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Jimmy Fallon
And if these walls could talk.
Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
You're listening to comedy Central.
John Oliver
My guest tonight is a former failed correspondent at the Daily Show. He's done nothing since then. Please welcome Mr. John Oliver.
Jon Stewart
Oh, my God. Thank you. Hello. Yes. That's. All right. All right.
John Oliver
We get it. Enough. Ready? Enough.
Hasan Minhaj
I agree with you more than I agree with them.
John Oliver
Well, well, well. Look who's come crawling back.
Hasan Minhaj
Yes.
John Oliver
Where it all started.
Hasan Minhaj
I know it's pretty weird to be back. I do not like being in that guest room at all. O that was the one room where I worked here you were not allowed to go in. And I don't like being in it. Now it really feels like I'm doing something wrong by being inside it.
John Oliver
You never snuck in to see a guest?
Hasan Minhaj
No, we were never allowed to really be in there because it had to be kept nice for the guests. And it never really occurred to me one day I might be that. And I still don't feel. So I put my bag in there and then stood in the corridor for.
Jon Stewart
The rest of the time.
Hasan Minhaj
I don't want to be in there at all.
John Oliver
Yeah. But this place brings back to my memories. You were here. You were in this building.
Hasan Minhaj
I was very much in this building. The reason I came to America. And I was here for eight years.
John Oliver
Yeah, same.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah.
John Oliver
That's why I was so happy you came on.
Jon Stewart
Cause we.
John Oliver
People don't know by looking at us, but we actually have very similar backgrounds because we both joined the show. I moved to America to do this show just like you. And when I first joined the show, you know, the Daily show alumni network is so strong. I asked to meet up with Mr. Oliver. Yeah.
Jon Stewart
And I thought, this Mr. Oliver.
John Oliver
I was like, there's no way this guy's gonna let me meet up with him. And you were like, no, come, come. Before work.
Hasan Minhaj
There's nothing I like more than talking to people who have questions about how to make field pieces.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Hasan Minhaj
Because it's the. It's such a narrow set of skills.
John Oliver
Yes.
Hasan Minhaj
And all you had, all of your questions were great. That was. I remember you leaving and thinking, oh, you're gonna be fine. Even though you don't have the answers yet, all your questions are right. So you're gonna be fine. You do not have a problem.
Jon Stewart
Ah, excellent. Well done.
Hasan Minhaj
I will say before. Before we make it too sincere. You do have that unique skill set, minding being a dick to people. And that really, at the end, that is the secret sauce.
John Oliver
Well, that is the. I mean, you know, you have to really not care to do satire sometimes. And everyone's like, people. I don't think people know how much you don't give a yes. Like, you truly don't give a nothing.
Hasan Minhaj
You will go hard in the marrow of my bones sometimes when our lawyers say they're gonna be upset, you go, I'm not having a physical reaction to that at all.
Jon Stewart
Yes. Yeah.
Hasan Minhaj
It is of no concern to me whether the Sackler family are mad with me or not.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Hasan Minhaj
To be honest, I'm a little bit. There's a tingle of happ.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
John Oliver
But that's kind of what you need to do.
Jon Stewart
Yes, definitely.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah. You like the feeling? I like the feeling of trouble.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. You did.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Hasan Minhaj
In comedy, it's good because I'm probably a natural coward in many ways, but when it comes to comedy, I do like the feeling of being in real trouble.
John Oliver
Yeah. It's weird.
Jon Stewart
You talked about it.
John Oliver
You said pushing the button. You said, it's a button. You just gotta push it. Because you told me it took you two years to relearn how to do comedy in America.
Hasan Minhaj
I think that's probably true.
John Oliver
You were spot on to the day, by the way. I was. In hindsight, I was like, oh, my God. Because I remember there was a day I was in New York City gigging at some comedy club, and it was two years in, literally almost to the day. And I remember things just starting to click a little bit of, like, relearning how to do comedy, because, again, like, you, like me, we were doing comedy outside of America before we even came here.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah. And so I think the outsider perspective in comedy always works. The thing with being an immigrant here is you kind of have to learn the exact ways that your outsider perspective can translate. So you kind of have to learn basically how that can work. And once it does, you're fine. But until that point, it does feel a little bit like uncharted waters.
John Oliver
Yeah, it's a. It's a bit like, you know, you can come here and you can joke about America on a very surface level. And you can, you can. And that will do well for you, for, you know, if you have a 15 minute set, maybe 30 minute set. But I feel like after nine months or a year in America, the audience can kind of smell the bullshit of like, of like, you've been here long enough.
Hasan Minhaj
Yes, right.
