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2024. -♪ What's going on? -♪ -♪

1:51

If you've been tuning out the presidential campaign

1:53

so far, I get it. It's boring. I

1:55

mean, my grandpa is also a rambling 80-year-old

1:57

man. And let me tell you, I

1:59

keep having... half an year open for the word

2:01

inheritance and I just ignore everything else but the

2:04

presidential campaign won't be boring for long

2:07

because this week Trump and Biden will

2:09

be rambling face to face. That's

2:12

right Thursday is the first presidential debate

2:14

in these men are going toe to

2:16

toe and if you ever met or

2:18

seen old men's toes, you know that's

2:20

going to be a dirty fight. Finally

2:23

the American people will have something to judge

2:25

these candidates on aside from the 4 years

2:27

that they were both president already. And

2:31

Joe Biden for one he's ready for battle.

2:33

The president this morning it continues to be

2:35

hunkered down at Camp David he is fine

2:38

tuning his messaging honing his attack lines that

2:40

he's huddling there with over a dozen advisers

2:42

and over the coming days his prep is

2:44

expected to evolve from gaming out questions and

2:46

answers to holding 90 minute

2:48

mock debate. Yeah,

2:59

that's the most dubious thumbs up I've

3:01

ever seen. That's the football

3:04

player as he's being carted off the field. He's

3:09

going to be OK folks his thumb is working. But

3:12

that's right Joe Biden is holding up a Camp David

3:14

and doing 90 minute mock debates,

3:16

although most of that is just him walking

3:18

up to the podium and if

3:21

you're wondering who could possibly prepare

3:23

him for debating Donald Trump will

3:25

Joe Biden has just the guy.

3:27

Attorney Bob Bauer will be standing

3:29

in for Trump during mock debate

3:31

sessions, yelling insults at Biden and

3:33

trying to get under his skin.

3:35

You're playing a role, they're trying

3:37

to make the experience as

3:39

realistic for the person you're working with as possible.

3:44

The guy who plays Santa Claus at the bad

3:46

mall. This is your Trump. I

3:49

don't know if he can replicate the unhinged

3:51

madness of debating Donald Trump, the only Biden

3:53

staffer who could pull that off is that

3:55

dog that keeps biting everyone in the face

3:57

but regardless of how

4:00

And that's how we prepare is there's one

4:02

thing Biden can be sure of where exactly

4:04

he's gonna be on that stage. We're

4:06

getting more details today about how the high stakes

4:09

debate stage will look. Biden

4:11

won the coin toss and chose to stand

4:13

on the right side of the stage. Why

4:16

the right? There's actually a

4:18

scientific reason. When there

4:20

are two people on stage, TV viewers'

4:22

eyes are drawn to the right side.

4:25

Wow, thank you, science. I mean... Hey,

4:29

any news on a cancer cure? No?

4:33

Maybe whenever you're done debating left or

4:35

right, possibly? Hey, it may

4:37

usually be true that viewers' eyes are

4:39

drawn to the right, but in this

4:41

case, they'll be even more drawn to

4:43

the neon man ranting about how toilets

4:46

don't flush anymore thanks to transgender swimmers.

4:48

But... I

4:51

do like this coin toss thing. You know,

4:53

why stop with the debate side? Let's have

4:55

the coin determine who wins the election. It

4:58

would be so much less stressful than five

5:00

months of campaigning. Just flip the coin.

5:02

Heads, it's Trump. Tails, it's Biden. If

5:04

the coin bounces and rolls into the sewer,

5:07

it's RFK Jr. Anyway,

5:11

that's what Joe Biden is up to.

5:13

But preparing for the debate is not

5:15

the only way to prepare

5:17

for the debate because Joe Biden's opponent,

5:19

well, he's taking a different approach. Almost

5:22

everything that President Biden is doing, Donald

5:24

Trump is not. There are no mock

5:26

debates. There are no rehearse punch lines

5:28

or pivot points. The former president also didn't take

5:30

any time away from the campaign trail. Tell me

5:32

a little bit about how you're preparing for the

5:34

debate, right? Because we see that President

5:37

Biden is out of camp, David. You're on the

5:39

campaign trail. What's your strategy for the debate? Well,

5:41

this is really the best strategy right here.

5:43

We have all these people screaming questions. Okay.

5:49

First of all, no one's screaming questions.

5:52

You're elevated on a platform talking

5:54

at people the whole time. How

5:57

convenient is it that Trump's debate prep is holding

5:59

rallies? the thing he wants to do

6:01

anyway. It's like when finals were coming up and

6:04

you had that one friend who would say, you

6:06

know, I retain information better when I'm high. You

6:08

know, it's like... Just

6:11

to be clear, that was my friend. That wasn't me.

