Desi Lydic has the latest from the Vatican after the announcement of the first American pope, Leo XIV, including the world's reaction to a Chicago-style pope and Fox News immediately yelling at him to speak English. Plus, Michael Kosta celebrates America's conclave win.
Following Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military, Jordan Klepper met with a panel of esteemed service members to discuss the president’s rejection of their qualifications, which stand in stark contrast to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s alcohol-fueled past and Trump’s own bone spur excuses.
Comedian, writer, and actor Michelle Buteau sits down with Desi to share how the Netflix series that she created and stars in, “Survival of the Thickest,” began as a book of essays written just after her twins were born, how having so much creative responsibility on the show allows her to reflect the diversity of the city she lives in, and why she says featuring body-positive sex scenes shows young women that they are worthy of love at any size and shape. She also discusses her recent accomplishment as the first woman to ever film a comedy special at Radio City Music Hall and reflects on the importance of finding joy during difficult times.
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
We've got huge breaking news out of Italy tonight that puts.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
The holy and holy ship. Let's get into the headlines.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You've been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about
that resume you sent in bad news.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
The position has been filmed.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
And I think we see it, sorry and certain it
looks like smoke and white smoke.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Oh whit.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We have smoke and it is white smoke.
Speaker 9 (01:06):
It would appear to be a white smoke, white smoke.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
We have a pope we are watching, and everyone to
breathe it in.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
The white smoke, breathe it in.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I didn't know we were supposed to hot box the
pope smoke.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
But white smoke means there's a new pope. And way
do you get a load of where he came from history.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
At the Vatican, the first ever American pope.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We have the first American pope.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And let me just say, as an American, are you
sure about this? We don't really have the gravitas that
you associate with popiness. We're less somber procession and more
monster truck rally. I just think it's a little bit
weird that the holiest man in the world probably knows
all the words to the Chili's Babyback Rid song.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
In fact, I was trying to come up with a
way to explain why the idea of an American pope
feels like such a contradiction. But I think the way
the news broke here kind of sums it up.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
What is going on here?
Speaker 10 (02:22):
Your son was sleeping with your fiance and your fiance
was leaving with your son.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
That is correct. When I found that out, I confronted Andrea, she.
Speaker 11 (02:31):
Is a Fox News special record.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wait what happened with Andrea? Go back to the gross
love triangle?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I love that stuff, But the votes are counted and
the Vatican doesn't have a January sixth, so there's no
going back. Let's find out more about this American. Excuse me,
Pope Americano.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Born in nineteen fifty five in Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost
has been a cardinal for only two years.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
He's big into tennis. He's effectually known as.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Father Bob, A Cubs fan. He loves to cook.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Italian media has referred to him as the least American
of the Americans because of his quiet, humble wig.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So you're telling me that you think all Americans are
loudmouthed jackasses, Well fuck you, humble humble, I'm the most
humble bitch.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
You've ever seen. Let's get back to the pope.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Of course, the first job of every new pope is
to pick a pope name, which we all know is
supposed to be the name of your first pet in
the street you grew up on.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And he went a different.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Way, Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago taking on the name
of Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Did he choose it the way we pick a new
email address? Does he dot lightick has taken?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay? What about? Does he dot LIGHTIK two? Really? Three?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Really?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Four?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Does he dot LIGHTIK fourteen?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But yes, Robert Prevot's new name is Leo the fourteenth,
which sucks for him because he just got his real ID.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
D it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Because now I've always found this odd. The church is
so conservative on gay issues. But then they turn around
and make its leader choose a drag name and make
it quick. We got to get you to your gown fitting.
You're gonna look so fierce woo. But after he picked
(04:48):
his pope name, he came out and gave his first
speech in both Italian and Spanish about the need for
unity and peace on earth. So q peace and unity
in three two one, And.
Speaker 12 (05:02):
I would have loved for the first pope from America
to say something in English.
Speaker 13 (05:08):
I was a little surprised that a Chicago native did
not say a few words in English.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
He's talking Spanish. He's an American and he didn't even
speak in English.
Speaker 13 (05:15):
He's spoke in Latin, Spanish and Italian.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Did not speak He.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
Did not speak in English. I mean, I don't know
how you claim that this is an American pope if
you won't even speaking in a native tongue, That to
me was very disturbing.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yes, yes, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough
for the pope.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Shame shame on you. Come on, does it really matter
what language he speaks? It's church. You're going to be
sleeping through it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Anyway, And besides, there's going to be plenty of other
stuff for conservatives to throw a tantrum about.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
There's some tweets that when the Pope is still a
cardinal that are getting a lot of attention online that
are politically charged.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
This one is directly rebuking jd Vance.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
The new Pope.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Hope we are the fourteenth said jd Vance is wrong.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The new Pope is not like jd Vance. He really
is an everyday American. Be careful, though, father, if you
piss off jd.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Vance, He's going to pay you a visit. We want that.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
For more on the new Pope, let's go to the
Vatican with Michael Costa.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Michael, let's be analysis.
Speaker 13 (06:35):
I'll tell you my analysis.
Speaker 14 (06:37):
Usa, usa, usay.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I take it. You're excited. The Pope is American?
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Is the Pope Catholic? An American?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Yep?
Speaker 13 (06:53):
We won the conclave, baby, suck it. Rest of the world.
Who the Pope's from?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Chicago?
