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Desi Lyman
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Co-host
Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Debbie Lydic.
Desi Lyman
We've got so much to talk about tonight. Autocorrect is making Trump ducking furious. Wall street gets weird. And if you think MAGA Republicans are pussies, well, they do too. So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with someone who is definitely in the Epstein files, Jeffrey Epstein. We've seen millions of his texts and emails already. But there was one very important document we hadn't seen until now.
Guest/Commentator
Breaking news tonight. A judge has released what is said to be a suicide note written by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. What you want me to do? Bust out cryin? No fun, not worth it.
Desi Lyman
No fun, not worth it. His last words were the same words I said when I bailed on the new season of Landman. Just kidding. All 437 Taylor Sheridan shows are equally excellent and available now on Paramount. But let's move on because this weekend is Mother's Day, the day we celebrate all the incredible women who pee a little when they sneeze too hard. Trump marks the occasion with an event honoring military moms, or as he calls them, military milfs. And I assume he showed them the love and respect they deserve.
Melody Wolf
We're also honored to be joined by a military mother who sacrificed far more than most. That's Melody Wolf. And you know, I love the name Melody because for a long time, you know, they have spell correct and word correct in these crazy machines that we use to put out truths. Or they used to be called tweets.
Desi Lyman
Uh oh, look out. He's weaving.
Melody Wolf
Every time I wrote Melania, it would correct to melody. So I do thing and I work very fast. Very fast.
Desi Lyman
Well, now I know what I'm not getting for Mother's Day. Horny ever again. I think we just experienced the last thing a Big Mac sees right before the lights go out. But don't worry, Trump turned off his autocorrect. Just kidding. He did this.
Melody Wolf
I didn't know about that little feature, but I Got that corrected eventually. You know who corrected? The military.
Desi Lyman
I'm sorry, the military had to fix your autocorrect problem. Trump heard he had to go to his phone's general settings and he was like, okay, then get me general settings. And give me Captain Airplane mode too, just in case. Mr. President, can you please stop with your weird stories?
Melody Wolf
You see drug traffic coming into our countries way down and by sea. By sea, by ocean. By the water. You know, a lot of people say, what do you mean by sea? Is it sea, like vision? No, it's the sea.
Co-host
What?
Desi Lyman
No one has ever been confused by that phrase. If you say by sea, it's obvious that sea means ocean and bi means bisexual. I mean, at least until it graduates. Look, anyone who watches this speech must be questioning if this man should be president. Inflation is rising, corruption is through the roof. We are losing a war he shouldn't have started, and he's spending his days rambling about autocorrect and building a ballroom for himself and Melody. Sure, surely at this point, he's got to be losing support among Republicans.
Troy Iwata
There's this myth that's going on right now that, oh, Trump is really losing support among Republicans. But compared to other midterm cycles, he's just as popular with Republicans as he has ever been.
Desi Lyman
Face is still sticking with him after everything. Look, I know it's hard to admit you're wrong. Take it from me, the creator of the Facebook group, Jared Fogle, would make the most awesome babysitt. But at this point, you gotta cut your losses. I mean, what is it? Do you have a humiliation kink or something?
Josh Johnson
This polling to me jumped out at me. They asked Republicans who would win when a physical fight with Trump. Would you be able to beat up Donald Trump or would he beat you up? 39% of Republicans said Trump would beat me up.
Desi Lyman
So you have a humiliation kick, but you really think you'd lose a fight to an 80 year old man? I mean, come on, Republicans, believe in yourself. Where's that? Storming the Capitol confidence? To be fair, this is an incredibly weird phone call to receive. Uh, yeah, Dave, it's the polling company. You think you could take President Trump, you pussy. The question is, will Trump's base ever abandon him? For more analysis, let's go live to our very own Troy Iwata and Jordan Klepper. Troy, let's start with you. What does this poll say about the devotion of Trump's face?
Jordan Klepper
Uh, it says they're very stupid, Desi, because Trump would never win in a fight he's he's obese, he's slow. He already has bruises, even though there hasn't even been a fight yet.
Desi Lyman
No, I. I'm just curious about the mindset of his supporters. I'm not wondering who would win the fight.
Troy Iwata
Well, I'm.
Jordan Klepper
I'm not wondering either. I know who would win the fight. Literally anyone or anything else.
Josh Johnson
I mean, look at him.
