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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello,

1:05

welcome to the daily show

1:07

Ears Edition. My name's

1:09

Matt O'Brien, I'm a producer and writer on the show.

1:13

And I'm here with a very

1:15

special guest who dropped by to

1:17

interview a panel of undecided voters

1:19

on the show. It's Triumph, the insult

1:21

comic dog. Welcome, Triumph. Thank

1:23

you. Thank you. Who are you again? That's

1:26

a great question. Matt?

1:28

Yes, I work on the show. You're

1:30

not Conan O'Donnell. No. Matt O'Donnell. No,

1:32

no relation. You do work on the

1:35

show. I'm a writer, producer. Of course,

1:37

you're a white, middle-aged man. You're

1:40

a writer. Can

1:42

we get some diversity in here for

1:44

God's sakes? All right.

1:47

Let's just go with it. All right, let's triumph. Let's

1:49

get into it. Matt and

1:51

I have worked together. Matt's

1:53

just like, Matt is a very

1:55

well-respected has-been who used to work

1:57

at the Conan O'Donnell show. The

2:00

two of us did many reports

2:02

together, and I

2:05

just read that from a prompter. I don't

2:07

remember him at all. And it's led us

2:09

here to this podcast. It's led us here

2:12

to the nadir of show business. Thank

2:14

you for inviting me to record

2:16

in a room smaller than, slightly

2:18

smaller than a handicapped bathroom stall.

2:21

Seriously, am I taping a podcast

2:24

or being held for ransom? This

2:26

is where ISIS shot all their videos, right?

2:29

Very exciting. No,

2:31

I kid, I kid. This is, it's,

2:33

it's nice. This doesn't have anything to

2:35

do. This is the room where you

2:37

euthanize all the correspondents who don't find

2:40

loving homes, right? No,

2:43

I love this place. Great, great room.

2:46

Have you called David Ellison? Maybe he doesn't

2:48

know that buying Paramount comes with a free

2:50

shitty podcast studio. That would, that

2:52

would put it over the top? Yes. Skydance.

2:55

Get Skydance on the phone. That's good. Yes.

2:57

There you go. That was a

3:00

little improv from, from Matt. I'm

3:02

up on show business topics like... There

3:04

you go. No, no. ...Norgers, acquisitions. See,

3:07

he is, there is diversity here. He's a

3:09

writer who isn't funny. I kid.

3:11

I kid. No,

3:14

here we go. Here we go

3:16

with the prepared jokes. Oh, right. Yes. No,

3:18

you know what I love about the Daily

3:20

Show offices? I've been here before and you

3:23

have a lot of office dogs and

3:25

I think that's wonderful. I love

3:27

seeing all the office dogs around. It really

3:29

made me feel at home when I took

3:32

a shit on Jon Stewart's desk. By

3:35

the way, is this the same room where you

3:37

waterboarded Jon into coming back? The

3:40

very same. Why the

3:42

fuck is he coming back to Comedy

3:44

Central? I kid. What happened? Did, did

3:46

his OnlyFans account not take off? I

3:50

was enjoying the show when you had the

3:52

celebrity hosts, honestly. A lot

3:54

of good ones. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was

3:56

like watching I Love the 90s. Seriously,

4:01

for years I've been biting my

4:03

paws wondering what D.L. Hughley's politics

4:06

are like. No,

4:09

it's great. It's great. So,

4:12

no, but you're on The Daily Show now.

4:15

So what's it like to work on the

4:17

only Comedy Central show that isn't a Futurama

4:19

rerun? Well, it's on the East Coast. It's

4:21

close to my home. It's

4:24

an honor. So

4:26

is White Castle, you know, you could be

4:28

working there. It

4:31

pays about the same at this point. I

4:33

had moved out west to get away from

4:35

working with Triumph. So did Conan. It's

4:38

his entire crew to the

4:41

left coast because Triumph is

4:43

a New Yorker. That paid

4:45

off. I called

4:47

then and I said, fuck that guy. And he said,

4:49

I don't know why. Right away, fam. Right away.

