NARRATOR: Coming to you from New
York City, the only city in America, it's The Daily Show!
Tonight, election day is almost here,
investigating the poll-worker shortage,
and Gabriel Iglesias.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
[cheering, applause]
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show.
I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you so much for coming out in person!
We're back. We're in New York City.
We're in the studio.
Take a seat, everybody!
Let's do this!
We've got a massive pre-election show for
you tonight.
Donald Trump is coming for Ron DeSantis.
Democrats are more nervous than a chihuahua in a rainstorm.
And I guess everyone has a good relationship
with their fathers, because no one wants to work the polls.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
[cheering, applause]
All right.
Before we get into the big stories,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world,
starting with our old friend COVID 19.
According to the CDC, there are now
six new variants, all competing to become the dominant strain
this winter.
What they don't realize is that they're all competing
with a strain that's already infected most of the country,
called the "I don't give a shit about
any of this any more" strain.
[applause]
You know, honestly, I feel a little
bad for the variant that becomes dominant now,
you know?
Yeah, because like, everyone has stopped caring.
It's kind of like, if you won an early season of American
Idol, then you were famous.
But if you win season 34 now, this is just
a story you tell your coworkers at the coffee machine,
you know?
It's like-- (SINGING) I'll have mine decaf.
I don't know if you saw me last night.
I won the American Idol--
OK, I'll have that report to you soon.
Thank you, sir.
But remember, all those COVID variants competing
against each other right now--
I just want you to remember, it's
not about winning or losing.
It's about this, all right?
Getting into someone's lungs and ruining their week.
Remember that.
In social media news, on Friday,
Elon Musk kicked off his new job as the head of Twitter--
[loud booing]
By-- by laying off--
[laughter]
I like how you built your "booo".
He kicked off as the head of Twitter
by laying off half of the workforce.
Yeah.
Even fired the bird.
It was terrible.
It was last seen in a parking lot [bleep] for worms.
[laughter]
Oh, relax, relax.
A dick is just a bigger worm.
But it turns out--
it turns out Musk got a little ahead of himself,
because this morning, he's reportedly
trying to rehire dozens of people that he just fired,
after realizing that he actually needs them.
And I'm going to be--
I'm going to be honest.
I'm going to put it out there.
If he's handling Twitter like this,
I don't know how comfortable I would be going with this dude
to Mars, you know?
Yeah, I don't want Elon walking into my cabin one day,
like hey, guys, it turns out I accidentally
fired the team that was bringing the oxygen.
But we'll be fine if we just stop breathing for 69 months.
Ha, ha.
Ha--
[gasping for air]
Oh, and--
[applause]
In sports news-- in sports news,
congratulations to the Houston Astros, who beat--
who beat the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday
to win the 2022 World Series.
Yes.
And this was great news for Texas,
except for all the people who had to see Ted Cruz smile.
And I feel bad for the people in Philly.
They're blackout drunk, fighting in the streets.
And then, they had to watch their team lose.
All right.
Let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day--
starting, once again, with the midterm election.
It's that time in American politics
where the voters get to send their order
back to the kitchen, because they don't like how it tastes.
Mm, too much inflation.
Anyway, with the big day happening tomorrow,
it's time for us to catch up on all
the latest updates in our ongoing coverage
of "Votedemic 2022."
[cheering, applause]
So here we are, people.
After months of campaign speeches, TV ads,
spam texts, and fundraising emails,
the midterms end tomorrow.
And I'm glad, especially because I won't be getting
any more of those spam texts.
They were killing me, especially the ones that start
like a booty call, you know?
Yeah, it'd be like, hey, Trevor, you up?
I'd be like, yeah.
To save the Senate?
Aww!
But tomorrow, it all ends.
And with so many tight races, both parties
are pulling out all the stops.
REPORTER: Down to the wire, a wall-to-wall weekend
of campaigning in the battlegrounds, candidates
locked in neck-and-neck battles,
bringing out the big guns.
REPORTER: The biggest names from both parties fanning out
across the battleground states that will
decide control of Congress.
REPORTER: Three presidents, past and present,
flooding Pennsylvania, holding dueling campaign rallies.
BARACK OBAMA: Fundamental rights are on the ballot.
Democracy itself is on the ballot!
The stakes are high!
REPORTER: Now, even Oprah Winfrey
has now jumped into this race.
