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00:03From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
00:10This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson.
00:27Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Josh Johnson. We've got so much to talk about tonight.
00:32Donald Trump is using you for a GoFundMe, Lindsey Graham makes an even tougher sale than bombing Iran,
00:37and Triumph the Insult comic dog humps some legs at the correspondence dinner.
00:42But first, let's start with the most urgent issue facing America today.
00:47Donald Trump still doesn't have a ballroom, all right?
00:51Let's get into it in our new segment, Let Them Eat Ballroom.
01:01The country's going to hell in a handbasket. Let's do a little dancing.
01:14As we all know, there was an attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend,
01:19which, first of all, terrible week for light-skinned dudes.
01:25You've got this guy going for the president and chewing carpet.
01:29Clay Thompson cheating on Megan Thee Stallion.
01:35No pressure, but, Drake, this album's got to be fire. It's all on you.
01:43But that was just my takeaway. Republicans had another, somehow dumber, takeaway.
01:47A group of Senate Republicans is pushing to fund the construction of President Trump's 90,000-square-foot ballroom
01:53using taxpayer money.
01:54We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize $400 million to be spent
02:01to secure the, to build the presidential ballroom.
02:07$400 million?
02:13That's our money. Why do we have to pay for this?
02:15We didn't try to shoot the president.
02:19Make this guy pay for the ballroom.
02:22This is the administration that is obsessed with government waste.
02:26I-I can't believe they dissolved Doge right before Trump demanded a $400 million ballroom.
02:33It's like how the Michael Jackson movie ended right before he starts molesting.
02:39You just went ahead and skipped all the important stuff, huh?
02:43We live in such a crazy time now that events don't even need to be connected to each other.
02:47Someone tried to kill the president, so now we're going to build a ballroom.
02:53But I feel like someone completely trustworthy told us we wouldn't have to pay for anything.
02:58We're putting up our own money with the government is paying for nothing.
03:03We did this, uh, no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever.
03:06All private money, not one penny is being used from the federal government.
03:11And, and, to his word, it isn't one penny.
03:15It's 40 billion pennies.
03:18Honestly, as soon as I heard about the ballroom, I knew we would end up paying for it.
03:22Like, Trump is the type of dude to wine and dine you and then forget his wallet.
03:28You know, he'll just be sitting with you like, I hope you had a great time.
03:31Um, um, I just, uh-oh, uh, ooh, I, I hate to do this, but, uh, we're still going to
03:40have sex, right?
03:41Like, don't get me wrong, with so many seniors getting scammed in America, I'm glad one of them is turning
03:49the tables.
03:51I just don't want it to be on us, you know?
03:54And $400 million is way too much.
03:57Why is this ballroom so expensive?
03:59Is the roof going to be made of Coachella tickets?
04:02What could possibly make this thing cost so much?
04:05Like, be specific.
04:06Underneath, there will be a lot of military stuff.
04:09Military stuff?
04:13What military stuff?
04:14Name ten military stuffs.
04:16I'll wait.
04:25Lindsey Graham sounds like me in fifth grade trying to convince my mom to get me an Xbox.
04:30Like, you-you know, they make educational games, too.
04:38Here's what I don't get.
04:39The president travels with tons of security everywhere he goes.
04:43So what problem are we trying to solve, exactly?
04:46The ballroom itself will avoid the dilemma of having to leave the White House grounds.
04:51He literally could have left his bedroom, walked out the back of the White House, and been at the ballroom.
05:02Hey, hey, hey.
05:03The president needs to walk out of his bedroom into the ballroom.
05:09This feels like it's Lindsey's dream.
05:17I can see Lindsey, like, I must rise from my silk sheets.
05:23And directly into the cotillion.
05:27Oh, it's a-it's a mass cotillion, where-where I can be my truest self.
05:33This is not what a president is supposed to be focused on, unless that president is seven years old.
05:39You know, they're-they're writing a list like, I'm going to have a slide that goes right from my bed
05:43to the pool.
05:46And I want a soup made out of candy, so whenever I get hungry, I can just eat my shirt.
05:57But still, as good as the White House is, Trump is going to have to leave sometimes.
06:02It really does put President Trump at risk to go around Washington, D.C. like this.
06:07The president should not have to leave the White House to go to the Kennedy Center, to go to the
06:11Hilton, and-and venture out.