Jordan Klepper
His ass is already getting whooped by Father Time.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Desi, Desi, I don't think Troy fully understood the question. Do you mind if I provide some analysis here?
Desi Lyman
Oh, yeah. Thank you, Jordan.
Melody Wolf
Sure.
Jordan Klepper
Desi.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Troy, Trump would totally dominate in a fight.
Desi Lyman
That's not what I meant.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Sure, he's slow, but he'll fight dirty. I'm talking ball taps, purple nurples, chocolate swirlies, mushroom stamping, Dutch ovens. I could go on.
Desi Lyman
No, that's so.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
And I will. Hair chonking turkey goblin, Serbian scrotum torture. Oh, man, it would be over quick.
Jordan Klepper
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're crazy, Jordan. Do you forget how old Trump is at this point? He's gotta be more proud.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
No, of course he's old, but so are Republicans. Half of those fights he could win just by unplugging his opponent's oxygen tank.
Desi Lyman
Guys, guys, come on. Don't become those dudes who get totally obsessed over hypothetical fights that will never happen.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Desi's right. This is ridiculous. Until we establish ground rules, are we talking gloves or bare knuckle? And are we abiding by Queensbury rules or Sadie Hawkins rules where girls have to ask the boys to the fight?
Jordan Klepper
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, will this fight be a. You know, is there a coat check? What's the dress code? Black tie or something fun?
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
What time of day is this all happening? The middle of the night when he's full of energy, or the middle of the afternoon when he's fast asleep.
Jordan Klepper
Yeah, yeah. Are weapons allowed? You know, will there be a referee? These are questions that need to be answered. Desi.
Desi Lyman
I don't have the answers. There's no fight.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Yeah, you're damned right it's not a fight, because Trump would win against any Republican.
Jordan Klepper
How do we even know it's just one Republican?
Josh Johnson
What if it's five?
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Well, you know, okay, he couldn't beat up five. Unless we're talking 1996 Donald Trump, in which case he could beat up five Republicans, two independents, and that kid from Jerry Maguire.
Jordan Klepper
Oh, you mean Jonathan Lipnicki? Say his name.
Josh Johnson
I'm Jordan. Say his name.
Desi Lyman
You guys, I don't care if Trump could beat up Jonathan Lipnicki. He's an adult. He could probably beat up any child.
Jordan Klepper
Well, you know, it depends on the child. I mean, my nephew's 8, and he's really beefy. He has to wear one of those seatbelt extenders. But it's not because he's fat. He's just abnormally thick.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Oh, Trump could so beat up your thicc nephew and yank his juice box away and smash it on his thick head.
Jordan Klepper
Ah, well, joke's on you, Klepper. He doesn't drink juice. He has type 2 diabetes.
Michael Kosta
Desi, desi, if I could interject here.
Desi Lyman
Oh, Michael Kosta. Look, look, if I can get back
Michael Kosta
to your original question. Desi, this poll shows that Donald Trump's supporters are too psychologically committed to him. Ironically, the only way to fracture their devotion to Trump is to find an even more radical so called savior. As such, Trumpian dynamics may get worse before they get better.
Desi Lyman
What the happened to you?
Michael Kosta
No, nothing happened to me. I'm fine.
Jordan Klepper
You look like you got the shit kicked out of you.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Did Donald Trump beat you up?
Michael Kosta
No, no, Donald Trump didn't beat me up. Troy's nephew did. That boy.
Co-host
Oh, my God. Michael Costa, Gordon Klepper, and Troy Iwana.
Desi Lyman
When we come back, we dig into the weirdest lawsuits. So don't go away.
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Co-host
Welcome Back to the Daily Show.
Desi Lyman
With most news stories, we try to cover them quickly, but other stories require us to go deeper. And for those, we turn to Josh Johnson in our segment In Too Deep.
Josh Johnson
JP Morgan Chase. That's not just three white dudes who brunch. It's also a bank. And last week, they got hit with a massive lawsuit.
Commentator
You may have heard about this bombshell lawsuit that dropped, accusing a top executive at JPMorgan Chase of forcing a married colleague into sexual acts.
Josh Johnson
Jiraiya Rana made the claim that a female colleague who was his superior made him into her, quote, sex slave. Sex slave. You have my attention. Because sex and slave are two words you should not put together. Either one on its own makes me nervous. But together, who?
Co-host
Who?
