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ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from New York City,
the only city in America,
it's The Daily Show.
Tonight,
hearing about January 6th,
one cord to charge them all,
and Iman Vellani.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah!
(cheering and applause)
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person.
Thank you for being here in person. This is amazing.
Wow! This is fun. Take a seat.
Let's do this, people. Let's do this.
We've got a really, really interesting show
for you tonight. The January 6th hearings
are kicking off tomorrow,
so we'll finally find out
if Donald Trump was a bad president.
Also, Saudi Arabia is dismembering the PGA,
and Europe is telling Apple that they're no longer in charge.
Plus, Iman Vellani, aka Ms. Marvel herself,
is gonna be joining us on the show.
So, let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
-♪ ♪ -(cheering and applause)
All right. Let's kick things off with January 6th.
It's why your uncle is calling you from a prison phone.
January 6th wasn't just a way
for QAnon members to get their steps in.
It was the culmination of a high-level plot
to overturn the election results.
And now, after a year of gathering evidence
and speaking to over 1,000 witnesses,
the January 6th committee in Congress
is ready to spill the tea on what actually went down.
NEWSMAN: Prime-time hearings. The January 6th committee
set to take their case to the American public.
How they plan to argue that Donald Trump
and his supporters planned the insurrection
in an effort to overturn the presidential election.
The committee and its members really want these hearings
to be blockbuster Watergate-style hearings,
and they are meticulously crafted.
NEWSMAN 2: They're trying to make sure
that this does not look
like other congressional hearings.
Maryland Rep Jamie Raskin has said
that he expects that the hearings
will blow the roof off of the house.
Yeah, that's right. The January 6th hearings
are starting tomorrow, and every broadcast network,
every cable news network is gonna be covering this.
Obviously, except Fox. Yeah.
Yeah, they're gonna be spending all night
talking about the real culprit.
"Why is nobody talking
"about how Congress has too many doors?
"If there was only one door in and out,
"this never would have happened.
"The crowd would have peacefully dispersed
after hanging Mike Pence. Huh?"
You know who's gonna be torn about the coverage of this?
Donald Trump.
Yeah. 'Cause think about it. On the one hand,
he doesn't want anyone to know what he did on January 6th.
But on the other hand,
you know he would love his hearings
to get the highest ratings of all time.
You know it. He's gonna be out there like,
"Don't watch the hearings, folks.
"The fake news is saying I overthrew the government,
"which I didn't do.
"But it was the biggest overthrow of all time.
"But I didn't do it.
"I didn't do it at all.
Watch the hearings. You'll see. You'll see."
(applause)
So, the Democrats are hoping
that these hearings are gonna finish Trump off
the same way that Watergate finished off Nixon.
But the difference is those Watergate hearings
happened back in the 1970s.
That was a different time.
They only had, what, three channels back then?
Yeah. America's only choice for entertainment in 1973
was either watching the Watergate hearings
or chain-smoking in between heart attacks.
That's all they could do. And I'll tell you this now.
If the Democrats want everyone to watch,
if they want Americans to pay attention,
they can't just have their regular, boring-ass hearings.
You know? You know those hearings
where they act like they just dropped a bombshell
and the rest of us have no idea why.
But you'll never believe
what happened next.
The White House counsel
emailed the chief of staff,
and he bcc'd
the assistant White House Counsel!
(imitates explosion)
Wait, wh-why are all the cameras leaving?
What's going on? What's going on?
No.
-No. -(cheering and applause)
What they need to do
if you want people to watch in America
is you have to spice things up.
You know, have a kiss cam going for the witnesses.
Yeah. Get Shakira to do a halftime show.
Or-or you know what?
They should just get sex involved. I'm gonna say it.
Yeah. That's what made the Bill Clinton scandal so big.
Yeah, you got to give people sex stuff.
I don't know. Like, uh, that guy who sold the podium?
Did he have sex with it afterwards?
Huh? Or that guy who dressed in the animal skins.
That was a sex thing, right? That had to be a sex thing.
