November 18, 2021 • 32 mins
Trevor covers news from other countries, Desi Lydic gives advice on how to celebrate Thanksgiving on a tight budget, and Halle Berry discusses her movie "Bruised."
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You're listening to Comedy Central. Does anyone celebrate Apple here? No,
no one who observes Apple. Okay, Apple made big news.
They announced that's starting next year, they're going to allow
people to fix their own phones now, which is huge. Yeah,
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people are super excited, like, yeah, spinal I can't fix
which is also like shows you how smart Apple is, like,
because now they've just tricked us into fixing our own phones,
you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I get to
fix me out. Wait, how does this you have? Do
you put the screen on the I mean, have you
tried just to put like a screen cover on your
phone just to screen protector? Have you ever tried to
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do that? Now you're gonna be there fixing your own phone.
M m m. Yeah. Apple is probably They're like yeah, no, no,
you guys try and then we'll see you. We'll see
you at the store. Yeah, you'll have a cracked screen
and then you'll come in later with like just like
five pieces begging to get the new iPhone blue And
then it happened. Guys. It's still a good thing though.
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It's good because it means now you can get the
phone fixed at like a professional replaced the repair store.
You don't have to go to Apple. And also it
means we no longer have to take it to the
genius bar. That was the thing I resented the most
smug people. Yeah, I mean genius. No, you're not. You
just know how to fix the phone. And I don't
just have a special screwdriver. And I have to call
you a genius because you have a screw driver that
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I don't have. You're not a genius. You're just a
well tooled individual. And tell me I'm a genius. You
know what I mean. It's my genius. Genius can figure
quantum things out. You just like screw the phone. Welcome
to the Genius Bar, now, yeah, look at me, now,
look at me. Now, I am the genius. It's coming
to you from the hot time in New York City,
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the city in America. It's the Daily Tonight other countries
that used to giving things on the cheek fairly Berry
m Daily Show. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to
the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into
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today's headlines and there is a lot going on today now. Obviously,
the new Adele album drops at midnight, which means you're
about to be able to tell who's going through a
breakup through your walls. The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse
trial took a bathroom break and let Kyle be the
judge while he was gone. Yeah, which I've never seen before,
but he insists is totally normal. And two men who
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were framed for the killing of Malcolm X fifty years
ago we're finally exonerated, which means the real killer could
be anyone in this room. But while American news is
always breaking, it's also good to remember that other countries
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have news to all right, let's kick things off with Russia,
the fictional country depicted and creed to. They're also the
real life country that likes invading of the countries, and
now they might be back on their bullshit overseas. Tonight,
in the growing concern involving Russia, the US is warning
Russia maybe weighing a potential invasion of Ukraine. Satellite images
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tonight showing Russian troops and equipment gathering about a hundred
and forty two miles north of the border with Ukraine.
Despite an estimated one hundred thousand Russian troops gathering along
their border, Ukrainian forces appear confident and prepared for battle.
After years of pushing for membership, the Eastern European country
is still not a part of NATO, meaning they don't
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have treaty protection if Russia invades, although this hasn't stopped
the Americans, British and French from offering statements of support.
We are going to watch very closely as the Russian
Federation um chooses its actions in the coming days and weeks. Yeah,
that's what I want from my allies, as for them
to watch very closely as someone whip is my ass. Guys, God,
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I'm getting attack. I'm getting attack. Don't worry, man, We're
watching them land every punch. You're Donnelle, you're recording right, Yeah,
we got your boy, We got you. We see them
beating your ass. If you're Ukraine, this situation sucks, man,
because Russia are the bad guys, right, But it doesn't
seem like the world is willing to get into a
war to protect Ukraine. And can I be honest, Can
I be honest with you. I think it's because people
don't have a personal connection to Ukraine, like if Russia
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was invading Italy or France or people would do something
about it. Oh, no, the art, the Colosseum, we have
to protect it. Like if I was Ukraine, I would
have bought the worldwide rights to all the Seinfeld reruns.
Then people would care. If you don't protect us from Russia,
you will never again see Crame or open Door like crazy. Also,
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this is genius timing from Russia, right you realize it's
not a mistake because anyone who knows history knows you're
not gonna send troops into Russia at the beginning of winter.
So basically Russia has like what five months to do
whatever they want. Yeah, the rest of the world is
going to be standing by, like this will not stand Russia.
Your ass is gonna pays as soon as mid April
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rolls around. And it depends on what the groundhog says.
And like why does Russia even need more land? Have
you seen Russia? It's huge? Why are you doing this?
Like I would get if Monaco wanted to invade another country.
I mean, they're running out of closet space. But Russia, now,
while Russia is getting ready to invade another country in Europe,
is setting up a different kind of invasion because they're
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not using tanks or missiles. They're using immigrants turning out
of the border crisis, this one playing out in Europe
as thousands of migrants try to enter the European Union
from Belarus. These are the front lines of what the
European Union says is a hybrid war. That you accusing
Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as weapons, purposefully
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learning them into Belarus from countries like Iraq and Syria,
by promising them easy access to Europe Poland and refusing
to let them in Belarus, refusing to take them back,
leaving thousand ends of people stuck in the middle Man.
Come on, people, this is just dirty. Basically, what's going
on is that for a while now, the European Union
has been imposing sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator of
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Belarus and Eastern Europe's my pillow guy. And you see
he's been stealing elections, he's been cracking down on protesters,
jailing journalists, basic dictator ships, and now Lukashenko is trying
to get back at the European Union by flying in
migrants from the Middle East and then sending them into
Poland to create a border crisis, which is the most
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passive aggressive military tactic I have ever heard of. It's
like when your parents start cooking with peanuts to get
you to move out of the house because they know
you're allergic. It's a dick move. And obviously everyone is
really mad about this, not just because it's inhumane to
these migrants, but because unlike Ukraine, we can't let anything
happen to Poland. I mean, that's where all our water
comes from. Because you realize, people, this is especially cruel, right,
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It's especially cruel to these migrants. These are real people
who are just trying to live better lives. It is
disgusting to use them as weapons. I mean, say what
you want about Drake and Kanye's beef, but at least
they can't catapult Mexicans at each other. But let's move on,
because while betterals just trying to destabilize Poland, there's another
country that's already on the brink of collapse, Ethiopia, where
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a brutal year long conflict has fourth millions out of
their homeland and is threatening to disintegrate into an all
out civil war. Rebels from Tigrai Province appear to be
advancing towards the capital. Artists Ababa, Ethiopia's Prime Minister, called
for national unity and authorities in artists Ababa rounded up
ethnic to grants today. Two weeks ago, the State Department
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urge all Americans to leave Ethiopia, but with echoes of Afghanistan.