She discovered Dr. Oz, worked with him for years,
but now announcing her endorsement of Fetterman.
But I will tell you all this.
If I lived in Pennsylvania, I would
have already cast my vote for John Fetterman,
for many reasons.
Wow.
Oprah Winfrey, coming out.
And not just coming out-- she came out against Dr.
Oz, the man she created, the TV doctor she made famous.
And that's always how it goes, people.
At some point in life, you have to kill
the monster you create.
Yeah, Dr. Frankenstein and his creature, Obi-Wan and Anakin,
parents and their kids--
every parent knows the day will eventually come when you have
to fight your children to the death to determine who will
control the remote control.
But still, Oprah going for Fetterman
must have broken Dr. Oz's heart.
Luckily, he has the perfect cure for that.
Dr. Oz's Broken Heart dietary supplement.
It'll enhance your mood and only turn your poop
yellow some of the time.
Get it now, before the FDA outlaws it again.
It's not just Oprah.
The Democrats are bringing everyone out--
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, which, you have to admit,
is bad news for the Democrats.
Because the bigger names that you bring out
to support you in the midterms means the worse
you're doing, right?
Like, if I was a Democrat in Pennsylvania,
this would be making me nervous.
You know, it would just be like, guess what?
Obama is coming to the rally tonight.
Oh, boy!
And he's bringing Beyonce.
Ah, shit, we're so screwed.
And the truth is, Democrats are nervous right now.
Because they've got a lot stacked up
against them in this election.
Inflation is high.
Crime is up.
Pickleball is taking over for some reason.
And all of that is sending Democrats
into full-on panic mode.
President Biden is warning that American democracy
is at risk.
But it may not be enough to stop
a red wave tomorrow night.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE: A lot of Democrats, whether they're
elected officials, party leaders, strategists,
are panicked, that they feel like things
are not going well for them in the midterms right now.
REPORTER: President Biden, heading to traditionally blue
Maryland today, after a stop Sunday
in another Democratic stronghold, New York.
Vote!
Get out the vote!
Now!
REPORTER: The President giving a last-minute boost
to New York Governor Kathy Hochul,
running in a now-unexpectedly-tight race
against Congressman Lee Zeldin in a state
that hasn't elected a Republican governor in
two decades.
Yeah, that's how bleak it is looking
for Democrats right now.
They're scrambling to salvage a governor's race in New York--
New York, which is crazy.
New York is supposed to be a given for the Democrats.
You know?
This is like having to beg your stalker to like one
of your posts on Instagram.
It's like come on, man!
My feet are in this one!
Yeah, no, it's just not doing it for me anymore.
So yeah, the expectations are that Republicans are going
to have a very good election and that Democrats
are in deep trouble.
But keep in mind, keep in mind, that's all based on the
polls, which--
I'll be honest-- bugs me about American politics.
Because polls are just, like, an idea,
like what a person says, what they maybe are going to do.
And that's why they're often wrong.
In fact, these days, it feels like they're wrong
a lot more than they're right.
And if you went by the polls in the last election-- like,
think about it.
Susan Collins would have lost her election by six points.
Instead, she won it by nine.
And Lindsey Graham was tied in the polls,
but instead, he destroyed his opponents.
And according to the polls, Joe Biden was supposed
to win by eight points.
Instead, he had to steal the election.
I mean, you don't know!
And there are a lot of reasons.
There are a lot of reasons why the polls could be off,
you know? You don't know.
Maybe the pollsters are biased.
Maybe people who are answering are
answering sarcastically, like, oh, I'd
love to vote for Joe Biden.
But the poll doesn't get that.
Or maybe the polls could be wrong,
because the only people who answer the polls
are the craziest people ever!
Have you ever answered a poll?
Huh? No.
Yeah.
If you get a call from an unknown number,
you don't answer.
What are you, a creep?
In fact, any time a pollster gets someone to participate,
the next call is probably to the police.
It's just like, hello, 9-1-1?
Yeah, someone just picked up my call
and spoke to me for 10 minutes.
You should go check their freezer for body parts.
Yeah, it's worrying.
But even though the 2022 election isn't over yet,
it looks like the 2024 campaign might already be underway.
According to reports, Donald Trump
is planning to announce another run for president as
soon as the midterms are over.
[booing]
Yeah, but he's going to wait for the midterms first.
Because he wants to do the responsible thing
and see if his election deniers get into power,
so they can steal the election for him.