You know, actually, I-I've been thinking about this hard,
and I-- and I figured it out.
Americans like entertainment.
Congress wants Americans to pay attention to politics.
Those two don't mix.
But there is one person
who can make political machinations interesting
for the masses.
There's only one man-- Lin-Manuel Miranda.
♪ ♪
♪ How could a red hat, right-wing ♪
♪ QAnon supporter break the border ♪
♪ To get into the Capitol ♪
♪ Supporting law and order ♪
♪ In the room where it happens ♪
♪ The room where it happens ♪
♪ But, yo, we don't talk about Bruno-no-no. ♪
High five, Bernie.
-High five. -(cheering and applause)
High five.
All right.
Let's move on to some international news.
'Cause while America is trying its hardest
to preserve its democracy,
Europe is tackling major problems of its own--
iPhone chargers.
NEWSWOMAN: The European Union is officially adopting
a common charger,
the USB-C.
That's the type of charger already used
in most Android phones and other devices.
All electronics sold in the EU will have to use a USB-C port.
That's in order to reduce cable clutter
and electronic waste.
Apple has their own proprietary charger,
and they say the proposed rule could render
as many as a billion devices obsolete.
Oh, really, Apple?
You're mad about a change coming out of nowhere
that's gonna render a billion devices obsolete?
Oh, that's funny, because I've got a drawer
full of wired headphones that agree with you!
(cheering and applause)
Now you know how it feels,
Tim Cook!
And, you know, Apple claims, they claim
that this new regulation is gonna hurt them financially,
but, guys, let's be real.
Apple always finds a way to win.
You know? They have the regulation,
but they'll find a way to spin this into making money
even if it's off of this.
Thanks to the EU,
your old phone is obsolete now.
And in the old days,
you might have just thrown it into the garbage.
But not anymore.
Introducing the iGarbage.
(cheering and applause)
A groundbreaking new way to throw out your phone.
It's basically a regular garbage can
but, like, it's got round edges
and it's kind of shiny.
Anyway, it's $1,000.
(cheering and applause)
I'm gonna buy one of those.
I will say this, if the USB-C
is going to become the default charger around the world,
they've got to come up with a better name than USB-C.
That's boring. No one wants to say that.
You know? Like, Apple, they went with "lightning charger."
Yeah, it makes you want to charge your phone.
(nasally): "USB-C."
Sounds like you're filling out taxes with that.
"Did you fill out your USB-C?"
They need to change the name to something more badass, you know?
"Want to charge your phone so fast your dick falls off?
You need the Thunder Blaster!"
-(howls) -(electrical guitar plays)
Wow-wa!
Yeah, that's the sound it makes
every time you charge your phone.
And, by the way, can I-- can I just say
how crazy it is that America is struggling, like,
"How do we protect our children from gun violence?
"Oh, how do we stop people from starving
"even when they work three jobs?
There's nothing we can do."
Meanwhile, Europe is so far ahead,
they truly have first-world problems.
You know? They're like...
(German accent): "You know, I was thinking about this
"when I was in the doctor's office
"not paying the other day.
"But isn't it so stressful
"how you have, like, one charger
"but then you need, like, a different charger?
"I was thinking about this.
"I mean, you know, there are many changes we could make.
"Yeah, I learned about this in universities
"that I also didn't have to pay for.
"You know? You can, like, apply your mind
"and you can do this, you know?
"It's all about your perspective, guys.
"All right, I'm going on paternity leave
"for an entire year. See you guys later.
"Auf Wiedersehen.
Tschüss!"
(cheering and applause)
All right. Enough about Europe.
Right now, there's an even-even bigger story brewing
in the world of sports.
You know, usually in golf,
the biggest controversy is that a player
wore a too colorful shirt, you know?
Or someone said a bad word after they sliced their shot.
(whooshing sound) "Aw, phooey!"
(gasping)
This time though,
golf is tied up in a real scandal,
because some of its star players are switching
to a new league launching in Saudi Arabia.
It's caused a major split in the golfing world.
