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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
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Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody.
Take a seat. Let's do this thing.
We have got a great show for you tonight.
The Choco Taco is coming back from the dead,
scientists are bringing pigs back from the dead,
and Aaron Rodgers is more alive than ever.
Plus, here to talk about her brand-new horror movie,
Amandla Stenberg is joining us on the show, everybody!
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right, people, I'm going to be honest.
With all the news that happened today,
I don't think we have enough space in today's show.
I've-I've looked at it from every angle.
I even tried those vacuum-sealed bags to compress everything,
and still, we just don't have enough time
to cover all the news.
Fortunately, not enough time is just enough time
for a segment we call "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That."
-♪ ♪ -(applause and cheering)
All right, let's get straight into it.
As you know, the Russian invasion
of Ukraine has shown no signs of letting up.
Why? Because Vladimir Putin clearly believes
all of those dumb Instagram quotes
about never giving up on your dreams.
Goddamn it, Vlad.
We need more memes about realizing you suck and quitting.
Anyway, because of that,
the European Union is preparing all of its countries
for a winter without Russian gas,
which means they're going to have
to make some really drastic changes to life.
NEWSWOMAN: And in world news this morning,
Spain is heated over an air conditioning ban.
The government there says certain shops and bars--
they can't set air conditioning below 27 degrees Celsius.
It's to limit dependence of Russian gas.
Wow! Public buildings in Spain
have to keep their air conditioning
above 27 degrees Celsius.
And I know right now, all the Americans watching are like,
"Oh, my God, that's so hot!
"Or so cold? I-I don't know.
"I don't know, but I'm with you, Trevor!
-I don't know!" -(applause)
Well, it's hot. It's 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
-(audience gasping, groaning) -Yeah. Yeah.
-Now you're with me. Yeah. -(groaning, laughter)
And if you have to set your AC to that temperature,
then what is even the point of having an AC?
You may as well just hire some guy to breathe on you.
He's like, "Hah. Hah."
"Thank you, Jared. That's so refreshing."
"Hah. Hah."
"Were you eating Chipotle?"
And, you know, I feel really bad for the Spanish people.
They need air-conditioning probably more than anyone else,
especially because of how naturally hot
Spanish people are.
Yeah, just being Spanish raises any temperature in the room
by like ten degrees.
You know, even, like, a boring meeting is like,
"Excuse me, Janice, but do you have
"the TPS reports from accounting?
We need it for the fiscal quarter."
It's like, "Oh, my God!"
Now, if we had more time we could talk about how Russia
is showing the world why it's so necessary to move away
from fossil fuels, especially because of the countries
the fossil fuels are connected to
and because of climate change,
but we don't have the time for that
because of another shitty thing that Russia is doing.
WNBA star Brittney Griner today found guilty
and sentenced inside of a Russian courtroom.
Nine years behind bars for smuggling cannabis oil.
The Biden administration calling the trial a sham
and saying the sentence is unacceptable.
-This is some bullshit. -(audience assenting)
This is bullshit.
We all know Russia doesn't care about what Brittney Griner did.
This is the same country that's breaking every human rights law
on the planet, but they're like,
"Oh, that woman has vape cartridge.
Yeah, she's real criminal."
Get the (bleep) out of here, man.
-(applause) -It's bullshit, we all know it.
We all know it.
And the one piece, the one piece of good news,
it looks like, is that this seems
like it's just a negotiation tactic.
All right, Russia is like, "Ah, we have prisoner for nine years.
"You give us a prisoner who's in America
for-for nine years." You know?
And you know what? I think they should just do it.
Yeah, whoever America has in prison, send them to Russia.
Yeah, it seems like they win, but don't forget,
that person now has to live in Russia.
Yeah, yeah.
They'll get there and be like,
"This whole country is prison.
I miss food in Alcatraz. No!"
Now, if we had more time we could talk about how
this whole thing could have been avoided
if the WNBA paid their stars enough
that they didn't have to go and play in Russia
-in the off-season to make money. -(applause)
But unfortunately we don't have the time to talk about that
because there's another sports story about a male athlete
who has broken out of prison-- the prison of the mind.
NEWSWOMAN: Aaron Rodgers recently revealing on a podcast
that he used psychedelic drugs
to improve his outlook on playing football.
The 38-year-old said, "I really feel like that experience
paved the way for me to have the best season of my career."
NEWSWOMAN 2: He opened up about his experience on ayahuasca
in a retreat in Peru.
Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic drug used to treat
physical, mental, and spiritual issues
in South American countries.
Wow, okay.
Do you understand how big this is, people?
