that. - i'm gonna kill you. - oh, my god. - are you okay, mom? - okay. - i should probably go now. i have overstayed my welcome. and i tried to head-butt a woman. so i've got to go home. - wait! oh, i forgot why i said that. - i'm so sorry you had to see me like that. - no, i'm pissed i didn't, like, vine it. that was, like, "vanderpump rules" type [bleep]. - kent, would you walk me to the car? i'd like to remain alive at least until then. - i--i got you. come on, dan. come on. - wait! i remembered. - oh. - this is not a good-bye, okay? - i love you, mom. - i love you, too. - all right, come on. come on. - wait, are you guys back together? both: no. - [whispers] yeah, they're back together. how was your date? - um...

he died. - hmm. - who was that man? - my mom. well, good night. - good night. announcer: from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. (cheering, applause) yes. welcome to the daily show. i'm trevor noah. thank you so much, everybody. uh, there's a big discussion going on these days about whether america spends too much or too little on protecting its people from environmental hazards.

uh, in fact, president obama addressed this in his state of the union on tuesday. and last night, rand paul talked about it on his basic cable bourbon tasting. uh, a great example of regulations versus costs has, uh, reared its ugly head in the neighborhood of porter ranch in los angeles. reporter: what looks like clear skies in this southern california community is actually a town under a giant cloud of gas. this infrared video appears to show methane gas leaking from an underground oil field owned by the southern california gas company. the leak has become the single biggest climate polluter in california. yes, the single biggest polluter in california, a state that has hollywood, a place where people are constantly blowing smoke up each other's asses. physically. i've seen it. so in california, a natural gas pipeline in a residential area bursts, spewing methane into the atmosphere. and it turns out it's doing a ton of damage to the environment.

reporter: at its peak, it was spewing out about as much emissions as seven million cars. (laughs) sorry, it's just, you realize, basically, all you l.a. people driving priuses, your work has been undone. all you managed to do is drive an ugly car. oh. so far, 2,800 families have been forced from their homes... oh, i'm-i'm sorry. i'm still happy from the last joke. sorry. so far, 2,800 families have been forced from their homes and many others have fallen ill. reporter: socal gas says an odorant is causing the sicknesses and they should be temporary, but lawmakers say long-term studies are needed for residents like ricky martin. ricky martin? good lord, what happened to him? the gas has turned him into a middle-aged mom. a-and this story here is where the presence or absence of government oversight comes in. right here, at the most infuriating part of the story,

because california regulations allowed socal gas to play fast and loose with safety equipment. technically, at the bottom of the well, there'll be a safety valve that will stop any kind of a leak up here. they had one. they took it out about 30 years ago when it rusted away and never put it back. that's right. so the reason socal gas didn't replace the safety valve was because they said it was "not easy to find a new part." and now they say they might not be able to fix the problem until late march. that's just disappointing, socal gas. and you know what? you know, that's part of the problem right there-- "socal gas". as much as i blame the company, i blame the american people. yeah. 'cause this is what happens when you give your corporations cute little nicknames. they get hella familiar, start acting like your friend. unable to find parts-- are you kidding me? that's not the excuse of a multi-billion dollar company, that's the excuse your dad gives you for why the guest toilet hasn't been fixed.

socal g... it's southern california gas company. full names only. but you know what they say-- things could always be worse. uh, or as they say in flint, michigan, things could always be like this. a state of emergency has been declared for thousands of people in michigan, months after researchers discovered toxic levels of lead in the water supply. this is really serious. look at the bottle of contaminated water there. wow. i have a very simple rule in life-- if the water is browner than me, then i don't drink it. uh, clearly, this situation is awful. so the big question is how did it happen? well, uh, unfunny story, actually. reporter: in an attempt to cut costs, city officials stopped getting the pretreated water from the city of detroit in 2014 and instead began using water from the nearby flint river. the flint river is 19 times more corrosive than lake huron, detroit's water source.

lead pipes began to corrode, leaching into the water. do you understand how crazy this is right now? to save money they stopped getting treated water and went with the cheaper water that burns through lead pipes. to save, money-- really? that's like saying, "an airbag-- what am i, made of money? i'll just drive around with a bunch of party balloons." it's your life, it's people's lives. flint's residents have been drinking this water for a year. and i know you're asking the question, "well, trevor, if the water's brown, what gave them the idea to think that it was safe to drink?" well, i think it had a little something to do with this. reporter: for at least a year, city and state officials denied anything was wrong. the former mayor, dayne walling, publicly drank the water to make a statement. in retrospect, i regret all of it. but mostly i regret drinking that lead water.

now, if you'll excuse me, i need to get to the neurologist because i'm scared my brain apricot snowflake arkansas. you've got to admire this guy's dedication. so basically, he'd rather drink poisoned water on television than admit that maybe he was wrong. the saddest thing about this leak is how little it would have cost to prevent it all. the fix was about $100 a day. all of this could have been avoided for just that small amount of money. $100 a day. why didn't you say something? i want to call out to all my people in africa right now watching the daily show. because, my friends, for only $100 a day, we can save a village in america and get these people drinking the water that they so badly need. for just the price of five cups of coffee in new york. coffee is so expensive here. i don't understand why.