4:53

I had a lot to pull back in the aughts. Anyway,

4:57

no, you know, this is great back here on

4:59

The Daily Show. So what's the topic of the

5:02

show today? Republicans are bad or Trump is bad?

5:04

It's a little of both. We try to hit

5:06

both sides. It must

5:08

be tough figuring out which to do on

5:11

what night. Four nights a week.

5:13

My God. Keep it up, though. Keep it up.

5:16

No, seriously, you guys do do important work.

5:19

I mean, the state of politics is such

5:21

a joke. So it's just great that

5:23

you guys have found a way to take all the humor

5:25

out of it. Fatum. That's

5:27

a good joke. That's a good solid

5:29

joke for me to pop

5:31

on. And

5:34

we're out there and Carter. Are we

5:36

good? Yeah, we get. Well, all right.

5:39

Triumph, thank you for unloading all that

5:42

ammo on me. It's what I do. It's

5:45

what I do. I don't know how I

5:47

was forced into doing this. You know, I'm

5:49

certainly glad I was. I only kid it's

5:51

all coming from a place of truth. Yeah,

5:53

I know. We've known each other for a

5:55

long time. Yeah. And I can't disagree with

5:58

any of it. Yes,

6:00

we are now going to talk to the

6:04

hand up here ask Robert smigel about the piece you did for

6:06

the show We're

6:15

back with Robert smigel the

6:17

hand up the ass of triumph the

6:19

insult comic dog Robert

6:23

of course is a Legendary comedy writer

6:25

and gave me my start you let

6:27

me write for trying it. I say

6:29

would you like a start? Yes, I

6:31

very much would so you probably didn't

6:33

start doing politics

6:36

Until probably 2004 right? I think you're

6:38

right. I don't think I ever did

6:41

politics until 2004 It was mainly it

6:43

was it was things like Bon Jovi

6:46

Pop culture stuff. Yeah And

6:49

we met through we met I

6:51

don't know though the way it happened is believe

6:53

it or not. I was a production assistant at

6:55

the Daily Show, right? And we

6:57

met you were at the Democratic

7:00

convention in Boston. Yeah, I think you were

7:02

shooting that triumph movie. I was shooting a

7:05

triumph movie. Yes for Columbia,

7:08

I think that the

7:10

Fairleigh brothers were producing it and We

7:14

shot a bunch of footage I got thrown

7:16

out of the DNC twice I remember seeing

7:18

one of one time when

7:20

I crashed below Riley show I followed

7:23

Michael Moore in he brought me in

7:25

Michael Moore did I was making fun of him

7:27

and he said come follow me and then They

7:31

followed me in and I'm like heckling

7:33

O'Reilly in between commercial breaks and stuff

7:35

and O'Reilly's having fun but

7:38

then like the

7:40

cops come in and they're

7:42

like they see that I'm not credentialed or

7:44

something and Michael Moore

7:46

literally says he followed me in here. Like

7:48

he didn't say he's with me Yeah,

7:52

that's the man you're looking for exactly

7:55

I Have

7:57

I've never stuck my hand up that ass

8:00

That is, I've never met that

8:02

asshole. That hand

8:04

is not mine. I find this whole

8:07

thing childish, rudimentary. Yeah. This is, yes.

8:09

I harass security guards

8:11

at auto, automobile

8:14

industry offices. I

8:18

would never make fun of someone

8:21

of Bill O'Reilly's stature. I

8:23

limit my harassment to security

8:25

guards at major corporations, office

8:28

buildings. Anyway, I thought

8:30

we had great footage, but we showed a

8:32

compilation to the studio and they

8:34

just killed the project. Really?