Aaron Rodgers just said, "Yo, I took drugs,
and that's part of reason I crushed the game."
Yeah, that shows you how much times have changed.
'Cause you remember back in the '90s,
they'd bring someone like Shaq on TV
to be like, "Remember, kids, I'd rather kill myself
"than get high on marijuana.
Don't do drugs."
But now this is accepted.
And-and please, please, don't get it twisted.
He wasn't playing while he was on ayahuasca.
Although, I kind of wish he was.
(laughter)
'Cause I'd love to see what kind of plays
a quarterback would think of
while they're on the journey, you know.
All right, everybody, huddle up.
It's 4th and one so, Johnson,
you're gonna look deep in your soul, buddy,
all right, and rediscover your inner child.
All right, Dubowski,
I'm going to need you to hug that rainbow, man.
You just hug it real hard.
All right, Coleman, stop floating.
Come on, everybody, let's do this!
(applause and cheering)
Now, if we had more time, we could talk about
how great it is to see people like Aaron Rodgers
normalizing conversations about whether
we can use psychedelics to improve people's mental health
and cure them from addiction.
But, unfortunately, we don't have the time,
because speaking of addiction, the Choco Taco is back.
WOMAN: Okay, call this a comeback.
-Klondike hinting... -MAN: Uh-huh.
WOMAN: ...uh-huh, that it might bring back the Choco Taco
after huge reaction to the news
that it was going to be discontinued.
The company says it's reflecting on the outpouring of support
and demand and figuring out what the next steps should be.
This is amazing!
-(cheers and applause) -What?
This is amazing!
Klondike ended the Choco Taco and the fans brought it back.
This is the kind of passion you normally only see in, like,
the Beyhive or the BTS ARMY.
Yeah, in fact, they should get their own name.
You know, the-the Choco Taco Flocko.
Or like a, like-like the-the Klondike Klux Klan.
Maybe not that one, but-but you get my point.
I'm just-I'm just ripping here. I'm just ripping.
Like, if we more time,
we could have fun with the conspiracy theory
that this whole thing was a marketing stunt.
Or what other Tex-Mex foods could be ice cream-ified?
But we don't have the time about...
you know, to talk about any of that.
Ah, I was just thinking of "Burrrito."
-Because... -(laughter)
you want to talk about something coming back from the dead,
then this could be the biggest story of our lives or deaths.
WOMAN: A stunning medical breakthrough
has raised questions about the line between life and death.
Researchers at Yale University pumped a custom-made solution
into the bodies of pigs that had been dead for over an hour.
Incredibly, the chemical revived cells in the pigs' liver,
kidney, and brain, and their hearts even began to beat again.
Scientists say this could lead to saving
more human organs for transplant.
Sweet Jesus in heaven.
Scientists have found a way
to bring dead cells
back to life.
Whole organs, people.
Hearts beating again.
You understand how mind-blowing this is?
You understand how mind-blowing this discovery could be?
I feel like you guys are (bleep) around right now.
Pigs are coming back to life, people.
You realize it's not a long way off.
This-this could mean we're gonna be in a world soon
where you could revive people who already died.
We could make a Jurassic Park, but with people.
Yeah.
How dope would that be-- bringing your grandma
back to life and visiting her in the park?
"Oh, no, the grandmothers are escaping! Aah!
"Everybody cover your cheeks! Aah!
They got me! I'm too cute! Aah!"
I feel like this should be the only story
in the news right now. Do you-- Do you understand how big--
They-they-- The pigs-- They made the cells come back to life.
They were dead. They made it come--
You guys don't even understand right now.
I don't think you people understand right now.
You understand how huge-- Yeah, there's always people like,
"Who would you like to have dinner with, alive or dead?"
Now that shit could happen.
And all those dumb people like, "I would love to meet Hitler."
And then it's like, "Ha, hallo." "No!"
I don't even know why we're doing a TV--
We shouldn't even be doing TV anymore.
Everyone's talking about other things.
They might have found a way
to bring dead people back to life!
And you guys still want to know about, what, Joe Biden?
I don't give a (bleep) about Joe Biden right now!
They used the-the thing-- They put it inside--
They've tried this with bypass machines, it doesn't work.
The organs die. But then they pump these pigs with,
like, a thing called, like, "organ X"
and now the pigs came--
You people don't even understand what I'm--
They have to make the pig sleep. They gave it a nerve blocker
and then when they gave the pig a dye injection
to see what the brain was doing, the pig twitched.
-(people laugh) -Yeah, yeah, now you understand.
This, ethically, is the craziest--
We don't even know-- We're not ready for this.
This could redefine death. What is death?