The State Department doesn't know or won't say, how many
Americans are in the country. Last week, the State Department
did make a point of saying there would be no
Afghan style evacuation for Americans stuck in Ethiopia. They did, however,
offer to help them get on commercial flights out. Yeah,
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this is tough news for Ethiopians, and this is tough
news for Americans in Ethiopia because in Afghanistan, the US
government staged an all out air lift. Meanwhile, in Ethiopia,
they're like, Mike, we suggest Priceline dot com. Like, I
don't even know what that means. What do they mean
when they say the State Department will help you book
a commercial flight out? That's not helpful. People know how
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to book flights. That's like going, hey, hey, you do
you need a ride? You need to ride? Yeah, well
I'm happy to help. So what you gotta do is
open Uber on your phone and you hit request to ride.
Best of lock buddy. Also, flying commercial is the worst
way to evacuate a war zone. Can you imagine that stress?
Please please the soldiers, The soldiers are coming. We need
to get out now, sir. You're a Diamond Medallion member. Okay,
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please step aside. Anyone in group A or above we're
boarding you now, sir, please please stand back, just roll ash,
Thank you and you know who. This is a great
opportunity for though, right Alexander Lukashenko. I bet he's already
sliding into American dms like I can hook you up
with the free private flights to the Polish model. Are
you interested? But you've got to feel for Ethiopians, man,
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because anytime their country is in the news, it is
either because of war or famine or some long distance
round of broke the world record, which are all pretty
extreme things if you think about it. I feel like
we need more coverage of just like regular ass Ethiopians
you know who can't run, I don't know how to fight,
just want to chill. And please understand this. Please understand
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this is a really complicated, in sensitive story, right because
for for about a year now, the government has been
at war with a rebel group. But that's like the
simplified version, because there are so many layers of this
conflict that we just don't have the time to do
with justice. This is a huge beef with a history
that goes back decades, involving rival ethnic groups, different territories,
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foreign interference. Because African conflicts are never simple, they're super
complicated and everyone has different versions of events that they're
basically like white people conflict, but with more seasoning. So
from Russia's military to migrants in Belarus and armies in Ethiopia,
people everywhere are on the move. Meanwhile, in India, the
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only place people might be moving to is back inside,
smothered by small and toxic hayes hanging over New Delhi
and it is raising the level of air pollution to
dangerous levels. Schools in the Indian capital shut their doors
until further notice, and private construction band at least for now.
India's Environmental Ministry Panel on Air Pollution has directed Delhi
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and other states to encourage private officers to allow work
from home, but for street vendors, staying home is not
an option pollution. The pollution is unbearable. The government must
take some steps. We are forced to work because we
can't stay indoors forever. For now, Delhi's residents will be
inhaling this toxic air, which, according to report by the
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University of Chicago, is ten times worse in northern India
than anywhere else in the world. God damn did you
hear that the air in New Delhi right now is
ten times worse than anywhere else in the world. That
means you'd be better off just sticking your face and
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that steam that comes out of the ground in New
York City, which, by the way, what is that ship like?
Is there a fire down there? I've lived here for
many years. I still don't understand what that is like
someone dry cleaning a rat? What what I feel like?
It's worth looking into? No one, just me. You know.
One detail I like from the story is that the
Indian government put together an Environmental ministry panel on air
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pollution who confirmed that the air was indeed polluted. You
don't need a panel. I don't know why they did that,
Why the government's like doing this. You just need eyes. Yes,
after three years of study, we have concluded that Delhi's
air is brown and that this is bad. But you see,
this is a great example of why we all need
to move to cleaner energy, because yes, it is expended
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to do, but it is also halla expensive to constantly
shut down the economy when your city turns into a
sandstorm from dune. Except this time, timoke the shallow mazing
there to make you feel better with that smile, and
you might be like, well, Trevor, why don't they just
start car pulling in India? My man, They're way ahead
of you, and it's still not enough. It's actually a
real rough spot for India because as a nation, you
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want to keep modernizing, you want to keep growing, but
then the fallout of those effects make it so that
you can't even enjoy the fruits of modernization. You know.
It's almost like someone who gets really into crossfits to
help them attract women, but then they push everyone away
because they can't stop talking about the fact that they
joined CrossFit. Now those ads are useless and you wouldn't
be able to tell this from the story. But New
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Delhi is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I mean, this is what it looked like last year
after months of lockdown and the smug dissipating. But now
it's back to looking like it's stuck on a permanent
CPF filter. All right, but let's move on to our
final international story. And like most things in the world,
the story was made in China the Royalty of Professional
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Tennis expressing concern about the welfare of one of their own. Honestly,
it's shocking you know that that she's missing. Punk twy,
a Chinese tennis champion, hasn't been seen or heard from
in weeks. In early November, Peng published this bombshell post
on her Chinese social media account and open letter to
a former top communist leader named John Gaulee, now aged
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seventy five, who Pung accuses of sexually assaulting her after
the two had an affair. Shortly after the controversial post,
Punk's online profile more or less disappeared. Until recently, Peng
Shui was one of the biggest tennis stars in China.
But look what happens. When you try to search for
people with her name in the Chinese Internet, you get
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the message no results found. Censors have all but rubbed
this woman from the Chinese Internet. Now today a new twist,
with Chinese state media releasing this email purportedly written by
punk to the head of the Women's Tennis Association. It
completely disavows the previous allegations of sexual assault, adding I'm
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not missing, nor am I unsafe, and I hope Chinese
tennis will become better and better. Yo, this is really disturbing.
Someone speaks out about sexual assault and then China's government
just makes them disappear. And then what's even worse is
that they release some bullshit email pretending like everything is fine,
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Because come on, people, that email from the tennis stall
was as legit as the letters I got from my
supermodel girlfriend in fifth grade. She's coming next year, guys,
I swear this is what makes China so terrifying. Like,
if you're on the good side, things are great. But
if you try to tell the truth about how China
is a country that constantly a Trevor know what you
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do each yes? Soon? Lee? What the hell is that
I'm not even in China? Look, man, it's one thing
for your government to come after you, it's another thing
for them to just make you never exist. I mean,
they scrubbed the Internet of anything about this tennis player.
