Thirty F#@king Years| Ronny Chieng & Jordan Klepper on Their Daily Show Journey
episodePreviously titled “Thirty F#@king Years: Ronny Chieng & Jordan Klepper on Their Daily Show Journey” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026
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A little bit of drugs, a little bit of sex, and a little bit of political satire. I was, oh. You were all mad. This is just, that's a stew, Ronnie.
He's doing this hand motion.
He's doing a hand motion that's very disgusting.
Welcome to 30 fucking years, a special podcast miniseries celebrating 30 fucking years of The Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper. And I'm Roy Chang. We're here to talk about that's a really long... Oh, I already messed up. And I'm Roy Chang. We're here to talk about how that's a really long time for a TV show to exist and revisit some of our favorite moments and segments. Right. Are we going to call it the fact that you are wearing sunglasses? Yeah, yeah. And a suit? Yeah, yeah. Just trying to dress up for this audio medium. It feels like comics unleashed in here. Okay, I'll take off the sunglasses. It's cool. It's actually bright, it is bright in here. That's why I was wearing the sunglasses. Do you feel cool when you wear sunglasses?
I guess. I mean, I guess we all, I don't think that's a, I don't think that's a bad thing. That's part of what it is. Yeah, it's weird that this, someone nailed sunglasses, right? The first time they put on sunglasses, they're like, oh, it's functional and it just makes everything cool. Yeah. So, I don't know. Have we ever reached a point where it's uncool to wear sunglasses? Not that it's always a cool thing to have sunglasses on, but it feels like at some point sunglasses became equated with a cool aesthetic. And then people are like, you're trying to be cool. But I don't know if we ever reached a point where... putting on sunglasses made you not cool? It's weird because the uncool one is when you wear Oakleys in a truck.
With like a, you know, like a Under Armour t-shirt who's probably sponsoring this podcast or something. But... So there is a way where it looks tacky, but even then you can't deny that putting on the Oakleys makes that tackiness like 10% more stylish. You're right. You know what I mean? Yeah, so you have a criticism around the style of glasses. An Oakley or a wraparound in and of itself is an aesthetic. But probably if you're going for that aesthetic, there's no way to get there faster than putting on the wraparound.
Yes, correct. Yes, yes.
30 fucking years of this. Can you believe it? This kind of banter. You can just see why this kind of stuff. I can't believe it. I feel like this show has outlasted America. We've outlasted quite a few things, eh? We totally have. What's the longest one? Meet the Press is the longest running TV show, right? Yeah, I think Meet the Press is up there. We're up there. We are up there. We're up there. I'm going to take 30 years. That's a long-ass time. It is. No show has ever lasted that long. And also, we're also a show that's like a current affairs show, kind of. You know, political satire. Yeah. I do feel like there's always a place for political satire, don't you think? I... I always think, I do think like satire is a part of every cultural moment and movement.
Televised satire is a newer phenomenon in the history. Jonathan Swift wasn't doing televised satire, but he would've.
He would've.
Mark Twain would've. Mark Twain would've. Would've.
How did Ronny Chieng and Jordan Klepper first discover The Daily Show?
Would've, yeah. Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal, he would've been all over. He would've been, I mean, he popped up on talk shows,
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:14
2
How did Ronny Chieng and Jordan Klepper first discover The Daily Show?
4:14–20:11
3
What made The Daily Show’s early field pieces and correspondents stand out?
20:11–54:11
4
How did joining The Daily Show feel and what surprised new correspondents?
54:11–1:05:37
Speakers
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