He's waiting. It's good.
And even though he hasn't officially announced that he's
running yet, Trump is already taking shots at some
of his rivals in the GOP.
REPORTER: Donald Trump, meanwhile,
and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
held competing rallies in the state of Florida yesterday.
While Trump urged Floridians to vote for DeSantis in his race
against Democrat Charlie Crist, the former President
also took a swipe at the Governor
as a potential 2024 opponent.
DONALD TRUMP: We're winning big, big, big
in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's
ever seen before.
Let's say-- there it is--
Trump at 71, Ron De Sanctimonious at 10%,
Mike Pence at 7-- oh, Mike is doing better than I thought.
Yeah.
I thought he'd be dead by now.
I guess there's always next time.
He's doing better.
By the way, I love how Trump always
gives speeches on the tarmac right in front of his plane.
Have you noticed how he does-- like, the door is open.
The-- it's almost like he doesn't
want to spend one second longer than needed with those people.
He's just like, keep the engine running!
I want to leave this shithole town
as soon as I say good night!
In fact, just dangle me from a helicopter
and pull me up when I'm done!
I want to get out of here before these rednecks
can touch me!
You saw what they did to Mike Pence!
These people are dangerous!
But the reason that speech is going viral
is because of that bitchy little swipe
at Ron De Sanctimonious.
Yeah, you saw that?
Breaking out a classic Trump nickname?
I mean, at least we think it was a nickname.
It could have just been Trump trying to say DeSantis.
You know him.
De Sanctinonia-- De Nonius.
And what makes the story even better
is that apparently, Trump has been privately testing
nicknames for Ron DeSantis.
Yeah.
Which is amazing to me.
The man is at a meeting with his team of lawyers,
and he's like, all right, all right, enough of all the ways
that I could go to jail.
What do you guys like better--
Ron De Sanctimonious or Ron De Shithead?
Which one?
[cheering, applause]
Right now-- Right now, it looks like a Trump-versus-DeSantis
feud is breaking out into the open.
And usually, when two men fight in Florida,
it's at a Margaritaville at 1:00 AM.
But this-- this is a lot more high-stakes, which is probably
why a lot of Republicans are upset with Trump
for going after DeSantis.
Yeah.
Because they're like, what are you doing?
We love Ron DeSantis.
He's our guy.
And Trump is like, yeah, I know.
That's why I hate him.
Because you see, people don't realize
that's the one thing Trump hates more
than anything-- is anyone having what he thinks
should be his spotlight.
That might be the thing that destroys
the Republican chances in 2024.
Donald Trump cannot stand not being the center of attention.
Yeah, I bet he got jealous when his kids were born.
You know?
It's like, congratulations, it's a boy.
He's like, I'm also a boy!
And I've been a boy much longer!
So long.
Many people [inaudible] best boy of all time.
All right. That's it for the headlines.
Before we go to a quick break, let's check in
on the stop market with our finance expert,
Michael Kosta, everybody!
[cheering, applause]
Michael, crazy, crazy times in the economy.
What is happening in the market today?
I am crushing it.
I mean, also, I bet big on the World Series.
I did.
Some of you think sports betting seems risky,
but not the way I do it.
OK?
Here's what I did.
I bet on the Astros, and I hedged against the Phillies.
So I actually won on both sides,
then I packaged the winnings into a credit default swap
that I sold off to a retirement community
in exchange for equity into their homes.
Now, it's comp-- it's complicated,
but all you need to know is that I
own most of your grandmothers' houses now.
OK?
It's called finance, all right?
Now, I got a hot tip for you, so pay attention, OK?
I got a hot tip for you.
But first, let's get to this chart, OK?
Look, this is Twitter going private,
and this is the biggest thing to happen
to Wall Street since the cocaine shortage of '96.
All right?
Yeah, I was there, Trevor.
It was the scariest hour and a half of my life.
OK?
Now, Twitter was a publicly traded company,
and then after this right here, it's private.
OK?
Does everybody understand that?
Public, private.
All right?
Your opinion matters here, because you're
a member of the public.
But then, after a single owner took over,
everybody can shut the [bleep] up about Twitter, OK?
Unless you have $44 billion.
It doesn't matter what you think.
It's what Twitter--
Trevor, what do you think about Twitter?
Well, I think--
It doesn't matter what you think, Trevor!
OK?
[cheering, applause]
Yeah.
I hate to do it.
