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- [crying] ♪ >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: thank you so much! welcome to "the daily show," everybody! thank you for tuning in! i'm trevor noah! our guest tonight, an amazing man, winner of the naacp award
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for outstanding literary work, jason reynolds is joining us, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) but first, amazon, the company we can't live without. well, they've just taken shopping to the next level. >> after revolutionizing the way we shop online, amazon now has its sites on the way we shop in person. tonight long lines outside the store that's trying to get rid of them altogether. let's get ready to shop. inside amazon go, a new grocery store opening to the public first time today. no checkout or register in site. customers use a new app to scan in, start shopping. customers leave without checking out and their amazon account is automatically charged. >> trevor: this is genius! all those people have to do is wait in line and they don't have to wait in line at all, huh? yeah, just two more hours, then i will be in and out in record time! look at those geniuses, huh? you know, like the store is so
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insane. i can't wait for the first amazon store robbery. it will be so awkward. the robber will run in, put your hands up! top the ash register! there is no register. okay, well, i'm taking this pineapple, ahhh! and he runs out, it still charges him. $7 for a pineapple? amazon is like, who's the robber now? ( laughter ) tech companies are the most valuable in the world. first they found a way to sell us the future, now they sell us the past. we hate going to the story so they deliver prime delivery. then we're, like, oh, man, i have to wait? the guys are, you heard about stores? so amazon has tricked us into being our own delivery people. i'm just waiting for them to launch amazon grow -- why have other people touch your food when you can grow it yourself? ooh! ( laughter ) let's move on from the place that can always stay open to the
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place that can't, the u.s. government. yesterday democrats and republicans reached a deal to end the government shutdown. they shut it down friday midnight, opened it up monday afternoon. sounds like a weekend. eth what we all do in our lives. shut down on friday night, then takes half of monday to get going again. that's life. imagine you quit your job saturday, didn't tell your boss, you walk in on monday, fine, i'm back! he's, like, what are you talking about? nothing! ( laughter ) yes, the shutdown ended yesterday and today we found out the secret to getting american lawmakers working together. >> republican senator susan collins of maine led a bipartisan group of senators in talks to reopen the government and she used a now famous talking stick! >> i can show it to you, and as you can see it's beautifully
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beaded. it is originally from africa. it was very helpful in making sure that everybody's voice got heard. >> trevor: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! wait a minute! you had a magic stick that makes senators work together the whole time and you only bring it out after the shutdown? what the hell, susan collins? you could have saved everybody so much stress! you know what susan collins reminds me of? the power rainers. they spend the whole episode getting their ass kicked and then become the giant robot. just be the robot from the beginning! oh, there's a bad guy! boom! let's go home! don't bring out the talking stick at the end! ( laughter ) which by the way, guys, i don't know what she's talking about but we don't use talking sticks in africa. i feel like susan collins got bamboozled by some guy on the
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street, take this stick from our ancestors for $500, huh? we use microphones, all right? we haven't used talking sticks since, like, 2007. ( laughter ) the point is the government reopened and as soon as it did, everyone just wanted to know one thing -- >> winners an losers from the shutdown showdown. >> we'll look at the winners and losers from the government showdown. >> who came out on top, bottom and sideways? >> we know there are substantive winners here. >> right. >> they walked outthe winner not the loser. >> winners, mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, 2018 democrats. >> i think the big loser the chuck schumer. >> i think both sides lost. >> there are no winners. >> i think everybody at the end of the day is a loser. >> trevor: that's right, everyone is a loser! i'd like to imagine dana says it every day in the cnn cafeteria. everyone's a loser! blitzer, give me a milk, ah, i
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need it! shut up, old man! who won, who lost? you can look at it both ways. you can say democrats won because they got children's healthcare, campaign ads and mitch mcconnell had to pinky promise to hold a vote on immigration in the next few weeks. at the same time, maybe that meant they lost because they got a promise from mitch mcconnell, same a guy who broke his obamacare promise to susan collins, who hasn't delivered on immigration promise to jeff flake? and those are his fellow republicans. democrats might hope he won't do them dirty but mitch is the biggest player in the senate. come on, baby, you know you can trust me. come on, i'm a changed man. yom on. ( laughter ) so i guess republicans also won, all right. all they had to do was give a flimsy promise and then the democrats back down, reopen the government, and on top of that they snuck in $30 billion in additional tax cuts which you didn't even know about, so in a way, i guess everyone kind of
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won. yeah. i mean, unless i'm forgetting someone. someone -- oh, yeah, oh, yeah. the people that this whole goddam issue was about. >> the daca program is set to end march 5 with no solution. dreamers could start to face deportation at that time. >> trevor: that's right, the dreamers. they came away from this shutdown worse off than before because, before, before it all became about winning or losing, even republicans believed that daca kids deserved a chance in the u.s. >> i'm very sympathetic with this situation. i mean, these are young people who were brought here at a tender age -- >> do we want to deport 700,000 daca kids? no, we don't want to do that. >> we love the dreamers. we love everybody. ♪ the lovers, the dreamers and me ♪ >> trevor: yes, of course, kermit sees' a republican, he's old and super rich. ( laughter )