Speaker 13 (06:58):
America's number one in terms of mustard consumption. Now let's
shotgun this communion wine.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Hey, yeah, body of Christ to calm down.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I don't think it was a competition between countries.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
Oh sure, Now that we won. They'll say it wasn't
a competition. They said we couldn't do it. They said
our cardinal roster didn't have the depth, that we'd have
to rebuild for years before we got a pope. Well
guess who's kissing our ring now? Mother f is Okay, yeah, hey,
Cardinal Matteo ZUPI tell me how my ass tastes.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Michael, you're at the Vatican. Stop swearing.
Speaker 13 (07:41):
Oh you're right, my bad, shit, so sorry, I'm so
so pumped.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I'm so pumped.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Are you even Catholic?
Speaker 13 (07:49):
Am I Catholic?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm not.
Speaker 13 (07:51):
But I'm American, Okay, which means I get really excited
when we win stuff Conclaves, space races, Toyotas, Academy Awards. Hey,
Bong June Hoe, tell me how my ass taste?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
All right, look, I appreciate your patriotism, but this could
have been a chance to have a pope from underrepresented countries.
There's never been a pope from Africa or Asia.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
Oh oh yeah, well you know there's never else you
know where else? There hasn't been a pope before today? America?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Okay?
Speaker 13 (08:22):
And what country is less represented on the world stage
than America? Do you know, there's never been an American
queen of England. Think about that.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, can you actually give me some analysis here? What
is Pope Leo going to bring to the papacy?
Speaker 15 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Well, you know, the pope has very important responsibility. He's
got the hat, he rides in that car that you
can see through. He's got that magic scepter and he's like,
you shall not pass.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Haasa haasa.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
That's Gandalf.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You don't know anything about the papacy.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Much less what an American will bring to it.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
Look, I don't know what he's going to bring to
the papacy, but the thing about US Americans is that
we're not sticklers for the rules. So it'll be nice
to have a pope who's not going to be a
hard ass for every single little commandment. You know, I mean,
this whole can't say the Lord's name in vain. Jesus Christ,
give me a party.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Michael, stop swaying.
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Cares. Okay, I'm getting into heaven no matter what. You
want to know why because I know a guy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh all right, Michael, everybody, Oh my god, make the.
Speaker 16 (09:32):
Latest culture Wars about away.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Show the US military is the fiercest fighting machine to
ever exists, not counting Andre the Giant. But now the
Trump Anddministration is banning a select group of soldiers from
entering combat.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Jordan Klipper has more.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
The US military the most powerful and respected organization in
the entire world. Few have what it takes, the discipline,
the strength, the bravery, the sacrifices made to serve our country.
But according to the Trump White House, there's an enemy
with him. Everything's transgender.
Speaker 13 (10:28):
Everybody transgender.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
That's all you hear about.
Speaker 15 (10:30):
The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Begin enforcing a ban on transgender service members.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
No more pronouns, no more dudes in dresses.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We're done with that shit.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
And I had some hard hitting questions, so as the
Daily Show senior war correspondent LEI had the guts to
a paper cuts ah once recovered. I met with some
transgender individuals to hear their unqualifications.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
My name is Lieutenant Ray Timberlake.
Speaker 15 (11:01):
I'm in the United States Navy and I've been serving
for about seventeen years.
Speaker 17 (11:06):
My name is Clayton, and I've been trying to go
for Pair Rescue PJ in the Air Force and it's
a special warfare career field.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I'm Second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot with the United States Army Reserve.
I've been in for a little over a year.
Speaker 18 (11:17):
I'm Joe Allis. I'm a Chief Warrant officer too, and
the Virginia Army National Guard. I've served for fifteen years
the U sixty years as a Blackhawk.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
I don't want to twelve war stories, but I've flown
Spirit airlines twice, so I no danger. They seem qualified
to me, But there are others who think they're weakening
are military.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
They can't go to sea, they can't fly airplanes in combat,
they can't deploy with the army into combat areas.
Speaker 18 (11:44):
We should never allow anyone in the military to undergo
transition surgery, which would make them medically unqualified to deploy.
Speaker 15 (11:52):
This idea that we spend years of being non deployable
is just simply undrewe I've never missed a deploy I
can fight tonight.
Speaker 18 (12:01):
They've paid for nothing for my transition. I paid out
of pocket because I wanted to be mission ready as
fast as possible. In six weeks, I was deployable again,
and I'm deployable today. They spend many times more on
biagra than they do on gender firming care.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
If we don't have viagra in the military, then who
is going to take care of Pete haiksas whiskey Dick.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I mean, that's not how I want to serve my country.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Turns out, the US military spends eight times more on
viagra than gender a firming care, over thirty seven million
more to be exact, And on top of that, replacing
transgender troops could cost an estimated nine hundred and sixty
million dollars in recruiting and training, which ain't easy.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
It's it's very physically intense. After going through a pretty
extensive medical exam to even get into the military, going
to basic training, it's a lot like what most people
think it is. It's like it's pretty Yeah, it's boot camp.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I did theater camp. It's tough. My tour duty was
South Pacific. Ellie wise calling RELLI Hi? Is that hotwood?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 17 (13:04):
All the trans people that are serving go above and
beyond the standards and they do their job every day.
Speaker 18 (13:09):
But it's interesting to hear that we are too strong
for sports but too weak for the military.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Being too weak for both, I was curious why anyone
would want to kick out these dedicated individuals.