A controversial Saudi-backed golf series tees off tomorrow.
The tournament has secured several big names
despite threats from the PGA Tour to sanction them.
American golfer Dustin Johnson quitting the PGA
and joining the controversial league backed by Saudi Arabia.
And this is coming after Phil Mickelson announced
his comeback by joining the same league
despite previously describing the Saudi regime
as "scary MF'ers
who have a horrible record on human rights."
I understand that many people have very strong opinions
and may disagree with my decision.
But, um,
at this time,
this is, uh, an opportunity that gives me a chance
to have the most balance, uh,
in my life going forward, and I think
this is going to do a lot of good for the game.
We will agree that when Phil Mickelson says
this gives him "the most balance in my life,"
he means money, right?
(laughter, applause)
I mean, just say "money."
"The reason I'm here is money."
Yeah, because the Saudis are reportedly paying him
-$200 million. -(gasping)
Yeah, so just say it's the money.
Stop coming up with all these stories.
I would say that to the audience if I was him.
I wouldn't even play those games.
I'd be like, "Yeah, you know why I'm going to Saudi Arabia?
"They're giving me $200 million.
-$200 million dollars." -(applause)
'Cause you're telling me why you're going, why you...
I'll give you a million dollars if you shut the (bleep) up.
Acting like you've ever had to make this decision.
People are kidding themselves about their morals.
Everyone's like, "Oh, I can't believe he's doing it."
You're telling me that for $200 million,
you wouldn't play golf for the Saudis?
Hell, let me tell you something. For $200 million,
I would let the ruler of Saudi Arabia set up his tee
on my crotch. That's where he can hit it from.
Yeah, I can buy a new crotch with that money,
a better crotch.
I'll be honest with you. I am torn
when it comes to this issue. Because on the one hand,
I do think boycotting a country like Saudi Arabia
could effectively push them
to create a less oppressive society. I believe that.
Happened with South Africa during apartheid.
People boycotted, the country was embarrassed, changed.
On the other hand, there's an argument that maybe
by bringing them in and exposing them to the rest of the world,
that might cause liberal values to infiltrate their societies.
You know, because it starts with golf.
Then over time, it's racket sports, squash, tennis, huh?
Yeah, yeah, now they're wearing shorts.
Ooh. Getting more liberal. Yeah.
Then maybe you add a bar where people--
men and women-- can hang out after their activities.
And then, boom, you got a liberal society.
Or at the very least, a country club. It's progress.
I mean, the real question here is why you would you even want
to play golf in Saudi Arabia in the first place?
The sand trap is the entire country. What are you doing?
What are you doing? All right, finally,
if you are one of those people who can't seem to arrive on time
for any meeting or any date or any event in your calendar,
well, according to trend watchers, your time is up.
Being fashionably late is no longer in fashion,
according to a New York Times article.
It argues that now being fashionably late
is out of fashion, that punctuality is cool.
In the third year of the pandemic,
apparently, people are less sympathetic for old excuses
of why you show up late to a meeting.
The author of this says that now that more people have
to go back into the office,
they are more protective of their time
that they got to be there.
and less forgiving about people who are late.
That's right, people. Being on time is cool now.
We're putting the "punk" in punctuality.
-Ow! -(rock guitar playing)
-Yeah! -(applause)
Someone just charged their phone.
But still, let's not get carried away with this, all right?
I agree, yes, it is good to be on time,
especially for big things.
You know, like meetings at work, or your wedding.
Yeah, you don't want to be late for that.
Especially if you're the bride because then, like,
the organ player-- they're gonna have to fill time, you know.
And they'll just be like... ♪ Dun, dun, dun-dun. ♪
"No, not yet."
♪ Dun, dun, dun-dun, dun ♪
♪ Dun-dun, dun, dun-dun. ♪
"Still nothing?"
(playing upbeat circus tune)
"Still n... Aah!"
So, look, I agree, I agree. I think it is good
for people to arrive on time, but I will say this.
I hate this culture of people who are personally offended
by people who weren't there on the dot.