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks
about Twitter, all right?
Now, here's what I think about Twitter.
Elon Musk is having a tough time with Twitter right now,
and here's how we know that, Trevor.
Because everyone on Twitter is talking about Twitter.
That's not good, OK?
It's like in my house.
When things are going great, I'm talking
shit about the neighbors.
But when my wife sits me down and says,
we need to talk about us, well, obviously,
she did something wrong.
OK?
And now, everyone's questioning Elon's decisions
and what he's doing, but let's not forget,
the man has 10 kids, right?
You know how overwhelming that is?
I have one kid.
Last night, my hair was in pigtails.
I'm wearing lipstick, singing the Frozen theme song.
My son is 17 years old, all right?
But the point is, kids drive you crazy.
I mean, look what Elon did.
He fired people, and now, he's hiring the fired people back.
He begged advertisers to stay.
Now, he's threatening them if they leave.
But of course advertisers want to leave.
Twitter's getting too toxic.
Can you imagine if you're a brand now,
you don't want to be on the timeline.
It's like, Nazi, Nazi, cheese doodles, Nazi, Nazi.
You at least wanted to be like, Cheez doodles, Nazi,
Nazi, Nazi.
OK, look, look, look, look.
The tricky situation that Elon finds himself in
is that Twitter is private now.
Remember?
This is the part of the chart where I told us
to shut the [bleep] up, right?
But it's a platform that only runs on public opinions.
So if everyone leaves Twitter, it's worthless, which brings
me to my hot tip, all right?
If you have $44 billion, just keep it.
[laughter]
[cheering, applause]
Yeah.
It's a great tip for all the people with $44 billion.
Michael Kosta, everybody, all right!
When we come back, Desi Lydic--
we'll find out even more reasons to be
worried about the election.
Don't go away.
[cheering, applause]
[audience cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
After two years of voter fraud accusations and Capitol riots,
it's no surprise that Americans have become less
confident in their elections.
But as Desi Lydic discovers in her new series,
America's election infrastructure may be in even
worse shape than you think.
Hello again.
I'm Desi Lydic.
Elections-- they're a good gauge
for measuring who your class considers the smartest,
prettiest, and coolest.
Unless you're up against Rachel Pearson,
who just brought everyone cupcakes, because her dad
is rich.
But is our election system as foolproof as we think?
I continue to investigate in my ongoing Pulitzer
grab of a segment, "Votedemic 2020: Our Crumbling
Election Infrastructure."
[bleep] you, Rachel.
Previously, I explored the paper shortage that could
affect ballots this election.
That's you.
But something tells me that's not
the only problem we're facing.
I'm back with Tammy at Democracy Fund--
Tammy, we got to talk.
--to find out what else could go wrong.
So last time, we discussed pre-election.
What about election day itself?
What are we looking at?
We don't have enough poll workers.
What?
So part of the challenge with poll workers
is that we need hundreds of thousands
of them every election.
And in this moment, we have a lot of people that are saying
they don't want to come back.
Some of our former poll workers are aging out.
We don't have as many young people stepping in.
And part of that is because of the incivility
that we have around elections right now.
People are being threatened, and they're not really
wanting to serve in a role where they subject themselves
to the onslaught of ridicule, sometimes
from their fellow community members.
Yeah, if they wanted to do that, they would
become comedians.
Just kidding.
But Tammy's right.
It's becoming harder and harder to find
Americans to be poll workers.
JANE SLUSSER: We have a poll-worker shortage
in this country.
There's a poll-worker shortage--
Because of the constant barrage of harassment
at our office, a lot of us across the state are
worried about how it will affect
even poll-worker recruitment.
DESI LYDIC: And under these conditions,
why would anybody want to work the polls?
In elections, it tends to really be all about the food.
So if you talk to poll workers, the election day potluck--
There's a potluck?
You will not believe their enthusiasm
around the topic, who should bring what,
who doesn't bring enough.
I love a potluck.
I needed to find out more about this potluck--
uh-- poll worker problem.
So I'm in Maryland, one of the many states with low poll
worker numbers, to talk with election
director Tracy Dickerson.
Can you explain to me what a poll worker does?
A poll worker is our first line of defense.
Without them, we cannot run an election.
They check in voters.
They issue ballots.
And they also maintain the integrity
part of the election.
Do you ever, just for fun, try to get people
to vote one way or the other?