John Oliver
Like, guns shouldn't be weird to you.
Hasan Minhaj
That's right.
John Oliver
So really how profound your two year thing was. Like, it takes two years to learn the nuances of America. So you can make fun of them in ways which.
Hasan Minhaj
Yes, exactly.
John Oliver
They appreciate.
Hasan Minhaj
Exactly.
John Oliver
Like, don't tell us we have guns. We know we have guns. Tell us something else.
Hasan Minhaj
If we know nothing else about ourselves, it's that we have guns to adjust. Genuinely problematic extent. That is not a fresh insight. We genuinely know. Yes, exactly.
John Oliver
So you were like going deeper, deeper and deeper into it, which, you know, that was my guiding light as well when I first started.
Hasan Minhaj
I'm so glad my incredibly insightful advice of wait 24 months worked.
John Oliver
It worked like a charm. I still can't believe it.
Hasan Minhaj
I just, deep down didn't want to hear from you again for two years. That's all it was.
John Oliver
Yeah, but that's the thing. We're both immigrants in America and do you ever. I guess my question to you is like, how do you answer the people who are like, if you don't like it here, leave. Because I get that a lot.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah, I mean, I guess they took. It's a. I mean, it's a horrible point, but it's a fair question. I guess now my answer would be, I'm a citizen. You can't do that. But I think the tricky thing is I felt ownership. It's very dangerous. A British person saying, I felt ownership of this country.
Jon Stewart
Historically, Historically does not go well.
Hasan Minhaj
It's amazing. I just went to India and I felt like I belonged, but I felt at home here long before my legal status was solid. That's the tricky thing. As an immigrant, the more I felt at home here, the more cognizant you are of the fact that it's not up to you whether or not you get to stay or not. So it was a Massive relief to get my green card and an even bigger relief to get my citizenship, so. Yeah. Despite the fact immigrants tend to talk shit.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Hasan Minhaj
It's generally the kind of way that you talk shit with someone you genuinely love.
John Oliver
Sure.
Hasan Minhaj
Also, as a comedian, I only really talk shit as a way of expressing love professionally. Exactly. I don't really know how to express myself sincerely.
John Oliver
Right, Right.
Hasan Minhaj
I like you. I'm never gonna say that.
Jon Stewart
You.
Hasan Minhaj
Ronny. There, you see? There you go.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. Yeah. You and your show, that's how we love.
John Oliver
So we get it. Every interview I've researched you on, you profess your love for America. You're still here. Clearly, you still love it.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah.
John Oliver
Okay, so can you shut the up and be American for one minute instead of constantly complaining and talking like a foreign all the time? I mean, I challenge you.
Hasan Minhaj
You challenge me to be American?
Stephen Colbert
Yes.
Hasan Minhaj
How could one do this?
John Oliver
I want you to eat this hot dog right now.
Hasan Minhaj
Oh, boy.
John Oliver
And then I want you to throw this football. And first of all, you have to call it a football.
Hasan Minhaj
Okay? I can't do that. I call it an American football.
Jon Stewart
Okay. American Football.
Hasan Minhaj
I'll call it an American football.
John Oliver
You gotta throw this to eat that first. And you throw this to me. Okay.
Hasan Minhaj
Like this?
John Oliver
No, no.
Hasan Minhaj
You got a freaking tight spiral.
John Oliver
We're going over there.
Hasan Minhaj
Okay.
John Oliver
All right, so eat this first. We got this from a bodega, so you might.
Hasan Minhaj
Oh, no, this is the way we.
Jon Stewart
Usa. Usa. Usa. All right. And then you gotta come over here and you gotta stand right here and.
John Oliver
You gotta throw a tight spiral.
Hasan Minhaj
How hard can that be?
John Oliver
All right, hang on.
Jon Stewart
Hang. All right. Can we get a drum roll? Drum roll for you. For you. Ready? Yeah. All right. You proved it. All right, we got. Yeah.
John Oliver
This is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as. Wherever you'll find it.
Jon Stewart
Who gives a.
John Oliver
We'll take a.
Jon Stewart
That's not how you throw talk. We're gonna take a quick break.
John Oliver
We'll be right back after this.
Stephen Colbert
Thank you, John.
Jon Stewart
You don't do it, you don't do it.
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
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Hasan Minhaj
Small bites.
Stephen Colbert
We wanted to ease into things.
Jon Stewart
I think that's what it is.
Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart
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Stephen Colbert
Really?
Jon Stewart
Well, yeah, because on this side, honestly, I can just do this. And then you have to fill the time.