Oh, you disrespected my time and you disrespected my family!
Calm down! Don't get so touchy about it.
Oh, you weren't here on time.
Yo, back in the day, I get it.
You had to wait at the mall until your friends showed up.
You didn't know where they were.
You didn't know if they were late or dead.
You had no clue. Yeah.
You didn't even know if you were stood up for a date
until you saw the person the next time.
"Hey, what happened?" "Oh, I got married."
"What?!"
But in 2022, no one should be pissed off
that they had to wait a little bit for somebody to show up.
You've got a phone, people. Use it.
Right? Read the news. Play a game. Learn Japanese.
Maybe you should answer one of those 2,000 unread emails
that I've seen on your phone.
"Oh, I was waiting for you."
They're waiting for you.
You're gonna be mad that I'm late to dinner.
Then when I finally get to dinner,
you spend half of the time looking at your phone.
Why didn't you do this shit before I got there, huh?
-(laughter and applause) -Why?
-(cheering and applause) -You got the phone. Use it.
"I'm late."
"Ugh, Trevor, you came late.
You came late, Trevor." I'm not late!
I'm giving you an opportunity to watch things online.
I'm giving you an opportunity to watch a video of an orangutan
pulling a guy through a cage.
Yeah. Pulling a man.
You've seen me before. You've never seen
an orangutan pull a grown man into a cage.
And then another guy comes to help him,
and the orangutan blocks him with his foot.
And that other guy is like, "All right,
I'm not helping anymore. This shit is crazy."
And if you haven't seen that video,
that's because you're probably always on time.
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a break,
it's time to check in on the weather forecast
with our own Desi Lydic, everybody!
(cheering and applause)
Desi...
Uh, morning, Trevor.
-Sorry, D-Desi, uh... -Yeah, hey, what's up?
The weather--
-Sorry, do we-do we need to cut? What's up? Desi, we-- -Oh.
Hey, let me know when you need me on the show, okay?
We-we needed you on the show, like, 20 minutes ago, Desi.
-Hmm? -We started.
Oh, shit.
-Yeah. -Oh, yeah. Okay, cool.
Cool, cool, cool. Here, let me just, uh,
take my stuff off.
-Okay. You got some space down there. -We started a--
You don't mind sticking that there.
-I-I actually do. We should be-- -You got a recycling bin?
-Yeah, no, I don't have recycling. -It's fine, I'll just
-take it with me. That's good. -Ok--
-We should be on the weather already. Is-- -Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's good, it's good.
What-what's happening in the weather, Desi?
(exhales) Oh, it is hot. I know, 'cause I was just outside.
-I mean... -Ooh.
Hotter than Saudi Arabia.
Oh, you know you what should cover on the show tonight?
-That whole golf Saudi story. -Oh.
-That'd be really good. -You think so?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah, maybe we should. Yeah.
You know what's so crazy is the fact that
American country clubs have just started letting women play golf,
and these guys are like, "Let's move it to Saudi Arabia."
Every time I play golf,
men criticize the way I play.
They're all nitpicky about
how I drive my real car on the course.
Let me tell you something,
I beat them to the next hole every time,
so who's laughing now?
-I-- Yeah, I hear you there. Um... -Yeah.
Desi, we-we're very late now. Would you mind, um...
Oh, yeah, yeah, I just got to charge my phone.
Can you grab my charger out of my backpack?
-Okay, Jesus, Desi, I don't have -Yeah.
-the time for this thing. I-- -It's just right there.
Oh, Lord, what-what the hell is this?
What is this?
It's that one.
-What is this? -Yeah. Those are my chargers.
yeah, I got my iPhone, my iPad, my iPad mini,
my sound machine, my Crockpot, my Crockpot mini.
But-but, careful, though, there's a system.
-Okay. What-what-- -Yeah, don't pull the wrong one,
'cause there is a bomb in there.
Desi, this is ridiculous. You can't
go around like this. This is madness.
Oh, you know what, there's a story on this, out of Europe.
They're trying to condense down to one port.