so a few thousands bucks a year could have solved this problem, but that ship has sailed now. and, uh, michigan has been forced to pay for bottled water for all flint residents. and, believe it or not, that's not the expensive part. getting rid of that lead piping could cost as much as $1.5 billion. $1.5 billion. that's a familiar figure. you realize right now, there's someone with a winning powerball ticket who's standing there, like, "why is everyone looking at me?" and then he just jetpacks away like, "good luck, bitches!" (whooshes) we'll be right back. (cheering, applause)

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back, everybody. i wanted to take a moment to talk about the academy awards. the nominations just got announce today, and everyone is excited because it looks like leonardo dicaprio might actually get the oscar that he deserves! ( cheers and applause ) come on, leo! we're behind you. but while this might be the year that the model dating environmentalist finally gets his due, other marginalized minorities haven't made the same level of progress. i'm specifically talking about black people. for more, please welcome roy wood, jr., everybody. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor,un, man, this whole

thing is messed up because it's the same thing every year-- great movies made by black people come out. everybody goes and sees the movie. the movie gets great reviews, and then then the nominations come out and we spend the whole day feeling like-- like >> trevor: like black people. >> yeah, exactly. >> trevor: i hear you, roy, i hear you. the big question is, though, did any black movies really deserve to get nominated this year? >> let me ask you. what did you like this year? >> trevor: that was easy for me, "creed" was one of my favorite movies. michael b. jackson was great. >> yeah, you know who got nominated? sylvester stallone, the only white dude in the whole movie. >> trevor: okay, okay, but, roy, let's say the writers of "straight outta compton." they got nominated for best screenplay. >> you mean these writers. that movie was about gangsta rap and they still found a way to nominate white people! "straight outta compton"? more like "straight outta cornell." >> trevor: okay, but, look,

roy, let's be honest, let's be honest. it's easy to point fingers but you and i we both know that the problem isn't the oscars. >> i know. >> trevor: you know who's to blame. >> white people. >> trevor: no, no, roy, you know who's really to blame? >> media? >> trevor: roy. >> not the media. >> trevor: you know? >> black people. >> trevor: that's right, roy. black people are to blame, and not just any black people, but black film makers. it's time for black film makers to rise up and admit that they know the only way to win best picture is by pandering to white oscar voters. >> yeah, that's right. we know the rules. if we want to win an oscar we have to make a movie about black people being oppressed. i called out these past nominees and you tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind. jay. >> angry slave. >> "selma." >> still angry about the slavery thing. >> "12 years a slave." >> trevor: i mean, slave for

12 years. >> exactly. white people love feeling bad about how they treated black people, so to make a hit black movie you need a whip, a firehose or a negro spiritual. >> trevor: ( bleep ). you know what, this is so true. now they think about it the only black prominent person who got nominated today was weeknd for the "50 shades of grey" song which, of course, basically a movie about a rich white guy who likes whipping people. >> exactly. i rest my case. and here's the thing-- white people know how to get that oscar attention. they do what they gotta do. they gain weight. they lose weight. >> trevor: or they get really ugly. >> exactly! white people play to their strength, and black film makers need tond that. >> trevor: look, i hear you there, roy, but i think it sucks that if black people want academy awards we can't just make movies about anything but slavery. >> no, no, no, no. we can make any movie we want. we just have to trick white people into thinking the movie is about slavery. ( laughter ) what do all award-winning slave

movies have? they have scenes like this. >> mmmmm. mmmm. >> see, you put that humming underneath that, "straight outta compton" would have been nominated five times if they replaced the gangsta rap with spirituals like that. they want m.w.a.? let's give them m.w.a. >> mmmmm. mmmmm. mmmmm. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that was deep. >> you know what you're feeling right now? that's the slavery salt i sprinkled on that movie. you got to dribble that on there if you want to win. look at "creed." it's a great knoxing film. they could have got an oscar nod if they sprinkled a little slavery in there.

>> his great-grandfather was a slave, and now he has to fight for her freedom. >> i have been fighting my whole life. >> but he can't do it alone. >> i want to talk to you about training me. >> i'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave. >> to honor hissan set offers he has to fight every white man alive. his journey will be dangerous. >> people get killed! >> but his destination is dignity. >> again, i'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave. >> this fall, you can't run from 400 years of oppression. you have to stand up and fight. >> i just wanted to say, i'm sorry your great-grandfather was a slave. ( laughter ). >> sprinkle that slavery, man. >> trevor: and the winner is roy wood, jr., everyone. we'll be right

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>> there it is. sorry about that. head right in. >> i cannot feel my face. ( laughter ). >> trevor: please welcome ice cube. ( cheers and applause ) don't you dare! don't you dare boo my guest. i love that, mr. ice cube. i cannot believe this is you, man. >> this is me. >> trevor: before we go anywhere i want to congratulate you on being inconducted into rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> oh, yeah, yeah. ( applause ) >> trevor: that is-- did you ever believe that that would happen? i mean, i mean, you know, n.w.a. wasn't the most accepted group. >> it wasn't too family friendly,un what i mean? so, you know, i knew the rock 'n' roll hall of fame, if they wanted to really came the name