Do you know how hard it is to get stuff
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off the internet? Only China can do that. In fact,
if you have embarrassing pictures online or problematic tweets, just
moved to China and talk about the Communist Party. Yeah,
they'll clean up your reputation in no time. I mean, yeah,
you'll be locked in the basement some way, but hey,
at least you can get canceled. And this also really
puts into perspective when people in America complain about being
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censored by big chech Twitter chucked down my tweet. This
is a terterranity, guys. Peng Shui literally does not exist
on the internet anymore. Like, yeah, maybe Trump can't tweet
right now, but you can still google him. Trust me.
Just yesterday I searched for Donald trump big buck photos.
I got eighty million hits. And now I'm not gonna
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tell you why google that. I like big butts and
I cannot lie. All right, that's all the time we
have for international news. When we come back, we'll tell
you how you can survive the most expensive Thanksgiving of
all time. And Halle Berry is still joining me on
the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back
to the Daily Show. Thanksgiving is just around the corner,
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but with the price of groceries. These days, a big
dinner could be more expensive than buying yeasies for your Lamborghini. Fortunately,
Daisylidak has come up with some tips for celebrating Thanksgiving
on a budget. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. They say that this
year is going to be the most expensive Thanksgiving ever.
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Inflation is hitting everything groceries, cookwear, decorative gourds, even the
really ugly bumpy ones. I know I'm tightening my belt
this year, but don't worry. You can still have an
amazing Thanksgiving without breaking the bank. Let's start with the turkey.
This year, turkey prices are almost double what they were
a few years ago, but there are still deals out
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there if you know how to shop smart. For instance,
did you know that you can get factory reject turkeys
at butter Ball outlet stores nationwide. This one only cost
ten dollars and it has three necks, so there's even
more to go around. You can also check Craigslist for
some perfectly good, gently used turkeys. Now, why should this
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go to a landfill just because one person already owned it?
But if your turkey budget is zero, here's a great hack.
You just trace your hand. Now we're gonna want to
do a little big and some googly eyes. Wa O,
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cute is this little turkey. Now you're gonna want to
drench this bad boy in olive oil. No one likes
to dry turkey. We're gonna want to roast this at
four hundred degrees for about one hour. Of course, you
can't have turkey without stuffing, but you don't need to
take out a second mortgage or start an only fans
to pay for all the ingredients that you need. Most
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of us have perfectly good stuffing already right inside our
kids teddy bears. I'm just gonna want to get in there,
just gonna want to take the stuffing, scoop it out,
just shove it in that bird, Get it in there,
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roast it. It's gonna soak up all those flavors and
really help the turkey keep its shape. And the best
stuffing is right in the face. There we go. But
let's talk side dishes, because this is where the dollars
can really start adding up. One of my favorites is
mashed potatoes. They're delicious, and I have a simple trick
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for making a little go a long way, So you
just make one mashed potato chew it up m h
m hm, spit it back out, and then you want
to just pass it around the table for everyone to
enjoy their mashed anyway, so it will not affect the
texture or flavor at all. What about drinks, Most of
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the grown ups at the table are probably going to
want a nice glass of wine, especially when Uncle Steve
starts talking about Q and on, and that can get
expensive fast. But fortunately you can get the same pleasant
buzz at a fraction of the price with paint thinner.
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Mm hmm, I'm detecting notes of my garage and just
a hint of the previous owners of my house who
left this behind when they moved. This also pairs well
with the hallucinations, halluciations, amucinations, hallucinations. Now to the most
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important part of the meal, dessert. Pumpkin pie can get
expensive whether you're making it from scratch, buying it from
the store, or buying it from the store and saying
you made it from scratch and carrying the shame and
guilt of that lie for the rest of your life.
But why spend money when we already have so much
pumpkin spice stuff around the house like this scented candle
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I got from my secret Santa three years ago. It's
an absolute garbage gift. But wait until you taste it
in a dessert. Just cook it it. I don't know
two hundred five hundred. Honestly, it doesn't even make a
difference because as you can see, it comes out perfect
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every time. Mm hmm. For all of you thinking about
holiday weight gain, wax is not digestible, so no worries there.
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Comes out the same as it goes in amang. Finally,
if you really want to save money on Thanksgiving, just
remember the original spirit of the holiday and do what
the Pilgrims did steal. They stole food, land, even valuables
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from Native American graves, So why not take a page
from history and steal whatever you need. Hey, with Christmas
around the corner, go ahead and steal whatever you want
for that too. Look, I'm Santa ho ho ho oh
my paper turkeys ready, yuh no ship ship evacuay, evacuay.
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All right. When we come back, the one and only
halle Berry will be joining me in the studio, so
don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
guest tonight is Oscar Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor
Hallie Berry. She's here to talk about making her directorial
debut in the new film Bruised halle Berry. It looked rough.
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It looked extremely rough. Welcome for the show, Thank you,
thank you. I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy
to have you here. But I'm not gonna lie. I was.
I was genuinely surprised in like such a fun way
watching this movie because I've seen you kick ass in
a lot of films, all right, I've seen you act
your heart out in so many films. But I don't
know why. For me, this movie felt like a culmination
of everything coming together. You know. It was Hallie Berry
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the fighter. It was Hallie Berry the actress. It was
Hallie Berry, you know, feeling pain, showing moments of joy.
It it felt like it was a common nation of
a lot of just you as a human being. Congratulations
on your directorial debut. What was that like? Thank you? Wow,
it's funny you said that, because you know what, I
felt that way too, And being at the helm and
being in charge. I could put all of that into
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the movie. I could play too, you know, not only
my strengths, but to the trengths of all the characters.
I can only imagine all the actors. So yes, the
story has such a fascinating beginning. This was a story
that wasn't originally written for you. You You know, it went
out I think it was to Blake Lively and people
were like, Oh, it's this Irish, Catholic white woman and
it's going to be the story of this twenty something
you old scrappy UFC fights ure and you saw the
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story and said, I think there's a different way to
tell the story. Yeah, And you know, the idea came
because I desperately wanted to play this character. I love
the fight game. I've been a boxing fan since I
was a kid. I was now when I got this
script an avid m M A fan, especially of all
the women in the sport. So when I read it,
I thought, this is the kind of role that I
would kill for. It's media, it's juicy, I get to
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use all of my physicality, except it isn't written for
someone like me. So that was the impetus for reimagining it.
And I told my agents, if Blake decides not to
do this, can you please let me get to the
producers and give them my pitch on how and why
I think are reimagining would be in order. And for me,
I felt like, based on where we are in the world,
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and you know, time's up in me too, and where
we as black women and black people are arriving too,
it's time that we get a chance to tell our
stories from our own point of view, through our lens.
