The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not | Evan Gershkovich

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Jon Stewart examines the limits of Republican allegiance to Trump after his weekend of wooing President Xi with granite, helipads, and an exclusive tour of the White Hous

Sep 29
58 min

The Precap | Jordan Klepper on Xi's Pandas, Tuberville's Furry Pilots & Trump's "Super Intelligence" Branding Fail

This week's host Jordan Klepper sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis to recap the latest news and preview the week to come. They weigh in on President Xi givin

Sep 28
52 min

The Interviews | Ari Emanuel, Tom Morello, Jessica Tarlov, Merritt Wever

Catch all of the past week's great guests in one place. Ari Emanuel, of TKO and WME Group, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his new memoir, “Roll the Calls.” The t

Sep 27
1 h 21 min

This Week's News | Jon Stewart on MAGA's Embrace of AI & Desi Lydic on Trump's U.N. Rant and Xi Meetup

Catch up on the latest headlines with the Daily Show news team. Jon Stewart digs into the White House's press ban on major media outlets and weighs Republicans' embrace

Sep 26
46 min

Trump Spooked by Plane at Xi Meeting & Sen. Tuberville Rails Against Flying Furries | Merritt Wever

Desi Lydic breaks down the headlines, and as America approaches the midterms, things are not looking good for the GOP. But thanks to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Republicans ha

Sep 25
39 min

Trump Can’t Find Rubio, Pirro Tackles Meteorite Corruption & Melania Gets a Sequel | Jessica Tarlov

Trump can’t find Marco Rubio during his U.N. speech, and Jeanine Pirro seizes a Martian meteorite for some reason (shouldn’t that be the Space Force’s job?). Desi Lydic b

Sep 24
50 min

Trump Talks S**t at the U.N., Rebrands AI as "Superintelligence" & Praises Mamdani | Tom Morello

Desi Lydic dives into the headlines with Trump’s press ban leaving him speechless (literally, he has no mic anymore). Plus, "AI" is out and “super intelligence” is in as

Sep 23
35 min

White House Bans Media Outlets & MAGA Embraces AI While Demonizing Immigrants | Ari Emanuel

Jon Stewart takes on the White House’s new press ban for major media outlets with the help of Desi Lydic, who was able to sneak into the Oval Office disguised as a golden

Sep 22
48 min

The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's Press Ban Endgame

This week's host Desi Lydic joins Daily Show writer and producer Matt O'Brien to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come. They talk about whether Trump's Wh

Sep 22
28 min

The Interviews | Danielle Brooks, Colin Kaepernick, Giri Nathan

Check out all of this week's great guests in one place. Danielle Brooks joins Josh Johnson to talk about her new film, “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” where she plays Lozi

Sep 20
49 min

This Week's News | Josh on Kash Patel's Bestiality Stance & Kosta on Another Oil Strait Closure

Catch up on the latest headlines with The Daily Show News Team. Josh Johnson covers Mitch McConnell's rickety return to the Senate, Trump's dismissive reaction to the lo

Sep 19
32 min

Iran War Closes Another Strait & Mamdani Debuts 10-Minute Toilets in NYC | Giri Nathan

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expanding NYC’s public restrooms, which is good because the war in Iran is once again going to s**t. Michael Kosta breaks down how the war continu

Sep 18
36 min

Kash Patel Gets Tangled in Bestiality Questions & Don Jr. Gets a Blushing Bribe | Colin Kaepernick

Pete Hegseth seeks troops with the perfect waist-to-height ratio to serve as props for his speech, and Kash Patel defends new FBI hiring standards that take a softer stan

Sep 17
47 min

Mitch McConnell Returns & Trump Dismisses AI Doomsday Warnings | Danielle Brooks

Mitch McConnell dispels rumors about his death just in time for Anthropic insiders to announce that AI could kill us all in as little as six months. Thumbs up, Mitch! Jos

Sep 16
34 min

The Precap | Josh Johnson on RNC Crashing Grindr, Offering Trump-Backed Bribes & Debuting Hasan Piker’s Meat

This week's host Josh Johnson sits down with Daily Show writer Joe Opio to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come. Josh Johnson and Daily Show writer Joe Op