"rock 'n' roll" they had to look at some of the groups that were a little more edgy. so i felt n.w.a. fit that criteria. and sooner or later they had to let us in, and here we are. >> trevor: i love that persistence, sooner or later. sooner or later they had to let us in. and they did let you in. a place that didn't let you guys in was the oscars. am i the only person that was saying what's up with that? "straight outta compton" was amazing. it got rave reviews as well. it wasn't one of those movies where the people loved loved it and the reviewers didn't. is that something that gets to you? >> only a little bit, you know what i mean? i know n.w.a. was anti-establishment. we didn't have none of that slave stuff hu. add a little bit of that. ♪ mmmm spread on there we would have won it, you know what i mean? we would have definitely been nominated. but it's all good. we didn't make that movie for the oscars. we made that movie for the

people, and the people loved it. >> trevor: the people loved it. ( cheers and applause ) the people definitely, definitely loved it. i remember watching "straight outta compton," and i was like, man, how did they get someone who looks exactly like ice cube? >> yeah. >> trevor: and then someone's like, that's your son?" >> that's my son. >> trevor: he looks exactly like you. >> exactly like me. i can't deny that one. >> trevor: but he smiles more. >> yeah, because he grew up rich. that's why. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i'd be smiling, too, if i grew up with a silver mic in my mouth. you know what i mean? >> trevor: is he anything like you? >> yeah, we confidential got the same sense of humor and-- and we got a carc sense of humor. it's funny. we love to talk about people and have fun. >> trevor: i'm hoping he will get more into act now. he was amazing in that film. everyone was, really. >> i hope he gets deep into it so he can start spending his own money instead of spending mine.

>> trevor: i feel like there's a lot of animosity here. all right, let's talk about the movie on your shirt, "ride along 2". >> yes. >> trevor: i loved "ride along 1." and i was like where are these guys going to go with "ride along 2"? >> miami, baby. ( laughter ) everybody loves miami. >> trevor: everybody does love miami. >> we were cheating a little bit by going to miami because everybody loves miami so we knew, okay, our movie is definitely going to be a little more sexier air, little more cooler. we have olivia munn. kevin got the ugly part down right. she got the pretty. we got ken in the backseat. he called himself rice cube. so it's all good. it's all good. it's all good. >> trevor: oh, man. >> all good. >> trevor: can i ask you a question, how do you keep a straight face acting with kevin hart. his energy is so-- like, people don't understand. that's him. >> that's him. he's the life of the party kind of dude, always high on energy, you know, always wants to make

people have a good time. i just put on my producer hat pup know what i mean? i put on my producer hat, and i just think in my head that he's my little brother doing something so stupid, and i want to get something done. and with that in my head, it makes me hold a straight face. >> trevor: it's really fun tow see you guys on screen. i was wondering "ride along 3" you going to go international, maybe? >> i was trying to get to rio, so. >> trevor: you just want to go to a place with beautiful people. >> hey, man, i'm a producer so i got a say in it. you know what i mean? why should we go to cleveland or something, you know what i mean? >> trevor: i always wondered, when you're acting in movies you become notorious for being the man who doesn't smile. >> uh-huh. >> trevor: was that always you? were you like the ice cube scowl? was that, like, your thing, or did someone tell you, "hey, you don't smile." and you were like, "i didn't

notice." >> that's it. people tell me, "you don't smile." and i didn't notice. i smile all the time. i'm smiling inside. ( laughter ) >> trevor: oh, man. "i'm smiling right now." >> i'm smiling right now. >> trevor: "i'm smiling right now." that's not smiling. that's not smiling. what is the worst thing that happened on set between and you kevin? was there something that he did that made you go, "i should have hit you for real in that scene." >> he took off his shoes. you know, he has some of the ugliest feet ever. i mean, them things is-- i don't know what they doing. one is sitting on top of the other. pretty bad. and they stink. >> trevor: i'm picturing kevin-- is this in the car? you spent a lot of time in cars in the movie. >> we spent a lot of time in the cars. we had fun in the cars, though. that was no problem. and that trailer, you know. sometimes he wants to come in my trailer and play too much. ( laughter ) play too much. he wanted to use my toilet. ( laughter )

ain't nothing like smelling kevin hart using the bathroom. it's terrible. >> trevor: it's like the feet, the bathroom-- you're making him look so bad. he's look good right now, he's looking so good. >> that boy is terrible. >> trevor: this is camaraderie between you guys. i love this. he actually-- he brought me a gift when he came. he was my first guest when he launched the show. did you-- did you bring me anything-- i mean it could be something you're wearing around your neck. ( laughter ) i mean, i'm-- >> i got you what i got you last time. >> trevor: what was that? >> nothing. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i'm smiling on the inside. ( laughter ) "ride along 2" will be in theaters on friday. ice cube, everybody!

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( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. join us all next week at 11:00. now here it is, your moment of zen.

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