And so I said, if we're going to remake a
fight movie, they've been made by the great some of
the best movies, Rocky and Fight Club and a Million
Dollar Babies, We're going to redo it. The only reason
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to do it is to have a fresh new point
of view something we've never seen it. We've never seen
it a black female fighter, but especially from a black
female director. Definitely right, So it was new, there was
a reason to do it. And you know what, it
also feels like it comments on so many things, you know,
So as a fan of UFC, I'm sure you know
you know what it feels like on the ins. You know,
I've talked to some of the female fighters in the
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UFC where they go, Man, we feel like we have
to be so much more brutal to get acknowledged. We
have to feel like we have to fight so much
harder to just maintain our spot in that octagon. And
they do get the respect, but they really really really
have to work towards it. And it feels like it's
no difference in Hollywood, you know, is that a woman
in Hollywood, especially a black woman in Hollywood, you have
to fight so much harder to be recognized. You have
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to be you know. I mean everyone would think Halle
Berry wins the Oscar and it's like this is it,
you know, just it seems like it's like, oh, this
is gonna be the end of your life. You get
to do whatever you like, but you've had to continue
working hard to fight for what you want to do
in the industry. True, one of the big misconceptions was
that when I won that Oscar that somehow the script
truck just backed up, like no truck came. My fight
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didn't really get any easier. I still had to face
that I was a black woman in an industry and
there was no real way for me that had been paved.
I had to figure that out for myself. And as
with fighting. Shannon Knabb, who runs in Victor, you know,
the all female she told me that having her female
fighters when she went to a venue, she would have
to pay to come to the venue, wherewith the male
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fighters they would pay them. So it is indelibly harder
for women across the board, and especially in the in
the Fight Games, you know, the movie was it's it's
brutal is the best way to put it. And it's
brutal in the way that life is brutal is the
way I see it. And I couldn't help wondering, as
Halle Berry the actress, have you often felt like, man,
you're always fighting to keep your career where you wanted
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to be, as opposed to letting people decide when and
where you're done, because you you come from a generation where,
let's be honest, they would go you forty and it's
over for you. So many actresses talk about that forty
and done, and now it seems like the fight is
working and changing that perspective. Yeah, theoretically I should have
been done a decade ago, you know, so, but I
do feel that, and as a woman, I do feel
like that I have to keep fighting and keep reinventing
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and keep you know, proving that there's still you know,
more left for me to do. And and I act
really feel that there's more left for me to do.
I'm still inspired by this career, by this craft. I
still love what I do. I want to keep challenging
myself and keep growing. I want to see how long
I could stay in this physical shape and do these
kinds of movies. You know, that's the joy of it.
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I want to try new things, you know, I want
to take new risks. How can you stay in this
physical shape? You broke how many ribs during this movie?
Two ribs breaks broken in this movie? I remember distinctly
because I'm a big fan John Wick. You broke ribs
as well, three roots three on that. So I'm getting better.
I mean, it's still five ribs, and there's a lot
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of ribs, the same ribs or different different ribs. Because
here's the but here's the thing that I would like
people to know. It's not just Oh, halle Berry always
gets hurt when you are a performer that does your
own stunts, that's power. For the course, every stunt man,
stunt woman usually on every film gets hurt in some way.
We don't hear about it because they don't talk about
it in the public doesn't really care. It's their job, right,
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So when a performer gets hurt, it becomes a big
deal because most performers don't do their own stunts so
they don't get hurt. So I sort of get this
bad rap of always getting hurt, always getting hurt. But
I always demand to do my own stunts, I always says.
And this film, it wasn't just doing your own stunts.
I mean with John Wick, they posed production. This film
was a smaller independent film. You're directing it, and you
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decide I've broken the ribs. I'm going to keep fighting
in the movie. I mean, I can barely carry on.
If i'd like stubbed the toe, I'll be like, let's
pause production for a while. Guys, let's let's man. That's true.
That is true. Have bigger toes, that's what you're saying.
We have more toes. Women have higher tolerance for pain. Yes,
that's why we have the children. And you guys don't that.
That is very true. But I think of it as like, man,
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halle Berry is a badass. I go, like, you're breaking ribs.
You know you you're you're in these fight scenes. You're
doing these things like you had to learn how to
fight again for this. You you learned, you learned martial
arts for X men, right, A little bit more for
a catwoman, a capuetta for a catwoman like couple. Yeah, okay,
learned that because that was all a part of bringing
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that had it was low to the ground. Okay, what else?
What other martial arts? I did, boxing and kick boxing,
But for this, like the jiu jitsu, the taekwondo, the judo,
the wrestling is so hard. It's just like all clothes
and fingers and like getting knocked in the face. Why
would you do this? Because it's so fun. It's also
so fun. And I was a gymnast as a kid.
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I didn't know so yeah, I was supposed to be
someone Bials, but someone became someone me. That was my
dream to go to the Olympics and win a gold
medal some day. You never say that could be your
next film. You never know. You can make a film
with someone Bials really bring the whole story together. Maybe
you know what I'm saying. I could be the oldest
woman to win a gold medal. Anything could happened in
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this day and age. Um, your story is one that
you're continuing to write. What did you love about directing
that was different because you've been on this side of
the lands for such a long time, there must have
been something new that you discovered that you loved about
being on the other side of the camera. I think
what I love most was that I got to have
this idea in my head and I got to shape
it and form it and reshape it and reform it.
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And I got to sort of bring to the screen
pretty much exactly what I had in my head. And
I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do
that because we had such a low budget, and while
my days kept getting cut and I kept losing money
left and right, it's hard in the independent world. What
what I loved was that as a black woman, I
got a story out of my body that was true
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to my gaze, that was true to my community, It
was true to my race, to my sex. That all
of it felt like, uh, an amalgamation of all the
three years that I worked on this. I got to
tell a true point of view about a sport from
a female point of view, And had I not been myself,
I don't know if that would have happened. Because I
loved the sport and I also loved the drama of it.
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At the same time, so I tried to put equal
emphasis on both elements. Well, i'll tell you this, you
did a fantastic job. I think you had a lot
of fun making it. It's a lot of fun watching it.
And thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Thank you for having Alright people, Bruised is in select
theaters right now, and we'll be available on Netflix November
twenty four. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll
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be right back after this. Well that's our show for
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been a Comedy Central podcast
You're listening to Comedy Central. Does anyone celebrate Apple here? No,
no one who observes Apple. Okay, Apple made big news.