Who is death? How is death?
Could be, like, an option now.
You could die and then come back. Like, I want to die.
Y-- Like, do my funeral and then come back and watch
and be like, "Oh, that's what you said about me
when I was gone? Okay. Okay."
This is wild.
And I know it's scary.
The one piece of good news is, though,
it could lead us to a better world.
Because someone has to bring you back.
Yeah.
So you'll be like, "You guys are bringing me back, right?"
And people are like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we'll bring you back, yeah."
Teach you to be an asshole. All right,
that's all the time we got for the headlines.
Before we go, let's check in on the traffic
with our very own Roy Wood Jr., everybody!
(cheering and applause)
-What a crazy world... -It's not right.
-Crazy, crazy world. -It's not right.
-My, man, what's... -If something dead,
-it's supposed to stay dead. -It's supposed to stay dead.
-Right? Right? -Exactly! That's what I'm talking about!
The Choco Taco need to stay dead!
No, I'm not-- I don't want to talk about the Choco Taco.
-What do you want to talk about? -I want to talk about...
-I want to talk about traffic. -What you want to talk about?
You want to talk about traffic. You want to talk--
I want to talk about Choco Taco.
Roy, no. No Choco Taco.
-Why? -Trev. Trev.
Cars, bitch! All right, now, Choco Taco.
(laughter, applause)
Choco Taco. This is the thing.
This is the thing we need to just be real about
with the Choco Taco, all right?
K-Klondike, they lied to us, man.
They lied.
There-there was an election. We had an election.
We voted with our wallets,
and we voted the Choco Taco out of the freezer.
And now Klondike is trying
to change the results of the election!
And I will not stand for that!
-(applause) -You cannot change the results of an election
after the election has been verified and solidified!
(stammers) I can't talk to you right now.
I got to talk to the people out there.
Listen, listen, we cannot let them steal
the Choco Taco election.
Join me at-at the Choco Taco factory
and we will march there January 6.
-It's too hot right now. -(laughter, groaning)
And we will stop the steal!
I-I don't think you want that...
-We are gonna stop the steal. -I don't think you want that phr...
The Choco Taco should be dead.
You can't bring it back to life.
People are happy. It's coming back!
It's not coming-- They said it might come back
for a little while. They don't know.
And you don't want that.
You don't want food hopscotching in and out of your life,
like the McRib or Lobsterfest.
If you gonna be in my life,
either be in my life or don't.
-(cheering) -Can't be having you coming and going.
(applause)
-Why? -These people happy,
but these people don't know what's gonna happen.
They're happy 'cause the Choco Taco--
Baby, let me tell you. Let me tell you what's gonna happen.
I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
Choco Taco gonna come back in your life
and it's gonna be good for a little while
and you gonna be all happy.
Be like, "Oh, Choco Taco is here to stay again."
And you'll be like, "You'll be here forever, Choco Taco?"
And then Choco Taco's gonna be like,
"Well, I got to go outside and get my phone charger.
I'll be right back."
And then it's gonna tiptoe away
without ever saying goodbye,
just like your daddy did that time in '97
and you ain't seen your daddy since
and he's gone! Where the hell is he?!
Roy...
-(exhales) -This is-- this is why I didn't want to talk
about the Choco Taco. I...
(exhales)
Are you okay, Roy?
-(awwing) -I'm-I'm-a go do some ayahuasca
and talk to my daddy. I...
I'll get with you, man, all right?
Thank you so much. Roy Wood Jr., everybody!
-All right. -All right. We'll be right back,
so don't go away.
(cheering and applause)
(cheering, applause)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
You know, here at the show, we pay a lot of attention
to what's going on in the news.
But how much are other people
outside our studio following along?
Well, we sent Michael Kosta to find out
for another edition of "Fill Me In."
♪ ♪
Welcome to "Fill me In," the game
where you put blank in my...?
I put words in your...
-Keep going. -In your...
-Eye? -Eye?!
KOSTA: Let's get started.
Marco Rubio. Who's that?
-I honestly don't know. -Don't know?
-Is it a singer? -Probably.
It's probably a singer.
Marco Rubio is a...
Asshole!
-All right, to be nice about it, he's a senator... -Okay.
down in Florida, and he's an idiot.
Marco Rubio was recently quoted as saying,
"I know plenty of" blank "in Florida
that are pissed about gas prices."
Well, it's Florida, so it's probably plenty of assholes.
-Hicks. -Hicks.
-Old people? -Rednecks?
Rednecks? Why would he say that?
It's Florida, man.
Hint. It's what Mike Pence doesn't want
to be in a locker room with.
