Jordan Klepper
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15,309 appearances
97 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 3d ago
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Well, there's like... That's...
The Daily Show is a lot of success as an institution, and you and I both go on the road a lot, and people, I'm sure, ask you, they ask me, about the important things of political satire.
But also, there's just times where it's so dumb.
It's just silly.
It's just silly.
It's just silly and it's fun.
It's so fun and so playful and smart.
I do think, like, the framing, I think that some of the best satire is in the execution of a dumb premise.
It sounds so...
Forget the pretension of it.
I already name-dropped Jonathan Swift, and I think that is a, that it already is.
Drop the knowledge.
But, like, the idea of, like, isn't that famous essay about how, like, about writing about how we should eat children because it's the smartest thing to do.
So, like, you come up with a silly idea, and you treat it seriously, and it comments on a larger idea.
That's when it's genius.
That's when it can be great.
So you can still live in the silly.
Yeah.
This is a great Rob Corddry essay.
He had a segment where he took on things like the sun.
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