Stephen Colbert
See, because what I do is I'll fill every gap with nervous laughter and pretend enthusiasm. That's a good anecdote. I heard you have a good anecdote for us.
Jon Stewart
Ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
Stephen Colbert
You know, that's me. That's my style.
Jon Stewart
Are you. When you interview, who'd you interview so far on the test shows?
Stephen Colbert
Well, we were able to land Adam Carolla. He's a really fascinating guy.
Jon Stewart
How did you get him? Is he working on anything new?
Stephen Colbert
My agent is a friend of his agent and he was able to do it. See, that's what I need to learn.
Jon Stewart
I love these LA stories.
Stephen Colbert
Oh, it's Hollywood. It's crazy.
Jon Stewart
So does Adam. Now what is he gonna do with him?
Stephen Colbert
Adam's helping me with the show.
Jon Stewart
Actually, he's gonna work on the show.
Stephen Colbert
As well as Loveline. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna.
Jon Stewart
That's exciting and sad at the same time.
Stephen Colbert
We can't bear to be apart. And then my other test show guest was Ben Stein, who I was also able to guess.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. Yeah. So week two, your parents. How's this thing gonna work?
Stephen Colbert
It's not. It may come to that. It really may come to that. You know, you probably heard that David Letterman went to Afghanistan.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Conan O'Brien
Didn't he do some.
Jon Stewart
It was like a. He spoke to the troops.
Stephen Colbert
Yeah, it was like he spoke to the troops. And I was inspired by that, you know, being a talk show host now, that maybe I might do something. So I called my publicist and I said, grab the ET Crew. We're going to North Korea.
Jon Stewart
That's awesome.
Stephen Colbert
I have a photograph of that. That's me. And actually we couldn't get a flight to North Korea, so I went to Koreatown in Los Angeles. But the terrific people. Just like us. Just like us.
Jon Stewart
Only Korean in Koreatown.
Stephen Colbert
Yes, in Koreatown.
Jon Stewart
Now, did you have the other late night hosts called you? Did Dave call you and say, welcome to the team, let's have brunch?
Stephen Colbert
Dave didn't, but Jay did call. But it wasn't a let's have brunch. It was more of a I hope you drop dead, you son of a bitch.
Jon Stewart
Is he mad at you?
Stephen Colbert
He is. He's a little annoyed.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Stephen Colbert
There's room for everyone, though. Room for everyone.
Jon Stewart
So basically you're not backing off of the message.
Stephen Colbert
There's room for everyone. Yes.
Jon Stewart
The message seemed awfully high pitched, though.
Hasan Minhaj
When you do.
Jon Stewart
There's room for everyone.
Stephen Colbert
No reason, do you think?
Jon Stewart
Is this going to be one of those, like, mono y. Is this the battle for Los Angeles? Is it on? Is this really a late.
Stephen Colbert
It's going to be mano eleno is what it will be. No. Yeah, It'll be a real late night war as he crushes me every single night with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt. Meanwhile, I have, like, Ricardo Montalban and Can I tell you something, Rodriguez?
Jon Stewart
Can I tell you something? I have far more questions for Montalban. Yeah, Everybody who needs to see more Brad Pitt and Jennifer Hansen. Can I tell you something? We were just saying this the other day down at the otb. More Ricardo Montalban.
Stephen Colbert
Ricardo Montalban. Well, that's great because he and Charles Nelson Riley are my opening night guests. Look for that after the season.
Jon Stewart
I am looking for that. It's gonna be great. I'm looking forward to it. Are you gonna do like music and things of that nature?
Stephen Colbert
Yeah, we'll have music and whatever we can to fill the show with things other than me.
Jon Stewart
Stop it. What are the girls who bounce gonna do?
Stephen Colbert
Oh, the girls on trampolines.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Stephen Colbert
Well, they work, you know, they're working at a shelter right now. So they volunteer their, they volunteer their time to the homeless and that's. They decided to stick with that.
Jon Stewart
Actually.
Stephen Colbert
Our producer Daniel Kelison will find something for them, I'm sure.
Jon Stewart
I'm sorry, what was that name again?
Stephen Colbert
That was Daniel Kellison.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. And he is going to help all women.
Stephen Colbert
He has devoted his life to helping big breasted women succeed. Yes.
Jon Stewart
Well, I think that's terrific work on his part and I wish him well and I'm assuming has a foundation of some sort that can donate.
Stephen Colbert
Yes, he does. He does.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. Ok. Well, that's terrific.
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah.
Stephen Colbert
Jugs, not drugs, it's called.
