>> yay. maybe was the silly voice. either way i knew it was the beginning of our awesome friendship. >> or maybe more? >> please, sir, i want some more. >> yay. >> tosh: that katie is a lucky guy. follow me on the publicly traded company known as twitter. keep up with our blog which recently was railed number six worldwide. did you know i do standup comedy. check it out sometime i'm getting better and brickleberry. finally, have you seen the purge? it's a movie that had a great concept but terrible execution. does star ethan hawke who is always delightful. for one day a year all crime legal for 12 hours including murder yet oddly no sex crimes are committed. you see the new founding fathers thought in was way to get the violence out of our system it would get rid of crime and reduce poverty. that's the forward thinking i can get behind and one a season

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>> the 2016 "the daily show" summer games. >> welcome back to our coverage of the 2016 summer games. i'm roy wood, jr. >> and filling in for jordan klepper, i'm ronny chieng. >> it's good to have you here, ronny, especially with china doing so well in the games! >> okay, but i'm malaysian. (laughter) >> i don't know what that is. (laughter) on to the news. the only thing louder than the crowds of rio have been the criticism of athletes on social media. everybody telling gabby douglas that she needs to smile more. you should smile more! y'all should shut up more! would you say that to michael phelps? no! look at him (laughter) look at him sitting there looking like an axe murderer. you ain't gonna find them bodies, they gone! he chopped them up! (laughter) lighter story. chinese olympian he zi was given a silver medal for diving and

then her boyfriend proposed on the podium. he's a romantic guy, right? >> he's a selfish asshole. first, he waits to see if she won something before proposing then steals her moment. you couldn't wait till you got home? she spent her whole life training for this and driving into green sewage all week and you think you're the prize? there is only one silver medal, okay, buddy? chinese guys? there is a billion of us to choose from. >> wait a minute, you just said you were malaysian. >> my ethnicity is chinese, my nationality is malaysian. >> you gotta pick one, man. (laughter) >> oh, okay, african-american. (audience reacts) you should smile more. >> let's go to trevor noah with "the daily show." ♪ >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with

trevor noah! (cheers and applause) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show." thank you so much, everyone. i'm trevor noah. we have two incredible guests, author of "homegoing," yaa gyasi, and author sharlto copley. the two presidential candidates are dominating the news. the competition is so fierce it's almost impossible for non-election news to break through. for all we know the supreme court switched out their robs and are rocking track suits (laughter) because of trump we'll never know. every now and again there is a story that like a track star from the bahamas manages to

launch itself into the spotlight. you remember former congressman anthony weiner? maybe not from that photo. former congressman anthony weiner. that's right, there he is. a few years ago, his career derailed with a couple of sexting scandals and now he may be back at it again, and by back at it, i mean probably never stopped. this time weiner was reportedly cat fished by a male republican posing as a young woman online and weiner was boasting to his online acquaintance that he was deceptively strong like a mongoose. (laughter) i don't know how strong weiner is. ly say this, though, i grew up around mongooses in south africa, and those animals love sexting. (laughter) seriously, you will get a d.m. and be like what is that bulge? oh, my god! how could you?

not safe so i see how anthony weiner relates them. yesterday the president nominee and donald trump, he gave a speech on his plan to defeat i.s.i.s. up until yesterday donald said he was going to defeat i.s.i.s., just wouldn't tell us how. >> i have a great plan, it's going to be great. what is it? i'd rather not say, i want to be unpredictable. i have a simple message for them. their days are numbered. i won't tell them where and i won't tell them how. (laughter) >> trevor: this guy's a joke. talking about fighting terrorism like it's a game of peek-a-boo. over here, whoo-hoo! (laughter) i get it, donald trump, i agree with that sentiment. sometimes to win a war you ever to do some (bleep) i don't want to hear about. like what if donald trump's plan is to go to syria and jerk off i.s.i.s. until they're too

exhausted to fight? we don't want to know about that, we don't. when donald trump comes home and says don't worry about i.s.i.s. anymore, i just need to go wash my hands. we don't want to ask why. now, real quick to break down trump's speech. 25% of the speech was him telling us about stuff he would do and the rest was play hating every foreign policy the u.s. has had in the last 15 years. so we turn to desi lydic with "what the actual fact." (cheers and applause) >> thank you, trevor! donald trump's speech was all about fighting terrorism which he sees as a nation's third greatest threat right mind the news media and a gentle breeze. (laughter) so let's start with one of trump's favorite claims about his superior foreign policy judgment. >> i was an opponent of the iraq war from the beginning. >> that's a lie.

