>> 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," everybody! thank you so much for tuning in! thank you for coming out! thank you so much for coming out! let's do it! take a seat! let's make a show! i'm trevor noah. our guests tonight apart of a powerful new movie about the death penalty in america, alfre woodard and aldis hodge are joining us, everybody! fantastic movie, getting greatly reviews. also lewis black plays santa claus, jesus goes digital and donald trump might need to update his linkedin.

so let's catch up on today's headlines. let's kick it off with some international news. coming out of finland, the country usually known for lakes, snow and not being norway. but, now, they've got a pretty cool claim to fame. >> britain's guardian says a 34-year-old sauna marine of finland will become the world's youngest sitting prime minister. yesterday finland's ruling social democratic party voted to name marine next prime minister. she's been a lawmaker since 2015. >> trevor: yes, finland now has the youngest leader in the world. a 34-year-old woman named sanamarie. you know what's more impressive. look at the other leaders of finland's coalition government. five women! ( cheers and applause ) but i'm starting to think finland is secretly the island from wonder woman.

you realize that's an entire government mike pence can't be in a room with, right? even more impressive is that four of them are under age 35, which is wild, because, in america, you can't even be president until you turn 35. and if you're in the government, you can keep running until you're 1,000. i don't understand why there's no old-age limit. think about it, you have congressmen who can't stay awake. you have a senator who took off glasses he wasn't even wearing. ( laughter ) like, we don't even know how old mitch mcconnell is, you'd have to count the flaps of his neck like the rings of a tree. we don't even know. ( laughter ) you know what would be funny is if the group of leaders from finland met with u.s. leaders, it's going to look like they're visiting their parents in an old age home. we want to talk to you about trade. and it's, like, and we want to talk to you about fixing our vcr. don't put us in one of those

tik tokes. that happened to gladys and she's now viral! ( laughter ) if you felt guilty from taking from a hotel room, don't stress. turns out, they've seen a lot worse. >> stealing towels is one thing but mattresses is a whole different level. a survey reveals luxury hotels are dealing in mattresses missing. the quality of hotel determines the variety of items stolen, higher the rating the bigger the heist. five star hotels are likely to have mattresses, tvs and coffee machines, while less nicer are likely to lose remotes, and nicer hotels are less likely to report due to fear of being connected to a crime. >> trevor: who steals a mattress? more importantly, how do you steal a mattress from a hotel? what, do you disguise its and walk up to the front desk, like, hi, my wife and i would like to

check out. honey, why don't you go wait in the car? ( laughter ) also, why would you want to steal a mattress from a hotel? it's the filthiest thing in the room. it's, like, it's not that i can't afford the mattress, i just prefer one with the built-in semen stains. have you heard the good news about jesus? yeah. now, have you heard the bad news about jesus? >> this might actually be the holy grail of new video games. it's called i am jesus christ and it lets gamers play jesus. to heal a blind man, make fish appear in a bucket and end a thunderstorm. the new testament inspired game has not been released yet but it is expected to launch soon. ( audience reacts ) >> trevor: okay, this is extremely offensive, especially for me, someone who has already accepted supermario as my video game savior. and i say unto you, it's-a-many!

i'll be honest, i don't want to play a video game about jesus. however, i do want to play as jesus in other video games. think about it, when jesus was alive, he rolled with sinners and prostitutes so he'd kick ass and grant their wishes. or jesus as a quarterback. what's the play, jesus? hail mary, same as every play! ( applause ) or -- or -- ( cheers and applause ) or i would want to play jesus in mortal combat, ripping out dude's spines and middl and immy healing him. resurrect him! we know the cheat code will be up down, up down, left right, ab star. that's it for the headlines. let's move on to the top stories. impeachment. today was another major milestone in the push to impeach president trump. so let's catch up on the latest in our ongoing segment the

magical wonderful road to impeachment. ( cheers and applause ) ( singing ) >> that's probably presidential harassment. >> trevor: for months, now, democrats have been inching closer to bringing articles of impeachment against president trump, and, today, they finally made it official. >> this is cnn braking news. >> the house announcing articles of impeachment against sitting president donald j. trump. >> a president who declares himself above accountability, above the american people and above congress' power of impeachment which is meant to protect against threats of our democratic institutions is a president who sees himself as above the law. we must be clear, no one, not even the president, is above the law. >> trevor: that's right, the democrats have officially announced articles of impeachment to show that, other than stephen segal, no one is

above the law. ( laughter ) and i know this sounds weird, but i'm actually proud of donald trump. yeah, because he's getting impeached, but i didn't think he would make it three years. i'm not going to lie. like, trump getting this far into his presidency without being impeached is like when a dog accidentally drives a car into a tree. the car crashed but he made it eight blocks. that's impressive. i don't know how he put it into drive. he barely knows letters. ( laughter ) now there was a big debate within the democratic party about how many articles of impeachment to bring against donald trump, but, in the end, they decided to strike with surgical precision. >> president trump now facing two charges as the top democrats of the key committees stood together to announce it all this morning. abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> democrats have decided to narrow the scope of impeachment to the two articles of impeachment that they believe are the easiest to prove and backed up by the most evidence. >> because we are operating in a

