Ronny Chieng Covers Dems Slamming JD Vance for "Weird" Cat Lady Comments | Jon M. Chu
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Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Roy Chang. So much to talk about tonight. White dudes are mansplaining their support for Kamala Harris. JD Vance gets his own pussy tape. And Louis Black yells at the sun. But first, let's get into our continuing coverage of Indecision 2024.

We are now less than 100 days from the election, and Democrats are super fired up about having a candidate who isn't legally dead. Nearly every night now, huge groups are gathering on Zoom to raise money. It started with black women for Harris, and then black men for Harris, and then white women. And last night, white dudes took a break from trying to have sex with Asian women to do their Zoom calls.

Monday night's White Dudes for Harris livestream raised more than $4 million, according to organizers. More than 150,000 people were on the call. The call included possible Harris running mates, actors, labor leaders. Among the stars were Mark Hamill, Josh Groban, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Actor Jeff Bridges throwing in his star power. I qualify, man. I'm white, I'm a dude, and I'm for Harris. I'm so excited. A woman president, man. How exciting!

I mean, it is cool that they got Jeff Bridges, but if anyone was waiting to see who the big Lebowski endorses, I don't think that's the group that's going to remember to vote. But 150,000 white dudes joined the Zoom because nothing says I would do anything for this candidate like clicking on a Zoom link from your toilet. The white dudes did raise a lot of money, although the Zoom went off the rails when someone asked if anyone had a favorite Bob Dylan album.

And I personally am glad they found a way to make segregation progressive, but I'm just saying, historically, it's not great when white people develop racial awareness, okay? It starts out like, "Hey, let's just hang out," and then soon it's like, "Hey, this is fun. We should get some uniforms." But even if you want in on the man bun Zoom, it's obvious there's a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side. You can tell by who wants to debate more.

It sounds like Trump just lost a debate with himself. But...

I don't blame him for having second thoughts, okay? I mean, the last time Trump did a debate, he beat Biden so bad they gave him a tougher opponent. That's crazy. It's like Trump won so hard he might lose the presidency. And no shit, he doesn't want to debate again. I mean, if he debates again, either he loses to Kamala or he wins and they swap her out for Abraham Lincoln. It's like, how many bosses are there in this game?

But Democrats aren't waiting for a debate to go on the offense. They've been subtly field-testing a new line of attack. And see if you can spot it. The way they address people, it is bizarre. It's weird. It is weird. That stuff is weird. They come across weird. They seem obsessed with this. A super weird idea from J.D. Vance. Yeah, it's not. I mean, it's quite weird. They're just weird. More weird. Let's just play weird. Weird? What about Donald Trump is weird? Oh my God!

Yeah, I just don't see it. Now, calling someone weird is a bit of a downgrade from he tried to overthrow democracy. On the other hand, you know, that message didn't really stick. I mean, Democrats spent four years being like, hey, everybody, remember January 6th? And most Americans were like, we don't remember and or care. So now Democrats are like, hey, wasn't trying to overthrow the government kind of weird?

Like, who even does that? And now people are like, yeah, I guess that is kind of weird. The best part about this line of attack is that there is no defense to it. I mean, you can't say, guys, guys, I'm not weird. That sounds weird. And although Democrats have to be clear about what kind of weird they're referring to, because people could think they mean like cool weird, like David Bowie or Jeff Goldblum. They got to be like, no, no, we mean weird weird, like the penguin from Batman.

What was up with that guy? He's like, hey, I'm a bad guy, but I'm also into Antarctic wildlife conservation. And one of the weird things that they've been hitting them on is this comment Vance made in 2021. We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.

Yeah, I mean, if you have friends who've chosen not to have kids, you know how totally miserable they are. "I got too much disposable income. My life is so hard. I can fly business class. I still have a sex life. Please kill me." So after getting backlash, JD Vance tried to do damage control, but it turns out he didn't misspeak. He's been shit-talking childless people for years.

The controversial comments he made questioning the judgment of people without children, they were not a one-off. He told a crowd, quote, babies are good because we're not sociopaths. He appealed to donors by mentioning the, quote, radical childless leaders in this country. Cat ladies must be stopped. You go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at home.

Yeah, of course they're deranged and psychotic. They're on Twitter. That's where they live. It doesn't matter how many kids you have. The most deranged person on Twitter has 45 kids. For more analysis on childless cat ladies, let's go live to Grace Kuhlensmith. Grace, Grace, Grace, what do you think about J.D. Vance saying that childless cat ladies are bad for America? Hey, man, when you're right, you're right. Back to you, Ronnie.