to the extent that donald trump cared about iraq, in the beginning, he supported the war, as he told howard stern at the tienchts are you for invading iraq? >> yeah, i guess so. you know, i wish the first time it was done correctly. >> that's right, trump but asked if he was for invading iraq and he replied, yeah, i guess so -- which, indently, is also trump's go-to wedding vow. (laughter) so when donald trump says he was always against invading iraq, that statement is false. it's been debunked over and over and the proof is on tape. trump seems to think we can't easily find this stuff on the internet. i give this claim one hotel porn channel. really? $25 and judgment from the desk clerk? no thank you. not interested. so next on trump's tour of world hot spots, libya. >> the failures in iraq were compounded by hillary clinton's

disaster, total disaster in libya. hillary clinton's forceful advocacy for the intervention was the deciding factor. that's why we went in. >> so donald trump says hillary clintn urged president obama to intervene in libya. you know what? that is completely true. a guy like donald trump would never make such a stupid mistake -- except he did. >> gaddafi in libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we're sitting around, we have soldiers all over the middle east and we're not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage. now, we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick. >> that's right, trump also supported the intervention in libya. basically, he's trying to go back and rewrite the past. so i give this one "back to the future," which, coincidentally, also features a parent who wants

to bang their kid. (laughter) yep. (applause) >> trevor: desi lydic, everyone. (cheers and applause) now, donald trump did include one policy idea in his speech that, for me, really stuck out. >> we should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people. the time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call it extreme vetting. i call it extreme-extreme vetting. >> trevor: and i call it extreme! vetting! i call it extreme! (laughter) donald trump is the biggest joke, i'm sorry, people.

it's like he's auditioning for the extreme vetting commercial. i call it extreme! extreme vetting! how many takes do we get? it's live, donald! it's live! he thinks it gets bigger with extreme. extremer! most extremist! extremist of all! the big question is what does extreme vetting look like? turns out we may have a little answer. >> welcome to america. have a great day. next? ♪ >> hey. >> hearinghey, buddy. before i welcome you to this country, i'm going to have to put you through some extreme vetting. >> well, actually, i live here.

>> question one -- what makes america the greatest country in the world? >> (bleep). >> statue of liberty, favorite tv show, melania trump. take a biometric test. please place your hand on this. (laughter) >> hey, man, can i just go through? >> yeah, go for it, have a great day. >> extreme vetting! we'll be right back. extreme! (cheers and applause) ♪ just when you think you know what a computer is. you see a keyboard that can just, get out of the way. and a screen you can touch.

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(cheers and applause) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my first guest is a "new york times" best-selling author whose debut novel is called "homegoing." please welcome yaa gyasi!

(cheers and applause) ♪ welcome to the show. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> trevor: thank you for being here with honestly one of the most fantastic books i've read in a long time. it is a novel. it is a story about two half sisters, but really it's the story of slavery, how it affected many black manners -- black americans, how it affected strangely the history of even white americans and how they related to them and africans that stayed on the continent. how do you begin writing a book like this? >> for me the book began with a trip to the castle in ghana that's on the coast of ghana, and i just took the tour that they give to everyone who visits. on this tour, the tour guide started to talk to us about how some of the british soldiers who

lived and worked in this castle at the time would marry the local women which is something i never heard before. >> your story fascinates me before because you've had to skirt the lion. i've read interviews in stories where you've talked about being not completely african-american as people would think but at the same time not being completely african. you live in the space in between. >> yeah. i mean, i was born in ghana but then we moved to ohio, illinois, tennessee and then alabama, when i was nine. and, so, by the time i got to alabama, i kind of had this, you know, varied sense of myself in a lot of different ways, but one of the things i found trickiest was navigating america's race, because i think that a lot of african immigrants would say they're not used to identifying themselves racially. they identify ethnically or whatever. >> trevor: ethnically, tribally. >> whatever it is for you. and, in alabama, you know, you

kind of constantly are confronted with your race. >> trevor: really, alabama? (laughter) >> who knew? exactly. so it became kind of the starting point for me to think about the different ways that i could, you know, start to write about race and ethnicity and all of those things that come up in the book. >> trevor: it's a powerful story because it's not just -- you know, stories that involve any retelling of slavery can either fall into the trap of being a completely, you know, dismal world view, you know, it's all bad. >> right. >> trevor: others can be too hopeful. this really skirts the line. it's a beautiful story. what i was fascinated by was the fact you wrote about african slave traders. you don't hear much about that. >> you definitely don't. i think once i took that tour and kind of started to hear people talking about the different ways that african slave traders were involved in this broad trade, it made me

