- come join us! - let's go! you're here forever! - no! noooooooooooo! from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. (cheers and captioning sponsored by comedy central >> trevor: welcome to the daily show, i'm trevor noah. thank you, thank you so much. great show for you tonight. my guest, stafer the new movie "concussion" and also every movie you like. will smith sheer.

(cheers and applause) but first, let's turn to the big news from last night, the republican presidential debate in las vegas. and as soon as all the candidates walked out on stage, one thing became immediately clear, there are still way too many candidates. (laughter) there's like nine people out there. the gop krams more people on stage than earth, wind and fire, people. (laughter) i can't even remember them all at this stage. like each debate is like a high school reunion for me. i'm like christopher cristie? oh my god? is that you? you're still doing the whl political thing. damn! you have gained a lot of support since the last time i saw you. wow! (applause) and let's be honest, folks, let's be honest. by now it feels like all the debates are the same. the candidates come out. they sing the national anthem, they give their opening statements. but on this occasion, last night, dr. ben carson, man, he,

he kicked things off with a bang. >> dr. carson. >> thank you, wolf. please join me for a moment of silence in remembrance of the san bernardino victims. >> trevor: nicely played. (laughter) disguising nap time as a moment of silence. (laughter) nicely done. and now, let's have another moment of silence until tomorrow morning. (laughter) now the candidates that were awake did make one thing very clear. we are going to war, people. >> america is at war. >> our freedom is under attack. >> america has been betrayed. >> trevor: that's right. it's almost like the candidates were strying to scare their way into office, like someone taking a girl into a horror movie on a date and the girl will get scared and cling to you and

maybe vote for you as our next president. so the big question is, if america is at war and it seems everyone wanted to fight about this, the question is which front would they be fighting on. >> in order to get china to cooperate with us, we mution first actually retaliate against their cyberattacks. >> find out exactly where isis is. i sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet. >> for the russians? frankly it's time that we punched the russians in the nose. (laughter). >> trevor: i'm sorry, these people are hilarious. so to get china to cooperate, carly fiorina would retaliate, she would be the worst gandhi ever. i'm not eating until you go [bleep] yourself. and donald trump's plan for isis is to keep them off the internet? well, what are you going to do, change the wi fi password? i mean like oh, oh, bay con

babes one. and finally john kasich, it's time we punched the russians in the nose? i think you're mixing up russians with sharks. you see, you hit sharks in the nose, not russians, that's just how they start their day. that's how they roll out there. the good things is not everyone up there was such a hot head last night. in tact, ted cruz appealed to america with a more modest approach. >> our strategy is simple. we win, they lose. (laughter). >> trevor: i'm in. i'm in yeah. oh, just one question, how? >> we will utterly destroy them by targeting the bad guys. (laughter). >> trevor: of course! you target the bad guys. come on, obama! the bad guys! now that you say it, it seems so obvious. i mean-- oh, but again, just one

question. how? >> senator cruz, you have said you would, quote, carpet bomb isis into op live-- oblivion, does that mean leveling the isis capitol of raqqa in syria where there are hundreds of thousands of civilians? >> you would carpet bomb where isis s not a city but the location of the troops. >> trevor: i seevment you avoid the civilians with targeted carpet bombing. genius. that is -- sorry, just one last question. a carpet is different-- are carpets different in america? no, no, because where i am from, carpets cover everything. unless you are talking about those little carpets around a toilet, that very specifically -- i see, toilet carpet bombing. that's what ted cruz is going for. i see it. i see it (cheers and applause). >> trevor: yeah, and i'm assuming you can get those at blood, bath and beyond. it makes sense, yeah. but you see,the candidates knew

that before they could lead america to war with the whole world they first had to destroy each other. and the match-ups including rubio and cruz who arced over who hates illegal immigrants more, christie and paul who argued over national defense but the marchup for me was between the frontrunner and the guy who still can't believe he's not the frontrunner. >> you said in september 30th that isis was not a. >> am i talking or are you talkingk, jeb. >> i'm talking right know. >> you can go back. >> i know you are trying to build up your energy. >> donald, you're not going to insult your way to the presidency. that's not going to happen. an do i have the strength. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: yeah! go jeb! whooo! you could see jeb's balls growing as he was speaking. it's a christmas miracle! here's the problem. that only made jeb's balls a bigger target for trump to kick. >> jeb doesn't really believe i'm unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign.