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once the shutdown became about scoring political points, suddenly republican leaders turned these people from dreamers to illegals. >> apparently they believe that the issue of illegal immigration is more important than anything else. >> the democrats in the united states senate who decided to play politics with military pay and to literally shut the government down over a debate over illegal immigration. >> president trump tweeted the democrats are holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration, can't let that happen. >> get these illegal immigrants out of my country, aaahhh! >> trevor: look, if you're a dreamer, it's not completely unexpected republicans would turn on you. but you're probably not that impressed with democrats either because time and time again they've promised the dreamers more than they can deliver. >> i cannot support a bill, a continuing resolution that doesn't deal with the daca issue. >> we will not leave here without the dream act passing or
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the daca fixed. >> trevor: and they left before they got the daca act fixed. here's the thing, democrats, i believe you're trying to help the dreamers but you may be setting unrealistic expectations when you know you don't have power and keep making promises only to back down. i'm not going to lie, doesn't make you look great. this is what sucks for dreamers, you're six weeks away from being deported from a country you've only known. sounds like a nightmare, not a dream. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ohhhhhh, ou! guess what i just got? uh! ♪i used to be spellbound hello again. ♪i used to be spellbound hi. ♪i used to be spellbound that's a big phone. ♪in your arms. [screams] ah, my phone. ♪you built the flame ♪that warms my heart,
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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! are you guys as excited as i am about the awards season? yeah, yeah? ( cheers and applause ) i mean, we just had the golden globes, the sag awards and the fake news awards which was the biggest fake news of all because it wasn't even awards, it was a shitty web site trump. you could have put efforts into it. some of us took out ads and got our head did, whatever, i'm not angry. the grand-daddy of them all, the oscars, and this year grand-dad
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has new moves. >> in hollywood this morning the motion picture academy did spread the wealth around, a number of diverse projects and the movie with the most nominations made by a man from mexico. >> with 774 academy voters, said to be younger and more diverse than in the past, more inclusive nominees across the board may be the result. the aim of the academy's initiative, "#oscars so white" protest. >> trevor: this year oscars are renominating la-la land to take the oscar away from it again. ha! the insiders look is our own award season expert roy wood, jr., ebbed! ( cheers and applause ) expert indeed. what's up, roy? >> hey, man, look, in the past it was "#oscars so white" but this year it's "#oscars so sorry." people who were long overlooked are finally getting their due.
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obviously, the big one is "get out," four top nominations. that's dope. ( cheers and applause ) now, little known fact, trevor, a lot of people don't know this, "get out" is based on a true story. >> trevor: it is? >> yeah, "get out" is a true story of a prominent black neurosurgeon trapped inside the trump administration. they changed some of the details but tell me this isn't ben carson every day. >> well, well, i find that the african-american experience for me has been, for the most part, very good. >> trevor: damn, roy, i never thought of that! >> that's ben carson. >> trevor: someone would try to free ben carson with a photo. >> his eyes are always closed, wouldn't work. ( laughter ) >> trevor: the star of the movie daniel kaluuya picked up his first oscar nomination. how do you like his odds? >> he's good, man.
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a british black dude playing an american black dude. that's like how you sit at this desk and pretend to be australian every night, whatever the hell accent that is. >> trevor: wait a minute, what? >> don't count out denzel. in "roman j. israel," denzel washington plays quest love playing a lawyer. the layers of that performance! the layers! >> trevor: he's not playing quest love. >> i know. he becomes quest love! now, this is also a great time for black actresses. octavia spencer became the first black woman to get nominated two years running, and then there's the best supporting actress nominee miss mary j. blige. >> trevor: yeah, that was amazing. i've got to admit, that was a nice surprise. >> it wasn't that surprising. as soon as i saw "mudbound," i knew mary j. was getting a nomination. she ain't wearing no makeup. trevor, anytime a black woman in a film don't put on no makeup,
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you know it's going to be some serious acting. you got oprah in h "the color purple," monique in "precious," and madea in alex cross. ( laughter ) i almost didn't recognize her. ( laughter ) >> trevor: the truth is, representation is so much better this year. jordon peele and greta gear wick for "mudbound," rarel rachel mon is the first one nominated for cinematography. >> trevor: you're forget the biggest breakthrough of all, fish people! did you see "shape of water"? they got an actual fish person not in the background role like they normally get. this pus fish person is the romc lead and the fish got to smash! >> trevor: fish people never get to smash. that doesn't sound like -- >> right. little mermaid got some pike but
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only after she turned human. i'm not blaming little mermaid. different time in hollywood. fish people had to take the roles they could get. this dude in "shape of water," he's openly fish and still gets the girl. suck it, aquaman! >> trevor: roy wood, jr., everybody! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) we make pop-up cards. we started with 2 people. today, we're 400.