Josh Johnson
And look, your kink is your kink. But I do draw the line at slavery. All right? It's a red flag. When someone gets in the mood by putting on spirituals. They'll have you at their apartment, like, now that we're alone.
Mmm.
But what makes this story stand out is the media's obsession with telling people the employee is a man and the boss is an attractive woman. And yes, that is still very wrong. But the Internet decided it's also very sexy.
If you are on social media, there
Guest/Commentator
is not a chance that you haven't
Josh Johnson
seen somebody or heard somebody talking about this story. This has given birth to a million
Guest/Commentator
different memes online, attracting comments like, has she any vacancies? So I'm guessing his job is available. Tempted. And any vacancies asking for a friend.
Melody Wolf
J.P. morgan is hiring. And men racing to try and get in the door.
Josh Johnson
Only man could see a story about a man leaving his job because he was a sex slave and run to the sex slavery. This story is a crazy twist on the typical workplace harassment. At least I thought that until I dug in a little deeper.
Commentator
Tonight we're learning that this entire lawsuit might be completely fabricated against the female executive. JPMorgan found no evidence of any of the claims.
Josh Johnson
Holy shit. Completely fabricated. No evidence. Now, I'm no lawyer, but I believe a key to winning a case is having at least one evidence. So this guy just made the whole thing up? That blew my mind. Until I started looking into the details of the lawsuit a little deeper, because then it does seem a little made up.
Commentator
The whole suit reads like an absurd and cheap adult movie.
Drugging him with Viagra and roofies, telling
Desi Lyman
him if he wanted to be promoted,
Commentator
he would need to start pleasing her.
She then began fondling her breasts and racially insulted the plaintiff's wife remarking, I bet your little Asian wife doesn't have these cannons.
Jordan Klepper (alternate voice)
Look,
Josh Johnson
I wasn't there to verify whether or not this happened, but what I can say I've never seen happen is a woman refer to her own breasts as cannons. I've never heard a woman be like, now that I'm over 40, I need to go get my annual cannon exam. Which made me start to doubt this guy's case until. So I went a little deeper.
Commentator
According to the New York Post, he never reported to her during his entire time at JP Morgan. And they actually were under two different managing directors.
Josh Johnson
Now, I don't even know if the doubt has a shadow. I mean, he didn't report to her. Isn't that the whole basis of someone being your boss? This means she's just a lady to you. Kind of pokes a pretty big hole in the whole my boss made me her sex slave argument. It's becoming increasingly hard to have sympathy for this guy. But then I learned he suffered a tragedy.
Commentator
Ronna told JP Morgan that his father had died in 2024.
Josh Johnson
Oof. I gotta say, it's hard to accuse a man of lying when he was grieving.
Commentator
Problem with this is apparently his father's alive.
Josh Johnson
What?
Michael Kosta
What the hell?
Josh Johnson
The dad's alive. Prove to me the dad is alive.
Ronna (mentioned)
The Post spoke to him and asked him about his son's legal battles with the big bank.
Desi Lyman
He said, quote, I don't know anything about it.
Josh Johnson
Yep, someone called his dead father and he answered. You know, one of the first giveaways that a person is not dead is when you call them and they say, hello. How do you get around that one? Nuh.
He.
He dead. I swear he dead.
Host 2
He.
Josh Johnson
He died of cannon cancer. Yeah, it's rare in dudes, but it does happen. So he lied about his dead dad. That settles it for me. Surely he should walk away.
Commentator
The next banker refiling his bombshell lawsuit against a female executive and adding alleged new evidence.
Guest/Commentator
A family friend claims that he witnessed some of this. Specifically says he was asleep on the couch one night when the JP Morgan boss came over, came out completely naked, sat on the couch, smoked a cigarette, and said, you need to come in here and join us.
Josh Johnson
Yep, he refiled with a witness. And it's even pornier. This guy is starting to feel like the Jussie Smollett of sex. Like, why is the witness testifying and flexing at the same time? I heard them having sex, but also, she was begging to have sex with me, but I said no because I'm constantly having sex. So I just went back to sleep on his couch because, you know, none of that was a dream I had once. Just another day in the life of a couch surfing sex God. But if we could dig just a little deeper. Since MeToo, we've been warned about the dangers of a man in power being falsely accused with no evidence damaging the reputation. Also, an accuser can enrich themselves. And now it may have happened to a woman. Not to mention the Internet ran wild, making tons of AI memes with her actual face, which will be online forever. So the only thing clear with this case is that there is definitely sexual harassment happening here by the media.