Speaker 14 (13:21):
If I'm in a foxhoul, I don't want to know
whether this guy next to me is wondering if he's
a woman or a man, or flip back and forth.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
Because everyone knows when you're fighting on the front lines,
the real enemies are the preferred pronouns of the person
next to you.
Speaker 18 (13:39):
So I go by rank and last name. If someone
uses a pronoun that I don't prefer, I really don't care.
To me, it's a distraction. Like my job is to
fly the helicopter.
Speaker 11 (13:48):
I'm curious what the reaction has been to you being
trans in the military.
Speaker 15 (13:54):
I received an outpouring of support when I came out.
Speaker 18 (13:57):
They're my family and at my back.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
At the end of the day, nobody cares about is
whether I can perform my job when I have that
uniform on.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Lucky nice to have respectful co workers. I work with
this guy running. He's a total dick. He's just a dick.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
So if the people in the military itself don't care,
then why do the administration impose an executive order stating this.
Speaker 17 (14:17):
An adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual
sex can float with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful,
and disciplined lifestyle.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I was named an honor graduate at Basic training, so
I would say, you know, at least someone out there
agrees that I have some honor and some discipline in me.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
Would you leak war plans on signal?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Are you that disciplined?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
I don't have any plans to do, so.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Good to know.
Speaker 18 (14:39):
If more people met trans people like us, then there
would be no issue.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
If the world's on fire. These are the folks I
want in the fox hole. But would they want me?
Do you guys think I would be an asset in
the US military?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
How many push ups can you do?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
It's sort of like jazz. It's all about the push
ups you don't do. And right now I'm not doing
a million.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
How fast can you run two miles?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Well, I can drive it in under forty seconds.
Speaker 19 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
So I was at Fortsville, Oklahoma for Basic training. It
was about one hundred and twenty degrees fahrenheit most days.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, that's not going to work for me.
Speaker 11 (15:12):
If I'm in the sun for more than seven minutes,
I get heat rash.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Just like that.
Speaker 15 (15:16):
Have you ever tried an MRI?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (15:19):
Yeah, and it told me that it was just a
little fracture in my foot.
Speaker 18 (15:23):
I think what you're talking about a MRI. No MRI
is a meal that's ready to eat.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Yeah, military ship.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
While lawsuits are still pending and the fight's not over.
I imagine these troops have lost the appetite to fight
for a country that refuses to acknowledge they even exist.
Speaker 18 (15:39):
President Trump is my commander in chief, and I will
gladly answer the cough he calls me up to active duty.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
America's my home, this is my country, this is you know,
where I want to be and who I want to
fight for.
Speaker 17 (15:50):
I'm willing to serve. I'm able to serve, and I
can get the job done.
Speaker 15 (15:53):
I'd say, come to the fleet, come to the field.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Comes to you.
Speaker 15 (15:55):
What the thousands of transgender service members do every day
in support of our nation's defense.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
Sounds like patriot isn't for me.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
But what do I know?
Speaker 11 (16:04):
I didn't serve because of post.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
And when we come back, Michelle, you call will be
trying on the.
Speaker 19 (16:13):
Show, Go go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
My guest.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Tonight is an actor, writer, and comedian who created in
stars in the Netflix series Survival.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Of the thickest. Please welcome Michelle.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You to.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
Oh this is nice, it's nice.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I feel like we need more dance breaks.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
We do with times. We gotta get it.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We gotta get it in twins.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Yes instead of magic Mike, it's like magic Michelle.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Is this a tear away suit?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Not yet?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Mine is really I'll show you later. They're like, no,
don't do that. You're beautiful, Come on now, you stop it.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And you're so funny, So just everything.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am such a fan of yours, and I'm so
happy that you're here. Congratulations on the second season.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Of your show.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, season two, you have recent special out You're about
to go on tour.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yes, you're the mother of twins. Yes, first question.
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Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Would you like to go take a quick nap in my.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
No, you know what, I'm sleeping right now. You wouldn't know.
You bought the moments.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Yeah, it's a nice part about like not being on
your phone all the time, to take those breaks, you know,
to actually see your children living in the world, crossing
a street, being like just so cute and grown, having
time to be creative. I'm just you guys, put your
phones down and start like you pick a book up.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Yet I can't say it enough. It's like, really to
create stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, killing advice, especially when they're little like your's. You're
you have six year old, they're six, right, Yeah. I
love the way you describe your daughter, Hazel, Oh my god,
having the vibes of a fifty three year old woman
who works with a.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
D m B.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Yes, a fifty three year old black woman that works
the DV.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
You know what I mean, because you know, you know who.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
This fuscificity, because she rolls up at the playground and
she's like, is this what y'all.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Meant to do? I'm like, hey's hole, it wouldn't be nice.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I love her, you know. I love that, and I
love it.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
To I mean, I want them to be honest, just
not with me all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yes, hold back a little bit.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Just a little bit. She told me my elbows look old.
I was like, girl, eat your peace.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
What does that even mean?
Speaker 10 (19:26):
I mean, my elbows look a little haunted. They're a
little gray at the top of a pigeon's head. We
don't want to get into it.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Let's talk about the show.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We'll talk about the show. I do want to talk
about your show? This is season two? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You Your character Mavis explores dating all kinds of relationships,
building this beautiful budding career. You're now in a phase
of your life where you have this booming career, married,
you have kids. Is this is this your opportunity to
go back and get a do over, do some things
differently kind of?