8:38

Yeah, it was weird. They were like, there's no story

8:40

here. And I had a whole treatment that

8:42

was going to be a story that we were going

8:44

to shoot later. We had the

8:47

first thing we shot was the convention. It was

8:49

like, so there you're just grabbing moments. And

8:52

that's usually a good fishing

8:54

expedition for triumph. Because there's a ton of

8:56

people in one. Yeah, so you and I

8:58

went to the 2008 Republican convention together

9:02

and it was quite different because we were

9:04

there with NBC. Yes. And

9:07

we had like an escort taking us, it was

9:09

like crazy compared to what I did on my

9:11

own for this movie studio. Oh, we were right

9:14

on the floor. Yeah, right

9:16

on the floor of the 2008 convention and

9:18

they're setting up, would you like to talk to

9:20

the governor of Minnesota? Would you like to talk

9:22

to this person? We harassed Anderson

9:24

Cooper, made a great segment. Didn't

9:27

get thrown out. We went to

9:29

a wind lobbyist party and sang a

9:31

song about abortion. Yes. A

9:34

Sarah Palin song. Sarah, great, good times come

9:36

on. But I think they had a live

9:38

band and you said, well, can I just

9:40

borrow the mic first? Yeah, yeah. And

9:43

I sang this song and the whole joke was

9:45

that I figured everybody wouldn't listen to

9:47

the song lyrics that they would just focus

9:49

on the chorus. Sarah

9:51

Palin. I know this one. Sarah,

9:53

great, good times come on. And they'd all

9:56

get into it. And then in between, I

9:58

would sing, you know, Not

10:00

going to allow abortion tonight. It's

10:03

not right. Yeah. Even

10:05

in the cases of, what was it? Rape

10:08

is not right. Let's

10:10

celebrate. But this is also

10:12

a giant. I feel like Conan made us cut

10:14

that line. No, that aired. That aired? Oh,

10:17

I don't remember. That was my favorite. I'm

10:19

not sure about the rape line. I think

10:21

you right. I know the previous line here.

10:23

But these are huge opulent

10:26

seafood towers. Oh yeah. Yeah,

10:28

no. And donors dancing away,

10:30

not listening closely. It was heaven. Why

10:33

did they say yes? I never understood why

10:35

people said yes. I know. At

10:37

the 2004 Republican convention, I

10:40

was also thrown out. And this

10:42

was really guerrilla because my

10:44

movie had been stopped. So

10:46

me and like just three friends just got

10:48

passes somehow and I just brought in my

10:50

own camera and I was just sitting there.

10:53

And during George Bush's speech, I

10:56

remember I had a triumph, not

10:58

me. Triumph was wearing one

11:01

of those ridiculous Republican hats that had

11:03

an elephant's trunk. It was

11:05

just an elephant's trunk. People

11:08

would wear it over their foreheads. And

11:11

so triumph, I had triumph

11:13

screaming for Bush cheering

11:15

every time. And each time he cheered, the

11:17

elephant's trunk would drop. So it

11:19

was around his neck and it was around his

11:21

chest till finally it was between his legs and

11:24

so it's this long elephant trunk hanging

11:28

between his legs and he's screaming at the

11:30

top of his lungs and the cops finally

11:32

noticed and detained me. Oh my God.

11:34

Yeah. One of the best

11:36

moments of going to a political convention with

11:38

you and triumph is going through security because

11:40

they make you unpack your bag on a

11:42

table. So you have to

11:44

take out the puppet, the elephant hat. You're

11:47

laying out all these things that you're

11:49

bringing in. All the props. And these

11:51

very stern looking security guards are wanting

11:53

them. Oh,

11:56

okay. Yeah. No bomb in

11:58

this puppet. I remember there was... No bomb in the

12:00

dildo. Okay, put it back in. I remember one time,

12:02

I think it was at that DNC, we really wanted

12:04

to do this thing where Triumph had

12:07

been fucking a poodle and he was

12:09

stuck. They got locked like dogs do.

