tonight was insane. nuts. that was crazy. yeah, like... that was (bleep)... that was nuts. i mean, you jumped in front of me. you were gonna risk your life for me. well, i mean, your scavenger hunt was (bleep) amazing. okay, ilana, i gotta fess up. i forgot about our friendiversary. i'm sorry, i-- i'm really sorry. yeah, i know. but that doesn't mean you should die. no, no, i know, but you did the whole scavenger hunt, and then you also gave me your great-grandmother's necklace that she kept up her butt or whatever. i-- i should-- i should probably take that back. yeah, i would love to give it back. that was a really intense story, and i just feel weird having it on my neck. it was inappropriate, but my love for you is sometimes inappropriate, and you know what? it looked beautiful on you tonight, so (bleep) me. but ilana, i just-- i will say that i do really stand by those sheet masks, like, i know it's a small thing, but those are very hydrating.

it's just a great product overall, i think, in my opinion sure. isn't it nuts when you think about how much shit we have done together since we met? how powerful we've become? all the witch energy we have soaked up from this city. also, okay, let's just say that that dude had murdered his wife tonight. right. and let's just say that she was a human. yes. i mean, we would have solved a (bleep) murder mystery tonight. i know, we were literally, like... urgh! (lightning crashes) oh, my god! holy shit, what the-- this is insane. how are-- how are we not magic? you tell me, 'cause i don't know. you can't tell me. you don't know! ♪ >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with

trevor noah. (applause). >> trevor: welcome, everybody. thank you so much. welcome to the daily show, thank you, everybody. i'm trevor noah. hour guest tonight, the musician st. vincent is joining us, everybody. going to be a really fun performance and a conversation. but first, but first. when donald trump took office he said that if anyone could bring peace to the middle east it would be him. so how is that going? >> maijary nounsment from president trump has been sending shock waves through the middle east. in the last hour the president reversed 70 years of u.s. foreign policy and recognized jerusalem as israel's capitol. he also said the u.s. embassy will be relocated from tel aviv to swrers lem within the announcement is drawing international a recall la. u.s. allies across the middle

east from saudi arabia to jordan to turkey warn this could destroy hopes for a peace settlement between israel and the palestinians. >> trevor: what the hell? donald trump just blew up the middle east so hard that isis is going to take credit for it and is he so desperate for compliments he would be like you know what, isis has many sidesk folk, many sides. moving the u.s. embassy to swrers lem is like getting an apartment in your ex-girlfriend's illegal. it's not technically illegal but are you trying to dart some beep [bleep]. you realize what trump has done. one of the major issues in the whole israeli-palestinian conflict is who has claim to jerusalem. and the u.s. has always said it would be a fair mediator in this dispute until trump. it's like two people were fighting over a cook yoo and trump was like i say it's israel's cookie. now let's talk about whose cookie st, yeah, yeah, can we do that. it makes no sense. i'm not saying i know how to solve the middle east crisis but i know how you break it, this is how am trump probably wants to put out the california fires by

throwing samsung phones at them. what are you doing snr like you know f this is the pa of the peace plan, it may be it will work, it might actually work. think about it for decades there has been no progress at all. and then trump blunders in and does the one thing everyone agrees would be a huge mistake. so now everyone is freaking out? and they are problemly looking at each other and at him like is he crazy and everyone in the middle east is like you know we're not so different after all, let's talk about it, let's talk about it, this guy is crazy, let's work together, let's work together! but that's not all there was to this afternoon's announcement. bus as disturbing as it was today to watch donald trump add fuel to the middle east conflict, it was even more disturbing to watch the conflict between donald trump's teeth and his tongue. >> let us rethink old assumptions and open our hearts and minds to defeat radicalism that threaten the hopes and

dreams. it is not just the heart of three great religionsed. i asked the leaders of the region. political and religious, thank you, god bless you, god bless israel, god bless the palestinians and god bless the united states. thank you very much. >> trevor: yo, did president trump just adeldazim the united states, what the hell was going on there, jared, jared,-- you know what it seemed like the whole time, it seemed like someone hit him with a blow dart just before he went out to make the speech. like he was like all right, let's go to discuss peace-- peace in the mid-- eas-- peace in the-- mid-- what the hell was going on? you know what, maybe, okay, maybe we are being mean. maybe it wasn't as bad as it seems. let's watch it again.

