a trojan horse if you will um in that you it's a it was a hilarious hilarious show the only time i got to do it you weren't even hosting somebody else was i had like cordray or something no that was in the contract that was on purpose that was that was something that it felt very personal it was before you'd ever been in show business and i had to put in there if someone named will arnett ever gets in this business please that's PROFANITY_TOKEN foresight and i i i but i remember it it seems to me you started doing that show and it became so much more rel not just comedically but it also became very much part of the conversation because you can see the kind of you know you can see that the genesis of these things you know as you railed against things comedically and the issues got more and more serious and you you kind of dug deeper into it kind of there there did feel like there was a a point where you were like come on everybody what the PROFANITY_TOKEN is going on and my question is did you then sort of graduate since you've left the daily show was there like a frustration threshold that you PROFANITY_TOKEN burst through you're like i can't even joke about it anymore because this PROFANITY_TOKEN is so stupid i gotta do this and you people are acting like such PROFANITY_TOKEN idiots was there a moment where you were just like god i can't even it's not even funny almost anymore how long was the question that you asked that people gave you PROFANITY_TOKEN for i know was a PROFANITY_TOKEN embarrassment it was an embarrassment but i will say that my question just now is what we call half abatement half abatement half a baby uh we could have a baby i mean i think it's look satire has always been a way of processing things that mean a lot to you so comedy has always been used to process things that and it's it's always a continuum you know it's um the show is a recipe sometimes it was incredibly silly you know yeah we did an episode on NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN first responders but i also got a church choir to sing go PROFANITY_TOKEN yourself to uh a reporter on fox news like it it's always that kind of you know it's it's scatological and it's but at the heart of it satire really isn't it's comedy about things you you care deeply about and that's always been the recipe i think i probably just have gotten less elegant and we will be right back this podcast is sponsored by betterhelp hey is there something interfering with your happiness are you feeling down or preventing you from achieving your goals i know i just literally just described myself with those three things uh it's been you know you go up and down up and down in life and sometimes you slip into a little bit of a hole and you need somebody to talk to and and get yourself out of it well better help will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist that you can start communicating with in under NUMBER_TOKEN hours it's not a crisis line it's not a self-help it's professional therapy done securely online and it's available for clients worldwide you can log into your account anytime send a message to your therapist you'll get timely and thoughtful responses plus
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