Hold on. Wait. Who's Mike Pence?
I've heard the name, but I don't know who it is.
You've heard the name, but you don't know who it is?
Hint. It's what Mike Pence doesn't want
to be in the locker room with.
People?
Be more specific.
Uh, gay people?
-Gay people! -♪ ♪
Gay people.
Let's find out what people know about Vladimir Putin.
CIA Director Bill Burns was quoted as saying,
"There are a lot of rumors about President Putin's" Blank.
"And as far as we can tell, he's" Blank.
-His virility. -Sanity.
Sanity. Why do you say that?
He seems crazy to me.
Describe this body to me.
-It looks built. -Built?
Yeah, I feel like he hits the gym.
And now describe Vladimir Putin's body.
There are a lot of rumors about President Putin's "blank."
Well, I want to say penis, but that wouldn't work.
-I guess his health. -His health?
-Why'd you say that? -'Cause I've heard that
people think he may have some type of disease
-and he's not being shown anymore. -Wow.
Wow. Where did you dig up this...
correct answer?!
"There's been a lot of rumors about President Putin's health.
"But as far as we can tell,
he's entirely too healthy."
That's what the CIA is saying.
Does this guy look entirely too healthy to you?
-I don't know. -Why not?
-He got titties. -♪ ♪
KOSTA: Let's move on to our celebrity round.
Ryan Gosling is playing Ken in the new Barbie movie.
When asked about the part he said, "It's the role
"I was born to play, I've had this 'blank,' if you will,
and the 'blank' is alive in me now."
-Like, yearning. -Yearning.
To play Ken.
-Oh-- -Spark? -Spark?
I've had this doll, and it's alive in me now.
Okay, I like that, I like that. Why would you say that?
-Because he has the Ken doll and he is Ken. -Right.
It's the opposite of BDE. It's something you get
when you have no genitals, like Ken.
Right, 'cause he's got that hard plastic genital area.
-Ryan Gosling or Ken? -Well,
I don't know about Ryan Gosling, I haven't seen it.
I've got a lot of-- (whoops) Here we go, come on!
-Energy. -Okay.
Combine your answer with his answer.
Oh, Ken energy.
-Kenergy! -Oh.
Everyone what Kenergy is.
It's like the BDE. Now I know what BDE means.
-What's BDE mean? -Big dick energy.
Whoa, mom!
But it's kind of the opposite of BDE, because...
-He has no D. -♪ ♪
KOSTA: Who's ready for something sweet?
According to a recent lawsuit,
candies sold under the brand name Skittles
-Oh. -are "blank."
-Bad. -Illegal.
Colorful.
You could use the same description
for dog treats,
which, unfortunately, I've learned.
-Poisonous. -Poisonous.
-(laughs): Poisonous. -Poisonous!
-Unfit for human consumption! (whoops) -Skittles!
-(cheering) -(whoops)
You know what you get?
-Skittles! -Ooh!
-Yeah, you got it right! -(cheering)
Yeah! Skittles are poisonous!
-(whoops) Taste the rainbow! -You gave us...
(laughing)
Michael Kosta, everybody.
Stay tuned, because when we come back,
Amandla Stenberg will be joining me on the show,
so don't go away.
(cheering and applause)
(applause and cheering)
welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is actor Amandla Stenberg.
She's here to talk about her new horror-comedy film,
Bodies Bodies Bodies.
He's like-like... Your mom would be like, "Ooh, he's hot."
Not your mom. I mean moms in general.
Moms that have been married for, like, ten, 15 years,
and they see, like, him going out of a Starbucks.
Alice got to bring someone without telling anyone.
So you do read the chat.
Why is everyone so obsessed with the chat?
Like, you're here, I'm here. We're here together, right?
Why are we worrying about the chat
when we could just live in the moment?
Yeah, it's 'cause you went to rehab, and you're not on drugs.
So, like, everything's like,
"Ooh, why don't we just all be cool, man?"
You have a little problem with Greg?
please welcome Amandla Stenberg!
(applause and cheering)
-(Amandla laughs) -How are you? Welcome back.
Ooh. Thank you!
Amandla, welcome back to the show.
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
It's great to see you in person again...
-Yes. -...you know, in real life. Last time
we saw each other was during the pandemic. You're back.
-It was like a FaceTime last time. -It was.
-Everything was a... -But other people just got to witness.
Yes, and now they're here in person.
-We can touch each other, we can feel each other. -Yay!
-(applause and cheering) -Yay!
Congratulations on the new film.
It is certified fresh. I think it's like 90-something-percent
on Rotten Tomatoes. The people are loving it.
And I've seen horror movies.