Speaker 10 (19:56):
So, you know, Mavis is the name of my grandmother,
and she was my person, she was my soulmate. I
think you could have more than one sold me and
you don't know how they're going to come to you,
you know, And so it's so nice hearing her name
on set all the time. But you know, I wrote
this book, Survival of the Thickest, And when I brought
the twins home, I'm like, I'll have time to write
(20:17):
a book now. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah,
And my husband was just like, are you gonna finish
this book? I was like, that feels like a lot
of question. And he found Joan Rivers old desk at
Housing Works or some sort of like place. Yeah, yes,
some sort of vintage shop, and brought the desk home.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I wrote the book on the desk.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
There was like legit energy in this desk wrote the
book and I'm like, I did this like artist thing
where I was like, who's going to read this book?
Why I should I even write it? And I'm like,
write it for you, just to get something done. And
I couldn't have ever imagine that it would turn into
two seasons of a show.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
And so what was.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Really fun was working with my co career and showrunner
Danielle Sanchez Witzel, who's done The Carmichael Show and he's
worked on New Girl, and so she has like amazing
experience with the unique voices, and it was pulling these stories,
these essays from like.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Fifteen to thirty five, forty.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Two and.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Putting them in a world that I wanted to see
on television, you know, in New York that reflects my
New York with fat, black, brown, queer, non binary voices.
And I feel like we've done a bang up job
doing that. This season, we have you know, spoiler alert.
If you haven't seen it, you need to see it.
(21:40):
If you've seen it, episode six, agree the categories love.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
We have a.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Beautiful trans wedding.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
You know Peppermint, who's a beautiful black dress woman who's
also a drag reformer gets married, and it's just it
is not only the New York that I live in,
but it's also the America I want to live in.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
What a lot of what.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I want to talk about the fact that you are
wearing all the hats on this show you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You created, you write, you produce, you star in.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What does it feel like to have that kind of
creative freedom and also responsibility?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Gosh, I mean it feels damn good. Yeah, it feels
really good.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
And I will say, you know, I've been doing stand
up comedy for over twenty years, and you know, doing
projects with a lot of friends, including a producer on
your show, Devin, Like, We've done a lot of stuff together.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And the thing is, we do like a lot of.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Stuff for free for so long. And so when people
come to me and they ask me, how do I
start making money? How do I get to the next level?
I just say, keep doing it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Be so good.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
By the time you get in that seat, by the
time you get that job, you can't mess it up
because you've done it for ten, twelve, fifteen years for free,
So you already know all the things that could happen.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
You know what I mean? And also like, emit what
you don't know?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
You know, yes, and tell that.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
To the administration. One take that up.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, it's this Season two is real steamy when it
comes to the sex scenes.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Did you see it?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yes, very steamy, very And I'm just wondering, was that
your call?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
And how do you want.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
As it should be? How do I push for more
sex scenes here at the Daily Show.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I'll talk to the administration.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yeah, you know, I this is a body positive show,
you know, and I'm positive we all got a body
And it was really important for me to show my
silhouette and other silhouettes being loved down, you know, because
we are worthy of love at any size or shade
or shape, even down to like you know, not even
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down to like not wearing a lot of makeup, to show,
especially young women, you are beautiful the way you are.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
You deserve to be.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Loved however that looks, you know. So it was so
important too to work with a very diverse casting crew,
and you know, seventy percent of the heads of our
department are female, and because you know, we get some done,
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and so it was really important as a plus size
actor to be you know, working with women who know
how to light you know, the biscuits.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And it's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, you know what
I mean.
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Gotta light those biscuits. You gotta light them good.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
The bucket of chickens, they gotta be seen, the legs
and the thighs.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
What am I talking about?
Speaker 8 (24:48):
What?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I don't know who I am, but.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I want to talk about your your stand up And
first of all, you were the first female comedian ever
to film a special at Radio City Music Hall. Yeah,
it does to break that beautiful glass ceiling.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My goodness.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
That was.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
I think if it's if it's not a little scary,
then like, why then why are you not doing it?
Does that make sense? Like it should be a little scary.
You should be a little excited. You should push yourself,
you know, no matter what you have on your resume,
or what you have in your bank account, or what
you think you can and cannot do, just try, you know,
because you're just gonna end up in the same position
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anyways if it doesn't work out. And so I thought,
you know what, let's see, it's really crazy that a
woman has not filmed there. And I'm like, this isn't
even about me, It's about them, you know. And the
only reason why I even thought I could play Radio
City Music Hall is because years ago I opened for
Jonathan VanNess, you know. So that's that should be the
name of the game. We should be helping each other up,
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you know, uplifting, divers, fat.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And so a beautiful mind.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
That Rady sitting was a call was it.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Was really it was so special. I was like more
excited than my wedding.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Oh, yes, you should be, Yes, your husband, but that's
a huge accomplishment. Yes, And you really are inspiring to
so many women out there. One thing that strikes me
as so special about you is that you infuse so
much joy and positivity in your comedy and in.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
All of your work.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
You you are so excellent at these like hard, assertive,
very funny, powerful jokes, but you never lose touch with
your humanity. Do you ever find that challenging when times
are tough, Like how do you channel that energy asking
for a friend?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
No, it's it's I'm a joyful person, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
And so.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Not only my mom and my Grandma may Is and
my great Grandma Hays, like all these women in my family.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Everybody in my family has had.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
To really fight for their joy and their peace, and
they thought so I could be here, and so that's
not wrong on me. And you know, when you start
from a place of like, let's have fun, you know,
how can we find comedy on the other side of pain?