12:12

And he's supposed to interview some

12:14

famous politician, but

12:16

he's still stuck in the poodle and

12:19

we just could not get the apparatus or

12:21

the dog into security. It would have been

12:23

the best thing ever to have Triumph walking

12:25

through, because we had a remote set up

12:28

so that I could make Triumph talk

12:30

by a remote control. We

12:32

used it once on the Comedy Central show we

12:34

did like 20 years ago on TV Funhouse. But

12:37

yeah, we had a remote control where I

12:39

could make Triumph's lips move and

12:42

talk without having my hand up

12:44

his ass. And we had him hooked up

12:46

to this poodle. And

12:48

he's like, help somebody, anybody know what

12:51

to do. I

12:54

feel like it would be quicker to just tell us which

12:56

conventions you haven't been thrown out of because

12:59

the 2004- The ones I haven't gone to. Yeah,

13:02

pretty much. Exactly. Anyway,

13:05

the point is, what were we talking about? There

13:07

is no point. There's never been a point to

13:09

Triumph. I mentioned at the 2004 convention, you were

13:11

doing all these shows and I was roaming the

13:13

floor with Stephen Colbert and you

13:16

were talking to Stephen Colbert and I think you just said something

13:18

along the lines of like, hey,

13:20

I need a thousand jokes in the

13:22

next month because of

13:25

the other shows. And I think

13:27

I just said, hey, I'll send you some jokes

13:29

and maybe Colbert said, hey, young Matt

13:32

here. Didn't I run into Stephen outside

13:34

the convention online to get in one

13:37

night? The night John Kerry was making

13:39

his speech. And that's when I remember

13:41

you taking out all of these insane,

13:43

ridiculous props for security to wand as

13:46

you were going in. Yeah. They're

13:48

briefcases and they're documents. I've

13:51

got these ridiculous props. Yes,

13:53

I remember seeing Stephen there covering for The

13:55

Daily Show. That's exactly right. And

13:58

he had me harming. I was with him to

14:01

the Star Spangled Banner outside.

14:03

There's footage of it. I have it at home.

14:05

I don't remember. Nobody's seen it. No. Anyway,

14:09

yeah. So we've been to, you and I

14:11

have been to many political conventions together. I

14:13

remember the 2008 one was a lot of

14:15

fun. Then

14:17

did we go in Florida in 2012, right? To

14:20

Tampa? To Tampa. Was that the time I had

14:22

Mr. Met with me? No, that was

14:24

the spin room on Long Island at

14:28

Hofstra University. Was that

14:30

a debate? That was a debate. That was a debate. That

14:32

was a Republican debate. Yes, and we brought Mr. Met, and

14:36

we photo bombed Greta Van Sustrin

14:38

on Fox News. I think

14:40

at like one in the morning. Yeah, well, it's

14:42

like after whatever the debate,

14:44

and they're doing their wrap up analysis,

14:46

and she's talking to

14:49

Susan Estrich or some such

14:51

pundit. For people that don't

14:53

know, the spin room is this room

14:55

after a debate where all

14:57

of the pundits and... Political

15:00

operatives gather in a room and talk

15:02

to as many outlets as possible to

15:04

get there. Yeah, they're all holding signs.

15:06

Get their talking points out. They're holding

15:08

signs representing the candidates that they're speaking

15:10

for. You can get 20 people in

15:12

a half hour, usually. Yeah, but

15:14

then I took to photo bombing, and I've

15:16

had a lot of fun photo bombing, and

15:18

that time, triumphs, peeking behind Greta Van Sustrin,

15:20

then he gestures and brings in Mr. Met, giant

15:24

baseball head, and then he started humping Mr.

15:26

Met's nose. I remember. Behind

15:29

Greta Van Sustrin, so yeah, I

15:31

was proud of that. I'm trying to

15:34

think who played Mr. Met. Oh

15:36

man, I don't... Maybe Cholemi.

15:39

I don't think so. No, I don't remember either. It was just some

15:42

actor that we... Nobody else was

15:44

willing to... No, we

15:46

needed to pay an actor. Nobody

15:48

is willing. It was the real Mr. Met. Yeah.

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18:06

All right, so now let's

18:08

talk, I guess, about what we did for The

18:10

Daily Show. Yes, it was fun

18:12

to be back on late night television. This is

18:14

your first late night appearance. For a, since

18:16

my appearances on Colbert, I did a ...