universe where republicans are challenging some of the most basic facts. democrats want to make this case airs tight as possible. >> trevor: yes, only two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress, we means democrats are showing a lot of restraint because trump has done enough crazy shit to merit 2,000 articles of impeachment. obstruction of justice from mueller report, porn star payoffs, flag molestation, the time he looked directly into an eclipse and having don, jr. is impeachment on its own. ( cheers and applause ) so the good news for trump is that he's only facing two charges, although, in a way, that's also kind of sad for him because nixon had three articles against him, bill clinton had fourenned andrew johnson had eleven, which means the trump will have the smallest impeachment of all time. you know that's going to make

him insecure. he's, like, it's not about the size of the impeachment, it's about the friction of the conviction! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and these articles of impeachment could not have come at a worst time for trump because remember how the president has been saying that the whole russia investigation was a biased conspiracy against him? well, he demanded that the justice department look into the russia investigation. guess what they found? >> tonight the inspector general's report finally out, into the origins of the russia investigation and the report finding no anti-trump bias. >> the justice department's inspector general revealing there was no evidence of a witch hunt, determining the f.b.i. had enough evidence to justify the probe at the height of the election, but the inspector general says f.b.i. officials made serious errors and omissions in applying for surveillance warrants to monitor communications of carter page. >> despite trump's mocking of f.b.i. agents he says were using

the russia probe to defeat him, the report found an agent who messaged another after trump won the white house that he was so elated with the election, it was like watching a super bowl comeback. >> trevor: yeah, not great for donald trump. the report did find misconduct by some f.b.i. agent but, overall, said that the russia investigation was justified and there was no anti-trump bias. so for trump, this is weird, because it was a little bit of what he wanted but a lot of what he definitely didn't want. like he opened his presents on christmas morning and he got the scrment r. headset he was hoping for but only played videos of his grandparents having sex. disappointing. still more fun than the jesus came. surprisingly, trump has been taking the bad news better than you would expect, but maybe that's not because he's taking it at all. >> the i.g. report just came out and i was just briefed on it. it is incredible.

far worse than i would have ever thought possible. this was an overthrow of government, this was an attempted overthrow, and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught. they got caught red handed. >> trevor: trump is a legend, man. ( laughter ) the report came out, and he's blindly plowing ahead. like the report stays what -- says what he wanted it to say. he said, yeah, it is what it said. it's like those people who got dumped and are in defile. donald, this isn't working. okay, feel better, see you tomorrow. trump didn't read the report. his advisors can't get him to read reports. they probably gave him bullet points on a denny's placed mat. even if he didn't read it, it wouldn't matter. he always creates his own

realities no matter the facts. even if he gets impeached and gets removed from office, there's a good chance he will ignore it and keep being president. mr. president, the votes are in, you have to leave the white house, it's over. he would be, like, all right, love you, too, babe, see you tomorrow! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause )

when it comes to health coverage, it helps to have someone in your corner. that's why there's covered california. we're the only place where you can get financial help to pay for your health insurance. new this year, almost a million people could receive additional financial help from the state to help lower the cost of health insurance... more for those already getting it, and new help for many who haven't gotten help before. so check to see how much you can save. it only takes 5 minutes. to be covered by january 1st, enroll by december 15th.

don't get them a sweater, give them the gift that always fits: cash! scan your pepsi. get a match. and gift that money forward, to whoever you want! keep the pepsi. gift the cash. and gift that money forward, to whoever you want! cats compete for the tonchance of a new life.ht. ah! hah! i judge a cat by its soul. i'm quite obviously the best. [ laughter ] mmmwhaa!

cross paws. come on you can do it. hiss, that's what i say to you, hiss. >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." when a new story falls through the cracks, lewis black catches it for a segment we call back in black. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> it's just a couple more weeks until christmas, when christians celebrate the birth of santa! meanwhile, us jews are celebrating a real miracle -- some lamp oil that lasted longer than we thought, because if there's one thing we jews love, it's a bargain! ( laughter ) but, for some reason, christians are now trying to include us in their holiday season, and it's not making any sense. >> hallmark christmas movies have been a staple for the channel for years. now they're debuting two hallmark hanukkah movies.