No, we don't do that in here.
We're election officials, and we're 100% nonpartisan.
Right.
Nonpartisan.
Completely nonpartisan.
TRACY DICKERSON: Absolutely not.
We take it serious.
It's serious.
We-- we don't joke about that in here.
No, no, no, I wouldn't--
I wouldn't joke.
Stop winking.
OK.
Why are we experiencing poll-worker shortages
right now?
It-- it's hard to say.
The atmosphere in elections has drastically changed.
Some poll workers receive threats.
Or when people come in to vote, they get stuff thrown at them.
I don't know if that is an issue.
But they're in dire need.
And I believe they're in dire need across the country.
Have you tried offering some perks, stock options,
401(k), that sort of thing?
Unfortunately, poll workers are
only, more or less, volunteer.
So people basically do it for their community,
because their job is so important, and you cannot
run an election without them.
Gosh.
So would you say this is a thankless job or an incredibly
thankless job?
Yeah, it's a thankless job, because nobody thinks about it
until it's an election year.
And they just assume that the polling places show up,
and that they're just there.
Someone should come along and just say, thank you.
Just say, thank you.
And someone will.
Because you deserve it.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I heard that there's a potluck happening, where people
bring a lot of delicious food?
Is that-- is that true?
Absolutely.
They actually set up full-fledged
banquet-type meals.
Is that free to the public?
No, it's basically-- it's for the poll workers.
Right.
And how do I become a poll worker?
You could sign up and take training.
Oh, damn it.
OK.
I decided to give poll-worker training a try
and was learning a lot.
But when it came to the most important
part of poll-working--
I heard there was a potluck situation.
When does that start up?
Does that start now?
Potluck could happen on Monday night or election day.
So that's not happening today.
Not today.
DESI LYDIC: OK, so if potlucks aren't going
to save democracy, what is?
My name is Joe Plenzler.
I'm a veteran, and I'm also a board
member with Vet The Vote.
What is Vet The Vote?
So Vet The Vote is a nationwide public awareness
campaign to recruit 100,000 election
poll workers this year.
What have you learned from being a poll worker?
If anyone doubts, like, how polling stations are run
or the outcomes of elections, I'm like,
come in and see the process.
You'll see the two-party integrity
around every voting machine.
I mean, if you come in the door a skeptic,
you're going to leave a believer, guaranteed.
And coming from the military, being a poll worker
is kind of like the same thing.
I mean, you're helping your community,
not at the level of politics, but at the level of civics,
to make some democracy.
I'm convinced.
I wasn't actually convinced, but I'm
a sucker for a power vest, so I decided to finish my training.
This is pretty high-tech.
This is some hacker stuff right here.
We don't say that around here.
Sorry.
WADE BESWICK: So this is a zero report,
and this shows to the public that this machine has arrived
at the polling place in the state,
that it left this building with zero votes on it.
So this much paper is required to show zero votes.
Correct.
I know why there's a paper shortage.
I may not have been able to fix our broken voting system--
Just like this?
WADE BESWICK: Just like that.
[machine beeping]
I broke it.
But I will say that if voting goes smoothly in your county,
you have a poll worker to thank.
[audience applause]
Thank you so much for that, Desi!
All right, stay tuned.
Because when we come back, international comedy
superstar Gabriel Iglesias will be joining me on the stage.
You don't want to miss this.
[cheering, applause]
[cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is the first comedian to perform
and sell out Dodger Stadium.
He's here to talk about his new standup
special, "Stadium Fluffy," which
is streaming now on Netflix.
I'm not a comedian who's divisive.
That's why I don't talk about politics, religion, or
sports, OK?
Because all three will divide people.
That's why I talk about food.
Because food brings people together.
[cheering]
That's right, unless you're vegan, in which case
you can leave right now.
I don't give a shit.
I really don't.
Please, welcome Gabriel Iglesias!
[cheering]
[music playing]
Woo.
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias.
What's up?
[cheering]
- Welcome to The Daily Show. - Thank you.
This is awesome.
This is ridiculous, right?
Yeah, it only took seven years.
[laughs]
No, no, no, don't even try that with me.
Don't even try that with me.
I invited you from the moment I got this job.
I was like, yo, Fluffy, you going to come on the show.
You are maybe the busiest person in comedy
that I know of because you're always on the road.
You're doing massive shows, and now
massive is an understatement.
Let's start with that.