18:19

So Conan went out of business a few years

18:21

ago. That's right. And I took to working for

18:23

Colbert. I successfully got

18:26

the show canceled as the head writer. I took

18:28

it to its death knell. Right.

18:30

I started the show. You finished it off. You

18:33

killed it. You killed it. I

18:35

rearranged the chairs until it was underwater. I remember when

18:37

I met you, I was like, I see something in

18:39

this guy. He's the one. He feels

18:41

like a finisher. Uh-huh. And I spoke to

18:43

John Stewart and the producer, Jen Flans, and

18:46

they were very kind

18:48

and anxious to have Triumph

18:50

show up in an election year.

18:53

So we started with something that I don't

18:55

really do very much with Triumph. I'm usually

18:57

running around chasing people. Recently, I was at

18:59

the Trump trial outside the

19:02

Trump trial. I just taped it myself

19:04

with some friends, some writers, Josh Comers,

19:06

Todd Levin, some of my best writers.

19:08

Yes. Great writers. Great writers.

19:10

Yeah. come

19:13

and have the opportunity to do the Daily Show.

19:15

And so I did something that has

19:18

been done on the Daily Show a few times where they do

19:22

focus groups, where they take an

19:25

actual panel of voters, whether

19:27

it's Trump supporters or whatever. In

19:29

this case, I thought it would be funny to do undecided voters

19:32

because it's really hard to believe

19:34

that anybody could be undecided after all this time.

19:36

At this point. Yeah. So,

19:39

as undecideds, let's go around the

19:41

room. Tell us your

19:43

name and what your f***ing problem is. We've

19:47

never had worse choices in my opinion. I

19:49

don't like either candidates. Same as other

19:51

people said, I'm not really crazy about

19:53

either candidate. Okay. I

19:55

see some of you feel you need more information

19:58

about the candidates. 2004

22:00

I was covering the Republican convention

22:02

just for my own Enjoyment and

22:05

hoping that I could get a movie together

22:07

and I was invited by MSNBC to

22:09

do their after show I forget what it was called, but

22:11

it was hosted by Ron Reagan jr. And Joe

22:16

Scarborough and they had as a guest the

22:19

late great actor Ron Silver

22:22

For those who remember Ron Silver kind

22:24

of talked like this. He was in

22:26

a very active Republican Actor

22:29

and he anyway, he got

22:31

very serious with me. It

22:33

was really fun It's always fun

22:35

when somebody really wants to

22:37

get into a debate with the rubber

22:39

puppet and Ron Silver we got in

22:41

each other's face arguing and I Continually

22:45

made fun of him and and and

22:47

his political points. Well because on camera

22:49

it looks like You

22:51

know in in person he

22:53

can see your face Yeah saying these things right

22:55

to him but on camera, it looks like he's

22:57

arguing with a rubber dog. He

23:00

is well No, he doesn't see my face.

23:02

I was actually crouched under the table. Yeah.

23:04

Yeah. Yeah Well, it's like a roundtable show

23:06

just like this kind of table and on

23:08

those I have to crouch under the table So I'm like,

23:11

you know, I don't know what would possess someone to say.

23:13

Well, I'm gonna really give it to this dog here He

23:16

just really wanted to read out or it is

23:18

terrible. He felt like that. He needed to be

23:20

the Republican Speaking up

23:22

against all these other people. This is my

23:25

moment Yeah, and so he didn't care if he

23:27

was doing it against, you know, Joe

23:29

Scarborough or a

23:31

latex puppet He

23:33

wanted to argue that FDR was a

23:35

bad president or whatever the hell he

23:37

was hysterical. Well, so I guess that's

23:39

indicative of interesting

23:41

that early on that was where our discourse was

23:44

starting to go is People

23:46

will argue now with oh god.

