The Each day Present has set its election evening plans.
Comedy Central’s late evening present will air a stay particular on Nov. 5, with Jon Stewart internet hosting and the Each day Present information group — Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic — offering updates and evaluation on the presidential election, in addition to “tips about surviving the post-election breakdown of society,” because the present places it.
The particular will run for an hour, twice the present’s regular size — with a title that’s many instances the traditional size. The particular’s official identify is (deep breath) The Each day Present Presents a Reside Election Night time Particular With Jon Stewart: Indecision 2024: Nothing We Can Do About It Now. Along with airing on Comedy Central, the particular will simulcast on MTV, Paramount Community, TV Land, CMT, Pop and Emblem.
The election evening particular would be the end result of The Each day Present’s protection of the 2024 marketing campaign, together with quite a few discipline items and per week of episodes filmed in Chicago throughout the Democratic Nationwide Conference (the present scrapped plans to be in Milwaukee for July’s Republican Conference after an try on nominee Donald Trump’s life).
Supervising producer Elise Terrell advised The Hollywood Reporter earlier than the DNC that the shake-up within the marketing campaign, with Vice President Kamala Harris changing Joe Biden on the prime of the Democratic ticket, had been invigorating for the present and its writers. “We have been like, ‘All proper, we all know the jokes.’ We all know what we’re going after, and naturally we’ll all the time provide you with new angles. However that is simply such a wealth of latest data and new reactions and new assaults which are enjoyable for us to cowl. … Having the ability to sort out the entire totally different angles which were thrown our approach has been actually, actually enjoyable.”
Jen Flanz is the showrunner of The Each day Present and govt produces with Stewart and James “Child Doll” Dixon.
Jon Stewart returned to internet hosting The Each day Present on Monday evening, and he instantly dove into the doable “October surprises” that would nonetheless impression the ultimate weeks of the presidential election marketing campaign.
Stewart started the phase by briefly wanting over previous October surprises, together with the notorious Entry Hollywood tape, in addition to the media working by means of a choice of latest pure disasters and wars that may turn out to be the dreaded black swan occasion within the waning days of the marketing campaign.
“Why are October surprises at all times so shitty? Why can we by no means get October shock that brings our nation collectively?” Stewart joked, including that he hoped that web stars Pesto, absolutely the unit of a child penguin, and Moo Deng, the impish child pygmy hippo, might begin courting.
Stewart that expanded the purpose about October surprises, by suggesting that they invariably favor Republicans, who capitalize on loss of life and distress to attain election factors. “If monkeypox runs amok, I don’t see how we lose!” Stewart mentioned mockingly. “What does it truly say a few celebration {that a} battle, a strike, and a pure catastrophe work of their favor? Sir, the election’s shut, but when we may simply get the inhabitants shell-shocked and determined, we are able to do it.”
Turning his consideration to latest occasions, Stewart mentioned an October shock for him was seeing Elon Musk, uncovered stomach and all, at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “[Musk’s] October shock is he’s come out MAGA.”
“Now, you may suppose one of many world’s richest males controlling one of many world’s most influential platforms could possibly be a recipe for what some might take into account election interference,” Stewart mentioned, earlier than joking to the viewers, “You silly, silly individuals.”
Stewart referred to as again to the 2016 and 2020 election, when Trump vociferously accused Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg of election interference and identified the brazen double normal now that Musk, the proprietor of the embattled X platform, has come out in assist for the previous president. The phase dived deeper into Trump’s repeated threats to punish and imprison individuals who he felt had been interfering within the election towards him, together with the workforce behind the biopic The Apprentice.
“Trump has threatened virtually all of them with both imprisonment, lawsuits, or censoring, which is why this one part of this weekend’s rally in Pennsylvania was so putting, when Elon Musk was discussing why he helps Donald Trump,” Stewart mentioned, coming to the principle thrust of the phase.
A clip of Musk’s speech from the Trump rally was then performed: “The opposite aspect needs to remove your freedom of speech. You should have free speech with a view to have democracy. That’s why it’s the First Modification.”
Stewart shot again: “Elon, had been you not watching the remainder of the present? A film Trump doesn’t like goes to get sued. A tech mogul he doesn’t like, he needs to place in jail. It’s not free speech if solely Trump’s admirers get to do it with out consequence. That’s simply not the way it works. It doesn’t go that approach. I don’t see how his assist of free speech is “expose the stomach” worthy. I simply don’t.”
One other clip of Musk’s speech was then performed: “However a minimum of the Structure stays intact and is there to make sure that we’ve the First Modification. The Second Modification is there to make sure that we’ve the First Modification.”