Jon Stewart
That's wonderful news. Jimmy KIMMEL live Sunday night following the Super Bowl. This is live. Jimmy Kimmel. Welcome back. My guest tonight, the host of Conan on tbs. Please welcome Conan o'. Brien. Where do I go? Here, come back up. All right, sit down. Hey.
John Oliver
Thank you.
Jon Stewart
Thank you. Welcome, welcome. Yeah. Yes. Hola.
Jimmy Fallon
Welcome, welcome.
Jon Stewart
Hola. Hola. You're fluent.
Conan O'Brien
Incredible.
Jon Stewart
But you are fluent.
Conan O'Brien
I'm not really fluent. I have pretty good 8th grade Spanish that I have kept up over the years and that served me well. But we brought two of our writers are fluent.
Jon Stewart
Oh, really?
Conan O'Brien
And we brought two of them to help us in Cuba.
Jon Stewart
We explain. So Conan went to Cuba and shot.
Conan O'Brien
An episode of my show. Yeah, we, President Obama announced that we were going to try and warm up relations a little bit with Cuba. I thought this is my chance. I want to get in before the View gets down there because you know, they're honing in on this thing. And so we got down there, we actually weren't sure we were going to get into the country because we didn't, we didn't make a lot of preparations.
Jon Stewart
Sure.
Conan O'Brien
We weren't sure we were going to get into the country. We flew in, we were told we had the right papers. We showed up. There's no Internet, so our phones didn't work.
Jon Stewart
We got off the plane, there's no Internet at all.
Conan O'Brien
There's no Internet? No, there is no Internet. They do not want people freely exchanging information. So there's no Internet, which is very strange. You got off the plane, we walked in, we handed our Papers to them. The guy looked at it. Our phones are dead and our plane is gone. And the guy just looked at us and he said, no. And I didn't know what's going to happen now? Are we going to get out? Are we going to get in? What's going to happen? We wandered into a little building and there was an old television and it was playing Gilmore Girls in Spanish.
Jon Stewart
And I've never way to watch it.
Conan O'Brien
I've never felt. Yeah. I've never felt more. More happy to see it was so. And it was Rory deciding. It was Rory deciding, should I. I'm gonna quit Yale or should I stay in Yale.
Jon Stewart
Yeah. Yeah.
Conan O'Brien
And I was enthralled. I'm watching it in Spanish. The parents are upset, the grandparents are upset. No one in Cuba cared. No one was watching the tv. And then finally, after.
Seth Meyers
I didn't know.
Jon Stewart
When you came in, though, didn't anyone say Coco da Team? Nothing?
Conan O'Brien
No, they do not know me. I was ID'd by. I got in. Our camera crew got in. What happened was I started walking around. We started shooting in Cuba immediately. We didn't know how long we were going to get to stay. And immediately. Canadians. Those damn Canadians. You all know what I'm talking about. The scourge of the world. No, the Canadians started. Canadian tourists are down there. And tourists from Europe. And tourists from Europe.
Jon Stewart
See, is that the weird part? So you go through this thing, you might get killed. You can't get in. You have to show your papers. Meanwhile, people from the entire rest of the world have been going there forever. Yeah. And are just like, oh, hey, yeah.
Conan O'Brien
But it's a completely. It is a completely different world. It is a world that's frozen in time. My concept of this was I just want to go and meet the people. Obviously it's a politically charged situation, but I want to go and do my by now tired shtick for these people and see if it is at all amusing to them either.
Jon Stewart
They seem to be quite taken with these things.
Conan O'Brien
They were, yeah.
John Oliver
They.
Conan O'Brien
Actually, what I did was I learned to dance there. I learned to sit.
Jon Stewart
What dance did you learn?
Conan O'Brien
The Roomba. The quite. The erotic Roomba.
Jon Stewart
I think that's actually a vacuum cleaner. That's not. Pretty sure. That's.
Conan O'Brien
Apparently it's both. Apparently it is both. I learned. I went to a rum factory, became intoxicated. That is a cigar factory where 400 people work. And they're artists. They make these beautiful cigars. Handmade, each one.
Jon Stewart
Cigars, rum and dancing. So you basically, it was like A date night. Went down there and had.
Conan O'Brien
It was a sophisticated spring break.
Jon Stewart
Were they interested in. Once you said, I'm sure. Did they smell the American on you or did they think. Did you try and pass?
Conan O'Brien
They thought I was from Ireland. They were like, esun leprechaun.
Jon Stewart
He's Bob's big boy. Oh, they know Bob's big boy. They don't.
Conan O'Brien
They do, yeah. They're very interested about that.
Jon Stewart
That is interesting.