They announced that's starting next year, they're going to allow
people to fix their own phones now, which is huge. Yeah,
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people are super excited, like, yeah, spinal I can't fix
which is also like shows you how smart Apple is, like,
because now they've just tricked us into fixing our own phones,
you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I get to
fix me out. Wait, how does this you have? Do
you put the screen on the I mean, have you
tried just to put like a screen cover on your
phone just to screen protector? Have you ever tried to
(00:43):
do that? Now you're gonna be there fixing your own phone.
M m m. Yeah. Apple is probably They're like yeah, no, no,
you guys try and then we'll see you. We'll see
you at the store. Yeah, you'll have a cracked screen
and then you'll come in later with like just like
five pieces begging to get the new iPhone blue And
then it happened. Guys. It's still a good thing though.
(01:04):
It's good because it means now you can get the
phone fixed at like a professional replaced the repair store.
You don't have to go to Apple. And also it
means we no longer have to take it to the
genius bar. That was the thing I resented the most
smug people. Yeah, I mean genius. No, you're not. You
just know how to fix the phone. And I don't
just have a special screwdriver. And I have to call
you a genius because you have a screw driver that
(01:26):
I don't have. You're not a genius. You're just a
well tooled individual. And tell me I'm a genius. You
know what I mean. It's my genius. Genius can figure
quantum things out. You just like screw the phone. Welcome
to the Genius Bar, now, yeah, look at me, now,
look at me. Now, I am the genius. It's coming
to you from the hot time in New York City,
(01:48):
the city in America. It's the Daily Tonight other countries
that used to giving things on the cheek fairly Berry
m Daily Show. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to
the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into
(02:10):
today's headlines and there is a lot going on today now. Obviously,
the new Adele album drops at midnight, which means you're
about to be able to tell who's going through a
breakup through your walls. The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse
trial took a bathroom break and let Kyle be the
judge while he was gone. Yeah, which I've never seen before,
but he insists is totally normal. And two men who
(02:32):
were framed for the killing of Malcolm X fifty years
ago we're finally exonerated, which means the real killer could
be anyone in this room. But while American news is
always breaking, it's also good to remember that other countries
(02:55):
have news to all right, let's kick things off with Russia,
the fictional country depicted and creed to. They're also the
real life country that likes invading of the countries, and
now they might be back on their bullshit overseas. Tonight,
in the growing concern involving Russia, the US is warning
Russia maybe weighing a potential invasion of Ukraine. Satellite images
(03:19):
tonight showing Russian troops and equipment gathering about a hundred
and forty two miles north of the border with Ukraine.
Despite an estimated one hundred thousand Russian troops gathering along
their border, Ukrainian forces appear confident and prepared for battle.
After years of pushing for membership, the Eastern European country
is still not a part of NATO, meaning they don't
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have treaty protection if Russia invades, although this hasn't stopped
the Americans, British and French from offering statements of support.
We are going to watch very closely as the Russian
Federation um chooses its actions in the coming days and weeks. Yeah,
that's what I want from my allies, as for them
to watch very closely as someone whip is my ass. Guys, God,
(04:01):
I'm getting attack. I'm getting attack. Don't worry, man, We're
watching them land every punch. You're Donnelle, you're recording right, Yeah,
we got your boy, We got you. We see them
beating your ass. If you're Ukraine, this situation sucks, man,
because Russia are the bad guys, right, But it doesn't
seem like the world is willing to get into a
war to protect Ukraine. And can I be honest, Can
I be honest with you. I think it's because people
don't have a personal connection to Ukraine, like if Russia
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was invading Italy or France or people would do something
about it. Oh, no, the art, the Colosseum, we have
to protect it. Like if I was Ukraine, I would
have bought the worldwide rights to all the Seinfeld reruns.
Then people would care. If you don't protect us from Russia,
you will never again see Crame or open Door like crazy. Also,
(04:45):
this is genius timing from Russia, right you realize it's
not a mistake because anyone who knows history knows you're
not gonna send troops into Russia at the beginning of winter.
So basically Russia has like what five months to do
whatever they want. Yeah, the rest of the world is
going to be standing by, like this will not stand Russia.
Your ass is gonna pays as soon as mid April
(05:06):
rolls around. And it depends on what the groundhog says.
And like why does Russia even need more land? Have
you seen Russia? It's huge? Why are you doing this?
Like I would get if Monaco wanted to invade another country.
I mean, they're running out of closet space. But Russia, now,
while Russia is getting ready to invade another country in Europe,
is setting up a different kind of invasion because they're
(05:27):
not using tanks or missiles. They're using immigrants turning out
of the border crisis, this one playing out in Europe
as thousands of migrants try to enter the European Union
from Belarus. These are the front lines of what the
European Union says is a hybrid war. That you accusing
Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as weapons, purposefully
(05:49):
learning them into Belarus from countries like Iraq and Syria,
by promising them easy access to Europe Poland and refusing
to let them in Belarus, refusing to take them back,
leaving thousand ends of people stuck in the middle Man.
Come on, people, this is just dirty. Basically, what's going
on is that for a while now, the European Union
has been imposing sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator of
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Belarus and Eastern Europe's my pillow guy. And you see
he's been stealing elections, he's been cracking down on protesters,
jailing journalists, basic dictator ships, and now Lukashenko is trying
to get back at the European Union by flying in
migrants from the Middle East and then sending them into
Poland to create a border crisis, which is the most
(06:34):
passive aggressive military tactic I have ever heard of. It's
like when your parents start cooking with peanuts to get
you to move out of the house because they know
you're allergic. It's a dick move. And obviously everyone is
really mad about this, not just because it's inhumane to
these migrants, but because unlike Ukraine, we can't let anything
happen to Poland. I mean, that's where all our water
comes from. Because you realize, people, this is especially cruel, right,
(06:58):
It's especially cruel to these migrants. These are real people
who are just trying to live better lives. It is
disgusting to use them as weapons. I mean, say what
you want about Drake and Kanye's beef, but at least
they can't catapult Mexicans at each other. But let's move on,
because while betterals just trying to destabilize Poland, there's another
country that's already on the brink of collapse, Ethiopia, where
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a brutal year long conflict has fourth millions out of
their homeland and is threatening to disintegrate into an all
out civil war. Rebels from Tigrai Province appear to be
advancing towards the capital. Artists Ababa, Ethiopia's Prime Minister, called
for national unity and authorities in artists Ababa rounded up
ethnic to grants today. Two weeks ago, the State Department
(07:43):
urge all Americans to leave Ethiopia, but with echoes of Afghanistan.