A clearly riled Stewart went for the jugular: Weapons don’t defend our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the ruled, laid out by means of the Structure. It’s not based mostly on the specter of violence. It’s based mostly on elections, organizing referendums, a judicial system. Our social contract affords many, many avenues to treatment these points and permits sides to be heard and adjudicated. Weapons, from what I can inform, appear to principally defend the speech of the individuals holding the gun. It’s a device of intimidation…”
Met with rapturous applause, Stewart hushed the viewers as he wasn’t carried out.
“It’s a device of intimidation and one which I feel is definitely being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked. As a result of some individuals in your crowd thought they may have been shadow-banned by Fb. I imply, for God’s sakes, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania. The entire motive you’re there’s as a result of some fucking asshole with an AR-15 tried to completely litigate his imaginative and prescient of this nation’s free speech,” Stewart mentioned, referring to the July 13 assassination try on Trump. “That’s why you’re there. The entire level of a society is weapons don’t determine it. I would like at this second to not commerce in a authorities that gives me many treatments for my issues, reliable or illegitimate, for a scenario the place my rights are decided by what number of militia members agree with me.”
Softening his voice, Stewart concluded by addressing Musk straight. “The nation ain’t good, and there’s quite a lot of points we don’t agree on: selection, immigration, shrinkflation of snack chips, the unholy marriage of penguins and hippos. However, truthfully, dude, a rustic that may adjudicate these difficult points by means of a generally irritating, overly bureaucratic constitutional system of checks and balances and peaceable switch of energy is the one type of nation that I need the kids of Pesto and Moo Deng to develop up in.”
Hasan Minhaj is wanting again on the gig that just about was.
In an interview with Esquire revealed Wednesday, the comic mirrored on as soon as being the front-runner to succeed Trevor Noah because the host of The Every day Present. However after The New Yorker revealed a profile final 12 months alleging that Minhaj embellished and made up his onstage anecdotes for his comedy, the provide for the gig was taken away. Jon Stewart went on to switch Noah, showing on the present as soon as per week.
“We had been in talks, and I had the gig, and we had been just about good to go,” he instructed Esquire. After the story was revealed, Minhaj was referred to as and instructed the job was not his.
“It went away,” he mentioned. “That’s a part of showbiz.”
Along with shedding the internet hosting job, public scrutiny additionally adopted Minhaj, explaining that the “most painful factor” was the way it impacted his household.
“Essentially the most painful factor is my spouse and my dad and mom,” he mentioned. “To see them harm, to see them have interaction with ‘So I’m studying on the web …’ — that’s so painful. I’m the eldest. I really feel actually, actually unhappy that I let my dad and mom down.
“I’m very fortunate that they bought to see many stunning highs of my profession. Watching them expertise a painful second, an embarrassing second in your profession, I want I didn’t put them by way of that. That’s the robust half,” he added.
After the article’s publication and the general public dialog surrounding it, Minhaj launched a 20-minute video through which he supplied context to the tales labeled as false, together with being rejected for promenade due to racism, his run-ins with undercover regulation enforcement surveilling the Muslim group in his hometown and an anthrax scare at house.
“There have been omissions and factual errors in The New Yorker article that misrepresented my life story, so I needed to offer individuals the context and supplies I supplied The New Yorker with full transparency,” Minhaj mentioned in a press release to The Hollywood Reporter on the time.
“With all the pieces that’s taking place on the earth, I’m conscious even speaking about this now feels so trivial,” Minhaj mentioned within the video. “However being accused of ‘faking racism’ just isn’t trivial. It’s very critical, and it calls for an evidence.”
He continued, “To everybody who learn that article. I wish to reply the most important query that’s in all probability in your thoughts: Is Hasan Minhaj secretly a psycho? Beneath all that pomade, is Hasan Minhaj only a con artist who makes use of faux racism and Islamophobia to advance his profession? As a result of after studying that article, I might additionally assume that.”
“Midway by way of the interview … I used to be saying, you place this right here and do this. I may see the journalist was not ,” he instructed Esquire concerning the interview. “I bear in mind considering, ‘Oh, this may not be nice.’”
After the story and the following backlash, Minhaj was reached out to and spoke with different comic buddies, together with Ramy Youssef and Mike Birbiglia, who in THR’s Comedy Roundtable defended Minhaj. “I like Hasan, and I feel the intent of that author stays very nebulous in why they’d write that. It’s very complicated to me,” Birbiglia mentioned.