Conan O'Brien
They were fascinating. They are very interested in how the United States views them. The people are very interested in getting to know us and us getting to know them. They're very eager for it. We had no government intervention. It was very sweet. I actually. I didn't want it to be comedically snarky in any way. I did not want it to be that. I wanted it to be me. The joke is on me. I'm the fish out of water.
Jon Stewart
Right.
Conan O'Brien
I wanted to try and make them laugh and really get to know the people. And they were fantastic. They were absolutely stunning.
Jon Stewart
I really think it's going to be a love. The people, the governments, who the hell cares? But the people, I think, are thirsting for that interaction.
Conan O'Brien
They are definitely thirsting for it.
Stephen Colbert
Yeah.
Jon Stewart
All right. Well, I'm excited. When does it air? When does the thing air?
Conan O'Brien
Oh, it will never air.
Jon Stewart
What? But no, you've changed.
Conan O'Brien
I'm just wasting your time. It's next week. Wednesday, March 4, I think. Anybody got an app? I think it's the fourth. I don't know. I'm.
Stephen Colbert
Jet lag.
Jon Stewart
Why did I just read it? Because it appeared. Just.
Conan O'Brien
You know. You know what's crazy? As you asked me, I saw it right there and I thought, there's a reason you're leaving.
Jon Stewart
I can't. The Special airs on March 1st. Conan O', Brien, my guest tonight. He is the host of the very funny NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. His new book, co authored with his writing staff, is called thank youk Notes. Please welcome him to the program. Jimmy Vallon. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Jimmy Fallon
This is very exciting for me.
Jon Stewart
It's very exciting for me.
Jimmy Fallon
This is my first time on this program. Definitely my first time invited.
Jon Stewart
Yes.
Jimmy Fallon
But this is my first time and I'm on it. And I'm very excited to be here because this is. I'm a big fan of the show and I'm a fan of what you do.
Jon Stewart
Let me say this, and this is not smoke. I have not seen your show. Okay. All right.
Jimmy Fallon
I'm just very late at night.
Jon Stewart
I sound very late. I really like it. You know what I very much, much like about it? No, you got, first of all, Stevie Higgins, who's.
Jimmy Fallon
Steve Higgins is our announcer who's also a producer on SNL and worked with John Stewart years and years ago. Years and years and years ago.
Jon Stewart
Great guys.
Hasan Minhaj
One of the funniest human beings.
Jon Stewart
Super funny. Yes. Questo and the Roots.
Jimmy Fallon
Questlove and the Roots.
Jon Stewart
They're the best. You guys just look like exactly what you should be doing there. You're having fun. It's a very infectious program. And please tell me you are having fun. If this is all a facade and a lie, I will be very upset. You see my acting.
Jimmy Fallon
I can't do it. I can't act that good. But, I mean, I would say this show equally has.
Jon Stewart
No, no, no. You know, you are here to receive. To receive. Sit back and enjoy. This is not. This is. This is for you. I'm very pleased to see it. I'm smudging.
Jimmy Fallon
I'm smudging up the desk. I feel. This is. This feels like an iPhone.
Jon Stewart
And it's just. It's full of.
Jimmy Fallon
I'm smudging up. I just want to rub my face next to it. Press on it, and it just do like that.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Jimmy Fallon
I just hung up on somebody. You're calling me. Stop calling me. This is a giant iPhone. It's the new iPad. This is unbelievable.
Jon Stewart
These are the fingerprints of every guest we've ever had on the show.
Jimmy Fallon
Oh, my Goodness gracious. John McCain.
Jon Stewart
John McCain. Desmond Tutu. Oh, I knew it was his.
Jimmy Fallon
Yeah, this is Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan.
John Oliver
Yeah.
Jon Stewart
That's actually DNA. I don't know what that. That's not. Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Fallon
I won't touch that one, but that's good.
Jon Stewart
That's not one you want to.
Jimmy Fallon
That's more of his. His fingers are sliding down there. I don't know what happened there.
Jon Stewart
This thing's going right to the museum.
Jimmy Fallon
A lot of evidence there. This is really good. This is fantabulous.
Jon Stewart
Thank you. Thank you. Are you enjoying your show? Is it a. Yes.
Jimmy Fallon
It's super fun. It's a grind, but it's like, whatever. It's like we get to have fun people on the show. It's just. We have to work a lot.
Jon Stewart
I called you, I called Jimmy. This was a while back. I could not contain myself. Do we have the picture of the event? This is. Is a picture of Jimmy dressed as Neil Young, and he's singing next to Bruce Springsteen dressed like 70s Bruce Springsteen. They're singing. What is it?