Wait, really? What's wrong with childless cat ladies? For starters, their houses are covered in cat hair. Look at what they did to JD when he went over to one of their houses once and his face still has cat hair all over it. I think that's his beard. Oh, gross. The point is, childless cat ladies are freaks.

Okay, I'm sorry, but aren't you childless? Yes, but I don't have a bunch of cats all over my apartment. I'm a normal adult woman. Grace, there's a whole bunch of lizards crawling all behind you. Yeah, lizards. Not cats. I'm not a freak. Okay, how is that better?

Obviously better. I don't spend all day petting my lizards or making an Instagram profile for them I just give them pedicures and crochet them turtlenecks like a normal owner How many lizards do you have Oh 40 days, okay Grace, that's a huge range. What do you mean? You don't know they come and go as they want Ronnie. They're not animals Jasper

Okay, Grace, it's not about the animals. J.D. Vance was saying that if you don't have human children, you don't care about the future of America. What? No, I deeply care about America because no other country will let me in with 80 to 100 lizards. Feeding time! Come on, guys! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to jump on Zoom. Lizard ladies for Kamala. We're gonna talk about...

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We are officially in the dog days of summer, which means I can finally bust out my slip and slide. It used to belong to the kid next door, but it turns out a lot of kids stuff you can just walk up and take. But this summer, it's so hot you can't even make it down the slide without your nuts sticking to the bottom.

It's been one of the hottest summers on record across the U.S. A relentless heat wave smashing records in the Northeast. Monday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. The previous record, which was set on Sunday, only lasted 24 hours. It's hot. Really, really hot. The hottest day

recorded on Earth. Suck on that dinosaurs! We can destroy the planet ourselves! We don't need an asteroid like you pussies! Yes, this summer the heat is kicking our ass more than usual. Last week it was so hot in New York that, and I can't believe I'm gonna say this, I asked the "Hawk Tua" girl to hit me in the forehead!

And this isn't just your classic heat wave that only kills some old people that no one cares about.

The heat is so extreme, it's causing shit that's never happened before. Blazing temperatures outdoors can wreak havoc inside airplanes. These soda cans all exploded on Southwest flights due to extreme heat exposure. The problem is widespread. Southwest Airlines has reported about 20 employees have been injured by exploding soda cans this summer alone. What the hell? It's so hot!

that our soda cans are joining Al Qaeda. I don't want to die in a plane crash because of cherry coke. I want to die because the Boeing guys forgot to tighten the screws. This is a disaster. What happens if planes have to get rid of soda? What am I supposed to drink on a flight now? Whiskey?

Then another whiskey? What am I supposed to mix the whiskey with? Another whiskey? Now I haven't had enough. You've had enough. This is clearly a reckoning, but I'm sure Ewans will take this as a sign that climate change is a serious threat and not a chance for an idiotic photo op.

At Death Valley National Park, they actually embraced the heat, encouraging tourists to take pictures in front of the park's thermometer. Right now, hovering around 130 degrees. You can definitely feel the heat on your skin. Honestly, it's definitely shocking. I don't know how anything can survive out here.

Of course, nothing can survive in Death Valley. That's why they call it Death Valley. Guess what they sell at Burger King, you idiot.

Now, you'd think park rangers would be warning people about the deadly heat, but instead they're getting in on the fun. Park rangers have a tasty way to show you just how hot it is inside your car. So rangers at, uh, Sekuro National Park by Tucson made banana bread inside their car. Some other things you can make inside your car: cookies, eggs, and even stuffed bell peppers.

Who stuffs a bell pepper? Yes, global warming means you can cook right in your car, which is great news for my new restaurant, Louis Black's Hyundai Sonata chimichangas. The secret ingredient is wiper fluid. So yes, as we've known for a while, every year the earth is getting hotter and hotter like me and Paul Rudd.

And that's why we need every single government body working to fix the problem instead of jerking us around with elementary school science projects. The National Weather Service put on a colorful display of the record-setting heat wave hitting Las Vegas. Check out this time lapse of the extreme temps turning crayons into colored cream. This interesting experiment really puts in perspective just how hot it is.

It is out there. I feel like if you could just sort of freeze that and then, you know, you make a little bit of art out of it. I think so, too. Right? Yes. Oh, that's cool. But I mean, really not cool. We're all going to die. Thanks, National Weather Service. Now, we all know what it would look like if a pack of Skittles got its period.