Here's my thing on it. I mean, what's so bad
about having lots of different types of ports, right?
All ports are beautiful.
Ports naturally come in different shapes and sizes.
You know, especially out of Europe.
Whew. Oh, man.
I have seen some wild ports in Europe.
I did a semester abroad. It was a crazy time, yeah.
But each one is-is beautiful in its own way,
and I'm gonna be honest, frankly, I don't really think
the government should be regulating our ports, right?
My port, my choice.
-That's a-- -Do you, uh, you need anything else from me?
-Yeah-- -'Cause I got to go meet some friends for drinks.
I hate being late.
Oh. Oh, you-you wouldn't say.
Um, all right, well, just grab this, and we can--
-Yeah, I'll just-- -Thank you. Um...
It's just funny that were you late for this and then now
-you-you're gonna just bounce-- -Oh, uh,
I just-- I want to be honest about something.
I was talking about vaginas earlier.
When were you saying the ports.
Yeah, I just wanted you to know.
Yeah, I knew it was a vagina joke.
See? That's what I love about you.
You always know when I'm secretly talking about vaginas.
-You're a feminist that way. -That's-that's... that's
what they say about me. All right, thank-thank you...
thank you so much for doing the weather, Desi.
-Yeah, no problem. -This was really informative.
-All right. -Yeah.
-And you-you're leaving now? -Huh? Yeah, yeah.
Okay, well, have fun out there. I hear the weather's great.
Uh, yeah!
All right. Desi Lydic, everybody.
-Thank you so much. -(cheering, applause)
All right, don't go away, 'cause when we come back,
Roy Wood Jr. is going to Brooklyn.
You don't want to miss it.
I've just-- No. no. There is nothing.
There's nothing here. There's nothing here.
Desi Lydic, everybody!
(cheering and applause)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
We're gonna talk about gentrification.
It's why your old bodega
is now a fancy brunch place named Bodega.
But can the gentrifiers and the gentrifees make peace?
Well, Roy Wood Jr. went to find out.
WOOD: According to the latest census,
the white population is decreasing nationwide.
NEWSWOMAN: For the first time,
the white population in the United States has declined.
WOOD: But there's one place their numbers are up
almost nine percent: Brooklyn.
This wealthy white migration has led to increases in rent,
cost of living and requests to speak to the manager.
So I followed a trail of succulents
and Wes Anderson DVDs
deep into the den of gentrifying Brooklyn,
where I sat down with Tommy Holley.
The white population has gone up almost nine percent.
The Black population has gone down almost nine percent.
Would it be safe to say
that that's how they're showing Black lives matter,
by just moving them out to somewhere else?
What they're doing is they're just buying out
and clearing out the neighborhood,
and-and it's not right.
WOOD: Tommy's lived in Brooklyn his entire life.
Everything is going up sky-high, and it's harder to live.
So, the way out is to sell the house.
WOOD: Tommy's mother bought their brownstone in 1963
when Black homeownership in Brooklyn was booming.
But lately, Black mortgages
have been going the way of the dodo bird.
We have the, you know, the white population that's moving in.
And they walk up and down the streets.
Some speak. Others walk past you like, um...
"Why you here?"
-But you got the stick, man. -Yeah, but if they...
They don't think you like a magical Negro?
-Yeah, well... -Look at this. Look at...
That's one of them magical Negro sticks.
Okay, you just got to go...
-(Wood grunts) -(laughs)
That'll scare gentrifiers.
A Black dude with a magic stick?
But no amount of Black wizardry
could make the block parties lit again.
And residents like Judith Lovell and Ayanna Prescott
don't even recognize their own neighborhood.
So, this neighborhood used to be Black.
All Black, 100%.
Like the '70s Black.
-Right. -Like when the music was good
and O.J. Simpson was just a really good football player.
It was all Black, and you had discount stores
where we could get things cheaply.
-We don't have that anymore. -Yeah.
Our bodega's now a nail... like, a high-end nail salon.
-What new milks have arrived? -Oh, my gosh.