Desi Lyman
It's just so unbelievably funny and it honestly sounds like every man's fantasy. Now you if if any of this is true, this gal needs to learn work on her flirtation routine. It helps that she's attractive. Oh, 100% it helps that she's attractive.
Josh Johnson
But like, let's be honest, if you're
Guest/Commentator
a two and your boss is pretty
Josh Johnson
up there and she's making you the sex slave.
Guest/Commentator
Nah, probably not, dude.
Josh Johnson
Oof. Oh yeah. When you dig deep enough, you finally hit bottom. Nah, bro. Gotta be a four or higher in the eyes of the court for it to count. You know what I'm saying? They don't even know who the victim here is, so they decide, hell, we'll just objectify everybody equally. So maybe we've learned absolutely nothing. Or maybe I'm in too deep.
Co-host
Josh Johnson, everyone. When we come back, Adam Scott will be joining me on the show. She's go away.
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Desi Lyman
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Co-host
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Desi Lyman
My guest tonight is an award winning actor who stars in the new film Hokum.
Co-host
Please welcome Adam Scott.
Josh Johnson
Oh, man.
Co-host
Oh, Adam.
Josh Johnson
Well, well, well, well, well, well. I'm so sorry for scaring you so badly.
Desi Lyman
You scared the shit out of me in this movie. How dare you?
Josh Johnson
I know. I just felt like right now is a great time to scare the shit out of people.
Desi Lyman
Yes, that's exactly what we need. That's exactly what we need. Well, so many people, including myself, have fallen in love with you from watching you on Parks and Rec and Party Down. So funny. And stepbrothers. And then you blew us away with your dramatic work in severance.
Josh Johnson
Thank you.
Desi Lyman
And now you're incredible in this horror film. Have you been wanting to explore a darker side or is it the state of the world that pushed you into it?
Josh Johnson
I don't know. I guess after Parks and Rec ended, I kind of felt like I wanted to because when I started out, I thought I was gonna be like a super serious actor. And then stepbrothers actually happened and someone like fell out of the role and they needed to cast it at the last second. So I got that role and I didn't think I would. And so that kind of set me on this kind of comedy trajectory or whatever. And so then a few years later, I wanted to try something more serious. So I started like, you know, at least try. Like I auditioned for Big Little Lies and, you know, tried to get, you know, just do something different, I guess.
Desi Lyman
Yeah. You bring up wanting, setting out and thinking you were gonna go down this dramatic path and not even really looking at comedy.
Jordan Klepper
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
Speaking of that, tell us about the great actor, Adam Corterio.
Josh Johnson
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam Cordero.
Desi Lyman
Cordero.
Josh Johnson
Yeah. I'm surprised you didn't get that. Right.
Co-host
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
I'm so sorry. I did not do my research. We're a fake news show, right?
Josh Johnson
Exactly.
Desi Lyman
Clearly I do very little homework.
Josh Johnson
Cordero was going to be my new name, my stage name for a while. This is a shortened version of my mother's maiden name. And I remember when I was in acting school, I wrote down Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Adam Cordero. And I thought it sounded so cool. I even practiced my signature.
Desi Lyman
It does sound cool.
Josh Johnson
I know I still might do it.
Desi Lyman
It's not too late. Do you think Adam Cordero would have been a different actor than Adam Scott?
Josh Johnson
100%.
Desi Lyman
Yeah.
Josh Johnson
Very serious all of the time.
Desi Lyman
You'd be Method right now?
Co-host
Probably.
Josh Johnson
Yeah, I would. Right now. I'd be here only because I was researching a role of someone. It's a guest on a talk show.
Desi Lyman
Which isn't so far off from what you did as a little kid. Did you. Is it true that you stayed up late to watch Letterman every single night?
Josh Johnson
Oh, yeah.
Co-host
Yeah.
Josh Johnson
Every night on a 5 inch black and white screen that I had in
Desi Lyman
my room underneath the covers.
Josh Johnson
Yes, it was the. Yeah. Cause it was the 80s, so Letterman was on at 12:30 and so no one was awake and. Yeah. I would practice being a talk show. I set my bed, put pillows on my bed so it was like a couch. And I would practice talking to Dave on my couch. Yeah. And masturbating. I mean I was feeling like. Yeah, it wasn't super cute.
Desi Lyman
Yeah.
Melody Wolf
Okay.