Jimmy Fallon
Whip My Hair.
Jon Stewart
Whip my hair.
Jimmy Fallon
Yeah, by Will Smith.
Jon Stewart
Whip my hair back and forth. It was horrible. You gotta whip your. Whip my hair back and forth. He got a whipped way.
Stephen Colbert
No.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Jimmy Fallon
Do you remember what you said to me?
Jon Stewart
He gotta whip your head. You gotta whip your hair. That's the only impression.
Jimmy Fallon
That's a good Bruce Springsteen.
Jon Stewart
Thank you.
Jimmy Fallon
You called me up and said some. Two very nice words.
Jon Stewart
You.
Seth Meyers
You really did.
Jimmy Fallon
You said that. And I go. And I go, Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Jimmy Fallon
You know, you were the first person to call me in general when I first got my first. I got late night. I didn't get an office till the day I went on the air. And you called me the first time. They go, jon Stewart's on the phone. I go, this is insane.
Jon Stewart
And tell him. And I say to him, I go, don't think you can come after me, kid.
Jimmy Fallon
I could smell the cigar smoke over the phone.
Jon Stewart
I said to him in my best Irving old man voice, I will destroy you.
Jimmy Fallon
Don't think you can come after me.
Jon Stewart
I can't come after me, you piece of. Well, we want to get to thank you notes. This is the thank you notes is on the bookshelf now. This is. You put this together. Clearly you guys took a lot of time and put this together. Yeah, it's. This is. This is real. I mean, this had to be.
Jimmy Fallon
There are words in there, right?
Jon Stewart
This had to been done at least by an intern with tape.
Jimmy Fallon
But not like that clear tape where you don't see the edges.
Jon Stewart
No, no, no, no.
Jimmy Fallon
What it is, is every Friday, if you don't mind, I'd like to read one every Friday. I like going to out some thank you notes.
Jon Stewart
There you go.
Jimmy Fallon
So I brought them here. I'm going to fake write them. I'm going to read them right now.
Jon Stewart
Oh, do you want to. Do you want to read one on the show?
Jimmy Fallon
If you don't mind.
Jon Stewart
No, not at all.
Conan O'Brien
Please read it.
Jimmy Fallon
Thank you.
Jon Stewart
Yeah, read one. Oh, you have music. You brought music.
Jimmy Fallon
That's my BFF for six months. That's Stephen Colbert playing the keyboard right there, you guys.
Jon Stewart
That's nice. He used to play that music for me.
Jimmy Fallon
All in due time. You know what I'm talking about.
Jon Stewart
Doesn't matter.
Jimmy Fallon
Oh, my gosh. Change his voice.
Jon Stewart
Change.
Jimmy Fallon
Turn his mic off. Turn his mic off. All right, here we go.
Jon Stewart
Thank you.
Jimmy Fallon
Slow walking family walking in front of me on the sidewalk. No, please take your time. Definitely spread out too. So you create a barricade of idiots. I am so thankful that you forced me to walk in the street and risk getting hit by a car in order to pass you so I can resume walking at a normal human pace.
Stephen Colbert
Thank you.
Jon Stewart
I didn't.
Jimmy Fallon
Here, write on this one.
Jon Stewart
Oh, my God.
Jimmy Fallon
You have to write it on.
Jon Stewart
By the way. I don't want to say anything, but that sounded somewhat sarcastic. You're starting to get it. Yeah. Thank you, Stephen.
Jimmy Fallon
Don't come to it.
Jon Stewart
Thank you, Chili's menus for showing how many calories are in your food. Then I act like I'm ready.
Jimmy Fallon
Yep, yep, you're ready.
Jon Stewart
I'm into Chili's. What part of I don't give a crap do you not understand? Yeah, you. Really?
Hasan Minhaj
Yeah.
Jon Stewart
So it's easy.
Jimmy Fallon
Thank you. Like that.
Jon Stewart
You can't. But I don't think these are gonna get a positive response. They seem sarcastic. No, they're not.
Jimmy Fallon
They're thanking. They're thanking actual people.
Jon Stewart
I don't get young people humor.
Jimmy Fallon
You've always said that.
Jon Stewart
Thank youk Notes is on the bookshelves now. Now get it now before it blows away. Jimmy Fallon. Oh, Johnny Stewart.
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Jimmy Fallon
I just.
Seth Meyers
I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm sure the commercial thing was going to be great.
Jon Stewart
I was going to do my commercial wrap up. There were some really funny ones, but we'll get that.
Seth Meyers
Were not as funny. I just. I just wanted to come over personally to thank you, Manto man, friend to friend, for what you did for me last week on my show.