06:14People should come to him.
06:15Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
06:17The president should have to leave his house?
06:20You don't want the leader of the free world to visit anything.
06:25Hold on.
06:27Is-is the president depressed?
06:35I know people keep trying to shoot him, but still.
06:41Come to think of it, did he just get McDonald's door dashed to the house?
06:47That sounds like a man who's given up on life, you know?
06:51Wait till he finds out about Snuggies.
06:54There have to be arguments for this ballroom
06:57that don't just make the president sound like an indoor cat.
06:59I never understood the opposition to the ballroom.
07:02I mean, all women love ballrooms.
07:08All women love ballrooms?
07:11That argument is so sexist,
07:13it's one step away from being super woke.
07:15Like, all women love ballrooms?
07:18Why can't the president feel like a pretty girl?
07:31I mean, I don't even know how big of a deal this is,
07:33because, sure, all the Republicans are on board,
07:35but there's no way there's even one Democrat
07:37that's gonna support this.
07:39So far, only one Democrat,
07:40Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania,
07:42has come out in favor of this project.
07:44this dude is a ballroom guy?
07:50He's never worn a blazer
07:52that wasn't loaned to him by the Mayor D.
07:56The one time I've seen him wearing a jacket and tie,
08:00he was wearing them with a hoodie.
08:05He looks like he robbed somebody who was wearing a tie.
08:11It's like they told him he couldn't come in without one,
08:13and then he saw a guy wear one,
08:14and he was like,
08:15get over here.
08:19What does he want a ballroom for?
08:21I bet Republicans say if he voted for it,
08:23they'd add a bell tower just for him.
08:36Look, I know Republicans had Project 2025,
08:39but I'm starting to think they never wrote Project 2026.
08:44Because they're on day four of arguing that the president needs a ballroom to dance in
08:49while we're at war during an affordability crisis.
08:52But if we ask the government for housing or health care or day care,
08:56this is what we get.
08:57The United States can't take care of day care.
09:00We can't take care of day care.
09:01We're a big country.
09:02We have 50 states.
09:04We have all these other people.
09:05We're fighting wars.
09:06It's not possible for us to take care of day care.
09:09Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.
09:12We have to take care of one thing, military protection.
09:17And, and, a ballroom.
09:21Now, the big question is,
09:23do other countries apply the same logic of ballroom protection
09:26into their security problems?
09:29Jordan Klepper went to find out.
09:31Just days after political gun violence in our nation's capital,
09:35I went to Times Square to ask people from foreign countries,
09:38why is this happening here?
09:40In London, it's never really been a big thing, you know?
09:44The whole gun thing is not a big thing.
09:45It's just crazy to me,
09:46because that kind of stuff usually wouldn't happen in, like, Europe.
09:49I think most of Canada is pretty safe.
09:51Yeah.
09:52You're able to say, please speak your mind
09:54without having to worry about being shut down.
09:57And doing that with words, not shut down.
09:59With that outside perspective,
10:01like, what are things Americans can do
10:03to make America safer?
10:06Lose the guns.
10:07Okay.
10:08That would help.
10:08Okay.
10:10Noted.
10:10Yeah.
10:11If we don't do that,
10:12is there anything else?
10:13Try to be decent,
10:14respect people in general, of course.
10:17Okay.
10:17Let's say if that's not our sweet spot,
10:19what else you got?
10:19Reduce the number of guns.
10:21Reduce the number of...
10:23Guns.
10:23Number of guns, yeah.
10:25No.
10:25Have you considered more ballrooms?
10:28Without guns, yeah.
10:30Okay.
10:30You're really hung up on this gun thing.
10:32These tourists were focused on the guns
10:34when Trump had a much simpler plan.
10:36It's drone-proof.
10:37It's bullet-proof glass.
10:38We need the ballroom.
10:39So how were these outsiders still so lost?
10:42You know where you are right now, right?
10:44Yeah.
10:44Times Square.
10:45Times Square.
10:46And you know why Times Square was so f***ed up in the 70s?
10:48Tell me.
10:48No ballrooms.
10:49F***ed up.
10:50Well, there was one.
10:51Maybe more of a strip club.
10:52Ah.
10:53But this place was wild.
10:54Wouldn't you feel a little bit safer
10:55with, like, a closed situation?