>> as "the washington post" reports, there's just one problem, neither movie is a hanukkah movie, they're christmas movies with jewish characters. >> joe. >> brook. >> in a holiday date a woman hires a jewish actor to pose as her boyfriend and join her at her family's house at christmas but the family grows suspicious because they don't know if he knows how to celebrate. >> you daunt know if jews know how to celebrate christmas, the holiday that gets jammed down ore throat every year? the second the holiday ends, i can't buy a cup of coffee that doesn't look like it fell out of santa's ass. jews know how christmas works. it's not like we're going to walk into your christmas party and say, oh, my god! it's a tree! indoors! call a lumberjack! ( laughter ) i don't want a holiday movie where a jewish person learns about christmas. i want a movie where a christian

has to learn about hanukkah! night one socks. night two, a notebook. night three, a pen and pencil set. it's a back-to-school holiday! ( laughter ) but if you thought a fake hanukkah movie was tone deaf, put this in your stocking and stuff it! >> online retail giant amazon just pulled several controversial christmas items from its web site, the items including christmas ornaments, bottle openers and mouse pads depict the auschwitz concentration camp. amazon says all the products in question have been removed, adding all sellers must follow our selling guidelines. >> trevor: an auschwitz christmas ornament? look, i know we say to never forget, but when you're decorating your tree, you can take the night off! ( laughter ) this is yeas crazy! christmas has nothing to do with the holocaust! santa's list, and schindler's list are very different lists!

( applause ) but if you have to think of the jews at christmas, why not get them a little something to show you care, like this guy? >> last week, we told you about a controversial option of nazi memorabilia in germany and new this morning a swiss businessman purchased many of the items including adolph hitler's top hat, he said, in order tore keep them out of the hands of neo-nazis. he said he will donate the items to a jewish group. he said he paid more than $600,000 at the munich auction last week. >> i appreciate the gesture, but who cares if a neo-nazi gets their hands on hitler's top hat! it's not like the hat will magically turn them into a super nazi. all you get is a skinhead who looks like mr. peanut! ( laughter ) and giving hitler's hat to a jewish group isn't going to do anything.

they'll just take turns shitting in it. although, come to think outof it, sounds like a pretty good hanukkah to me. we thought hitler's hat could only hold one turd, but it held eight! what a mitzvah! ( laughter ) by the way, are we sure this is real? we've all seen pictures of hitler and he's never wearing a top hat. person lill, i think this is a scam to get people to buy fake hitler stuff, and that's the kind of scam i want to get in on. so, hey, neo-nazis, perhaps i could interest you in hitler's ninja! that's right, that wasn't a mustache off adolph's lip, it was res to you from a delicious kale smoothie. act now and i'll throw in mussolini's fidget spinner! >> trevor: lewis black! we'll be right back, everyone! ( cheers and applause ) ♪

awwww yeah. that's the stuff. no really. those are the actual ingredients. ♪ funky rock track tostitos. [crunch] get to the good stuff.

we ordered 10,000 units. that sounds good. pretty cool, huh? they're speaking to mom in japanese, and mom hears them in english. ♪ can you understand me? yes, i can understand you. okay. i have a lot of questions. how do you guys fly? what does santa do in the summer? is mrs. claus a good cook? do you guys get presents? can you roller skate or ice skate? look what we did!

we made it thin. how is this possible, you ask? it's not. but we gone done it anyway. reese's thins. not sorry. give them the gift that's on everybody's list: cash! scan your pepsi. get a match. and gift that money forward, to whoever you want! keep the pepsi. gift the cash.

and gift that money forward, to whoever you want! ♪ fast paced hip hop song playing ♪ rougout ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight are award winning actors who star as a prison warden and a death row inmate in the new film "clemency." >> at that point, medical personnel will confirm the execution complete.

now, if you want to talk to miss lameta about this later, you can, but do you have any questions? do you have any family that would like to claim your body? if there are no family members that wish to claim your body, your remains will be laid to rest in a plot here on our property owned by the state. >> trevor: please welcome alfre woodard and aldis hodge. ( cheers and applause ) ♪

>> trevor: welcome to "the daily show." first of all, congratulations on being part of a film that is being lauded by critics and fans alike as one of the best films that they've had the opportunity to see. not everyone has had the chance to see it yet, obviously, but it is a really powerful story. we've seen stories about prisoners, we've seen stories about wardens, very few tales have touched people in this way because "clemency" is a story where you play a ward b who has the task of executing people who have been sentenced to death, and in this story, we see an interesting side of it, and that is the emotional toll it takes on the wardens, as well as the prisoners. that's a powerful different way to tell the story. what attracted you to being a part of this film to tell that story? >> i had never heard of this dilemma. i didn't know those people. i didn't know the degree of ptsd