it's been a total disaster. nobody cares. >> trevor: this guy is a legend. trump is such a legend. he cancels your insult by saying you didn't mean it and then he insults you back. hey, trump, you're an asshole. >> you don't really believe i'm an asshole, you're just saying that because you're a losser and i'm banging your wife. (laughter). >> trevor: now as some of you may have noticed, one person was missing from all that madness. and that was ben carson. and he nthed it too. >> are you in favor of monitoring mosques in schools where there is anti-american sentiments. what do you consider anti-american? >> first of all, let me just complain a little bit. this is the first time i've spoken and several people have had multiple questions, so please try to pay attention to that. >> trevor: well, to be fair, ben car sorntion are you so boring that anything is a welcome distraction from-- oh, oh, look, look, a tiny particle

of duses floating through-- dust floating through the air, good luck, dust. (laughter) i mean not that carson was totally unprepared. to be fair to him, sometimes he was suspiciously well prepared. >> if you go into hasakah province in northeast earn syria, that is an area that is as big as lebanon. it is controlled by the kurds, the christians and the mod rat sunnies. >> trevor: ooh. somebody's been on wikipedia. (laughter) it is my strong belief that north korea's longest river is the amnok, its highest point is paektu mountain and i know in my heart that its currency is the won. but you know for me the performance of the night came from ohio governor john caseic. it wasn't what caseic said it was how his said it.

>> we can't pay for all of this. and the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not. >> trevor: look at that guy, i love him. i love that he may not take any primaries but will definitely win the italian grandmother vote. imma john a kasich. i'm a punch the russian in the nose, yeah. i'm sorry but have i to see this again. just look at this guy. >> we can't back off of this. and let me tell you at the en, the saudis have agreed to put together a coalition. >> trevor: actually, he looks less like an italian and more like a ninja warrior. and as the night went on his kung fu style got more intense. >> it is not easy. a president of the unitied states again has to bring people together, have a position. you need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and plans. and we have to give the local

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>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. we're still covering last night's republican primary debate, so let's go now to desi lydic and what the actual fact? >> thank you, trevor. last night's las vegas debate was a lot like vegas itself. kind of fun but with a nagging sensation you're getting screwed. so how much did the candidates stretch the truth? let's start with ted cruz who wanted to prove that his plan to deport more undocumented immigrants was like bradley

cooper, totally doable. >> in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now, you enforce the law. do you know how many illegal aliens bill clinton-- clinton deported? 12 million. do you know how many illegal aliens george bush deportd, 10 million. >> now this is true, if words don't mean what they mean. (laughter) because when cruz says bush and clinton deported 10 and 12 million immigrants, he is talking overwhelmingly about immigrants who were stopped at the border and turned away. not particularring-- kicking out people who build here now which is what he is propoation. so what cruz said is false because he's taking something pretty easy to do, and pretending it's something different that is a lot harder. so i rate this a milli vanilli. (laughter) (applause) next up. >> i started as a secretary. i fought my way to the top of

corporate america while being called every b word in the book. >> now this is partly true. carly fiorina did start her career as a secretary at a broj firm and worked her way up to c.e.o. but was she called every b word in the book? well, let's check. hmmmm, okay, yup, yeah, that one-- definitely that one, a few times. yeah, oh, here's one. banshee. no, that one she probably was called. okay, bubbly, breezy, believable. okay, those are b words carly fiorina has never been called. so i am going to give this one a b for bull [bleep] (applause) okay. that reminds me, i want to circle back around to ted cruz who had some criticism of

president obama's syria policy. >> they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. it's like a purple unicorn. they never exist. >> now this one is complicated. do moderate rebels exist? that partly depends on how you define moderate. are the free syrian army modz rate, are the kurds? the only fact all judgement i can make is that ted cruz is wrong about purple union i corns which do exist. though unlike rebels, their tanks shoot rainbows and are powered by the moon. that said, i can't blame ted cruz for not being aware of the unicorn you because as everyone knows unicorns only show themselves to little girls who don't cry when mommies and daddies fight. (laughter) so i give cruz a warm memory.

you got, this desi, lydics are winners. all right. next. governor chris christie, he made some big promises about di plom see. >> but i will tell you this, when i stand across from king hussein of jordan i say to him, you have a friend, again, sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight. >> chris christie says will stand across from king hussein of jordan and say i will stand with you. and king hussein will say, thank you, but i have been dead since 1999. (laughter) and finally, the most las vegas candidate on the stage. >> our country doesn't win any more. nothing works in our country. >> well, certainly not con domes, am i right? place plaws. >> our country doesn't win any more? do you follow women soccer?