10:58Maybe a chandelier hanging?
11:00Play to dinner?
11:01As I said, I've not been to a ballroom, so...
11:03You gotta go to a ballroom.
11:04I'm just...
11:04I know.
11:04This is for your own safety.
11:06Still, the more I talk to people
11:07from countries without constant political violence,
11:10the more I realize they could see a way through.
11:12Kind of communicating, keeping an open mind.
11:14Trying to get to a middle ground.
11:15I think it's about unity.
11:17You know where I find unity
11:18with people that I disagree with?
11:21Weddings.
11:22Yeah.
11:22I gotta tell you,
11:23the last time I was able to talk with my uncle,
11:25who was on the other side of the aisle,
11:27it was my cousin's wedding.
11:28You know?
11:29Yeah, a little Michael Jackson comes on,
11:31everybody dances a little bit,
11:32they start moving,
11:32we're all having a great time.
11:33Where did all that take place?
11:35At the wedding.
11:36And where is the wedding?
11:37In America.
11:38But the location in America
11:40that the wedding is held within?
11:42New York?
11:43That's actually upstate,
11:44but it's pretty close.
11:45It's housed in a...
11:47A chapel?
11:48No, it's not a chapel.
11:49There's a room.
11:50There's a room.
11:50There's a room.
11:52The courthouse?
11:53No, it's not a courthouse.
11:55Why would it be a courthouse?
11:57It's a room.
11:58It is a room.
11:59It is a room
11:59where we have a ball in that room.
12:02A ballroom?
12:02A ballroom, man!
12:04Yeah!
12:05Finally, I was getting through
12:06to these people.
12:06This ballroom solution
12:08just makes sense.
12:09Makes no f***ing sense.
12:10You don't need a f***ing ball.
12:12You know?
12:13What's the point?
12:13I gotta tell you,
12:14you have a lousy attitude.
12:15If you could come up with
12:16any other way to solve
12:17our gun violence problem
12:18other than ballrooms,
12:19I'd love to f***ing hear it.
12:22But that's our time.
12:23Thank you very much.
12:24Thank you very much.
12:28Thank you, Jordan.
12:29When we come back,
12:30try the insult comic dog
12:31Ghost in D.C.
12:32It's been very well.
12:51Welcome back to the Daily Show.
12:54Saturday's White House
12:55Correspondents Dinner
12:56was a terrifying
12:57and somber night.
12:58Maybe we shouldn't have sent
12:59Triumph the Insull Comic Dog
13:01to cover it.
13:02But we did.
13:04Here's his report
13:05from the red carpet
13:06before the dinner started.
13:08I am here
13:08at the White House
13:09Correspondents Dinner,
13:11an annual gathering
13:12of the press
13:13that celebrates
13:14or in tonight's case
13:15fondly remembers
13:16free speech.
13:18On this night,
13:19members of the press
13:20sit down for a lavish dinner
13:22served by some
13:23of their former colleagues.
13:24So many of the biggest names
13:26in D.C. are here,
13:27such as Redacted
13:29and Redacted.
13:31CNN.
13:32This is a big night.
13:34How about Wolf Blitzer?
13:35Is he going to be here?
13:36I'm assuming he's going
13:37to be here tonight.
13:38Because I want to catch him
13:39before the bosses
13:40replace him with Jake Paul,
13:42you know.
13:42Here, Leech,
13:43is that where we're
13:44going tonight?
13:45Listen,
13:45where are all the stars?
13:46That's what I want to know.
13:48D.C., any of you're a star.
13:49I'm the biggest star here.
13:51It's pathetic.
13:52This thing needs
13:52a red carpet
13:53like the Olive Garden
13:54needs a velvet rope.
13:57Fox News guy,
13:58come on,
13:59you're not above this.
14:01The sun,
14:02we got the sun.
14:03Peter Ducey,
14:04this is a catch.
14:05What a night.
14:06No comedians.
14:07We don't need comedians.
14:08We have a mentalist.
14:10And do you think
14:11Trump's going to tell
14:11some jokes like
14:12how he won the Iran war
14:14and how gas prices
14:16are going down?
14:17Pretty good stuff.
14:18It's Peter's death.
14:19Peter, let's go.
14:20Peter, no.
14:21Peter,
14:22if the mentalist
14:23asks Trump
14:24to pick a number,
14:25it'll probably be
14:26under 18.
