Mark Paone

you know, to a question you ask, I might tip. You know what I mean? Like that sort of thing.

Yeah, they've already said it, and then we're not misrepresenting them at all. But I like to create what seems like a seamless conversation in a piece, even though... the sentences might be coming like 10 minutes apart.

Yeah, he would not engage until the cameras were rolling.

So let's talk about your field work. Oh, shit. Yeah. What was your favorite piece of all that you did?

So the school board in Tucson banned Mexican American. Chicano studies. Right, and you spoke to a councilman there.

Well, the best part about it was you asked him, well, what about African-Americans?

And he said, yeah, that's fine. And you said, well, I'm a black kid. Teach me about African-Americans.

He was a perfect person. I remember you asking him, am I three-fifths of a person? He goes, I think you're more a quarter of a person.

And that got a lot of attention.

He got in deep shit. Do you remember chicken boxing?

And they had an arena. The guy took you... I took you to an arena and I go to this guy.

Like a really nice little mini Madison Square Garden. It was amazing, that arena.

Yeah, I was gonna ask you about that in times you've felt the danger.

You mean for the second time? Yeah, for the second time. Oh, the Cinco de Mayo piece. I remember that one. I almost got beat up, because everyone was drunk.

Yeah, the misdirect. When you go in, you set it up to our audience as like, I'm going to this young people's Obama rally that you think it is. And it's a Cinco de Mayo party.

Yeah, we used to do that with the St. Patrick's Day Parade. On a yearly basis, we'd figure out. Or when the Giants won the Super Bowl, we'd go down there and think. We'd act like it was for something else and talk to the people.

Well, that's another little side note for the listeners. You don't speak Spanish. Spanish is no bueno. Because I remember early on when you were at the show, at some point, we were like, oh, we can do this piece, and we can do it in Spanish. Because over the years, we've done a couple of pieces where it was entirely in Spanish. I went to Mexico City.

And we did one way back when with Mo Rocca, where the entire piece was in Spanish, because they went somewhere where everybody spoke Spanish.

There was a point with you, I remember at some point when they were like, oh yeah, this will be great. We could do the piece in Spanish. And then you're like, I don't speak Spanish. And they're like, wait, what?

I'll be here. Another piece that was a really, really fun piece and really like a feel-good piece in a lot of ways.

But this was actually a real, it was a really solid piece. Last Gay Standing, it was called.

So the whole premise of the piece is, you know, gay, all these states are legalizing gay marriage. Who will be the last?

you'll cut that out um i think it's gonna be the deep south so you go and it was hilarious because you were like because they both were defending their state in to be the last one they both they both would be because the irony was really because they're both like yeah we'll be the last one i mean come the one the newspaper guy is like come on we still have like we still have um uh

um segregation laws on the books and then and then you ask him about sodomy and he goes he goes well it's it's a uh it's a uh i think he said that doug jones says it's a misdemeanor and you cut to the other guy and goes oh sodomy's a felony yes that's right and they're all trying to outdo how shitty their state is hilarious and then we were in birmingham and we were in jackson and

No, but the point of the whole thing was everywhere they went, nobody gave a shit.

And I remember... But the nice thing about the piece was it kind of... It shifted. It reminds you of like... A lot of these issues, people don't care. It's all the people in power and in the government that make big issues out of these things that nobody gives a shit about.

Yeah, even gun owners want to get rid of that stuff.

Thank you.

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Thank you.

It's crazy. And they're in Los Angeles.

Hey everybody, this is Mark Paone, longtime editor at The Daily Show. Once again, back with a former Daily Show correspondent. I was, I should say... One of your favorites. One of my favorites, and senior Latino correspondent. That's right. Comedian, actor, entrepreneur. Yes. Renaissance man. Yes. Al Madrigal.

I was going to bring that piece up. The Ambassador Bridge. Great, great piece. Great piece.

His kids are like 22, 19, something like that.

Right, and then they would use you sporadically.

I started season two. That's insane. And this is season- 7-7-97 was my first day. Holy crap.

Wait, why doesn't Ronnie count?

Yeah, and a lot of the others came from improv.

Right, the famous Colbert notes.

This is the original Colbert notes.

And the most important one that Colbert told people was leave your soul at home.

That's what I'm for. That's what I do.

Yeah, I mean, I've always said that to correspondents. It's like, just remember, you can start over. You can do anything. It's all just think about that it's not happening live. It's not happening live. But you feel like it's happening live, but remember that... Cuz I can you know, we don't we never we never misrepresent people but no we will take You know, I'll take like a stronger. Yes, I