Joe Opio
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Wait, what is Baby's Day Out?
It's... How do I explain this?
Sorry, I wasn't in Uganda.
Yes, so... What happened?
Well, it's this movie about a baby.
It's almost like... Yes.
It's almost like a rip-off of Home Alone.
But it's like a toddler, like crawling.
And then this boy trying to kidnap him and then he... And it was a huge movie in Uganda because the comedy stemmed from
the physicality of it.
You didn't have to know English.
You didn't have to.
So I told people at the Daily Show, this movie was bigger than Star Wars and they couldn't believe it.
And then we went on Wikipedia and it turns out even in India, that movie spent more time in cinemas, spent more weeks in cinemas than Star Wars.
And Americans, their minds were blown.
We didn't even, this was a B, like, you know, movies that go straight to VHS.
And I told them, that kid is an icon in Uganda.
I would rather have his autograph than Harrison Ford or... Or Gene Hedman.