14:27Would you agree?
14:28I kid, I kid.
14:30It's a politically
14:30motivated lie.
14:32You guys at Fox News
14:33know what I'm talking about.
14:35Okay, now he really
14:37has to go.
14:38It's great to see
14:39all you Republican guys
14:40out here praising Trump.
14:42Normally,
14:42I'm the only one out here
14:44licking someone's nuts.
14:47Dr. Oz!
14:48Hold on,
14:49I love dogs.
14:50Let me ask you
14:50about the mentalist.
14:51Are you worried
14:52that if he pulls
14:52a rabbit out of his hat,
14:54will RFK Jr.
14:55try to eat it?
14:57Oh, my God,
14:58it's Janine Pirro.
15:00This lineup is crazy.
15:01It's like Black Tie
15:02January 6th.
15:04She'll never talk to me,
15:05but I have a secret weapon.
15:07Check it out.
15:09Janine!
15:10Janine!
15:12Mark Wayne Mullen,
15:13the head of the DHS,
15:14I have to tell you,
15:15I'm a little resentful
15:17of you guys.
15:17I was stooping
15:19a Mexican hairless
15:20and she was picked up
15:21by ice.
15:22I don't know
15:23what that's funny about you.
15:24Over in the back there
15:26is either Brett Baird
15:28or someone tried
15:29to draw American dad
15:30from memory.
15:32Do you think Trump
15:33will eventually be tried
15:34for war crimes?
15:36Not for Iran,
15:37but for what he's done
15:38to the Oval Office toilet.
15:40Have you met
15:40Sikash Patel?
15:41I have, I have.
15:43You know,
15:43I hear he's a good guy.
15:45He loves sports.
15:46Great guy.
15:46Are you worried
15:47that if he doesn't win
15:48his $250 million lawsuit
15:50against the Atlantic
15:52that he won't be able
15:53to cover his tab
15:54at the poodle room?
15:56His tab at the what?
15:57The poodle room.
15:58I think people need
15:59to stop complaining
16:00about Kash Patel
16:02drinking so much.
16:03If you know
16:04a better way
16:04to come down
16:05from how much cocaine
16:06he's doing,
16:07I'd like to hear it.
16:08I don't know
16:09if Kash Patel
16:10is a cocaine party guy.
16:13Of course not.
16:14You know,
16:14and a lot of great people
16:15are here.
16:15You can tell
16:16that some of the most
16:18powerful people
16:18in Washington
16:19are here tonight
16:20because all the escort services
16:22have switched
16:23to surge pricing.
16:25Oh my God,
16:26it's so exciting.
16:27All the big names
16:28are here
16:29from the cabinet
16:29and Caroline Levitt
16:31is here?
16:32Yeah.
16:32I mean, physically.
16:33Her soul left her body
16:34about a year ago.
16:36We're very
16:36pro Caroline Levitt.
16:38Where is Stephen Miller
16:39anyway?
16:40I heard he's stuck
16:40in a glue trap.
16:42Caroline.
16:43Caroline,
16:44are you feeling secure?
16:45Women in this administration
16:46are dropping faster
16:48than inbred French bulldogs.
16:50Look at her.
16:51Seriously,
16:52I haven't seen anyone
16:53so full of shit
16:54since that time
16:54I watched the Chihuahua
16:56eat a king-size Reese's
16:57peanut butter cup.
16:58So Pete Hegseth
16:59is right over there.
17:00Yeah, I see him.
17:01Yeah.
17:01Can you give him
17:02his drink tickets?
17:05He asked me
17:06to pick him up for him.
17:07Hey, Pete!
17:09Pete!
17:11Where are we
17:12pre-gaming?
17:13And post-gaming?
17:15And mid-game gaming?
17:18Cheryl,
17:19what's special
17:20about this night
17:20other than
17:21it's the only
17:22celebrity party
17:23you're invited to anymore?
17:25Bobby.
17:26Please, Bobby.
17:27Can I see
17:28my brother
17:29one last time?
17:30He's in your freezer.
17:32What brings you
17:33to the White House
17:34correspondence dinner?
17:35Are you kidding?
17:36This is a wonderful night.
17:37We're honoring
17:38the First Amendment
17:39with Donald Trump.