Congratulations, first of all, not just selling out Dodger
Stadium, selling it out twice.
[cheering]
Like, what does that even feel like?
Man, as far as--
I mean, it's surreal.
It's very surreal.
It's like-- it's the biggest thing I've ever done,
and I did it at home, you know?
It was just-- it was the greatest night of my life,
and it was documented. TREVOR NOAH: That's beautiful.
Yeah.
TREVOR NOAH: That is-- when you're performing, like,
I would love to know because--
for those who don't know-- so Gabriel Iglesias
is one of my favorite people in the world,
like, not just as a comedian, but as a human.
When I first came to the US, right,
he came to one of my shows.
No one knew who I was.
Came to one of my shows, waited till everybody left.
I was like, oh, this guy's like a creep.
[laughter]
Everyone was gone.
And then he came up to me from the back of the room.
And he's like, hey, Trevor.
And I was like, yeah?
And he's like, my name is Gabriel Iglesias.
You don't know who I am, but I'm a comedian out here.
And I think you're very funny.
And I'd love for you to come on the road with me.
I know you're big in South Africa,
but no one knows you here.
So I don't want to offend you.
And you took me out on the road with you,
and truly, that may be some of like-- some
of my favorite memories I've ever had in life.
You took me to El Paso, Texas.
You took me to Erie, Pennsylvania.
You took me to--
and so, like, what I'd love to know
is how it feels to perform.
Because what I love about your journey is there is no club
you haven't been in.
There's no theater you haven't performed
in all over the world.
And now it's stadiums.
Like, what's different about a stadium that you love?
And then what is the thing that you miss
about a tiny, little club?
What's awesome about a stadium is,
first of all, just saying you're at a stadium.
Because now you're like, oh, look,
it's like a Mexican Tay-Tay you know what I mean?
[laughter]
He's doing Stadium and then, of course, clubs,
it's very intimate.
It's instant, you know?
It's right there.
It's very, very nice.
And so there's, of course, pros and cons to both.
Right.
But, I mean, I don't know where it's going to go now.
But I feel like it's only--
it's not even going up.
You've been consistently successful every single year
around the world.
As I started going to other countries,
people would tell me they came to my shows
because they saw us together doing something.
You've traveled to multiple countries way
before other American comedians even have.
Like, what do you think is part of your success?
Why do people love Fluffy so much?
Even that name, like, that nickname, Fluffy,
has become synonymous with-- it's become a joyous nickname.
I think it's just one of those, you know what?
I'm? A fish out of water.
I share stories.
I try not to get in people's faces.
It's always a good time.
I'm not trying to preach to you.
I'm not trying to tell you what shot to take.
I'm not trying to tell you who to vote for.
I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life.
I'm just sharing stories.
And people can relate to that.
TREVOR NOAH: You have one of the most diverse audiences
I've ever come across.
You bring people together.
You've always enjoyed sharing your heritage. you know?
You'll do jokes.
Some of them will be in Spanish,
but then you'll play with English.
You'll mess around in the audience.
That's what I loved about being on tour with you.
When you look at the rest of the world now,
do you still have places you dream
of going to and performing in, or have you done it all?
I want to go to South Africa.
[cheering]
TREVOR NOAH: I'll take you.
And that's why I'm talking to you.
TREVOR NOAH: This guy, I'll take you.
That's why I'm telling the man.
I thought you were going to something difficult.
No, I've pretty much been everywhere.
But South Africa has always been that one--
Well, you've never been South Africa?
I've never been to South Africa.
Oh, Fluffy, we're going to take
you to South Africa, Fluffito.
Fluffito, hey.
My man, Fluffy, you play games.
You play games. - I've never been.
I would love to go.
And I think you're the perfect person to take me.
TREVOR NOAH: I'll take you. - Just saying.
Let's go. [cheering]
The other things you're doing in the world,
I feel like I hear your voice in everything from Space
Jam to Paw Patrol to-- like, I hear your voice-- you do a lot
of voice work, don't you?
A lot of voiceover work, yeah.
Yeah.
COVID, man, I had to do something.
[laughter]
Because you can do every voice as well.
Yeah, I did a lot of--
I did, like, three movies from home during 2020.
- Like, you watched them? - No, I did three mo--
- Oh, OK. - I did three--
I was like, Fluffy, I did, like, 20 movies from home.
What do you mean? [laughter]
I recorded voice--
I did voiceover three films while I was home.