Jon Stewart
Stop it.
Seth Meyers
Now, for people who don't know, I'm in a little bit of a tiff right now with Conan o'. Brien. He claims that he made Mike Huckabee because he talks about Walker, Texas Ranger, and Chuck Norris supports Huckabee when the truth is everybody knows I made Huckabee by giving him the Colbert bump. Right Then Conan attacked me by saying he made me by talking about me on his show. And last week, this good man came on my show and set the record straight with a little bit of tape. You know why I did it about who made.
Jon Stewart
Can I tell you why I did it?
Seth Meyers
I would love to.
Jon Stewart
Because nobody puts Baby in a corner. That's right. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, Chuck. Nobody.
Seth Meyers
Can we show everybody. Can we show everybody what John did?
Jon Stewart
We don't need to do that.
Conan O'Brien
Yes.
Jon Stewart
Look at that. Okay, That's.
Seth Meyers
Look at that.
Jon Stewart
Yeah, we didn't.
Seth Meyers
I know it's alarming, but don't avert your gaze, folks.
Jon Stewart
That was. That was me showing that. I introduced Conan.
Seth Meyers
Exactly.
Jon Stewart
Giving him something.
Seth Meyers
And Conan made me. And you made Conan. You made Huckabee my friend.
Jon Stewart
We kept it in the family.
Seth Meyers
Exactly.
Jon Stewart
That's right.
Seth Meyers
But I gotta tell you, John, here's the disturbing thing.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
I'm sorry you had to go through that to prove it, that humiliation. Can we show that film again?
Jon Stewart
No, no, no, no, no. Don't.
Seth Meyers
Look how humiliating that is, John. That piece of tape right there just shows that behind the suit, behind the fame, you're empty. There's nothing backing up your career. That's it. That's who you are behind all this.
Jon Stewart
During that era that was actually quite fashionable.
Seth Meyers
That era is over, Jon.
Jon Stewart
Well, Bon Jovi killed it.
Seth Meyers
Speaking of killing, John, what I gotta.
Jon Stewart
Say is there more to this story?
Seth Meyers
There is more to this story, John. How long will it take? Hard to believe. How long is this act now, John.
Jon Stewart
Hold on, John.
Seth Meyers
Conan will not let this thing go. Even though we've proven who made Mike.
Jon Stewart
Huskaville try and get out of there.
Seth Meyers
On Friday night, impeccable money attacked both of us. By saying he made both of us. Chuck, do we have that?
Jon Stewart
Oh, no, you didn't.
Conan O'Brien
Jon Stewart now claims he created me. Well, tonight I'm gonna settle once and for all who created whom. All right, ladies and gentlemen, behold this photograph. That proves I was the doctor who.
Jon Stewart
Delivered Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Conan O'Brien
I think this ends the feud. I think it ends the feud. But this is my warning, and this is not a threat. This is a promise. If either Stewart or Colbert mentions this again in any way, I'm going over to their tiny little studio and I'm.
Jon Stewart
Kicking some Comedy Central ass. Are we clear on that?
Seth Meyers
That's what I'm talking about.
Jon Stewart
Stephen, why did you bring this up? Why did you even call?
Seth Meyers
I thought you should know, John. He seems pretty serious.
Jon Stewart
No, I think he's absolutely serious. Oh, he is.
Seth Meyers
And he is a big, dangerous man. He's like 7 foot 4.
Jon Stewart
John, he said he was gonna kick our asses. Why did you come and talk about this? He's gonna hear about this.
Conan O'Brien
No, he's not.
Jon Stewart
John.
Seth Meyers
There's no way. For one thing, I happen to know Conan o' Brien is too cheap to pay for cable. Not only is he too cheap, I happen to know that Conan o' Brien is too stupid to even figure out that we are talking about him. And even if Conan o' Brien were to ever make a move on either one of his.
Jon Stewart
I don't think we should be talking about this. I don't think we should be talking about this. Don't talk about this. I don't want to talk about this. I don't want to do it. I don't want to talk about. I don't want to. I don't think this is a smart thing.
Seth Meyers
It's. No.
Jon Stewart
Would you excuse me one second? I. I feel like we've lost the light. I put Baby in a corner.
Hasan Minhaj
You.
Jon Stewart
I warned you. I warned you both. Do not keep this going. But you couldn't listen.
Seth Meyers
You want a tangle, Red?
Jon Stewart
I want a tangle.
Seth Meyers
How do you want to settle?
Conan O'Brien
I want to settle this a civilized way, with violence.
Hasan Minhaj
Violence.