So quick safety tip, okay? If you're gonna leave your kid in a hot car, remember to grab the crayons first. It's hard to know whether to be more worried about the record heat or the record stupidity. But at least when the earth finally explodes, we'll be eating delicious dashboard banana bread along the way. Ronnie?

Thank you, Lewis. Lewis Black, everybody. When we come back, director John Chu will be joining me on the show, so don't go away.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is director of Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians. I hope he remembers me. He's the author of Viewfinder, a memoir of seeing and being seen. Please welcome Mr. John M. Chu. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

So good to see you here. It's great to be here. This is your new book? Yes. I immediately look for where I was mentioned. And do you mind just reading this out so I have this on video? Perfect. Ronnie Chang. Sorry, look in the camera. Sorry. Ronnie Chang had caught my eye when he did a piece on The Daily Show that mocked a racist Fox News segment about Chinatown.

I love that he was smart and hilarious and clearly wasn't trying to please anybody. Thank you. Just for my Instagram. No, but this is a crazy full circle moment. It is. Because I guess you, I never heard this story from you, but you apparently saw me on The Daily Show and that's how you cast me on it. Yeah. And now here we are. Here we are. We're just talking on The Daily Show and you're the guest and I'm hosting. It's nice. It's nice. When we were casting Crazy Rich Asians. Yeah. Right? Come on.

When we were casting, I just wanted to cast Asians that I wanted to be like or had the confidence to be like. And you had all of it. Oh, that's great. And we were casting an asshole, so it was perfect. Yeah.

I take it. Yeah. The story was, for me, was I saw you making the movie. And then at that time, I just moved to America. Hollywood was such a far away thing. Not even my wildest dreams would I be in a movie. You know, I was just some asshole comic, like, running from bar to bar telling dick jokes. And, um...

And so I didn't even think about it. I just thought, oh, it's cool that John Chu is doing a story set in Singapore. I was like, oh, that's cool. I can't wait to watch this movie. And then I read this article that came out a few weeks later that you said that

the headline was John Chu having trouble casting authentic accents in Crazy Rich Asians. And I did the most Hollywood thing ever. I just called my agent and I was like, yo, I will never do this. I told my agent, I'll never pull this card. But if you get me an audition, I promise you I'm going to book this. I promise you. And then he was, he got me to send an audition in. I taped it. I sent it in a few weeks later, got cast. Come on. I mean, the reality is you were already on our list. Yeah, I know.

That's insane. And then I meet you on set, and you're like, oh, yeah, you were always on our pitch deck. Literally my pitch deck. I would flip around, and we're going to get Ronny Chieng. This is going to be the Asian Avengers. OK, you see? OK, that's great. And now you are part of the Marvel Universe.

That's great. But then that word never got back to me. No one told me I was on the pitch deck. I was auditioning. We got to make it work for it. I was happy to audition for it. And the first thing you told me when I got on set was I loved how positive you were on set. It's my first time on any movie set. I was just like some small role and I wasn't trying to make it about me at all. But you were so positive. He didn't at all.

Never, never. And you came up to me, and the first thing you said was, like, hey, man, you know, I see auras. And I go, like, I'm like, I don't want to know my aura. Please don't tell me. And you go, you got pink dots on your arm. And that arm, like, I have an injured right arm. And so I don't know how you saw that. Well, you shouldn't be on Edibles when you meet your actor for the first time.

But if you're outing me as a spiritualist, then I don't know if I believe in all that stuff. But I do see colors. Yeah. I've never said that publicly. I'm trying to get you to say stuff you didn't say on Colbert. It is true. It is true. Yeah, I see. You have a lot of blue spikes right now. Right now? All over your head. I don't know what it means. So I cannot actually tell you what it is. I think it's just the lighting, man. It's true. But you know what it means. And I'm on edibles. No, I'm not.

Yeah, but you were always relentlessly very positive, you know? And that was a tough film to make. And, I mean, when you were making it, did you... did you know that it was gonna become what it was? -No, I don't think any of us could have known. I think when we were there and we were all together, we were talking about our experiences of being an Asian person in entertainment from all around the world, wherever anyone came from, I think we shared something that was really powerful, that, "Hey, this is actually really important.

Whether people see it or not, we didn't know. We didn't really care. It was like for us to show off what we could do. We could make fun of ourselves and our culture and our people. And we could show them as beautiful and as heroes and as villains in any way we wanted. And I think it was when we were making it is when I felt like if people get a load of this, they're not even ready.

