Rob Corddry

Wait, did you ask me that before?

And I'm like, yeah, I asked you that.

Technically asked you, maybe not that way.

Yeah, I mean, to his chagrin.

I mean, he...

He was really just wanted to do a comedy show that had some relevance.

But like, yeah, I mean, people just started.

And I remember news guys would come up to us, you know, Jake Tapper, for one, because he's a great example, because he actually ended up doing a lot of what The Daily Show was doing.

You know, he's a great journalist.

And he would he would say he said to me once, like,

I wish we could do what you guys do I'm like what exactly do you mean like what why can't you do what why can't you like say here's what somebody said and then show a bunch of video you know that contradicts them um

And that is exactly what journalists, good ones, are doing now.

Yeah.

Well, we were like making fun of the we were more making fun of the way news is delivered than we were.

Looking back on it, I can admit that.

Yeah, it was it was very close to what journalism is looking like today.

Yeah.

Fox guys used to come up to us, too, like at the conventions and be like, hey, man, I love your show.

I'm not really a Republican.

I'm like, oh man, I don't care what you are.