I've seen comedies, I've seen movies that are commentaries
on society as a whole.
I don't think I've ever seen a horror movie that comments
on society as a whole while being funny at the same time
and dealing with people's sexuality.
How did you do it? Congratulations.
-It's phenomenal. -(Amandla laughs)
-(applause and cheering) -Thanks!
(laughs)
Um, yeah, it's definitely a mixed bag of a film.
Uh, and we were nervous about the tone at moments.
But, uh, we just want people to have fun.
I feel like the easiest way to deal with the ugliest parts
of ourselves is to have fun
while dealing with those things.
-I like that. -We tried to--
We tried to approach it like we were
just making a purely dramatic film.
-I love that. -Um, like,
nothing was funny about the situation.
The thing is that we were playing terrible people
who don't know that they're terrible,
-and that is hilarious. -It really is.
Um, and so, that was what we were going for.
We had to authentically be the worst people ever,
um, and the result was hopefully some comedy.
You know what makes it funny is you're watching a horror movie--
most horror movies you watch, and you're like,
"No, don't kill that person." Here you're like,
"No, don't kill-- Well, okay."
-Yeah. -No, because all the characters, like you say,
-they-- And then here's the thing-- -Well, I think we say
to each other in the film, we're like, "You-you deserve it."
Yes, you do! And that's-that's-- Let's talk about that.
Like, uh, you-you have a movie that critiques,
you know, social media,
the way we see ourselves-- even our friend groups--
what I like is it's not judgy. You know?
It's something we all do as human beings,
and-and it-it's-- it's fun.
It's, like, a cool commentary on-on what we all do.
Yeah. Yeah, well, I love horror films so much
because I feel like it's one of those mediums that,
for some reason, it's-it's the easiest
-to make social commentary through horror films. -Huh.
Maybe because, like, people-- human beings are so driven
-by, you know, like, fear and love, and so -Right, right.
Horror, uh... makes sense.
And so... (laughs) I feel like, um, in this movie
we were trying to make commentary
about themes that have existed
for a very long time.
But this is a hyper-contemporary film because it's about
how all of that is just exacerbated by social media.
And so now we have this, like, literal, uh,
cutout of ourselves that's online...
uh, that we, like, prune, we pick at
and we update and we show to the world.
Uh, and-and so, we're kind of
trying to make fun of
how ridiculous that is.
And you're one of the few people I-I've known who,
for as long as social media has been around,
you've always commented on this. (stammers)
You-You're barely on social media.
-You post now and again. -(chuckles softly)
But one of my favorite posts you ever created
was it's you wearing, like, a really,
like, uh, revealing outfit
and you're playing, like, a really sexy song,
and this is when they were taking, you know,
women's posts down-- they were like, "You can't have that post,
-you can't have that post"-- and then your post was... -Uh-huh.
um, "I've read that if you-- if you type #ad in the caption,
-they don't pull it down." -Oh.
-Yeah. -And they still haven't pulled it down.
Yeah, I've actually had a couple videos of mine
-banned on social media. -Yes.
I primarily use TikTok now,
um, because I was just,
you know, posing in an outfit
and, um... and it said
that the content was sexually explicit.
-Right. -Um, even though there was no part of my body
that was actually showing, like, in the video.
Um, but I think the reason that that happened
and-and why I used #ad in order to keep the video up
is because of algorithmic bias.
-Yeah. -So, I don't know.
I actually got to do a, um...
an audiobook about this.
It's called Sex, Race, and Robots,
and it's about this. It's about al-algorithmic bias
and how that's something that we have to be really aware of
right now.
You've been aware before a lot of people,
and, uh, I think that's why you're successful,
not just in what you make, not just in what you do
-but in who you are. -(applause)
Amandla, thank you so much for joining me
-on the show again. -Thanks.
Congratulations on an amazing film.
Bodies Bodies Bodies will be in select theaters
this Friday, August 5, and nationwide August 12.
We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back
-after this. -(cheering and applause)
Thank you again.
-So much. -(cheering and applause)
-(cheering and applause) -Well, that's our show for tonight,
but, before we go, don't miss Hell of a Week
with Charlamagne Tha God. It's been a week,
and he's about to take it down.
It starts right now, so don't move.
Until next time, stay safe out there.
And remember-- don't do drugs,
unless you want to be the MVP.
Now here it is, Your Moment of Zen.
(cheering and applause)
I-I like Joe.
Um, he's very clever.
He can talk a dog off a meat wagon.
I hope my-my colleagues have learned a lesson.
I love dogs, but never let a dog guard your meal.
Okay? They're going to eat it.