that is suffered by people that are charged, that we charge with carrying out state-sponsored executions. i figured if i didn't know the vast majority of people didn't know and that's the very reason you want to tell a story. >> trevor: it seems, contrary to what people would want to talk about because many times people go let's talk about the prisoners who are, you know, sentenced to death and some of them wrongly executed, but people would be, like, the execution itself is wrong. >> right. >> trevor: it's rare to tell a story where you humanize the warden as well, who is part of a system. >> mm-hmm. >> trevor: that's a powerful side of the story to tevment why do you think that was important? >> well, because, when it comes to capital punishment, i believe as a society we're to a degree pass fide by the idea of murder dinner guise of justice, right? we rarely take into account causality. we rarely take into account the effects of those who have to do this and dignify the people that they are doing it to. >> trevor: right. >> as we see through the relationship with bernadine and my character anthony woods who's on his way out, possibly he's

actively trying to gain clemensy but we see the tumultuous relationship happen between these two people as they're trying to find dignity and real value in this situation and i think, for us, it's great to know that side of things because, as a community, this is something we're all actively complicit in, and we need to understand our real responsibility, when it comes to the idea of capital punishment. >> trevor: when telling the story, how important was it for you to try and humanize and also empathize with somebody that most of society wouldn't feel for, and that is somebody who is, you know, the head of a prison? >> well, you know, anything that any human being is capable of, we're all capable of, high and low, and, so, as the actor, you don't pass judgment, you don't bring your opinions, the way you talk, the way you move, your job is to get yourself out of the way and find the way that that person looks out on the world. so it is -- i need to find that

woman's reality. nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, i'm going to be an asshole today. ( laughter ) no, everybody thinks, you know, i can fix this, i know how to make this run smoothly. >> trevor: right. >> and, so, your job is always to find the human being. >> trevor: when you were playing the warden, i know you get into your characters. i know you inhabit a different world. what was the most surprising thing you discovered about the world of wardens, specifically women who are tasked with being wardens in american prince? >> i met three wardens and a deputy wardens, they were all sisters, black women. it surprised me firstov all that women would be wardens. i learned they came to it from the mental health field, they come to it from social works and it's always a revelation, and you live for revelations, to be able to see a side of an issue that you are on the absolute polar opposite of and to be able to understand that person. you may not agree, but

everybody's got -- everybody's got a role to play in life. i mean, that's what a society is. so to be able to understand, you know what, that's the person i want as my commander because they're not going to blink, they're not going to breach protocol because one stitch dropped, the whole fabric might fall apart. so to be able to understand a woman that could say, no, you can't go to your momma's funeral, now what do you want to eat in what do you want to eat for your last meal? >> trevor: wow. >> to be able to understand that. >> trevor: it's interesting because its always sounds like there are two people who are imprisoned in a strange way. it's not just the prisoner but it's also the guard. >> yeah. >> trevor: aile aldis, we see yr character, you see the humanity of the person who's keeping you in prison and it's their job. >> right. >> trevor: you spent a lot of time in a prison cell for this. you're sitting there, and there's moments where it's camera, but there are a lot of moments when you're in a real

jail cell just sitting there. >> yeah. >> trevor: is there a part of you that goes, this makes me uncomfortable, this experience is a little too real as the idea as coop september? because a lot of people don't realize what a jail cell actually is. >> yeah, and given the past few roles, i have been in jail quite a bit. ( laughter ) very familiar. we actually shot in a real jail. there was one time where a cell closed, and the button didn't work to open it up, so your boy was stuck for a little bit. it's cool. they got it open. but, you know, it makes you think differently. no, for me, oddly enough, with my relationship with my craft, i choose to be part of projects i'm ambitious about when it comes to the potension fortunately their positivity. >> trevor: right. >> so, with this, the harder it got for the character, the more excited i got because i knew that the world was going to be able to get a completely different view of perspective of what these real men and women go through on a daily basis. >> trevor: right. >> it does hit you, it is polarizing to a degree, but, at

the same time, i say i'm doing my work and to a degree hopefully i'm working in my purpose, which makes me quite proud to sit in those situations and have to feel it and go through it because that's the art i want to give to people. >> trevor: i think you've both done an amazing job. thanks for being on the show and telling the story. "clemency" will be in select theatres december 27th. make sure to watch it. alfre woodard and aldis hodge, everybody. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause ) ♪

( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. thank you so much for tuning in. here it is... your moment of zen. >> someone please explain what is happening in las vegas? it is like the wild west out there. >> people are coming across pigeons wearing cowboy hats. how did they even get them on? ( pigeon couping )

captioning sponsored by comedy central [applause and cheering] ♪ >> announcer: and now, david spade! [applause and cheering] ♪ >> david: hey! hi, guys! [applause and cheering] >> david: yeah! guys, welcome, everybody, thanks for coming. tonight we have candice, bert, steve over here. [applause and cheering] >> david: all right. let's tell you what is the appealing. what's the peel? the actor who played elliot in e.t., you know this guy, allegedly tampered with his urine sample when he got charged with a d.u.i. he figured, clean pee, go home.