Minhaj additionally spoke with John Mulaney and Jon Stewart, recalling Stewart telling him, “Why the fuck are they doing this? And who does this profit?” Stewart inspired him to make use of the expertise to make one thing humorous saying, “That is nice for you.”
“When Jon instructed me that, I felt actually seen,” Minhaj mentioned, noting he went on to make mild of the scenario in his Off With His Head stand-up.
Since then, Minhaj has saved busy, launching an interview present on YouTube, Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know, and starring in It Ends With Us. The comedy set he’s been touring will likely be launched on Netflix in October as a stand-up particular, Off With His Head.
“I’ve already written my subsequent stand-up present,” he teased. “It entails the stage and one other comic in an fascinating method. A line producer checked out it and mentioned, ‘I don’t wish to price range this, however I’m excited.’ I’ve felt this earlier than and it’s thrilling as a result of it feels new and peculiar.”
The Every day Present canceled its plans to movie from Milwaukee in the course of the Republican Nationwide Conference this week following the tried assassination of Trump on Saturday. This system won’t air on Monday, and return Tuesday from New York Metropolis.
“The Every day Present won’t broadcast Monday (tomorrow) however we’ll be again up Tuesday via Thursday from our NYC studio,” the sequence introduced on social media. “Our apologies for the inconvenience, however as a consequence of logistical points and the evolving state of affairs in Milwaukee, we have to reschedule our occasions on the bottom in Wisconsin and can look to make these up within the coming weeks.”
Dialogue of safety on the RNC arose this weekend following the assassination try in opposition to the presumptive nominee at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump’s marketing campaign mentioned after the occasion he was doing “tremendous,” and he later introduced he would nonetheless journey to Milwaukee and converse on the conference, which begins Monday.
The Every day Present had been set for on-the-ground protection of the conference, and was going to movie its every day installments on the Marcus Performing Arts Middle in Milwaukee with Jon Stewart and the information staff sharing internet hosting duties. Stewart is scheduled to host this week’s Thursday present, at the side of the closing night time of the RNC.
Reached by e-mail, reps for the present pointed The Hollywood Reporter to the social media publish and didn’t present further details about Every day Present plans for this week.
The present hosted a voter registration and canine adoption occasion on Sunday in Milwaukee titled “Indogcision: Rescuing Democracy,” initially deliberate to kick off their week of programming.
A company resolution to wash Comedy Central‘s web site of a lot of its content material isn’t sitting properly with numerous former and present Day by day Present staffers.
The websites for Comedy Central and fellow Paramount-owned cable channels CMT, Paramount Community and TV Land, had been largely stripped of content material this week; what’s left principally redirects customers to the corporate’s streaming platform, Paramount+. The media conglomerate additionally shut down the MTV Information web site earlier this week.
Paramount, which is trying to reduce half a billion {dollars} in prices amid declining earnings, mentioned the gutting of the websites was “a part of broader web site adjustments throughout” the corporate.
“We’ve got launched extra streamlined variations of our websites, driving followers to Paramount+ to observe their favourite exhibits,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Paramount+, nevertheless, solely has the 2 most up-to-date seasons of The Day by day Present obtainable for streaming. Comedy Central’s web site beforehand hosted an enormous archive of episodes and clips protecting many of the present’s historical past (together with fellow late night time exhibits @midnight, The Colbert Report, The Nightly Present and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper). That archive is now gone. Some materials is on YouTube, however The Day by day Present’s channel there, as an example, doesn’t have any materials from earlier than 2016.
“Gotta convey again the bootleg DVD man,” former Day by day Present correspondent Roy Wooden Jr. wrote on X. This shit ain’t proper.” Doug Herzog, who headed Comedy Central when The Day by day Present launched, reposted Wooden’s assertion in an Instagram Story and added a facepalm emoji to a screenshot of a information merchandise about Paramount’s gutting of the web site.
On social community Bluesky, Day by day Present author and producer Daniel Radosh famous that the present’s workers would commonly use the clip archive on the web site: “Hey for additional enjoyable guess what was the one manner for individuals who nonetheless work on the present to seek out previous clips which are necessary to have in the midst of producing mentioned present!” he wrote.
Tim Carvell, an govt producer of Final Week Tonight With John Oliver and 10-year Day by day Present veteran, took a shot at Paramount in a Bluesky submit: “2002: ‘Cautious, youngsters, the Web is eternally!’ 2024: ‘Oh, hey, all of the work you probably did for a decade of your life was simply deleted from the Web for Enterprise Causes.’”
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