really just aware of the fact that we shouldn't have to travel to ghana and visit this castle in order to have this history, to be more readily available and, you know, if you want to paint a full picture of the slave trade, you have to include the african side of it, i think. >> trevor: one thing you did and i do not think in a tiny interview i can do it much justice is it's really a story about a family, though. >> yeah. >> trevor: it's a story about sisters who were separated at a young age, but then came back together, i guess, through their generations. >> right. >> trevor: is that something you look to do? you don't have the book laid out in a typical fashion. you have a family tree that tracks people throughout their lives. when you were researching that, is that something you set out to do because you thought it was important? >> yes, absolutely. i really wanted it to be a story about the dias pray as a family. if you go back far enough in time, the thing that connects us, both african immigrants and

african-americans and the broad dias pray in general is the fact we were all related and lived on this continent together and i wanted to bring it down to the most elemental level, the familial. >> trevor: why do you think it important to express the pain of people not be able to track their heritage and say this is where i come from? >> many african-americans are incapable of tracing families past their grandparents or great garnets, whatever it is, and that loss, i think, is palpable and it's something that kind of distinguishes them, i think, from a lot of other different groups of people and, so, i wanted to, you know, be allowed to kind of connect the family for all of us, not just for african-americans but for african immigrants who don't often get sight of this side of the family as well. >> trevor: it's a beautiful

story. it moves fast. you cry and you laugh as you're reading it. it's a beautiful story that i think is very hopeful whilst at the same time being very realistic. you know, they've hailed you as the writer of the new "roots" of our generation. tan hasy coates writing the former book. we thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much. (cheers and applause) >> trevor: "homegoing" is available now. a beautiful story. yaa gyasi, everybody. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) when you run your own restaurant, every night is opening night. coors light. whatever your mountain, climb on. your current gel antiperspirant wet ais.sticky now, we're going to show you how degree dry spray is different.

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>> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my next guest is one of the stars of the new movie, "the hollars." >> what are you doing? >> stacy started seeing somebody. >> this is stacy's house?! >> yeah. >> you divorced her, like, years ago. >> i agreed to the divorce. i didn't agree to some strange man hanging around my daughters.

>> okay, ron, we've got to go -- what? what is it? >> get down, he's at the window! >> mine doesn't work. >> what? >> mine doesn't work. >> get down! >> he's coming. he's coming. >> he's coming over? >> oh, my god, i'm going to kill you. this is very -- this is very upsetting to me. >> please welcome sharlto copley! (cheers and applause) ♪ welcome to the show, my friend! cool, man. >> trevor: good to have you here! (cheers and applause) real quick, personal story, this man, i mean, like, the first time i was really exposed to you was in district 9. you look very different now. you look very handsome and have less racism. that was like you blew up all over the world. and south africans, you went on

to be on the a team and tons of big movies. is that a strange world to come from? you exist in two worlds. you are a white person who comes from a country that has a history of oppressing black people. do you get booed when you say you are a white south african? >> it's funny you say that. when we were kids, we traveled. my parents were liberal. my mom's cousin was locked up. peter haynes, a struggled activist, so they were worried their phones were tapped. when we traveled, we used to say we're from new zealand. hello! i'm from new zealand! we love black people! >> trevor: i love your whole family has this fake accent they went around with. >> i don't know that they could do the accent. i could do the accent, kind of. but, no, since -- that was the cool thing about district 9, frankly, is what i really enjoyed about playing that character is it was the first

time that a white south african could be portrayed in an heroic way. as a white south african, you grew up -- you know, i wasn't involved in that stuff. i'd been brought up in this family. i wasn't voting. i was in a private school in south africa. you're born into whatever you're born into. the key is what you do with it. for me, you're asking have people booed me, no, because in my generation, the first thing i did was vote to release nelson mandela. as a white south african, i noticed this in america, there is actually -- i think a lot of white people really haven't dealt with issues that have happened in the past, whereas in south africa, i as a white south african, i really did what i could, you know what i mean? did something about it? let's talk about the movies. this is what you're in now. >> yes. >> trevor: you came over here. successful.

>> african-american. >> trevor: african in america. >> yes. >> trevor: "the hollars," very funny movie. >> yes. >> trevor: you have a great cast. >> i do. it was a really great, great group of people. anna kendrick. martindale, i played john krasinski's brother. >> trevor: a very disturbed brother, looks like. >> he has issues. he has a problem with his family life. he has two daughters which he loves. it was cool for me to play something with real heart. i play a lot of tough guys and bad guys. >> trevor: it was nice to play a peeping tom for a change. >> to play someone who actually loves his family rather than just kills people. >> trevor: thank you so much for being here. sharlto copley, everybody. "the hollars" in theaters friday. sharlto copley, everybody! (cheers and applause) ♪ takbbq trophies:hese best cracked pepper sauce...

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