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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! my guest tonight is a best selling young adult author whose latest book is called "long way down." please welcome jason reynolds! ( cheers and applause ) ♪
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>> trevor: welcome to the show. >> appreciate it. thank you, man. >> trevor: congratulations on your naacp awards, congratulations on all the awards that you've won. you are a young author who's making waves. "long way down" is your ninth book. >> my ninth book, man. it's going really quickly. you know, i feel like i just started yesterday, but "long way down" is definitely number nine. i think it's the eighth book in the last three years. >> trevor: you only read your first novel at the age of 17, cover to cover, that's the first time you finished a book? that's insane. >> it's only insane -- it's insane, obviously, but only for me because i became a writer, but the truth is, back then, there weren't a lot of books for kids like me. the 1980s to the 1990s, there weren't books about young people living in black communities, especially during the time. >> trevor: right. >> we're in the same generation, so in america you had the crack
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epidemics, hip-hop, h.i.v., and those three huge pillars were never mentioned in books nor young people experiencing that life. we didn't see it. >> trevor: is that why you write the stories you write? you write books for young adults, for kids all the way from 12 years old and up, but you also write stories that connect to the real world in a very modern way. does hip-hop influence that? was that something that was important for you? >> hip-hop was the biggest influencer. hip-hop is so complex, sometimes problematic, but i'll always be a child for that music because for me rap music give me voice. it let me know who i already was was good enough because they got to tell the whole world kids like me existed, we walked and talked a certain way and that we shouldn't apologize for any of that, that we need not be ashamed at the way we spoke or the way our mommas spoke or daddies spoke or about the old man on the corner or your uncle with the cigarette behind the ear, we should be okay with
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that. >> trevor: so many people you feel you need to meet in person because it's one thing to say with need to write these stories for kids, to tell authentic tales, but you also want to go out and meet these kids, you want to go out and meet kids who look like you, who are you in a certain way. what does that mean? >> i think for me it's -- you know, i got into this as an artist but i realize art in general and my life in general is a life of service. i am of service to young people. they are not in service to me. i am grateful they allow me in a space to honor them, they allow me the space to honor them with what i'm writing. these are thank you letters and love you notes. for me to show up is a way for me to look them in their faces and say thank you for your existence, for pushing us. most adults who get uncomfortable around children do not spend enough time around them. if you want the key, you talk about all the things in the world. so much of the key to hopelessness are young people.
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they are the anecdote to hopelessness but you can't just pop in and pop out. you have to pour into them, listen and humble yourself. i show up to say i am you, you are me, i have been where you are and you're going hopefully far beyond where i will ever go. >> trevor: you are an impressive man who connects with so many different people, living so many different lives. i had a young man on the show to watch a taping of "the daily show" and he read me book and said to me, hey, man, are you going to make the book into a movie because i don't know how to tell you this because as black boys we don't (bleep) read books and i don't want to tell my friends i read books. something i recognize from at home, young black men are adverse to the idea of being seen as a book worm. do you write your stories in such a way that they get to celebrate that idea and aren't afraid to explore that? >> i do.
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one thing for me in my life that young black men agree on, we only like the things that are cool. you make it cool, we on it. the books that were greatest, when they put the crochet gun on the cover and there's all the hulhullabaloo about it, then thn the kid on the a train with the book, hey, what you doing? as a 34-year-old man, if it's lame, i don't want it, i'm no different than they are. >> trevor: the packaging changes how people perceive what it is. >> that's it. >> trevor: that's how it connects with people when it comes to your writing with regard to its relevancy. a lot of people talk about why don't kids read these days? but you have an interesting take on why kids don't connect with the shakespeares or what people would deem to be required reading. why is that? >> for one thing, i think young
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people are allergic to boredom. honestly, that doesn't mean shakespeare is boring, it's oftentimes the teaching of shakespeare is boring. >> trevor: right. >> two, i believe we have to really start assessing what the literary cannon is and whether it should remain fossilized and concrete. it's stag nat. why not expand the cannon to be diverse, young. poetry should be shake peer's sonnets and queen latifah. take queen latifah and maya angelou and show people nothing is new, this is a continuum and they can start to see their place in what they're reading. if you read this all they will see is themselves. it's an entryway. it's the spring board so that they build relationships not just with literature but
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literacy, then we start fixing violence, we start fixing gangs and all of that once you realize your life is dependent upon your relationship with words. >> trevor: i couldn't have said it better myself, man. thanks for being on the show. ( cheers and applause ) appreciate you. "long way down" is available now. jason reynolds, everybody. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause ) mks♪ mom and dad got a new car... with the extra third row of seats. they think it's theirs. look at them, they have no idea! it's not theirs. it's mine. mine. mine. mine. the new lexus rx 350l with three rows for seven passengers. are you excited about your baby sister coming? experience space for the unexpected with the rx l, part of the rx family. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that's our show, stay tuned. the opposition is jordan klepper is next. now here it is... your moment of zen. >> in the subsequent meetings we used a nerf ball. it was a lot safer ( laughter ) >> nerf ball... captioning sponsored by comedy central ( cheers and applause ) >> jordan: you are the opposition. it's already january 23, and i'm already furious. my opponent tonight is mexico's

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