-(chuckles) -There's so much. There's hemp. There's oat.
There's, um, hazelnut.
There's coconut. There's...
WOOD: The Trojan horse of gentrification
seemed to increase the volume of nut milks
while decreasing actual necessary food supply.
And even common decency was facing extinction.
I've had, uh, neighbors call 311.
WOOD: 311 is a hotline New Yorkers use to complain
about nonemergency shit,
and the gentrifiers seem to have it on speed dial.
-Um... -So 311 is like the snitch line,
but the police don't come right away.
-Right. -Exactly. -So it's like the dry snitch line.
-Exactly. Couldn't you ring my bell? -Yeah. -Okay.
Introduce yourself.
Come up. Say hello.
So are these just people that don't know how to make friends
-or is there another issue... -It's a combination of both,
-maybe. -...of...
(groaning softly)
-Is that... -Possibly.
WOOD: There's an anthropological term for this.
Racism!
And the only thing rising faster
than the number of man buns is the real estate.
The prices are just skyrocketing.
Houses going for $3 million.
-Before... -Wait, I'm sorry. What'd you say?
The houses in, uh, Bed-Stuy go for $3 million now.
$3 million.
How much you pay for this house?
23-seven.
$23,000 and you could sell it right now?
For close to $2 million.
Aw, you got to go.
Wait a minute, you the one that said that I should stay!
Well, I did that before you told me what you was gettin'.
(laughs)
You know, the money i-is great.
But it's not everything.
WOOD: Right, right. It's about the community.
And if we're gonna save that,
we need to set some ground rules.
What are some things that people moving into the neighborhood
could do to help honor what has been built over the decades?
Just be kind.
Wait, just be-be kind?
-Yeah, just be kind. -Okay. Okay.
I'm-a write that one down.
-Just... be kind. -Be kind. (chuckles)
-Communication. Don't call 311. -Communication.
Don't... snitch.
Support the local small-owned businesses.
The local weed dealers.
If that's your thing, yes.
Definitely introduce yourself to your neighbors.
Like I said, embracing what was already here.
Don't just think that because you're here,
you're entitled to your $9 artisanal coffee.
-Artisanal coffee? -Mm-hmm.
Arabica beans from Kenya
-or, um... Yeah. -That's wild.
(chuckling): Is that where your coffee came from?
Got this from a bodega.
No, you did not. That's not a bodega cup.
-(bleep) it. It's good, all right? -(laughs)
Damn, even I need caffeine. I got to get the word out.
And the only way to do that
is in the universal language of Brooklyn: the flyer.
Give that a look, tell me what you think. I'm making flyers.
Tell me if that checks out. You know, do respect
the culture of the block. Which means clap on beat.
-"Clap on the twos and fours." -That's big. Oh, my God, yeah.
Got to be on beat, You can't have a block party
-if everybody off-beat. -You can't, you can't.
This one: "Don't start a sentence with
-'When I was at NYU.'" -Let's put these up.
-Put 'em all around. -Get the street scene together.
-Yes, sir. All right. -Thank you. All right.
WOOD: The community approved the gentriflyer.
But would it work?
So, would you consider yourself a gentrifier?
I don't know, I've never really thought of it before.
-Do you speak to your neighbors? -One of 'em, one time.
Just, like, ran into each other in the hallway.
-♪ ♪ -WOOD: Damn! This man needs an education.
We're trying to spread the word on ways you can
help gentrifiers. I could flyer the whole town,
but would it make people respect their Black neighbors?
Would it stop the 311 calls, the dog shit everywhere?
Wait, should I say "dog shit" or "dog poop"?
-"Dog shit," for sure. -WOOD: Can anything I do
make a difference? Just told you,
-give you some of these ideas. -Um...
"No phones for Karens."
-"311 for murder only." -Mm-hmm.
"Contribute-- give the closest Black person to you $50."
I don't carry cash on me.
I'll shoot you my Venmo.
You ready?
Just scan that.
All right.
All right, I got it. Boom, Appreciate that. Thank you.