Then I do believe that I will always be okay,
(27:36):
you know, because sometimes it is perspective and we have
to be aware that things are happening and there is injustices.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
But like, how do we like, how do we find
our joy in the day? You know what I mean?
Because then if we're not happy, then they've won.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Right, that's right. You are so entired and such a
joy to be around me.
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Thank you for being here.
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We've got huge breaking news out of Italy tonight that puts.
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Now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You've been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about
that resume you sent in bad news.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
The position has been filmed.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
And I think we see it, sorry and certain it
looks like smoke and white smoke.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
Oh whit.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We have smoke and it is white smoke.
Speaker 9 (01:06):
It would appear to be a white smoke, white smoke.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
We have a pope we are watching, and everyone to
breathe it in.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
The white smoke, breathe it in.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I didn't know we were supposed to hot box the
pope smoke.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
But white smoke means there's a new pope. And way
do you get a load of where he came from history.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
At the Vatican, the first ever American pope.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We have the first American pope.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And let me just say, as an American, are you
sure about this? We don't really have the gravitas that
you associate with popiness. We're less somber procession and more
monster truck rally. I just think it's a little bit
weird that the holiest man in the world probably knows
all the words to the Chili's Babyback Rid song.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
In fact, I was trying to come up with a
way to explain why the idea of an American pope
feels like such a contradiction. But I think the way
the news broke here kind of sums it up.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
What is going on here?
Speaker 10 (02:22):
Your son was sleeping with your fiance and your fiance
was leaving with your son.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
That is correct. When I found that out, I confronted Andrea, she.
Speaker 11 (02:31):
Is a Fox News special record.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wait what happened with Andrea? Go back to the gross
love triangle?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I love that stuff, But the votes are counted and
the Vatican doesn't have a January sixth, so there's no
going back. Let's find out more about this American. Excuse me,
Pope Americano.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Born in nineteen fifty five in Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost
has been a cardinal for only two years.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
He's big into tennis. He's effectually known as.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Father Bob, A Cubs fan. He loves to cook.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Italian media has referred to him as the least American
of the Americans because of his quiet, humble wig.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So you're telling me that you think all Americans are
loudmouthed jackasses, Well fuck you, humble humble, I'm the most
humble bitch.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
You've ever seen. Let's get back to the pope.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Of course, the first job of every new pope is
to pick a pope name, which we all know is
supposed to be the name of your first pet in
the street you grew up on.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
And he went a different.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Way, Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago taking on the name
of Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Did he choose it the way we pick a new
email address? Does he dot lightick has taken?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay? What about? Does he dot LIGHTIK two? Really? Three?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Really?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Four?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Does he dot LIGHTIK fourteen?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But yes, Robert Prevot's new name is Leo the fourteenth,
which sucks for him because he just got his real ID.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
D it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Because now I've always found this odd. The church is
so conservative on gay issues. But then they turn around
and make its leader choose a drag name and make
it quick. We got to get you to your gown fitting.
You're gonna look so fierce woo. But after he picked
(04:48):
his pope name, he came out and gave his first
speech in both Italian and Spanish about the need for
unity and peace on earth. So q peace and unity
in three two one, And.
Speaker 12 (05:02):
I would have loved for the first pope from America
to say something in English.
Speaker 13 (05:08):
I was a little surprised that a Chicago native did
not say a few words in English.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
He's talking Spanish. He's an American and he didn't even
speak in English.
Speaker 13 (05:15):
He's spoke in Latin, Spanish and Italian.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Did not speak He.
Speaker 12 (05:18):
Did not speak in English. I mean, I don't know
how you claim that this is an American pope if
you won't even speaking in a native tongue, That to
me was very disturbing.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yes, yes, how dare you?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough
for the pope.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Shame shame on you. Come on, does it really matter
what language he speaks? It's church. You're going to be
sleeping through it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Anyway, And besides, there's going to be plenty of other
stuff for conservatives to throw a tantrum about.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
There's some tweets that when the Pope is still a
cardinal that are getting a lot of attention online that
are politically charged.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
This one is directly rebuking jd Vance.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
The new Pope.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Hope we are the fourteenth said jd Vance is wrong.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The new Pope is not like jd Vance. He really
is an everyday American. Be careful, though, father, if you
piss off jd.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Vance, He's going to pay you a visit. We want that.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
For more on the new Pope, let's go to the
Vatican with Michael Costa.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Michael, let's be analysis.
Speaker 13 (06:35):
I'll tell you my analysis.
Speaker 14 (06:37):
Usa, usa, usay.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I take it. You're excited. The Pope is American?
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Is the Pope Catholic? An American?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Yep?
Speaker 13 (06:53):
We won the conclave, baby, suck it. Rest of the world.
Who the Pope's from?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Chicago?
Speaker 13 (06:58):
America's number one in terms of mustard consumption. Now let's
shotgun this communion wine.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Hey, yeah, body of Christ to calm down.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I don't think it was a competition between countries.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
Oh sure, Now that we won. They'll say it wasn't
a competition. They said we couldn't do it. They said
our cardinal roster didn't have the depth, that we'd have
to rebuild for years before we got a pope. Well
guess who's kissing our ring now? Mother f is Okay, yeah, hey,
Cardinal Matteo ZUPI tell me how my ass tastes.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Michael, you're at the Vatican. Stop swearing.