17:41It's kind of like
17:42having Kanye come
17:43for Passover.
17:44So what rotting husk
17:46of a once-great industry
17:47are you with?
17:48Oh, USA Today.
17:50Okay, good.
17:51And tell me this.
17:54What's the plan
17:55after this is over?
17:57The bar.
17:57No, no, I'm not
17:58talking about tonight.
17:59I'm talking about
18:00after the news industry
18:01is over.
18:03Marco, come on.
18:05You can do this.
18:07What's the matter,
18:08Mr. Secretary?
18:10Afraid of a little dog?
18:13I'm down on my luck, Marco.
18:15Please, just one question.
18:16Just tell me
18:17which country
18:17you're attacking next.
18:18I'm trying to win
18:19some money on Polymarket.
18:20I'm trying to win
18:21some money on Polymarket, man.
18:24Just give me a wink
18:25if it's Kazakhstan.
18:26It's illegal
18:26for dogs to gamble.
18:30Thank you, Triumph.
18:31When we come back,
18:32Gaten Montarazzo
18:33will be joining me
18:33on the show,
18:34so don't go away.
18:51Welcome back to The Daily Show.
18:53My guest tonight
18:54is an actor and producer
18:55who stars in the new comedy
18:57Pizza Movie.
18:58These duds?
18:59Guess so.
19:01Want to play
19:01Wizard's Oath?
19:02No, we can't.
19:03We need three people.
19:04I could play.
19:05No, I take too long
19:06to teach you the rules.
19:11Oh, no.
19:20Please welcome
19:21Gaten Montarazzo.
19:42Thank you so much for coming.
19:43I'm so happy to be here.
19:44Thank you for having me.
19:45Yeah.
19:46I'm a very big fan of yours,
19:47I have to say.
19:47Really?
19:48I have been for a very,
19:49very long time.
19:50So I'm very, very excited
19:51that you are here.
19:53This makes me very happy.
19:54I feel the same way about you.
19:55This is very cool.
19:56I appreciate it.
19:57Even if it was just us.
19:58Even if they weren't here.
19:59This would be very cool.
20:00This is fine.
20:01This is great.
20:01Yeah.
20:02So this movie
20:03is like a new age
20:05Harold and Kumar.
20:06Sure.
20:07Yeah.
20:07Maybe.
20:07You get that reference?
20:08I do.
20:09I love that movie
20:09for a very long time.
20:10And that was a movie
20:11that was mentioned
20:13in the pitch
20:14when I first read the script.
20:16And it was pitch as well.
20:18It's just like a love letter
20:19to stoner movies in general.
20:21What I'm...
20:26This is a very funny thing
20:27to talk about on this show,
20:28which I love very, very much.
20:30Yeah.
20:31It was a blast to make.
20:33And what was really fun
20:34is that they knew
20:35they wanted to go for
20:36and mention as many
20:39kind of usual tropes
20:40that stoner movies
20:41kind of tried to go into
20:43all the time
20:44that can be a bit of an eye roll
20:45and kind of just go so far
20:47into them that it's so...
20:49like self-referential
20:50and bizarre
20:51and really fun
20:52and kind of spin on it.
20:53It was so much fun to make.
20:54It was nuts.
20:55How do you prepare
20:56for the role?
20:58Oh, man.
21:01What?
21:04There's plenty of research
21:06in terms of things.
21:07Things to watch.
21:09Yeah.
21:10Experiences to have.
21:11Oh, man.
21:12You could go on and on.
21:15Yeah, in ways.
21:16For sure.
21:17Yeah, yeah.
21:17My dad's here.
21:19Oh, okay.
21:20That's fair.
21:21All right.
21:22All right.
21:24That's fair.
21:26And the thing is,
21:28the drug in the movie
21:29doesn't exist in real life.
21:30Fictional drug.
21:31Yes.
21:32That was explained to me
21:34specifically as
21:35the reason that we can do
21:37whatever we want
21:37is that we made up the drug
21:39so we can just go for it.
21:41Yeah.
21:41And that was really cool.
21:43The drug,
21:44I think I can say this
21:46without spoiling too much,
21:47but the drug that we take
21:50is an experimental drug
21:52that was made in our dorm
21:54by a previous tenant
21:56and a previous student there.