Desi Lyman
Now I believe.
Co-host
Now it's believable.
Josh Johnson
Now it makes sense.
Desi Lyman
Right? Now it's believable. Did you ever get to meet David Letterman and tell him you masturbated to him?
Jordan Klepper
Yeah,
Josh Johnson
I did. Finally, like 10 years ago, I did his show and it was a huge deal. Yeah. Yeah. But I did not masturbate on the show. Okay.
Desi Lyman
Okay. That's. What a classy guy you are. Glad you had some self control. I want to talk about this movie. Hokum. Takes place in Ireland.
Josh Johnson
Yes.
Desi Lyman
Without spoiling anything, tell people what it's about.
Josh Johnson
It's about a guy who's a writer and he's going to a hotel in Ireland to spread his parents ashes and there may or may not be a witch in the basement of the hotel, Right? Yes.
Desi Lyman
Yes.
Josh Johnson
When I say may or may not.
Guest/Commentator
There is.
Josh Johnson
There is, otherwise there wouldn't be a movie.
Desi Lyman
Yeah. I don't know why you'd say that.
Josh Johnson
Yeah. There's a witch.
Desi Lyman
There's a witch. There's definitely A witch.
Josh Johnson
And you thought it was scary? You were scared?
Desi Lyman
I was terrified.
Jordan Klepper
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
Yeah, it's terrifying.
Josh Johnson
It is. It's very scary.
Desi Lyman
And you play well. First of all, how did this role come about for you?
Josh Johnson
It just. It was a script I read. I love this guy. This guy, Damian McCarthy. His previous movie, Oddity, is terrific. And I was already a fan of that. It was a small horror movie, Irish horror movie that I was super into. Anyway, and so this kind of came across my transom. What do people say that?
Desi Lyman
Of course. I know what that means.
Josh Johnson
That's what was about to come out of my mouth. It makes no sense.
Desi Lyman
Sure, if you say so.
Josh Johnson
This script came across my transom. Please do. And I just wanted to do it because I loved.
Desi Lyman
Are you sure that wasn't an autocorrect?
Josh Johnson
I think it was.
Co-host
Transom was an autocorrect.
Josh Johnson
Was it Melody? Is that the name?
Desi Lyman
Melody?
Josh Johnson
Melody, that's right.
Desi Lyman
I love Melody.
Josh Johnson
What the is he talking about?
Desi Lyman
I don't know. No one knows.
Josh Johnson
No one knows.
Desi Lyman
No one knows.
Josh Johnson
Good Lord.
Desi Lyman
So the director thought of you. So. Okay. Your character is a difficulty man. Yeah, he's cantankerous. Yeah, he's okay. I was gonna say yes. Asshole. He's a little bit of an asshole. We still root for you because you're a great actor. But do you. When a director calls you and says, you're the first person I thought of for this asshole to play this role, are you offended? Because I'm not swimming in offers, but when I do occasionally get an offer, it's always for, like, an unhinged Karen.
Josh Johnson
Right.
Desi Lyman
And of course, I immediately call my manager.
Josh Johnson
Right.
Desi Lyman
Why do you think I'm so unhinged?
Josh Johnson
And you scream at them.
Desi Lyman
I scream at them. But does it.
Josh Johnson
Yeah, I guess I wasn't sure why he thought of me to play just an unruly prick, but I was excited to because I guess I had played a bunch of sweetly likable people over and over again. So it was kind of nice to. To revel in being unpleasant.
Desi Lyman
Yeah. Well, you're also a very likable guy, so I imagine that that would be fun to explore.
Josh Johnson
Sure. Yeah. Sometimes it's really hard just not to be so likable.
Co-host
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
I'm sorry it's so difficult for you.
Josh Johnson
Thank you.
Desi Lyman
You're getting rave reviews. One review said, adam Scott does his best film work to date.
Josh Johnson
Wow. That's very nice.
Desi Lyman
Yeah. New York Times says, Adam Scott is perfection.
Josh Johnson
Wow. I think that's setting an unrealistic expectation.
Desi Lyman
No what is it like?
Josh Johnson
People will inevitably be disappointed if they read something like that.
Desi Lyman
Not true. What is it like being so perfect?
Josh Johnson
Oh, it's really difficult. I mean, where do I start, you know, Desi, it's so hard. You know, we all have to start somewhere. So the perfection is something I'm working on. I'm trying to be less perfect.