So you could feel it on set? I could feel it on set. But you don't know until the audience shows up in that first weekend when people brought their grandmothers and people who hadn't gone to the movies for all these years and were crying outside and would just congregate in the lobby. You just felt that like we were part of something, something bigger than us. And I guess I want to talk about this relentless positivity that I felt

back then and I still feel now. And I guess, I don't know if you have any words of how to stay positive in these times, 'cause I feel like, if anything, the world has gotten less positive after we made this movie, but you never stopped with the positivity. So I don't know if you have any perspective on that. - That's part of the reason why I wrote the book is,

You know, I grew up in an America where people believed in their dreams that you could achieve these things. My parents have a Chinese restaurant. I grew up as a restaurant kid doing my homework at the bar. Yeah, you go there all the time. Chef Chu, Paulo Alto. That's right, that's right. Hello, uncle.

And I feel like, you know, the American dream still exists. Yes, it was maybe not what our parents said it was and maybe not what we hoped it would be, but the idea of it still exists. And we have the power to control what that narrative will be in the future. And I really want in the book to show any young dreamer out there or old dreamer, when you're on the cusp of chasing your dream, that it can happen.

and that it's hard and that there's ups and downs and it's not overnight, but if you just keep walking, you'll end up at some place. And I think that's necessary in this world right now. Yeah. I mean...

I did read this, and it's a page turner. I did read it. I did. I was looking for my name. I was like, hold on. It's already at the end, so I had to read the whole book before I could find out what you said about me. But no, this book is a very positive book. I almost feel like you wrote it for kids to read, almost, in a way. For them to read and see how to navigate...

kind of dream chasing. I also think, like, everyone has a camera now. Everyone's a creator. Everyone has a, you know, on their phones or editing for TikTok or whatever it may be. And,

That's power. That is a very powerful thing in your hand. And when I started making videos, it was for weddings and bar mitzvahs in high school, and I was like the only kid doing it. And now everyone does it. So I think there's like a responsibility when you realize the power that you have. And I think there's understanding what that grammar is of audiovisual storytelling and what you want to say is more important than ever and owning who you are. That's why it's called viewfinder is to find who you are and how you want to express that.

And you may have mistakes that you make along the way, but that's okay. It's a constant. It's a routine. Chasing your dreams is a routine. It isn't a goal or destination.

And I do want to talk about this next project you're doing. So you've helped Asian representation in film, and you've helped Latino representation in film, and now you're helping green people be represented in film. So this next movie project, Wicked. Yeah. When is it coming out? It's coming out November 22nd. And we have Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo playing the two witches. Yes.

And I mean, just to set it up, what made you want to choose to work on Wicked? Well, it's about the backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West. So Cynthia Erivo plays Elphaba, who in the story of The Wizard of Oz, which is probably one of the greatest American fairy tales out there, she is seen as like the Wicked Witch. But there is a deeper plan, a darker plan that has made her the Wicked Witch. And when you get to meet her as Elphaba,

as a young dreamer, that you find out that she more than meets the eye. And seeing that story in a totally different point of view is fascinating, interesting, and you get to almost take apart the American story and put it back together. And I loved it. So it had a lot of meaning to me in terms of,

you know, anyone who feels different and what does it feel like to come through. And also for Galinda, who's Galinda the Good in Wizard of Oz, that she goes through a transition, that she could live in a bubble her whole life and never have to fight for anything because she has that privilege. But at some point, Galinda also has to pop her own bubble. And I think that is as much bravery as anyone else to get off your, you know, your privilege for a moment to confront some of the things that we have to confront these days.

Yeah, it's the way you talk about all your projects. It's all like that. That's how he talks about everything on set. He's always... It's real. It's real for him. It's in here. And I just want to say, you know, thanks so much for believing in me on your project. I love you so much. You changed my life by putting me on. And thanks for trusting me. And thanks for making all these really great films. John Chu, everybody. John's memoir, Viewfinder, is available now.

We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back after this.

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That's our show for tonight. Now here it is, your moment of zen. Remember the Bowery Boys? Saturday mornings, used to air. What am I, 80? Remember Satchin, right? And what's the other guy, Muggsy? Yeah, but almost everybody that we watched on television growing up was quirky and weird. That's what made them special, right? Starting then. And so I just think that weird is cool, actually. I don't have any problem with weird.

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Every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGIT. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches.

And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart wherever you get your podcasts.