21:58and when we take it,
22:00we realize it is going to hit us
22:02in distinct phases
22:03that are representative
22:05of several comedic movie tropes
22:07and that to stop ourselves
22:08from our worst nightmares
22:11finding us
22:12and shoving chainsaws up our ass,
22:14we have to eat pizza,
22:17specifically pizza,
22:18or else it will go horribly wrong.
22:20Okay.
22:21All right.
22:23I feel like what a synopsis.
22:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:28I wish that clip before was,
22:30I wish I could say
22:31that that's out of context,
22:32but that's pretty much in context.
22:33Yeah.
22:35That's as much context
22:36as you get before that starts.
22:37No, that's fair.
22:39And then this movie
22:41is about you and your friend
22:42in search for that pizza.
22:44In search for that pizza.
22:46What is a food or a dish,
22:48something that you would
22:49sort of go through hell to get?
22:51That's a good question.
22:53Oh, man.
22:54I think just things
22:55I grew up enjoying
22:56that my family would make a lot of.
22:58I would put pizza in there.
23:00My grandfather makes
23:01one of the best pizzas
23:02I've ever had,
23:02which is great.
23:03He had pizzerias growing up
23:04and so did my uncle,
23:05so I would go through a lot
23:07for a slice
23:08that he would make for me
23:10to be nice.
23:11My mom makes
23:11a pretty crazy mac and cheese.
23:13But it's like nostalgia food
23:15for sure.
23:15I think I would do a lot for.
23:17Absolutely.
23:18Yeah, but I don't know
23:18if I'd go through too much.
23:20I don't know.
23:21I'd like to say I would.
23:22You would be like,
23:23it would be nice.
23:24Yeah, within reason.
23:26You're like,
23:26I'm not going to drive, though.
23:27I won't drive or anything.
23:29Yeah, I really won't make anything.
23:31Absolutely not.
23:32I know that so often
23:34in stoner movies
23:35it's about getting the thing
23:36that's going to taste the best
23:38while you're high.
23:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:40But I'm curious,
23:41what is the worst meal
23:42that you've ever had?
23:44Oh, man.
23:45Oh, I'm not picky.
23:47Okay.
23:48If it's edible.
23:49Yeah.
23:49And if it's not going to make me sick.
23:51Right.
23:51Yeah.
23:52If it's not going to make me sick
23:53I'll usually find something
23:54to enjoy about it.
23:55It's kind of the same way
23:56I feel about movies in general.
23:58Okay.
23:58I'm like,
23:58if this is exactly what it's trying to be
24:02then I'll usually enjoy it.
24:03But I remember one time
24:05I was out to eat
24:06with my girlfriend
24:07and we shared a dish
24:09and I think like something
24:10was like off.
24:12Something that had spoiled.
24:13Mm-hmm.
24:14And it was just,
24:15it was like rank.
24:18It was weirdly.
24:19It was like a little bit like stinky.
24:20Yeah.
24:21And not in a very,
24:21not in a good way.
24:23And it wasn't a dish
24:24that would have like,
24:25that would have been
24:25something to expect.
24:27So it wasn't stinky
24:28in like a blue cheese way.
24:29No, no, no, no.
24:30It wasn't like funky
24:31or like, what's that?
24:32It was more of like,
24:34this is not going well.
24:36And this is as you're chewing.
24:37This is as I'm chewing.
24:38And the manager of the restaurant
24:40was a fan of the show that I do
24:41and wanted to talk about it
24:43for a little bit.
24:43I didn't want to be rude
24:44and so I just kept eating the food.
24:48I know.
24:51And I muscled a lot of it down.
24:54It was, it was tough.
24:56I didn't get sick though.
24:57Yeah, okay.
24:58All right.
24:58That's fantastic.
24:59Which is a win.
25:00I think in that department
25:01is a clear win.
25:03You definitely didn't deserve
25:04to get sick.
25:04Because you were over here
25:06not just like having
25:07a good conversation
25:08but also be like,
25:09eh, food was delicious.
25:10Yeah, it was great.
25:12It was awesome.
25:13He's like, you want more?
25:14You want to take it home?
25:14I'm like, no, I don't know.
25:16I'm stuffed.
25:17I'm stuffed.
25:17No, I'm so full of poison.
25:19I couldn't possibly.
25:20I couldn't possibly eat more.