23:49

Yeah, I mean that Arguing

23:52

of the rubber dog puppet back then was

23:54

I think kind of new was kind of now

23:56

I feel like there's well now there are people

23:58

who will see the puppet but then be humorless

24:00

about it. I

24:03

mean, it kind of turned when Trump got elected. I

24:05

remember going out for Conan, I think it was the

24:07

last piece I did for Conan. The inauguration. Yeah.

24:11

Trump was inaugurated. And I had already done some

24:13

Trump rallies for my Hulu specials that I did

24:15

in 2016. But

24:17

once Trump was inaugurated, there

24:19

was a different attitude among his supporters.

24:21

Like, fuck you, we're not taking this.

24:24

Like two different people grabbed the cigar

24:26

out of Triumph's mouth and broke it.

24:28

Oh, wow. Just

24:30

because everybody was the enemy at that point.

24:33

Anybody that wasn't- And it was like, stop

24:35

fucking with us. We won, this is our

24:37

day. Sure. Yeah. And like

24:39

there was a biker guy, there were a bunch

24:41

of bikers there for Trump. And

24:44

one biker really got in my face and then- Oh,

24:46

I remember that. Yeah, he was. Yeah, I remember that

24:49

guy was, the

24:51

bikers were really great. They engaged you. Yeah.

24:54

They went hardcore. Yes.

24:56

But one biker took it really seriously and like, what

24:58

the fuck are you doing, man? Get

25:00

the fuck out of here. And another one's like, hey buddy, buddy, calm

25:02

down, brother. Brother, take it easy. It's

25:05

okay. It's okay. We're

25:07

just, he's just a clown, you know, just- There's

25:12

a great opening line in that piece about

25:14

the son. Oh, it was the,

25:16

there was not many celebrities here.

25:19

It was the son was one of the many

25:21

celebrities who decided not to show up. Not to

25:23

show up. Yeah. Great. So

25:26

we did an undecided voter panel. And

25:31

these, I mean, you're right. It's usually trying

25:33

to face a little bit of a fishing

25:35

expedition. You have the jokes

25:37

organized on a document kind

25:40

of by- Well, I had jokes on a document

25:42

here. And that's always like kind

25:44

of a mixed blessing. Cause I like, I remember the first few

25:47

I did at the Westminster

25:49

dog show, I didn't have jokes. And

25:51

it was a lot of improv and they went really

25:53

well cause it was so new and they

25:55

were really funny. Classic piece. Yeah, the

25:57

very first one. I mean, they-

26:00

We put it up for the Emmys. But

26:02

then we did another one with Hollywood scores

26:04

and then we went back to Westminster and I was

26:06

like, I think this time I should

26:08

maybe, we should prepare some jokes. And

26:10

then the jokes were so great

26:12

that I was like, okay, every time we do this,

26:15

let's all get together and write jokes. And

26:17

sometimes I have

26:19

so many jokes that I don't

26:22

give myself the space to relax

26:24

and interact enough sometimes. Even with

26:26

this piece, I feel like it

26:28

would have been nice to play around. I remember when

26:31

we were in Minnesota,

26:34

we did a bonus piece on our own. We

26:36

were there to do the convention, then we were

26:38

there to interview Ralph Nader and we had prepared

26:40

jokes for both. And then we

26:42

did another piece with protesters, Democratic.

26:45

We wanted to make fun of the Democratic protesters.

26:48

And we didn't really have jokes and me and you

26:50

just fucked around and it

26:52

was a nice remote. It was. It

26:55

was that makeshift campground, I think, off

26:57

site or something. Yeah. It

26:59

was like a cordoned off area where Democratic protesters were

27:02

allowed to assemble.

27:06

And we talked about some shit before

27:08

we said jokes, but yeah, a lot of it

27:10

was on the spot. And I remember Conan saying,

27:13

oh, I like that one. You should do more

27:16

of that. Where you just relax and just fuck

27:18

around with people. Well, it feels more organic. The

27:20

interaction is nice. Yeah. All right. I

27:23

think the Daily Show piece, I thought it came out really well. I

27:25

thought the people were really good sports about it. Yeah.