Speaker 13 (07:41):
Oh you're right, my bad, shit, so sorry, I'm so
so pumped.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I'm so pumped.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Are you even Catholic?
Speaker 13 (07:49):
Am I Catholic?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm not.
Speaker 13 (07:51):
But I'm American, Okay, which means I get really excited
when we win stuff Conclaves, space races, Toyotas, Academy Awards. Hey,
Bong June Hoe, tell me how my ass taste?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
All right, look, I appreciate your patriotism, but this could
have been a chance to have a pope from underrepresented countries.
There's never been a pope from Africa or Asia.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
Oh oh yeah, well you know there's never else you
know where else? There hasn't been a pope before today? America?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Okay?
Speaker 13 (08:22):
And what country is less represented on the world stage
than America? Do you know, there's never been an American
queen of England. Think about that.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, can you actually give me some analysis here? What
is Pope Leo going to bring to the papacy?
Speaker 15 (08:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Well, you know, the pope has very important responsibility. He's
got the hat, he rides in that car that you
can see through. He's got that magic scepter and he's like,
you shall not pass.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Haasa haasa.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
That's Gandalf.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You don't know anything about the papacy.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Much less what an American will bring to it.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
Look, I don't know what he's going to bring to
the papacy, but the thing about US Americans is that
we're not sticklers for the rules. So it'll be nice
to have a pope who's not going to be a
hard ass for every single little commandment. You know, I mean,
this whole can't say the Lord's name in vain. Jesus Christ,
give me a party.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Michael, stop swaying.
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Cares. Okay, I'm getting into heaven no matter what. You
want to know why because I know a guy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh all right, Michael, everybody, Oh my god, make the.
Speaker 16 (09:32):
Latest culture Wars about away.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Show the US military is the fiercest fighting machine to
ever exists, not counting Andre the Giant. But now the
Trump Anddministration is banning a select group of soldiers from
entering combat.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Jordan Klipper has more.
Speaker 11 (10:08):
The US military the most powerful and respected organization in
the entire world. Few have what it takes, the discipline,
the strength, the bravery, the sacrifices made to serve our country.
But according to the Trump White House, there's an enemy
with him. Everything's transgender.
Speaker 13 (10:28):
Everybody transgender.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
That's all you hear about.
Speaker 15 (10:30):
The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Begin enforcing a ban on transgender service members.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
No more pronouns, no more dudes in dresses.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We're done with that shit.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
And I had some hard hitting questions, so as the
Daily Show senior war correspondent LEI had the guts to
a paper cuts ah once recovered. I met with some
transgender individuals to hear their unqualifications.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
My name is Lieutenant Ray Timberlake.
Speaker 15 (11:01):
I'm in the United States Navy and I've been serving
for about seventeen years.
Speaker 17 (11:06):
My name is Clayton, and I've been trying to go
for Pair Rescue PJ in the Air Force and it's
a special warfare career field.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I'm Second Lieutenant Nicholas Talbot with the United States Army Reserve.
I've been in for a little over a year.
Speaker 18 (11:17):
I'm Joe Allis. I'm a Chief Warrant officer too, and
the Virginia Army National Guard. I've served for fifteen years
the U sixty years as a Blackhawk.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
I don't want to twelve war stories, but I've flown
Spirit airlines twice, so I no danger. They seem qualified
to me, But there are others who think they're weakening
are military.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
They can't go to sea, they can't fly airplanes in combat,
they can't deploy with the army into combat areas.
Speaker 18 (11:44):
We should never allow anyone in the military to undergo
transition surgery, which would make them medically unqualified to deploy.
Speaker 15 (11:52):
This idea that we spend years of being non deployable
is just simply undrewe I've never missed a deploy I
can fight tonight.
Speaker 18 (12:01):
They've paid for nothing for my transition. I paid out
of pocket because I wanted to be mission ready as
fast as possible. In six weeks, I was deployable again,
and I'm deployable today. They spend many times more on
biagra than they do on gender firming care.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
If we don't have viagra in the military, then who
is going to take care of Pete haiksas whiskey Dick.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I mean, that's not how I want to serve my country.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Turns out, the US military spends eight times more on
viagra than gender a firming care, over thirty seven million
more to be exact, And on top of that, replacing
transgender troops could cost an estimated nine hundred and sixty
million dollars in recruiting and training, which ain't easy.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
It's it's very physically intense. After going through a pretty
extensive medical exam to even get into the military, going
to basic training, it's a lot like what most people
think it is. It's like it's pretty Yeah, it's boot camp.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I did theater camp. It's tough. My tour duty was
South Pacific. Ellie wise calling RELLI Hi? Is that hotwood?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 17 (13:04):
All the trans people that are serving go above and
beyond the standards and they do their job every day.
Speaker 18 (13:09):
But it's interesting to hear that we are too strong
for sports but too weak for the military.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Being too weak for both, I was curious why anyone
would want to kick out these dedicated individuals.
Speaker 14 (13:21):
If I'm in a foxhoul, I don't want to know
whether this guy next to me is wondering if he's
a woman or a man, or flip back and forth.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
Because everyone knows when you're fighting on the front lines,
the real enemies are the preferred pronouns of the person
next to you.
Speaker 18 (13:39):
So I go by rank and last name. If someone
uses a pronoun that I don't prefer, I really don't care.
To me, it's a distraction. Like my job is to
fly the helicopter.
Speaker 11 (13:48):
I'm curious what the reaction has been to you being
trans in the military.
