve really been cool.

It would’ve really been cool to see how Wanda Sykes did, because D.L. Hughley’s first day was the day that the Tyree Nichols tape was released in Memphis. If we had done back-to-back weeks, that would’ve been a Wanda Sykes week. It would’ve been interesting to hear Wanda’s commentary and stuff like that. Even with the Trump arraignment, that came in after rehearsal on Thursday for John Leguizamo. As much as Leguizamo as a native New Yorker and a Latino, and as much as Trump’s well-documented, “Lock them up, kids in cages” strategies with immigrants, that would’ve been an interesting perspective to have as well. I think that, not just The Daily Show, I think that new political satire works best when the audience is getting it from someone they have a relationship with, and it takes time to build a relationship.

I’m team host. (Laughs) I get why doing the guest host thing could be cheaper in perpetuity, and could be better ratings in perpetuity, but sooner or later, you’re going to catch the wrong host during the wrong tragedy. And it’s going to be weird.

Switching gears, with the White House Correspondents Dinner, I know you’ve interviewed Obama. I know you interviewed Biden.

I got one question with Biden. That wasn’t a whole interview. I got half a question, but yes, I have talked to Biden.

Do you feel nerves there, or are you used to it at this point?

There’s nerves. I’m more trying to figure out exactly what it is I want to say to the bigger whole of where we are as a society. I’m more concerned with that than I am joke to joke. I don’t care if someone doesn’t like a joke I make. I’m indifferent on that. As a comedian, your job is to point out hypocrisy, and some people don’t like that pointed out, so there should be dissenters. Has there ever been a comedian that did the Correspondents Dinner that was like universally loved by all? I’d say maybe Cedric the Entertainer. Then, also, you could do it one way, and then after the fact, the perception of it changes.

Seth Myers was great until Trump got elected. Now, “Seth Myers is bad.” “Stephen Colbert was terrible.” Until you really look back at the Bush Administration’s record, and now you go, “Stephen Colbert, brilliant.” I don’t think, as a comedian, I can be attached to, “Did you do good or did you do bad? Did you bomb” or whatever. I just need jokes that call out the BS in this world, and just figure out a way to make it fun. Above all, my job is to be funny, and if you can sneak in a little bit of creative activism and stuff like that, then so be it.

The biggest issue with the Correspondents Dinner is that the news keeps changing. Every time I open my mouth, Clarence Thomas is taking another bribe or some other thing, there’s another shooting. Is Don Lemon back on the air again? [Edit note: the news cycle proved Roy’s point this week] I don’t know. It’s always something, bro.

I think you can definitely write the Clarence Thomas material in pen because he ain’t going anywhere. It’s not like he’s actually going to face consequences.

Yeah, exactly. There’ll be no consequences.

Of course not. I love people getting bent out of shape thinking that there will be. I want to live in the world that they envision, but yeah, no, unfortunately not.

We are in the land of no shame and no consequence. That’s the land we live in.

Do you have any specific places you don’t want to go to in terms of how far you push into certain people? The Biden stuff, obviously there’s Biden age jokes, and then there’s Biden dementia jokes that people make. How far do you go on something like that?

I don’t know. I don’t know. I think everything’s on the table except for Mitch McConnell because he’s in the hospital.

Is he still?

I need to double-check, but for now, Mitch McConnell is safe. If he gets out of the hospital, we’ll check his vitals before I go on stage. You don’t want to be the guy that does the joke that stresses out Mitch McConnell. It’s one thing to do a joke that gets Trump elected, but you don’t want the passing of Mitch McConnell because of stress created from a joke on your hands. That’s not a ghost I want visiting me. So Mitch McConnell’s off the table for now, but my humor has never been, as far as I’ve tried to make it, anti any group.

No. You’re not mean-spirited at all.

But I’m anti-politicians who impede political progress. For that reason, Democrats are on the chopping block too.

I was going to say, “Oh, that’s pretty much all of them.”

Yeah. That’s pretty much all of them. If you got Tim Scott proposing a police reform deal that Democrats filibuster, I need to know why. When y’all promised us some degree, but it’s a room full of people who all want credit instead of just wanting progress. Everybody wants credit.

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