27:28

A lot of people asked me and said,

27:30

did people know it was triumphant? And

27:33

you're always very good about... I never want

27:35

people to feel... It's not an ambush. Yeah.

27:38

They should be in on the joke. They should feel

27:40

okay about it. And even, I mean, it's very rare

27:42

that I go up to someone and

27:44

not make the effort to ask

27:46

them first if it's okay to talk to them.

27:49

Sure. No matter who it is. I'm the

27:51

one but Lindsey Graham. If

27:55

it's a person who... There's a

27:57

bar of despicability that... Sure. But

28:00

if you can't reach, then... And

28:02

those people are arguably way more

28:04

fair game. Yeah, public

28:06

figures. Yeah. And also there's

28:08

like... They're talking to the press. Yeah. And I have

28:11

an internal voice that tells me,

28:13

he's going to say no if you ask. Yes,

28:16

ask forgiveness. Yeah. So

28:18

after this, after the Daily

28:20

Show, what are you

28:22

going to do with the puppet? I don't know. We'll

28:24

see. We might do more on the Daily Show. That

28:26

would be fun since it's an election year. I don't

28:28

know. I'd love to go back and cover Ted Cruz's

28:30

campaign again. I've covered Ted

28:32

Cruz running for president, and

28:35

I've covered Ted Cruz running for Senate,

28:39

and it's his turn again. I would love to go

28:41

back and harass some of the... That

28:43

would be fun to hit some

28:46

of the craziest congressional or Senate

28:48

candidates. And then I

28:50

got some stuff I've been doing. There's also

28:52

stuff online that people actually should check out.

28:54

Yeah, I've been doing some live shows. I

28:57

do a game show on the road

28:59

sometimes called Let's Make a Poop. It's

29:02

a lot of fun. It's sort of a

29:04

Jeopardy kind of game where the celebrity panelists

29:06

have to guess the correct answer

29:08

to questions, but they don't have to guess

29:10

the correct answer. They have to come up

29:12

with the funny answer, the correct, funny answer.

29:15

And it's really a

29:17

lot of fun. And I did

29:19

a show from San Francisco with Weird Al

29:21

Yankovic and Rob Schneider. Amber Ruffin was there.

29:23

It was a great night. That's online. It's

29:26

on the Team Coco YouTube page, and it's

29:28

also on the Triumph YouTube page. And I'm

29:31

going to come out with another one that I did

29:33

recently from Chicago where we

29:35

actually got former Governor Rod Blagojevich

29:37

to sit in on the panel.

29:40

Yes. Who spent some time in prison. He

29:42

spent like six or seven years in prison,

29:44

and then Trump commuted his sentence. Commuted his

29:46

sentence, and now he calls himself... So if

29:48

you're wondering what he's up to now... Yeah.

29:51

He calls himself a Trumpocrat now. As

29:54

if there's even... As

29:56

if that makes any sense at all. No, I

29:58

told him... Yeah, that's like-

30:00

Does he still have the legendary Quaff,

30:03

the Blago hair? Oh,

30:05

God, yeah, yeah. I said, you know

30:07

what Trump loves about you is, you

30:09

know, because he was on Celebrity Apprentice with

30:11

Trump. That's how Trump got

30:13

to know him and like him. And he said,

30:16

you know, I think Trump likes you because

30:18

you both show no remorse or

30:20

forehead. All

30:24

right, so you'll probably do some more of those maybe

30:26

in the future. Yeah, yeah. I'm a fan of

30:28

that and I'm writing, well, you know, I wrote

30:30

a movie with Adam Sandler called Leo that I'm

30:32

very proud of and it's on Netflix. Of course,

30:35

it's a huge hit, yes. Yes, that's for kids,

30:37

but parents do. All right, well- Check

30:39

it out. Check that out as well. All

30:41

right, well, I want to thank everybody

30:44

for listening and Robert Smigel and

30:46

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for,

30:49

I've rarely ever hosted a podcast, but

30:51

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30:54

a very strong

30:56

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30:58

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