Damn. Flyering does work. But is it enough to stop
the erosion of this historic community
and hold on to legacy residents like Tommy?
-I'm going to Florida. -The (bleep)?
-You going to Florida? -I'm tired of the snow.
I'm tired of shoveling the snow.
I'm tired of the leaves.
Are you tired of racism?
Yes, I am.
You gonna go to Florida?
Aw, shit.
-I'm sorry for cussin'. -It's okay.
Thank you so much for that, Roy. All right, when we come back,
Iman Vellani, aka Ms. Marvel herself,
will be joining me on the show, so don't go away.
(cheering, applause)
(cheering and applause)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is actor Iman Vellani.
She's here to talk about starring
in the new Disney+ series Ms. Marvel.
♪ ♪
Wow, that's...
amazing.
How does it feel?
Like an idea come to life.
Uh...
(grunts)
So I guess superstrength is not a part of the equation.
Yeah, well, maybe I should've tried harder in gym.
(grunts)
I saved you.
Please welcome Iman Vellani.
-♪ ♪ -(cheering and applause)
-Welcome. -Thanks.
Whoa.
Ms. Marvel, welcome to The Daily Show.
-Thank you, thank you. -Are you used to that yet,
the fact that you are Ms. Marvel?
-And not just Ms. Marvel, by the way. Not just Ms. Marvel. -No.
But you are officially currently the most liked show
-on Rotten Tomatoes in the Marvel Universe. -I...
-(cheering and applause) -95%. How does it feel?
It feels great.
It's weird that, like, people who doubted us...
(chuckles): Like, we're the underdogs now,
and so the amount of "actuallys" in a sentence.
"Oh, it's actually pretty good."
"Actually, I think I'm kind of liking it."
So, that's-that's my favorite part. Yeah.
You've been a fan for a long time.
A hot minute. (chuckles)
-Yeah. -I want to know... I want to know how,
because everyone has a story about how they became a fan
of one of the Marvel characters that not everybody knows about.
Ooh. I mean, I was, like, six when Iron Man came out,
so the MCU's always been in my life.
And then, like, my high school's
right across from a comic book shop,
and I have the fattest crush on Robert Downey Jr.,
-so I just, like, needed more Iron Man. -(laughter)
(laughs): So it was... I was, like, constantly reading
more Invincible Iron Man. And then I picked up Ironheart.
-Okay. -And then through her, I found Kamala.
And I was like, "Oh, my God. Brown person. Who's this?"
And fell in love with her.
-(cheering and applause) -Yeah.
It seems like...
I mean, it-it feels like you were made for this character.
I... It was crazy. I felt like the comics
-were written about me, for me and only me. Like... -Yeah.
It-it re-- No, it really does-- It, like--
How many stories can you say where-where you go like,
"Oh, who is this character?" Okay, uh, you know,
here you have this girl who's born
-to immigrants from Pakistan. -Yeah.
And then she's, like, living in this different world.
And it's like you-- like, you-you're that.
That-That's wild. Like, Muslim superhero?
Fully.
(cheering and applause)
It's crazy.
This is...
I-I hope you were just Ms. Marvel for every Halloween.
-That's what I would do. -Ooh. I-I dressed up as her
-on Halloween when I was 15. -Oh, you did?
I fully manifested this.
Yeah.
Did people know who you were?
No! I went to school and I was so excited!
I h-- Like, my grandma helped me stitch the costume.
And I went to school and everyone was like,
"Ooh. (stammers) Cool Flash costume, man."
-(laughs) -I was like, "Are you kidding me?
The lightning bolt doesn't mean Flash."
But, yeah, I had to go across the street,
buy a Ms. Marvel comic and just carry it with me
so people knew who I was.
You had to reference the...
You realize that's never gonna happen again now right?
(cheering and applause)
You realize. That's...
I mean, that's one of the coolest stories of all time.
-Yeah. -I-- You know, the-the story's really great
because some people, you know,
feel like it's a different world.
They'll be like, "Oh, how do you have a Muslim superhero?
