The Precap | Josh Johnson on the Government Doing Comedy, and Doing Comedy for a Government
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, Daily Show listeners? It's your boy Ashton Womack, and right now you are tuning into The Precap, the show where we talk about what we missed this week and what's coming up next week. I'm here with Daily Show legend, stand-up comedy legend, my boy, Josh Johnson, everybody. Give him a round of applause.
Oh, legend's a strong word.
Listen, man, I'm going to gas up my friends, dog. If I'm going to talk about my friends, if I get to bring up my friends and host, I'm going to say you save kittens and shit like that. All right. So Josh Johnson, the legendary man. How you been, man? How you living? Feeling good?
i'm i'm doing all right yeah yeah doing doing good good day so far yeah i'm jealous you get to work from home some of us uh some of us don't get that luxury uh you're seeing you know your boy had to come in on his work i do i do see you in and i specifically remember i think you're supposed to be working from home that is
I'm glad. Thank you. Thank you for remembering that. This is what I do for the show, guys. I just want the Daily Show listeners to know how much I give to this show. Showing up. You know, the basic job requirement. coming to work but uh that's not we ain't here to talk about me we're to talk about some of the things we may have missed this week uh one thing we couldn't have missed was the government shutdown josh how are you feeling about this shutdown is this um i i don't have a government job so i'm not feeling it the way that people who do are feeling it but that's fair
I am genuinely worried about a lot of the people. It's somewhere in the ballpark of 750,000 jobs. Jesus. And that's only because it used to be closer to a million. My numbers might be... wrong here but I think that since the Trump administration started they've cut anywhere from like 250,000 or a little bit more in jobs that was through Doge and now the 750 left are affected by the shutdown that's an insane number 750,000 you said that's an insane number and I'm hearing that number and I'm trying to think like
Are there any more black people left to fire in the government? How will this affect us? Because I feel like they got rid of us already in the government.
I'm pretty sure TSA is government and that is, we are in that.
That is the Atlanta of government.
That is government NBA.
That's hilarious. Actually, you about to get on a plane, which that's the real thing. When I think of the government shutdown and I think about the TSA agents, or not even the TSA agents, but them too. Air traffic controllers. Bro, the air traffic controllers got to go to work while not getting paid. That to me is one of the scariest things. Nah, bro. If I was an air traffic controller and I had to go to work and I wasn't getting paid, do you know how petty I would... I need everybody on that plane to vend me $40 if y'all want to land, all right? This is... That is wild. This is why I couldn't... This is why I'm a joke teller.
You would just do ransom in real time.
Yeah, that Spirit Flight has been... Oh, yeah, I know y'all ain't got no money. Y'all about to be up in the air for a minute. Yeah, I would be holding people hostage in the skies until I get paid.
Do you have anybody in your family that works in government?
Yes, my brother's mom, which I know is a ghetto sentence, but my brother's mom, she works in, actually, My brother's mom and my sister's mom, which I understand that's probably confusing for a lot of people, but just go with it. They both work in the government. They both work for the VA, the Veterans Administration, or the VA.
Veterans Affairs, yeah.
Yeah, so they were already, like my sister's mom was already screwed over big time whenever Trump decided to tell people they couldn't work from home. Government employees could no longer work from home. She had a work from home job for literally a decade before trump came into office she was already working from home he forced everybody to come into office and she didn't have a local office so she would have to go from chicago to california and like for like two months until they figured out some uh situation for her but yeah man he's like definitely affecting very close people in my life so or how about you
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