The State Department doesn't know or won't say, how many
Americans are in the country. Last week, the State Department
did make a point of saying there would be no
Afghan style evacuation for Americans stuck in Ethiopia. They did, however,
offer to help them get on commercial flights out. Yeah,
(08:04):
this is tough news for Ethiopians, and this is tough
news for Americans in Ethiopia because in Afghanistan, the US
government staged an all out air lift. Meanwhile, in Ethiopia,
they're like, Mike, we suggest Priceline dot com. Like, I
don't even know what that means. What do they mean
when they say the State Department will help you book
a commercial flight out? That's not helpful. People know how
(08:26):
to book flights. That's like going, hey, hey, you do
you need a ride? You need to ride? Yeah, well
I'm happy to help. So what you gotta do is
open Uber on your phone and you hit request to ride.
Best of lock buddy. Also, flying commercial is the worst
way to evacuate a war zone. Can you imagine that stress?
Please please the soldiers, The soldiers are coming. We need
to get out now, sir. You're a Diamond Medallion member. Okay,
(08:49):
please step aside. Anyone in group A or above we're
boarding you now, sir, please please stand back, just roll ash,
Thank you and you know who. This is a great
opportunity for though, right Alexander Lukashenko. I bet he's already
sliding into American dms like I can hook you up
with the free private flights to the Polish model. Are
you interested? But you've got to feel for Ethiopians, man,
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because anytime their country is in the news, it is
either because of war or famine or some long distance
round of broke the world record, which are all pretty
extreme things if you think about it. I feel like
we need more coverage of just like regular ass Ethiopians
you know who can't run, I don't know how to fight,
just want to chill. And please understand this. Please understand
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this is a really complicated, in sensitive story, right because
for for about a year now, the government has been
at war with a rebel group. But that's like the
simplified version, because there are so many layers of this
conflict that we just don't have the time to do
with justice. This is a huge beef with a history
that goes back decades, involving rival ethnic groups, different territories,
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foreign interference. Because African conflicts are never simple, they're super
complicated and everyone has different versions of events that they're
basically like white people conflict, but with more seasoning. So
from Russia's military to migrants in Belarus and armies in Ethiopia,
people everywhere are on the move. Meanwhile, in India, the
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only place people might be moving to is back inside,
smothered by small and toxic hayes hanging over New Delhi
and it is raising the level of air pollution to
dangerous levels. Schools in the Indian capital shut their doors
until further notice, and private construction band at least for now.
India's Environmental Ministry Panel on Air Pollution has directed Delhi
(10:34):
and other states to encourage private officers to allow work
from home, but for street vendors, staying home is not
an option pollution. The pollution is unbearable. The government must
take some steps. We are forced to work because we
can't stay indoors forever. For now, Delhi's residents will be
inhaling this toxic air, which, according to report by the
(10:55):
University of Chicago, is ten times worse in northern India
than anywhere else in the world. God damn did you
hear that the air in New Delhi right now is
ten times worse than anywhere else in the world. That
means you'd be better off just sticking your face and
(11:16):
that steam that comes out of the ground in New
York City, which, by the way, what is that ship like?
Is there a fire down there? I've lived here for
many years. I still don't understand what that is like
someone dry cleaning a rat? What what I feel like?
It's worth looking into? No one, just me. You know.
One detail I like from the story is that the
Indian government put together an Environmental ministry panel on air
(11:38):
pollution who confirmed that the air was indeed polluted. You
don't need a panel. I don't know why they did that,
Why the government's like doing this. You just need eyes. Yes,
after three years of study, we have concluded that Delhi's
air is brown and that this is bad. But you see,
this is a great example of why we all need
to move to cleaner energy, because yes, it is expended
(12:00):
to do, but it is also halla expensive to constantly
shut down the economy when your city turns into a
sandstorm from dune. Except this time, timoke the shallow mazing
there to make you feel better with that smile, and
you might be like, well, Trevor, why don't they just
start car pulling in India? My man, They're way ahead
of you, and it's still not enough. It's actually a
real rough spot for India because as a nation, you
(12:21):
want to keep modernizing, you want to keep growing, but
then the fallout of those effects make it so that
you can't even enjoy the fruits of modernization. You know.
It's almost like someone who gets really into crossfits to
help them attract women, but then they push everyone away
because they can't stop talking about the fact that they
joined CrossFit. Now those ads are useless and you wouldn't
be able to tell this from the story. But New
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Delhi is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I mean, this is what it looked like last year
after months of lockdown and the smug dissipating. But now
it's back to looking like it's stuck on a permanent
CPF filter. All right, but let's move on to our
final international story. And like most things in the world,
the story was made in China the Royalty of Professional
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Tennis expressing concern about the welfare of one of their own. Honestly,
it's shocking you know that that she's missing. Punk twy,
a Chinese tennis champion, hasn't been seen or heard from
in weeks. In early November, Peng published this bombshell post
on her Chinese social media account and open letter to
a former top communist leader named John Gaulee, now aged
(13:29):
seventy five, who Pung accuses of sexually assaulting her after
the two had an affair. Shortly after the controversial post,
Punk's online profile more or less disappeared. Until recently, Peng
Shui was one of the biggest tennis stars in China.
But look what happens. When you try to search for
people with her name in the Chinese Internet, you get
(13:53):
the message no results found. Censors have all but rubbed
this woman from the Chinese Internet. Now today a new twist,
with Chinese state media releasing this email purportedly written by
punk to the head of the Women's Tennis Association. It
completely disavows the previous allegations of sexual assault, adding I'm
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not missing, nor am I unsafe, and I hope Chinese
tennis will become better and better. Yo, this is really disturbing.
Someone speaks out about sexual assault and then China's government
just makes them disappear. And then what's even worse is
that they release some bullshit email pretending like everything is fine,
(14:40):
Because come on, people, that email from the tennis stall
was as legit as the letters I got from my
supermodel girlfriend in fifth grade. She's coming next year, guys,
I swear this is what makes China so terrifying. Like,
if you're on the good side, things are great. But
if you try to tell the truth about how China
is a country that constantly a Trevor know what you
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do each yes? Soon? Lee? What the hell is that
I'm not even in China? Look, man, it's one thing
for your government to come after you, it's another thing
for them to just make you never exist. I mean,
they scrubbed the Internet of anything about this tennis player.