6:14

Okay? Of course, when

6:16

you don't prepare for a debate, you run

6:18

the risk of losing the debate. So it

6:20

helps to lower expectations a little bit. Trump

6:23

appears to be lowering expectations and

6:25

making excuses ahead of the upcoming

6:27

presidential debate with President Biden. So

6:30

I'm not underestimating him. I'm not

6:32

underestimating him. I assume he's gonna

6:34

be somebody that will

6:36

be a worthy debater. Maybe I'm better off losing

6:38

the debate. So I'll lose the debate on purpose.

6:40

Maybe I'll do something like that. All

6:42

right. All

6:44

right. Don't lower expectations that

6:47

far. Maybe

6:49

I'll lose the debate. Maybe I'll shit

6:51

my pants and run off stage crying

6:53

about how much shit is actually in

6:56

my pants. That's how you'll know I've won. But

7:00

this brings up an interesting quandary for

7:02

the Trump campaign. Right now, Trump is

7:04

saying Biden is a worthy debater. But

7:06

don't forget, for the past three and

7:08

a half years, he's been saying Biden

7:10

is a demented moron with the brainpower

7:13

of a Love Island contestant. So how

7:15

are Republicans going to explain it if

7:18

a guy they say has jello for

7:20

brains really does beat Trump? Well, don't

7:22

worry. They have a plan. The

7:24

Trump campaign and the Trump allies, they

7:26

keep floating this conspiracy that

7:29

Biden is going to be amped up on drugs.

7:31

They're going to need to goose him and juice him.

7:33

A lot of Red Bull, a lot of

7:35

caffeine pills. He's on Adderall. Talk about, yeah.

7:37

Or he's on Ritalin. Excedrin that has caffeine

7:39

in it. Hopped up on B12. IV

7:42

fluids. Monster energy drinks. Or

7:44

something. Or something.

7:46

Whatever happened to

7:48

all that cocaine that was missing a month ago

7:50

from the White House? Whatever

7:54

happened? Look, we all know

7:56

what happened. That dog snorted it before it

7:58

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week will be exactly 30 years since

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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. Forever changing the

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way we try to desperately fill the

14:49

empty hole in our lives while destroying

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local businesses and the earth. But who

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is the real man behind the internet

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mogul? Let's find out in a new

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brand new Daily Showography. America

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has always been home to titans

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of industry, but only one capitalist

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in history has ever been

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this much of a joke.

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I'm Jeff Bezos. I'm the

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founder of amazon.com. This is

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the Daily Showography of Jeff

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Bezos, history's most powerful nerd.

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Born to teenage parents in

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jeff's identity

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asserted itself early. I was

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very nerdy and good student.

15:32

I liked school. His favorite

15:34

place in the world was

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Radio Shack, where he developed

15:38

an appreciation for technology, cheap

15:40

garbage from China, and underpaying

15:42

workers. After

15:45

graduating from high school as valedictorian,

15:47

Jeff attended Princeton, one of the

15:49

best colleges for nerds. Socially, I

15:52

was a little awkward. I didn't really date

15:55

much until my last year

15:57

of college. Actually, I sort of a formal plan

15:59

to date. I had all my friends set me

16:01

up on blind dates. None of them worked out

16:04

very well. Yes, despite many positive

16:06

reviews from his friends. We found

16:08

the actual product was that what

16:10

they've been led to believe. After

16:14

college, these those joined a Wall Street

16:16

hedge fund on Wall Street. Bezos also

16:18

found something almost as good as money

16:21

his future ex-wife Mackenzie Scott. She would

16:23

later tell the magazine it was just

16:25

laugh that made her fall in love

16:27

with him. Sometimes

16:32

love is blind and deaf. It

16:37

was around this time that Jeff noticed that

16:39

the world was changing. Came across

16:41

the startling statistic that web usage was

16:43

growing at 2300% a year. So I

16:45

decided I would try and find a

16:47

business plan that made sense in the

16:49

context of that growth. And I

16:52

picked books as the first best product to sell

16:54

online. With

16:56

a quarter million dollar investment from

16:58

his parents, a garage to work

17:00

from an MC Hammer khakis Bezos

17:02

launched his empire. Within

17:05

a few years, Amazon went from

17:07

online bookseller to Wall Street darling

17:09

to the so-called everything store. 3rd

17:12

party vendors could sell literally anything on

17:14

Amazon's website from stuff to put in

17:16

your butt to stuff you shouldn't put

17:18

in your butt. But will anyway because

17:20

you're not a coward. Amazon

17:23

was taking the world by storm

17:26

and while Bezos was still literally

17:28

the nerdiest person in the world. My

17:30

watch updates itself from the atomic clock 36

17:32

times a day that gives you the indication.