And, you know, she's from Pakistan."
But everyone doesn't seem to understand
that every hero comes from somewhere
and they just have their story and that it's just,
-like, normal for them. -Yeah.
I love how the show is seamless.
I love how it's just her story and she's a superhero.
Yeah, I think we've really, like, done what the comics did
in organically incorporating diversity into her story.
And it's not something that just, like--
It's not 100% her personality, being Muslim or being Pakistani.
-Yes. -It's just she's this Avengers-loving,
fan fic-writing dork who just happens to be Muslim
and Pakistani, and that side of her kind of,
you know, guides her as-- It's her moral code.
And-and then it uplifts her and elevates her story
in a really unique way that we really haven't seen in the MCU.
-So I think that's cool. Yeah. -It is very cool.
-It's super cool. The powers are cool as well. -(cheering)
Th-- Okay. That was something I was intrigued by.
Because, like, like,
I remember seeing some of the-the old comics
of Ms. Marvel, and-and she had, like, stretching abilities.
-Yeah. -And I-I know you can't give anything away,
but in-- you know, you have different powers
in the beginning. It's like you can-- you can, like,
shapeshift things and you can... You know?
-Yeah. -Is that-- Are-are-- Is she gonna get,
-like, more powers or is there... -More powers?
-Yeah? -There's purple light coming out of that.
-I'm not being ungrateful. I'm just say... -Well...
I-- That sounded like-- I was just asking if she's gonna get,
like, different-- Are there, like, things that--
You-you don't want to tell me anything. I see you.
It premiered today and then Disney told me, they're like,
"Iman's not gonna tell you anything if you ask her
-about it, and..." -I, like, swore an oath to Kevin Feige.
I'm like "You will not get a Tom Holland out of me.
Nothing's coming out."
-No spoilers! -It's like-- Yeah.
No spoilers whatsoever.
So this is just the beginning. You realize this.
-You are, I mean, -(snorts)
-this is such a fun, wild story, -Yeah.
You-you-- you-you got this role
one of the craziest ways possible, 'cause I heard a rumor
that you heard about this from, like, a family member.
-They didn't call you directly. -WhatsApp. WhatsApp.
Which is, like, funny, 'cause, like,
brown people thrive on WhatsApp.
So, like...
the fact that this happened through a WhatsApp forward--
-Wait, how, how? -My-my aunt was a part of some
brown group chat that she never opens, and one day she opened it
and someone had forwarded this casting call,
and she sent it to me and I'm like,
"Look, this is what a scam is. Um...
We don't-- I-I'm not an actor, I can't--"
Like, it-it was fully a blank page that said,
"Send head shot and résumé here. Ms. Marvel casting."
I was like, "Okay."
Um, and then they sent a self-tape and then, uh, sides
for the self-tape and an NDA, and I was like, "Oh, my God,
it's real, I know exactly which comic books
they pulled these scenes from."
And so I wasn't gonna do it just out of, like,
-sheer fear of failure. -No, really?
Yeah, and then, like, 3:00 a.m. hit the night it was due,
and I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna regret this, aren't I?"
So, I, like, don't know how self-tapes work, so I recorded
my own voice as the other character and then
lowered the pitch.
So it sounded like I was talking to someone
and then just, like, acted off of my own voice.
And the next day I get a call, they're like,
"Do you have a lawyer? We want to fly to you L.A."
I was like, "Cool."
-I mean... -Yeah.
You-you know what, you know what this means, though,
is now...
your aunt is gonna answer every single WhatsApp
-that ever comes her way. -I know!
You've messed up her life. Like, she's never gonna
-be the same now. -No, she holds this on me now, like--
Yeah. Congratulations on the show.
-Congratulations on it being so successful. -Thank you so much.
Wonderful meeting you. Thank you for being here.
Everybody's gonna watch. You didn't give us any spoilers.
Ms. Marvel is streaming right now on Disney+.
95% from Rotten Tomatoes. We're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this. Congratulations.
(cheering, applause)
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