Do you know how hard it is to get stuff
(15:21):
off the internet? Only China can do that. In fact,
if you have embarrassing pictures online or problematic tweets, just
moved to China and talk about the Communist Party. Yeah,
they'll clean up your reputation in no time. I mean, yeah,
you'll be locked in the basement some way, but hey,
at least you can get canceled. And this also really
puts into perspective when people in America complain about being
(15:41):
censored by big chech Twitter chucked down my tweet. This
is a terterranity, guys. Peng Shui literally does not exist
on the internet anymore. Like, yeah, maybe Trump can't tweet
right now, but you can still google him. Trust me.
Just yesterday I searched for Donald trump big buck photos.
I got eighty million hits. And now I'm not gonna
(16:02):
tell you why google that. I like big butts and
I cannot lie. All right, that's all the time we
have for international news. When we come back, we'll tell
you how you can survive the most expensive Thanksgiving of
all time. And Halle Berry is still joining me on
the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back
to the Daily Show. Thanksgiving is just around the corner,
(16:22):
but with the price of groceries. These days, a big
dinner could be more expensive than buying yeasies for your Lamborghini. Fortunately,
Daisylidak has come up with some tips for celebrating Thanksgiving
on a budget. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. They say that this
year is going to be the most expensive Thanksgiving ever.
(16:43):
Inflation is hitting everything groceries, cookwear, decorative gourds, even the
really ugly bumpy ones. I know I'm tightening my belt
this year, but don't worry. You can still have an
amazing Thanksgiving without breaking the bank. Let's start with the turkey.
This year, turkey prices are almost double what they were
a few years ago, but there are still deals out
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there if you know how to shop smart. For instance,
did you know that you can get factory reject turkeys
at butter Ball outlet stores nationwide. This one only cost
ten dollars and it has three necks, so there's even
more to go around. You can also check Craigslist for
some perfectly good, gently used turkeys. Now, why should this
(17:26):
go to a landfill just because one person already owned it?
But if your turkey budget is zero, here's a great hack.
You just trace your hand. Now we're gonna want to
do a little big and some googly eyes. Wa O,
(17:46):
cute is this little turkey. Now you're gonna want to
drench this bad boy in olive oil. No one likes
to dry turkey. We're gonna want to roast this at
four hundred degrees for about one hour. Of course, you
can't have turkey without stuffing, but you don't need to
take out a second mortgage or start an only fans
to pay for all the ingredients that you need. Most
(18:09):
of us have perfectly good stuffing already right inside our
kids teddy bears. I'm just gonna want to get in there,
just gonna want to take the stuffing, scoop it out,
just shove it in that bird, Get it in there,
(18:29):
roast it. It's gonna soak up all those flavors and
really help the turkey keep its shape. And the best
stuffing is right in the face. There we go. But
let's talk side dishes, because this is where the dollars
can really start adding up. One of my favorites is
mashed potatoes. They're delicious, and I have a simple trick
(18:51):
for making a little go a long way, So you
just make one mashed potato chew it up m h
m hm, spit it back out, and then you want
to just pass it around the table for everyone to
enjoy their mashed anyway, so it will not affect the
texture or flavor at all. What about drinks, Most of
(19:17):
the grown ups at the table are probably going to
want a nice glass of wine, especially when Uncle Steve
starts talking about Q and on, and that can get
expensive fast. But fortunately you can get the same pleasant
buzz at a fraction of the price with paint thinner.
(19:41):
Mm hmm, I'm detecting notes of my garage and just
a hint of the previous owners of my house who
left this behind when they moved. This also pairs well
with the hallucinations, halluciations, amucinations, hallucinations. Now to the most
(20:02):
important part of the meal, dessert. Pumpkin pie can get
expensive whether you're making it from scratch, buying it from
the store, or buying it from the store and saying
you made it from scratch and carrying the shame and
guilt of that lie for the rest of your life.
But why spend money when we already have so much
pumpkin spice stuff around the house like this scented candle
(20:24):
I got from my secret Santa three years ago. It's
an absolute garbage gift. But wait until you taste it
in a dessert. Just cook it it. I don't know
two hundred five hundred. Honestly, it doesn't even make a
difference because as you can see, it comes out perfect
(20:44):
every time. Mm hmm. For all of you thinking about
holiday weight gain, wax is not digestible, so no worries there.
(21:05):
Comes out the same as it goes in amang. Finally,
if you really want to save money on Thanksgiving, just
remember the original spirit of the holiday and do what
the Pilgrims did steal. They stole food, land, even valuables
(21:27):
from Native American graves, So why not take a page
from history and steal whatever you need. Hey, with Christmas
around the corner, go ahead and steal whatever you want
for that too. Look, I'm Santa ho ho ho oh
my paper turkeys ready, yuh no ship ship evacuay, evacuay.
(22:03):
All right. When we come back, the one and only
halle Berry will be joining me in the studio, so
don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
guest tonight is Oscar Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor
Hallie Berry. She's here to talk about making her directorial
debut in the new film Bruised halle Berry. It looked rough.
(22:30):
It looked extremely rough. Welcome for the show, Thank you,
thank you. I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy
to have you here. But I'm not gonna lie. I was.
I was genuinely surprised in like such a fun way
watching this movie because I've seen you kick ass in
a lot of films, all right, I've seen you act
your heart out in so many films. But I don't
know why. For me, this movie felt like a culmination
of everything coming together. You know. It was Hallie Berry
(22:53):
the fighter. It was Hallie Berry the actress. It was
Hallie Berry, you know, feeling pain, showing moments of joy.
It it felt like it was a common nation of
a lot of just you as a human being. Congratulations
on your directorial debut. What was that like? Thank you? Wow,
it's funny you said that, because you know what, I
felt that way too, And being at the helm and
being in charge. I could put all of that into
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the movie. I could play too, you know, not only
my strengths, but to the trengths of all the characters.
I can only imagine all the actors. So yes, the
story has such a fascinating beginning. This was a story
that wasn't originally written for you. You You know, it went
out I think it was to Blake Lively and people
were like, Oh, it's this Irish, Catholic white woman and
it's going to be the story of this twenty something
you old scrappy UFC fights ure and you saw the
(23:37):
story and said, I think there's a different way to
tell the story. Yeah, And you know, the idea came
because I desperately wanted to play this character. I love
the fight game. I've been a boxing fan since I
was a kid. I was now when I got this
script an avid m M A fan, especially of all
the women in the sport. So when I read it,
I thought, this is the kind of role that I
would kill for. It's media, it's juicy, I get to
(23:57):
use all of my physicality, except it isn't written for
someone like me. So that was the impetus for reimagining it.