>> and god bless the united-- thank you very much. >> trevor: it was worse t was so much worse. oh man. e oh, he's slurring and stumbling over the words. he sounds like he just had a drink with bill cosby, what's going on there, man. trump is screwing this up was so funny. i betted there are some people in the middle east going you know what, for this it was worth t lack at this jack ass, it was worth it. but we all know, we all know what is going on here. president-- president trump is wearing dentures, people, yeah. that's what is going on. no, this used to happen to my grandfather all the time. his denture was start falling out and he wouldn't be able to finish a sentence, that is what would happen. think about it, have you ever seen trump eitan apple or a pear or fruits or vegetables of any kind, have you? huh? think about it. fake teeth, fake hair, fake tan. like there's no part of his body that's real. at this point i wouldn't be shocked to find out he is the dude from men in black.

like-- and by the way, by the way, there is no shame in having dentures. but there is shame in donald trump having dentures, yeah. because he's vein as hell. can you imagine how he would feel if people started tweeting denture donald? he would be like-- don't do it, don't do t i'm just saying can you imagine he would feel. but don't do t don't do it, guys, he's very sensitive, okay. and lookings i know this is just a theory right now but we need to get to the truth. so i say forget the mueller investigation, bring on the molar investigation, we need to know what is happening people, i need to know now, this is serious. what is happening there. oh man, but let's move on. let's move on now from the white house to the capitol. >> at this hour senator al franken's political career is hanging in the balance. more than 20 of his senate colleagues have now called on the minnesota lawmaker to step down. >> just moments ago 1/8 accuser spoke out against the democratic senator al franken of minnesota.

there is no word yet from al franken. this new claim as the walls come caving in around the minnesota democrat. and he is set to make an announcement tomorrow. that's the word from his office. >> trevor: man, this is big news. al franken is going to be making an announcement tomorrow. he could be stepping down. or he could be announcing he's having a baby! either one. so 2 looks like al franken's political career could be over. unless he moves to alabama to run as a republican. yeah. cuz down there kaw kaitionan-- having a great time. because he is now ahead in most polls, right, even after aide women have accused him of sexual misconduct. and he denies that, but i'm sorry when eight people come out and accuse you, it is a lot harder to brush it off as a conspiracy. it is eight people. you know how hard it is to get eight people to do anything? i've been trying to schedule din we are three friends for the past 18 months. answer my [bleep] emails!

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i mean you don't want your olympic team getting beaten in your own country. that would be horrible. it would be like beyonce showing up to do karaoke at your birthday party. you would be there like yeah, no, she's really tam entered, whatever, i mean yeah, i was going to sing that song but whatever. but still, it's amazing how far --a went to cheat. >> russian intelligence agents posed as maintenance workers entering the athlete testing plab and breaking in bottles and swapping if dirty urine for clean samples. >> they built a secret lab right next to the room, the storage room where the urine samples were held with a hole in the wall. >> trevor: whoa, whoa, forget the doping how did they get the bottles to float like that, that is the real story right there. and this is true, this is true. in one case, right, when they were switching the urine samples a russian female hockey player ended up with a male's urine sample. yeah. imagine being the olympic inspector who had to give her those test results.

just came in, well, the good news is your urine is clean. the bad news is you have test particular lar cancer, yes, yes, good luck in your race. and how do we know that russia did all of this? well, because the person who snitched is the dude who ran the entire scheme. >> the man who ran the scheme says the order came right from the top. gregory rodchenkov. >> you show the best result in sochi. >> trevor: how dark a room does this guy have to be in to not wear sunglasses. just like can somebody please turn down that candle, yeah, bright. now of course we should point out that like everything russia has ever done, russia denies doing this. >> state sponsored doping is vemently denied by the kremlin. tonight russian television channels are vowing not to show the games.

president putin claims it is an american attempt to influence his election next year. >> trevor: oh, that's hilarious. vlad acting like he has elections. oh my word, that's so funny. have you seen the russian presidential ballot, it's like putin, putin again or prison. that's what it is. it is also funny to think that there are russian voters who are going to vote for putin until they got banned from the olympics or that people just like i don't know about putin any more. next year i will vote for jill stein. but you know who i feel bad for, i feel bad for the innocent russian athletes. right. because they have to be some who didn't dope or didn't want to dope. and they just dedicated their lives to training for the olympic. the good news is they can still go but not the way that they were hoping. >> individual athletes with no doping history can apply to compete but as olympic athletes from russia. no anthems will be played at

ceremonies if they win. >> russian athletes who test clean can compete in february's pyeongchang gains with a neutral uniform. >> trevor: oh, that's cold, man. they can't even represent their country? like what, they are just going to have to wear some generic neutral uniform? yeah? i mean that doesn't look like you are competing. people will be watching that like are those athletes are are they going to gci gollum on to them, what is going on. and if they win a gold medal they don't get to hear an anthem, that is the best part, they will just stand in the podium in silence, will you hear someone fart in the crowd. that's heartbreaking. well, it won't be. cuz don't worry athletes from russia. we at the daily show have written an anthem just for you. yeah. an anthem you can proudly sing when you take the gold. and it's got all the pride of a national anthem but it's generic enough to get passed the olympic pan. so please join me as we sing oh my homeland.