Conan O'Brien
Ladies and gentlemen, let's do it.
Seth Meyers
Come on. I'm gonna kick your ass.
Conan O'Brien
This is your ass.
Seth Meyers
I'm gonna kick your ass.
Jon Stewart
Kick your ass.
Seth Meyers
Are you ready, John?
Jon Stewart
You ready to go?
Seth Meyers
Let's do it.
Jon Stewart
Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. Come on.
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Hasan Minhaj
We should go this way.
Seth Meyers
I don't know where.
Jon Stewart
I don't know.
Conan O'Brien
I'm new here. I've never been here.
Jon Stewart
Let's go this way. All right, very quickly.
Conan O'Brien
What's that?
Jon Stewart
A, there's no exit. B, I have to finish my program. I have a Tim Gunn interview, and moment is end and that sort of thing, so.
Conan O'Brien
He's very good. Yeah. Fashionable. Why don't you finish up here? We will be in the hall and.
Jon Stewart
Then let the ass kicking commence.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah. You and me and this guy.
Jon Stewart
All right, let's do it. Let's do it. Thing better not be empty. Okay, I'm gonna take a little commercial break and ba, ba, ba, ba. Then we're gonna interview Tim Gunn, and then I'm gonna go get in a physical confrontation. We'll be right back after this.
Seth Meyers
I'm a fan, by the way.
Conan O'Brien
Oh, thank you.
John Oliver
You're good, too.
Seth Meyers
Thank you.
Jon Stewart
I like.
Conan O'Brien
Thanks very much. The show that you do.
Jon Stewart
Thank you. Have you seen my show?
Conan O'Brien
No, I. Not up late. How long has he showed A.
Jon Stewart
He does about four hours, and they.
Seth Meyers
Cut it down to 22 minutes.
Jon Stewart
Yeah.
Conan O'Brien
Pretty quiet in there.
Jon Stewart
Is there a studio audience? Yeah, they.
Seth Meyers
No, no, they put all the laughter in later.
Jon Stewart
Okay. Do you harmonize? Yeah.
Conan O'Brien
Take the low parts. Want to try a little something?
Hasan Minhaj
No. Say, can you.
Jon Stewart
Okay. Can you.
Conan O'Brien
I'll go high.
Hasan Minhaj
Say, can you see.
Seth Meyers
By the dawn's.
Hasan Minhaj
Early light.
Jon Stewart
What so proudly we take.
Conan O'Brien
It with that flare everywhere.
Jon Stewart
Hey, everybody, that's our show. Join us tomorrow night at 11. By the way, you know what your moment of Zen is tonight? Me going outside to kick some gangly Irish ass. All right, yeah, let's do this thing.
Conan O'Brien
I will rip your face from your head.
Seth Meyers
Yes.
Jon Stewart
And then I will probably get a lot of blood on your very nice sports jacket.
Seth Meyers
Get another one.
Jon Stewart
Where's Stephen?
Conan O'Brien
Steven had to tape his show.
Jon Stewart
He had to?
Conan O'Brien
Yeah.
Jon Stewart
All right, well, let's.
Conan O'Brien
We should get him.
Jon Stewart
Let's get him.
Jimmy Fallon
And then.
Conan O'Brien
And then, boom.
Jon Stewart
You will die, Seth. I am going down.
Conan O'Brien
A beating. From he to you.
Jon Stewart
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This episode of "The Daily Show: Ears Edition" is a time-traveling, late-night extravaganza celebrating the camaraderie and rivalry among America's most renowned late-night hosts. Jon Stewart, with help from the News Team, hosts a reunion full of reminiscing, roasting, and playful competition. The episode explores the journey of immigrant comedians, backstage stories, the evolution of late night, and signature comedy bits, culminating in a parodic showdown about who really "made" whom in late-night television.
John Oliver & Hasan Minhaj:
The "If you don’t like it, leave" Question:
On the camaraderie and unique skills of late-night hosts:
On immigrant perspective and feeling at home:
Conan on Cuba and being the joke:
Fallon’s “Thank You Note”:
On launching a late-night show:
On the “late-night feud” parody:
On host-table fingerprints:
This "Time Machine" episode of The Daily Show is a rollicking master class in late-night comedy—part oral history, part roast, and all heart. By reuniting hosts past and present, the episode highlights the resilience and evolution of the genre. The immigrant journey, the necessity of risk-taking in satire, and the inside jokes and feuds of late-night television create both poignant and hysterical moments. Fans and newcomers alike will leave with a renewed sense that, beyond the laughs, late night is a tight-knit, ever-evolving world—one best navigated with humor, nerve, and a thick skin.