we win at sports that we don't even care about. (cheers and applause) and nothing works in our country? seal team 6, fast and fur yus of, these spanx are hold on pretty strong. there are loads of things in this country that work. but to be fair to donald trump, some things in america are broken. for instance, if our political system was working properly, there is no way he would be the republican frontrunner. (cheers and applause) trevor? >> trevor: desi lydic, everybody. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: we'll be right back >> trevor: we'll be right back

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>> trevor: welcome back. my guest tonight is an acker whose new film for which he has just received a best actor golden globe nomination is called "concussion." >> have i never wanted anything as much as i wanted to be accepted as an american. but mike webster goes mad and nobody asks why. they make fun of him. they insult him on tv. and now they want to pretend that his disease does not exist. they want to bury me. i mt wrong person to have discovered this. (laughter). >> trevor: please welcome will smith. (cheers and applause)

>> trevor: please. >> oh, man! oh! >> trevor: what is up, man! >> wow. >> trevor: will smith! this is our. >> this sour first time. >> trevor: first time. >> i'm excited to be here. >> trevor: are you kidding me? you get excited for anything? >> no listen, like you have-- you know, taken over this place really well and i was really rooting for you. >> trevor: thank you very much. >> and i'm happy to be here with you. >> trevor: thank you. (cheers and applause) i have to say this, i mean you look younger than you looked in the movie. did you get older for this role? >> you know, no i have some age people that travel with me.

and i wake up and i just pick an age and they just, you know, they hook it up for me. but yeah, no, there were-- for me trying to make a transformation into a nigerian immigrant, you know, so that was a long way for me. so i made some adjustments. >> trevor: you made my dreams come true, i'm not going to lie. i love will smith, i love africa. will smith as an african. are you kidding me? >> yeah! (cheers and applause). >> trevor: where did you learn your nigerian accent. >> i was-- i worked with, i started w it is based on a real doctor, true story, so dr. bennett omalu. so i worked for a little while with him. and then i worked with a dialect coach. i saw a nigerian comedian, somebody sent me. and he was talking. and he said will smith is playing a nigerian. and some of the haters are saying that his accent is not authentic. but i say that is not true am i

say he sounds like a nigerian with a concussion. (laughter). >> trevor: so, okay, for those that don't know. concussion is a brilliant movie based on a true story about omalu, a brilliant, brilliant pathologist-- pathologist who is basically the man behind the discovery that concussions were leading to brain damage in the nfl. >> in the nfl. so they-- basically he discovered that cte, kroing, traumatic encephalopathy is basically-- it's a new disease that is specific to the repift head trauma. >> trevor: what was crazy for me was, in the story, i didn't realize how much pushback there was. the nfl was against him for a long time. some people in the media were working with that. it was a tough story and interestingly enough, in the movie, that was a story. and outside of the movie that became the story. like did you feel like you were going up against something

powerful. because as they said in this fim, i think it was alec bald win who said, there's only two things, there is god and there is football. >> yeah. >> trevor: god is number one. >> and football is number two, right, yeah. it was-- it was a very stressful time for-- well, for me as an actor. bennett lived through it, so i'm not going to pretend like my stress was-- yes, it was so tough taking on this role. it was so tough, and you know, trying to achieve this, you know. but it was a very current story. so i played other people before but in this, it was in the headlines every week for the last year. so we were shooting in pittsburgh. so family members of some of the players, the diseased players were on the set. so it was heavy in that way.

but people are responding to it well and i feel like we've done the families and we've done the truth justice in this film. >> trevor: it was a beautiful movie. my only crit seek-- critique was that i didn't see you run, run, run, i mean. >> i was trying to get the director to make one of the players, alien. >> trevor: that's what i like. i didn't want to mention it. >> you know, it seemed awkward. it seems awkward. >> trevor: i'm glad we ironed that out. >> there was no moment where i got to say oh, hell no! >> trevor: opening in theaters everywhere on christmas day, will smith, everybody. will smith, everybody. (cheers and applause)

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>> trevor: that's our show for tonight. here is your moment of zen. >> the win, number one in the straw poll vote in charleston, south carolina was ted cruz. 31 votes. number two, ben carson, 24 votes. john kasich came in third with 22. done add trump fourth with 18. all right, there's a guy who is >> larry: tonightly we ask who won the fifth republican debate last night-- trump, cruz, or the 12 lucky viewers who died in freak accidents right before it started? i think i know who did. is is a north carolina town bans solar farms after residents argue that solar panels mit