17:35

He was driving Amazon into the

17:37

future of future of

17:40

non. How

17:45

did Jeff Bezos transform himself into a

17:47

life-size Oscar statue by using his big

17:49

dirty brain to devise the perfect growth

17:52

plan to expand his business and his

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body. Since

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starting Amazon Bezos has amassed a net worth

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the show that's the goal so much of

22:02

this season. So

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much of this season is about acquiring or

22:06

attempting to get a late night show. Yes,

22:08

did you reach out to people in late

22:10

night did you not have my e-mail and

22:12

you're nervous. And then you got it, but

22:14

then you still didn't want a cold e-mail

22:16

what what how to work, you know, I

22:18

have a lot going on. Yeah, a

22:21

lot of things to do so we

22:23

did have we had a bunch of consultants on the show

22:25

that had worked in late night. Yeah, okay, we had a

22:27

peek behind the curtain from our writers because it is I

22:30

mean I'm I

22:33

feel like you're writing about the comedy

22:35

industry and it's singing to me. But

22:37

then I'm going is the rest of the

22:40

country also understanding and laughing and all this,

22:42

but it feels like you've really done that

22:44

that's good how have you created a show

22:46

about show business that my friends in Michigan

22:48

like also. Wow. And

22:51

they're 80 I love them. You

22:56

know I think as it's a show about people

22:58

have been kind of cast aside by the industry, I think

23:00

it's really relatable because you know what it's like a lot

23:02

of people know what it's like to be on the outside

23:05

of something and want to break into it. Yeah, you know

23:07

this woman Deborah Vance played

23:09

brilliantly by Jean Smart. You

23:11

know is this Vegas stand up and kind of

23:13

had to carve out her own path outside of

23:15

show business. I think because of that you

23:18

know people who want to do creative work or people want to

23:20

do something and have a

23:22

craving for something really understand that. What

23:25

her drive. Her

23:28

ambition yet her selfishness. Yeah, that's one

23:30

thing I also got to ask you

23:32

about you have does one have to

23:34

be selfish to be successful.

23:36

I'm asking basically I'm asking myself that

23:38

question. But

23:40

it comes up in your in in hacks. It's

23:42

a major theme I hope not because I'm an

23:44

angel. So

23:48

I I mean I hope you don't have to be but you

23:50

know I think you have to be selfish to a certain degree

23:52

in that if you are somebody like

23:55

the characters in the show you have

23:57

to really be married to your work, you know, it's like

23:59

really all about. He

28:00

was like young people at the bar, and

28:02

one of them's looking around, and he says,

28:04

God, it feels so 80s in here. Yeah.

28:07

And I laughed out loud. Who wrote that, and

28:09

what is that line? I have to tell you

28:12

that that was improvised by that actor. Are you

28:14

serious? Yes, I give credit where credit is due.

28:16

Wow, well, shit. Thanks, you're

28:18

back. He's a co-writer. Now he's a

28:21

co-writer. Yeah. Yeah,

28:23

Jordan improvised that. And

28:26

yeah, that's the thing. We try because myself, my

28:28

wife, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Staski who created the

28:30

show, we all come from improv and sketch comedy.

28:32

And so when somebody brings something to the role

28:34

that makes it better, we're like, great, let's use

28:36

it. So we're constantly adapting on that. I feel

28:38

like you and your co-star in the scene that

28:40

showed are improvising a fair amount. Is that accurate,

28:42

or does it just feel so natural? Yes, but

28:44

in the scene that you just saw, that was

28:46

completely scripted. It was. That was very, very scripted,

28:48

because there were so many. You know, that woman

28:50

who was taping us had like, you know, there

28:52

was a lot of moving parts to that scene,

28:54

but we do improvise a fair amount. That's great.

28:58

I told you backstage, but that episode really resonated with

29:00

me, because as a comic, it's like, get to JFL,

29:03

get to Just For Laughs. And holy shit, you guys

29:05

nailed it so well. Thank you. But

29:07

there's also a little bit of a dig there on

29:10

this show called On The Contrary

29:12

that Hannah's character plays.

29:15

And it's a man wearing an Uncle

29:17

Sam hat, and they're talking about how

29:19

important comedy is, how it changes society.

29:22

And I'm watching it, and I'm looking

29:25

around here, and I'm seeing the red,

29:27

white, and the blue. Yeah.

29:30

And then I was thinking, you know,

29:32

one of the things I like about

29:34

Deborah's comedy is that it isn't always

29:37

important. It isn't always changing

29:39

the world. And I want to know what

29:41

your thoughts are on, is comedy important? Is

29:43

it meant to be? Does

29:45

it need to be? Can we just do a

29:47

joke where we do fart noises in our armpits

29:50

sometimes? My favorite joke. My favorite joke. Yeah,

29:52

I think that I think comedy is important,

29:55

even if it's not satire and

29:57

it's not political comedy. I think it's important because...

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