Speaker 15 (13:54):
I received an outpouring of support when I came out.
Speaker 18 (13:57):
They're my family and at my back.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
At the end of the day, nobody cares about is
whether I can perform my job when I have that
uniform on.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Lucky nice to have respectful co workers. I work with
this guy running. He's a total dick. He's just a dick.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
So if the people in the military itself don't care,
then why do the administration impose an executive order stating this.
Speaker 17 (14:17):
An adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual
sex can float with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful,
and disciplined lifestyle.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
I was named an honor graduate at Basic training, so
I would say, you know, at least someone out there
agrees that I have some honor and some discipline in me.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
Would you leak war plans on signal?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Are you that disciplined?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
I don't have any plans to do, so.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Good to know.
Speaker 18 (14:39):
If more people met trans people like us, then there
would be no issue.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
If the world's on fire. These are the folks I
want in the fox hole. But would they want me?
Do you guys think I would be an asset in
the US military?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
How many push ups can you do?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
It's sort of like jazz. It's all about the push
ups you don't do. And right now I'm not doing
a million.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
How fast can you run two miles?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Well, I can drive it in under forty seconds.
Speaker 19 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
So I was at Fortsville, Oklahoma for Basic training. It
was about one hundred and twenty degrees fahrenheit most days.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, that's not going to work for me.
Speaker 11 (15:12):
If I'm in the sun for more than seven minutes,
I get heat rash.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Just like that.
Speaker 15 (15:16):
Have you ever tried an MRI?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (15:19):
Yeah, and it told me that it was just a
little fracture in my foot.
Speaker 18 (15:23):
I think what you're talking about a MRI. No MRI
is a meal that's ready to eat.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Yeah, military ship.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
While lawsuits are still pending and the fight's not over.
I imagine these troops have lost the appetite to fight
for a country that refuses to acknowledge they even exist.
Speaker 18 (15:39):
President Trump is my commander in chief, and I will
gladly answer the cough he calls me up to active duty.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
America's my home, this is my country, this is you know,
where I want to be and who I want to
fight for.
Speaker 17 (15:50):
I'm willing to serve. I'm able to serve, and I
can get the job done.
Speaker 15 (15:53):
I'd say, come to the fleet, come to the field.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Comes to you.
Speaker 15 (15:55):
What the thousands of transgender service members do every day
in support of our nation's defense.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
Sounds like patriot isn't for me.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
But what do I know?
Speaker 11 (16:04):
I didn't serve because of post.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
And when we come back, Michelle, you call will be
trying on the.
Speaker 19 (16:13):
Show, Go go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
My guest.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Tonight is an actor, writer, and comedian who created in
stars in the Netflix series Survival.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Of the thickest. Please welcome Michelle.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You to.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
Oh this is nice, it's nice.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I feel like we need more dance breaks.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
We do with times. We gotta get it.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We gotta get it in twins.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Yes instead of magic Mike, it's like magic Michelle.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Is this a tear away suit?
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Not yet?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Mine is really I'll show you later. They're like, no,
don't do that. You're beautiful, Come on now, you stop it.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And you're so funny, So just everything.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am such a fan of yours, and I'm so
happy that you're here. Congratulations on the second season.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Of your show.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, season two, you have recent special out You're about
to go on tour.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yes, you're the mother of twins. Yes, first question.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Would you like to go take a quick nap in my.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
No, you know what, I'm sleeping right now. You wouldn't know.
You bought the moments.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Yeah, it's a nice part about like not being on
your phone all the time, to take those breaks, you know,
to actually see your children living in the world, crossing
a street, being like just so cute and grown, having
time to be creative. I'm just you guys, put your
phones down and start like you pick a book up.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Yet I can't say it enough. It's like, really to
create stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, killing advice, especially when they're little like your's. You're
you have six year old, they're six, right, Yeah. I
love the way you describe your daughter, Hazel, Oh my god,
having the vibes of a fifty three year old woman
who works with a.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
D m B.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Yes, a fifty three year old black woman that works
the DV.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
You know what I mean, because you know, you know who.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
This fuscificity, because she rolls up at the playground and
she's like, is this what y'all.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Meant to do? I'm like, hey's hole, it wouldn't be nice.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I love her, you know. I love that, and I
love it.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
To I mean, I want them to be honest, just
not with me all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Yes, hold back a little bit.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Just a little bit. She told me my elbows look old.
I was like, girl, eat your peace.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
What does that even mean?
Speaker 10 (19:26):
I mean, my elbows look a little haunted. They're a
little gray at the top of a pigeon's head. We
don't want to get into it.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Let's talk about the show.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We'll talk about the show. I do want to talk
about your show? This is season two? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You Your character Mavis explores dating all kinds of relationships,
building this beautiful budding career. You're now in a phase
of your life where you have this booming career, married,
you have kids. Is this is this your opportunity to
go back and get a do over, do some things
differently kind of?
Speaker 10 (19:56):
So, you know, Mavis is the name of my grandmother,
and she was my person, she was my soulmate. I
think you could have more than one sold me and
you don't know how they're going to come to you,
you know, And so it's so nice hearing her name
on set all the time. But you know, I wrote
this book, Survival of the Thickest, And when I brought
the twins home, I'm like, I'll have time to write
(20:17):
a book now. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah,
And my husband was just like, are you gonna finish
this book? I was like, that feels like a lot
of question. And he found Joan Rivers old desk at
Housing Works or some sort of like place. Yeah, yes,
some sort of vintage shop, and brought the desk home.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I wrote the book on the desk.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
There was like legit energy in this desk wrote the
book and I'm like, I did this like artist thing
where I was like, who's going to read this book?