25:22So you are actually going to be
25:25in the movie musical coming up
25:27that is directed by,
25:28am I not supposed to say?
25:29No, please.
25:30I'm so happy you have.
25:32When your eyes got big,
25:33I was like, I'm still new to this.
25:34So then when you were like,
25:35oh, I was like, oh no.
25:37No, this is very good.
25:38Oh, okay.
25:38I love to talk about this.
25:39Okay, great, great.
25:40I cut you off for free.
25:40So, no, no, no.
25:41This is perfect.
25:42I just want to make sure I wasn't.
25:44Please do.
25:44You see those clips
25:45that like the person is like hosting
25:47and then they spoil something?
25:49They're so good.
25:49And then you're like,
25:50oh, you weren't supposed to tell anyone.
25:52You can tell whoever you want.
25:53Okay, all right.
25:54You are in the movie musical coming up
25:59that is directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
26:02Yes, I am.
26:03Yeah.
26:06Very, very exciting.
26:07Very, very good reaction.
26:10Yes, indeed.
26:11He usually gets one.
26:12Yeah.
26:12For sure.
26:12And so, tell me about not just like process
26:16because I know you started in theater
26:18and everything.
26:18But like what that is like
26:21to get yourself in the headspace project to project
26:23because this is going to be very different.
26:25It's tremendously different.
26:27It's a really cool musical
26:29that I actually didn't know much about
26:31until Lin approached me
26:35with him making the movie of it.
26:37It's called Octet
26:38and it's a musical that consists of eight people.
26:42It is sung completely a cappella
26:43and it takes place in a church basement
26:47for an addiction support group
26:48for people who are addicted to technology.
26:51And it's a crazy concept
26:52and the cast is really cool.
26:55There's some really awesome people.
26:56Yeah, I'm geeking out every day I'm there.
26:59I just got back from rehearsal today,
27:01which it's just been an absolute blast.
27:03It's really, really cool.
27:05That's awesome.
27:05Yeah, getting into a weird new headspace like that
27:07or even just jumping into a project that is,
27:10even the process of it
27:11is just so distinctly different
27:12from anything that I've done before.
27:15Yeah.
27:15Because I've worked in musical theater,
27:16I've worked in film and TV,
27:18and this meshes those two things in a really cool way.
27:21We have a rehearsal process
27:23before we even start shooting,
27:24which we're in now.
27:25So we're rehearsing it
27:26as if we were going to put it on a stage
27:29and yet there's still a bit of pre-production
27:33and worrying about filming it,
27:35which is bizarre to me.
27:36And certain things will be shot in long takes
27:39that we have to rehearse for
27:40as if we were doing a play or a musical.
27:41And that's going to be really cool.
27:43But Lin's a brilliant guy
27:45and is, I believe, a true genius.
27:49I think that word gets thrown around a lot.
27:50I think he is a real one.
27:53And anything he puts his hands on
27:54is just kind of magic.
27:56So it was just a no-brainer.
27:57He's incredible.
27:58That's incredible.
27:59That's so exciting.
27:59I'm really excited.
28:00Thank you, thank you.
28:01That is so exciting.
28:03Thank you so much for being here with me.
28:05Thank you so much.
28:06I'm so glad.
28:08Y'all, give it up one more time.
28:09You are.
28:10That's incredible.
28:12That's incredible.
28:13That's incredible.
28:14Pizza Movie is available
28:15to stream on Hulu
28:17and Hulu on Disney Quest.
28:18Get a model of it.
28:20We're going to take a quick break,
28:21but we'll be right back after this.
28:23That is so awesome.
28:33That's our show for tonight.
28:34Now, here it is.
28:35The Moment of Zen.
28:37The argument that it's a lavish vanity project?
28:40Eh, maybe.
28:42But it's mostly for national security.
28:44They're building a nerve center
28:46for the Defense Intelligence Agency underneath.
28:48And you can't get a drone through,
28:50a missile through.
28:51It's the safest place on planet Earth.
28:53We can have not only White House Correspondence Centers,
28:56we can have Kid Rock concerts in there.
28:59Sorry.
29:00Sorry.
29:01I got into a mobile.
29:01.
29:01I'm going to go to Wong.
29:02I'm going to go into in the middle of the day.
29:02I'm going to go to and I'm going topor.
29:03It's a Michael Ryan.
29:03This is un év
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