Right.
And you got to be careful.
You got to be specific because if you say you work from home
doing videos, they think you have an OnlyFans
or something, right? TREVOR NOAH: [laughs]
Don't get me wrong.
I could get paid doing that too.
[laughter]
Yeah.
[cheering]
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Oh, OK, so you got the movies.
Wait.
I heard that you're also working on a new show
now, right?
Are you doing something else?
Doing something for Netflix, yes, a new film
called I, Chihuahua.
It's a story that--
you know--
[laughter]
Well, you've got to give context as well.
You've got-- I mean, you've always
been a lover of chihuahuas.
Yes, I have a couple of them.
I didn't bring them because, you know, yeah, freaking--
TREVOR NOAH: Mm-hmm.
But, no, yeah, this is this thing, that's
project I'm working on with the producer and writer of a film
called Book of Life and Maya and the Three.
We got together, George, and we just we started
coming up with this idea.
And, yeah, it's coming out next year,
hopefully, fingers crossed.
[cheering]
I'm just so happy.
Netflix says yes, but sometimes they say no.
But most of the time they say yes, which is cool.
I feel like everyone should say yes to you.
You're one of the nicest, most wonderful
human beings who I've had the pleasure of meeting.
You're always kind to comedians.
When they're on the road, you'll
bring out comics who are struggling,
and then you'll give them a leg up.
Audiences will get to know them.
I would love to know, who's the comedian who shaped your life?
Or not even the comedian, who's the person who, like, whenever
you look back and go, man, if it wasn't for them,
this journey wouldn't be the same?
That's my mom.
[applause]
Yeah.
She was the one who would always say, help others.
But at the same time, she's like,
but that's too much help.
Too much. Let them go.
[speaking spanish]
[laughter]
I mean, early on, it was one of those things where I just
started going on the road.
And no one told me to be nice to people.
No one said, hey, help this guy out or take
this person on the road.
It was just like, you know, when I came up to you,
I knew you were hysterical.
And you seemed really cool when I met you.
So I said, hey, come on. You like Taco Bell?
Because you're going to eat a lot of it
if you go on the road.
And-- [laughs]
You think he's joking.
So my favorite--
[laughter]
My favorite part of being on tour with Fluffy
was how we would eat.
So-- no, because, like, we would
eat at a different place.
Remember, I hadn't eaten at most
takeout places in America.
And so we'd stop in all of these random cities.
And then every night, Fluffy would look at me,
and he'd-- like, there was this joke that I was telling.
Like, one of the jokes had the word "namin" in it.
So then he'd be like, hey, Namin.
That's what he'd call me, right?
So it was like, Fluffito, Namin.
So we'd go there.
And be like, Namin.
He'd be like, you want to get Taco Bell?
Then I was like, what's Taco Bell?
And they'd be like, you never had Taco Bell?
And we went to Taco Bell.
It was a group of us, but still,
we bought $100 worth of Taco Bell, which,
for those who like-- it was bags and bags of-- and, like,
I mean, I walked out of Tac--
I felt like that scene, Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.
[laughter]
I've never had that much food.
And I remember, like, I walked back to the tour bus.
And I looked at you, and you looked at me.
And I just had the bags.
[laughter]
Man--
You never lived like this.
I've never lived like this.
It's been an absolute pleasure having you.
I'm glad I could have on because, genuinely,
you've been-- you're so busy.
You basically came in just for this, which I appreciate.
You know?
This is-- no, genuinely, this guy has-- like,
he changed my life.
He's one of my favorite people in the world.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you for being in my life, Fluffy.
[cheering]
Great seeing you, my man.
I'll see you on the road now.
- South Africa. - I'll see you on the road.
South Africa. - South Africa.
You said it on camera, so it's happening.
Gabriel Iglesias, everybody.
We're going to take a quick break.
But we'll be right back after this.
[cheering]
Well, that's our show for tonight.
But before we go, tomorrow is election day.
So if you haven't already, make your plan to vote.
You can find your polling location at vote.org.
So get on out there and make your voice heard.
Also, stay tuned because Jordan Klepper
is about to finger the midterms in his latest special.
Now here it is, your Moment of Zen.
[cheering]
[music playing]
Live television, gang.
That's live TV for you.
Excuse me.
My kids are here. Live television.
We'll do it live. [bleep] it!
They were--
[speaking spanish]