Desi Lyman
Yeah.
Josh Johnson
We all do our best.
Desi Lyman
We'll do. Good luck with that.
Josh Johnson
Thank you.
Desi Lyman
Good luck with that. It takes place in Ireland. Do you think that it being in Ireland makes it even more spooky because the buildings are so old? Like, if you shot it here, you'd be shooting in, like, an abandoned. In an abandoned circuit city somewhere.
Josh Johnson
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
Has a different feel.
Josh Johnson
Abandoned circuit cities are terrifying. Let me tell you.
Desi Lyman
This is true.
Josh Johnson
Yes. Ireland is, like the most pleasant, beautiful place on earth, but we are out in the middle of the countryside, and when the sun goes down, it is immediately terrifying.
Co-host
Oh, my God.
Josh Johnson
Because it's just. It's dark. I mean, when the sun goes down, it's dark.
Desi Lyman
Obviously, you don't say there. It's dark when the sun goes down.
Josh Johnson
Yeah, I know. But out in the middle of the countryside, there are no street lights, so it's really dark. And it's super scary.
Desi Lyman
When you're in those scenes where you're having to be terrified and often you're by yourself. What kind of sense memory are you doing? Are you thinking about Trump getting a third term?
Josh Johnson
Yes. Yes. And I just start screaming uncontrollably.
Desi Lyman
It worked.
Josh Johnson
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
Well, as a perfect actor.
Josh Johnson
Thank you.
Desi Lyman
Yes. I will never let it. That's the only way I will ever greet you.
Josh Johnson
From now on, whenever we see each other, you'll refer to me as perfect.
Desi Lyman
Is that what we're saying? Perfect actor. Oh, my God.
Josh Johnson
Thank you.
Desi Lyman
What is there. Is there anything that you haven't done yet that you'd still like to do?
Josh Johnson
That's a really good question. I don't know. I mean, I really do think that, you know, what I would like to do is play a talk show host just so I could. Because coming here was such a big deal for me just to, like, be at the Daily show and, like, the daily grind of a talk show I think is fascinating. And I know it's not as fascinating for everybody who works here, but I find that. I mean, probably not.
Co-host
I'll say that again.
Josh Johnson
That's vodka in there, right?
Desi Lyman
Cigar just grizzled over it. Oh, that's very.
Josh Johnson
I think it's because one of my ways in the wanting to be in show business was David Letterman and, you know, and that really caught my imagination. So I know that movies about talk shows and movies about stand up comedy are really tough to make work. They never quite feel right. But that would be fun.
Desi Lyman
Well, here, let's switch the.
Josh Johnson
Oh, great. Yeah.
Co-host
Yeah.
Desi Lyman
All right.
Co-host
Okay. You got the L. Oh, wow.
Josh Johnson
Okay. I feel like I need some cards or something.
Desi Lyman
Yeah, grab the cards. That's it.
Josh Johnson
Am I reading it?
Desi Lyman
Yeah, you're reading it.
Josh Johnson
Hokum is in theaters nationwide now. Adam Scott, thank you. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.
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Episode Title: Epstein’s Alleged Suicide Note Is “No Fun” & Trump Sics Military on Autocorrect | Adam Scott
Date: May 8, 2026
Host: Desi Lyman (with co-hosts, news team, and special guest Adam Scott)
This episode of The Daily Show: Ears Edition, helmed by Desi Lyman with the Daily Show News Team, digs into the week’s wildest headlines: Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide note” surfaces, Trump wages war on autocorrect and rambles through a Mother’s Day event, and the team examines MAGA Republican polling quirks—specifically, whether Trump could beat up his own supporters. The show also veers into workplace harassment and viral lawsuits, before pivoting to an engaging (and often irreverent) interview with Adam Scott regarding his shift from comedy to horror films.
[03:02–13:57]
[13:58–21:53]
Deep Dive with Josh Johnson
[23:46–34:35]
| Segment | Start | End | |-------------------------------------------|-------|-------| | News Headlines & Epstein Note | 03:02 | 07:20 | | Trump, MAGA Republicans, Fight Polls | 07:21 | 13:57 | | Deep Dive: JP Morgan “Sex Slave” Lawsuit | 13:58 | 21:53 | | Adam Scott Interview | 23:46 | 34:35 |
This summary captures the episode’s tone, key themes, and most memorable moments, along with speaker attributions and timestamps, providing a lively guide for anyone who missed the original.