And I told my agents, if Blake decides not to
do this, can you please let me get to the
producers and give them my pitch on how and why
I think are reimagining would be in order. And for me,
I felt like, based on where we are in the world,
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and you know, time's up in me too, and where
we as black women and black people are arriving too,
it's time that we get a chance to tell our
stories from our own point of view, through our lens.
And so I said, if we're going to remake a
fight movie, they've been made by the great some of
the best movies, Rocky and Fight Club and a Million
Dollar Babies, We're going to redo it. The only reason
(24:40):
to do it is to have a fresh new point
of view something we've never seen it. We've never seen
it a black female fighter, but especially from a black
female director. Definitely right, So it was new, there was
a reason to do it. And you know what, it
also feels like it comments on so many things, you know,
So as a fan of UFC, I'm sure you know
you know what it feels like on the ins. You know,
I've talked to some of the female fighters in the
(25:02):
UFC where they go, Man, we feel like we have
to be so much more brutal to get acknowledged. We
have to feel like we have to fight so much
harder to just maintain our spot in that octagon. And
they do get the respect, but they really really really
have to work towards it. And it feels like it's
no difference in Hollywood, you know, is that a woman
in Hollywood, especially a black woman in Hollywood, you have
to fight so much harder to be recognized. You have
(25:24):
to be you know. I mean everyone would think Halle
Berry wins the Oscar and it's like this is it,
you know, just it seems like it's like, oh, this
is gonna be the end of your life. You get
to do whatever you like, but you've had to continue
working hard to fight for what you want to do
in the industry. True, one of the big misconceptions was
that when I won that Oscar that somehow the script
truck just backed up, like no truck came. My fight
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didn't really get any easier. I still had to face
that I was a black woman in an industry and
there was no real way for me that had been paved.
I had to figure that out for myself. And as
with fighting. Shannon Knabb, who runs in Victor, you know,
the all female she told me that having her female
fighters when she went to a venue, she would have
to pay to come to the venue, wherewith the male
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fighters they would pay them. So it is indelibly harder
for women across the board, and especially in the in
the Fight Games, you know, the movie was it's it's
brutal is the best way to put it. And it's
brutal in the way that life is brutal is the
way I see it. And I couldn't help wondering, as
Halle Berry the actress, have you often felt like, man,
you're always fighting to keep your career where you wanted
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to be, as opposed to letting people decide when and
where you're done, because you you come from a generation where,
let's be honest, they would go you forty and it's
over for you. So many actresses talk about that forty
and done, and now it seems like the fight is
working and changing that perspective. Yeah, theoretically I should have
been done a decade ago, you know, so, but I
do feel that, and as a woman, I do feel
like that I have to keep fighting and keep reinventing
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and keep you know, proving that there's still you know,
more left for me to do. And and I act
really feel that there's more left for me to do.
I'm still inspired by this career, by this craft. I
still love what I do. I want to keep challenging
myself and keep growing. I want to see how long
I could stay in this physical shape and do these
kinds of movies. You know, that's the joy of it.
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I want to try new things, you know, I want
to take new risks. How can you stay in this
physical shape? You broke how many ribs during this movie?
Two ribs breaks broken in this movie? I remember distinctly
because I'm a big fan John Wick. You broke ribs
as well, three roots three on that. So I'm getting better.
I mean, it's still five ribs, and there's a lot
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of ribs, the same ribs or different different ribs. Because
here's the but here's the thing that I would like
people to know. It's not just Oh, halle Berry always
gets hurt when you are a performer that does your
own stunts, that's power. For the course, every stunt man,
stunt woman usually on every film gets hurt in some way.
We don't hear about it because they don't talk about
it in the public doesn't really care. It's their job, right,
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So when a performer gets hurt, it becomes a big
deal because most performers don't do their own stunts so
they don't get hurt. So I sort of get this
bad rap of always getting hurt, always getting hurt. But
I always demand to do my own stunts, I always says.
And this film, it wasn't just doing your own stunts.
I mean with John Wick, they posed production. This film
was a smaller independent film. You're directing it, and you
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decide I've broken the ribs. I'm going to keep fighting
in the movie. I mean, I can barely carry on.
If i'd like stubbed the toe, I'll be like, let's
pause production for a while. Guys, let's let's man. That's true.
That is true. Have bigger toes, that's what you're saying.
We have more toes. Women have higher tolerance for pain. Yes,
that's why we have the children. And you guys don't that.
That is very true. But I think of it as like, man,
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halle Berry is a badass. I go, like, you're breaking ribs.
You know you you're you're in these fight scenes. You're
doing these things like you had to learn how to
fight again for this. You you learned, you learned martial
arts for X men, right, A little bit more for
a catwoman, a capuetta for a catwoman like couple. Yeah, okay,
learned that because that was all a part of bringing
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that had it was low to the ground. Okay, what else?
What other martial arts? I did, boxing and kick boxing,
But for this, like the jiu jitsu, the taekwondo, the judo,
the wrestling is so hard. It's just like all clothes
and fingers and like getting knocked in the face. Why
would you do this? Because it's so fun. It's also
so fun. And I was a gymnast as a kid.
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I didn't know so yeah, I was supposed to be
someone Bials, but someone became someone me. That was my
dream to go to the Olympics and win a gold
medal some day. You never say that could be your
next film. You never know. You can make a film
with someone Bials really bring the whole story together. Maybe
you know what I'm saying. I could be the oldest
woman to win a gold medal. Anything could happened in
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this day and age. Um, your story is one that
you're continuing to write. What did you love about directing
that was different because you've been on this side of
the lands for such a long time, there must have
been something new that you discovered that you loved about
being on the other side of the camera. I think
what I love most was that I got to have
this idea in my head and I got to shape
it and form it and reshape it and reform it.
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And I got to sort of bring to the screen
pretty much exactly what I had in my head. And
I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do
that because we had such a low budget, and while
my days kept getting cut and I kept losing money
left and right, it's hard in the independent world. What
what I loved was that as a black woman, I
got a story out of my body that was true
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to my gaze, that was true to my community, It
was true to my race, to my sex. That all
of it felt like, uh, an amalgamation of all the
three years that I worked on this. I got to
tell a true point of view about a sport from
a female point of view, And had I not been myself,
I don't know if that would have happened. Because I
loved the sport and I also loved the drama of it.
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At the same time, so I tried to put equal
emphasis on both elements. Well, i'll tell you this, you
did a fantastic job. I think you had a lot
of fun making it. It's a lot of fun watching it.
And thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Thank you for having Alright people, Bruised is in select
theaters right now, and we'll be available on Netflix November
twenty four. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll
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