Why I should I even write it? And I'm like,
write it for you, just to get something done. And
I couldn't have ever imagine that it would turn into
two seasons of a show.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
And so what was.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Really fun was working with my co career and showrunner
Danielle Sanchez Witzel, who's done The Carmichael Show and he's
worked on New Girl, and so she has like amazing
experience with the unique voices, and it was pulling these stories,
these essays from like.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Fifteen to thirty five, forty.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Two and.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
Putting them in a world that I wanted to see
on television, you know, in New York that reflects my
New York with fat, black, brown, queer, non binary voices.
And I feel like we've done a bang up job
doing that. This season, we have you know, spoiler alert.
If you haven't seen it, you need to see it.
(21:40):
If you've seen it, episode six, agree the categories love.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
We have a.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Beautiful trans wedding.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
You know Peppermint, who's a beautiful black dress woman who's
also a drag reformer gets married, and it's just it
is not only the New York that I live in,
but it's also the America I want to live in.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
What a lot of what.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I want to talk about the fact that you are
wearing all the hats on this show you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You created, you write, you produce, you star in.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What does it feel like to have that kind of
creative freedom and also responsibility?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Gosh, I mean it feels damn good. Yeah, it feels
really good.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
And I will say, you know, I've been doing stand
up comedy for over twenty years, and you know, doing
projects with a lot of friends, including a producer on
your show, Devin, Like, We've done a lot of stuff together.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And the thing is, we do like a lot of.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Stuff for free for so long. And so when people
come to me and they ask me, how do I
start making money? How do I get to the next level?
I just say, keep doing it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Be so good.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
By the time you get in that seat, by the
time you get that job, you can't mess it up
because you've done it for ten, twelve, fifteen years for free,
So you already know all the things that could happen.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
You know what I mean? And also like, emit what
you don't know?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
You know, yes, and tell that.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
To the administration. One take that up.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, it's this Season two is real steamy when it
comes to the sex scenes.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Did you see it?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yes, very steamy, very And I'm just wondering, was that
your call?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
And how do you want.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
As it should be? How do I push for more
sex scenes here at the Daily Show.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I'll talk to the administration.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yeah, you know, I this is a body positive show,
you know, and I'm positive we all got a body
And it was really important for me to show my
silhouette and other silhouettes being loved down, you know, because
we are worthy of love at any size or shade
or shape, even down to like you know, not even
(23:57):
down to like not wearing a lot of makeup, to show,
especially young women, you are beautiful the way you are.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
You deserve to be.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Loved however that looks, you know. So it was so
important too to work with a very diverse casting crew,
and you know, seventy percent of the heads of our
department are female, and because you know, we get some done,
(24:27):
and so it was really important as a plus size
actor to be you know, working with women who know
how to light you know, the biscuits.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And it's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Gotta light those biscuits. You gotta light them good.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
The bucket of chickens, they gotta be seen, the legs
and the thighs.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
What am I talking about?
Speaker 8 (24:48):
What?
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I don't know who I am, but.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I want to talk about your your stand up And
first of all, you were the first female comedian ever
to film a special at Radio City Music Hall. Yeah,
it does to break that beautiful glass ceiling.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My goodness.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
That was.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
I think if it's if it's not a little scary,
then like, why then why are you not doing it?
Does that make sense? Like it should be a little scary.
You should be a little excited. You should push yourself,
you know, no matter what you have on your resume,
or what you have in your bank account, or what
you think you can and cannot do, just try, you know,
because you're just gonna end up in the same position
(25:41):
anyways if it doesn't work out. And so I thought,
you know what, let's see, it's really crazy that a
woman has not filmed there. And I'm like, this isn't
even about me, It's about them, you know. And the
only reason why I even thought I could play Radio
City Music Hall is because years ago I opened for
Jonathan VanNess, you know. So that's that should be the
name of the game. We should be helping each other up,
(26:04):
you know, uplifting, divers, fat.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And so a beautiful mind.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
That Rady sitting was a call was it.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Was really it was so special. I was like more
excited than my wedding.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Oh, yes, you should be, Yes, your husband, but that's
a huge accomplishment. Yes, And you really are inspiring to
so many women out there. One thing that strikes me
as so special about you is that you infuse so
much joy and positivity in your comedy and in.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
All of your work.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
You you are so excellent at these like hard, assertive,
very funny, powerful jokes, but you never lose touch with
your humanity. Do you ever find that challenging when times
are tough, Like how do you channel that energy asking
for a friend?
Speaker 10 (26:57):
No, it's it's I'm a joyful person, you know.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
And so.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Not only my mom and my Grandma may Is and
my great Grandma Hays, like all these women in my family.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Everybody in my family has had.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
To really fight for their joy and their peace, and
they thought so I could be here, and so that's
not wrong on me. And you know, when you start
from a place of like, let's have fun, you know,
how can we find comedy on the other side of pain?
Then I do believe that I will always be okay,
(27:36):
you know, because sometimes it is perspective and we have
to be aware that things are happening and there is injustices.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
But like, how do we like, how do we find
our joy in the day? You know what I mean?
Because then if we're not happy, then they've won.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Right, that's right. You are so entired and such a
joy to be around me.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
My little think of you. Streaming on Netflix now the show.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
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