sneet oh my homeland. ♪ which has a history and many physical attributes. ♪ our people are the best. ♪ because they were born or moved inside its borders. ♪ let's remember that big military victory we had. ♪ and forget all the bad stuff we did. ♪ so praise to my homeland. ♪ and et set ra, et cetera, et cetera and we act like we like

these songs that we sing. (applause) right now we have colin kaepernick is taking a knee, he's like i'm protesting that [bleep] as well, that anthem is horrible. but even with the ban, the good news is at least russian individuals will still be allowed to compete. right? and if russia can only send one person who is going to represent them in every sport, i think i know exactly who it is. you know what, people, russia is

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♪ we're turning heads, oh yeah and nothing can stop us now ♪ >> trevor: welcome back. is my guest tonight is a grammy award-winning musician whose new album called mass seduction. please welcome st. vincent. (applause). >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: thank you very much for being here. that is a very cool outfit. >> i'm very comfortable. >> trevor: are you struggling with that chair. >> no, i'm very comfortable. this is just me reclaining and

lounging. >> trevor: i can recline with you if you want to feel. >> do you mind. >> trevor: now we're in the same space. i like it. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> trevor: congratulations on another album, successful on the billboard top ten charts, so congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> trevor: that's exciting. let's talk about the music and persona around st. vincent. this new album is called mass seduction, what does that mean, is that seducing people in bulk? >> yeah, i like-- the costco seduction. what i like or what the thought behind mass seduction was like, it is a play on words. >> trevor: right. >> you know, kind of sounds like my seduction, am i seducing, am i being seduced, but i sent it to a friend of mine to say what do you think of the title. and he said all i see is ass education, and i'm like okay, okay. green light. >> trevor: he just skipped the beginning of the word. i like that. >> ass education. >> trevor: those are good friends to have you like playing with words and also ideas and

themes. some people have compared you to david weie saying like you have a way about you with the music, your characters change from album to album. is that something you do intentionally. lake does the character sort of shape what the album is going to be about? >> i mean it's always sort of music first and in the sengs that themes emerge and then you, so every record, more or less has a sort of archetype. so like i did an archetype of like housewife on pills and then-- not from my experience. and then i did another archetype of like near future cult leader and this is like you know, like dom i z dinatrix at the mental institution. >> trevor: uh-huh, uh-huh, so all regular themes. >> regular gal. >> trevor: regular gal with regular themes. >> yeah. >> trevor: it's very provocative, the pictures, the images. the cover is obviously a woman bending over, and we're seeing her buttocks. >> i'm not mature enough to deal

with my own album cover. >> trevor: it is really, did you design that on purpose, is there something you are trying to say in the artwork, is there a message you are trying to give to people before they start consuming the music? >> so originally the album cover was goinged to to be like a zaney portrait of me, right. and then we got into the 34eu9d of the photo shoot and this is one of the photos that emerged of a model at the shoot. and it just seemed like this was the more appropriate sort of visual representation of the 58 bum than like me starring off into the middle distance. cuz it's like sexy and also like superweird and funny. >> trevor: is that the album, sexy, superweird and funny? >> this is a comedy album. you know i'm here, a comedy album, yeah, yeah. >> trevor: sexy, superweird and sunny, i'm excited to hear

you sing it, you are an amazing guitarist which a lot of people know which is why you are recognized by the grammys. so thank you very much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> trevor: i'm looking forward to the music. mass seduction is available now. and be sure to stay tuned for a special acoustic performance after the break. st. vincent, everybody. we'll be right back. #r>> trevor: that's our show for

tonight, the opposition with jordan clep certificate coming up next, now to play us out with the song los ageless from the song mass seduction, please welcome st. vincent. (applause). ♪ in los ageless the winter never comes. ♪ in los ageless the mothers milk thrair young. ♪ but i can keep running oh i can keep run