Sep 15
52 min

TDS Time Machine | The War on Climate Change

Taking a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of the war on, and over, climate change. Jon Stewart talks climate change denialism in the U.S. Congress. Jordan Klepper

Sep 14
32 min

This Week's Interviews | Gov. Spencer Cox, Jia Tolentino, Andrew Garfield

Check out all of this week's great guests. Republican Governor Spencer Cox joins Jon Stewart to discuss his new book, “Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Con

Sep 13
59 min

This Week's News | Jon Stewart on Trump's Alternate Reality & Michael Kosta on Mamdani's "Penghazi"

Catch up on the latest headlines with The Daily Show News Team. Jon Stewart examines how Trump's presidential delusions have him escalating his trade war with Canada, re

Sep 12
39 min

Trump Bribes Americans with $5K "Dividends" & GOP Gets Weird at Midterm Convention | Andrew Garfield

Trump’s Republican Midterm Convention flops with low turnout, empty promises, and GOP behavior that is just straight up weird (we’re looking at you, Tim Scott). Michael K

Sep 11
41 min

GOP RSVP's "No" to Trump Convention & Push to Ban Mamdani from 9/11 Ceremony | Jia Tolentino

Michael Kosta dives into the Trump-headlined Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas and the growing list of GOP candidates making excuses not to attend. Plus, J.D. Vance

Sep 10
47 min

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What listeners say

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Desi & Kat, please get your own podcast. Hysterical & such good chemistry. Please, more women-hosted podcasts!

Need More Heathers · Jul 2026

Oh my God, there’s not a week that goes by that I don’t laugh my butt off the podcast. It keeps me informed and at first I didn’t think I would like the rotating format now I find them all funny. Definitely my favorite go to daily podcast.

SnootyCritic · Dec 2025

Desi is awesome. She's nailing the tone for the moment. Hilarious with a kind warmth coming through all her cutting delivery. Interview of Gabby was so earnest. We need more of her.

big hawt awesome dude · Aug 2024

The new format of rotating hosts rings, more diversity and more funny. Insightful and often hilarious this is a go to podcast.

feet from the end of the west · Aug 2024

I really enjoy Jon and his talented crew, but I’d like to see a more balanced approach to their punditry. It feels like they use humor as a veil for typical DNC talking points. I really respected Jon when he challenged the idea that Covid came from a lab, and was hoping for more balanced skepticism for narratives fed to us not just from the unhinged right, but also the corporatist left. For example, the recent episode featuring Barbara McQuade dives into misinformation vs disinformation, which is a fascinating topic. Unfortunately Michael Kosta doesn’t challenge her when she posits that the right is the source of all dis/misinformation. Yes, the right pushes election stealing narratives and many Russian talking points, but the left gives political shelter to antisemites on elite campuses, and BLM has posted support for October 7th on Instagram. The Biden administration strong armed Facebook from sharing legitimate, Stanford studies on the efficacy of shutdowns. The Biden administration lied about the President’s fitness for a very long time—which to Jon’s credit he challenged. But The Daily Show is not the Onion, and has a responsibility to be more than pundits for the left.

Stitzlein · Sep 2024

I’ve long been a fan of the Daily Show and I’ve listened to this podcast every morning for years. I’ve loved the comedic lightness and dedication to the facts Trevor Noah and most of the guest hosts have brought to difficult subjects. But when I turned it on this morning, my opinion of the entire show plummeted. To bring on as a guest host, after a lineup of the most hilarious, qualified, and trustworthy people in comedy, a man who was caught on camera committing sexual assault and was accused by a dozen more women, spits in the face of every host, crew member, and fan of the show. A man who has never apologized or even admitted to the assaults and has attempted to turn the story back on his victims and those who stood up for them, claiming himself, a serial predator, as the victim. Does the Daily Show not care about the safety of the women who work there? You’ll notice no women were a part of his first episode. And, after a week of guests like the President and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, his first guest is Lindsey Graham??? Just goes to show who he sees as valuable and deserving of a platform, other creepy old white men. I felt violated by this episode. That a show I thought cared about the message they send to the world and who they give a voice to would give it to such a horrid man shatters any respect I had for the show or trust in what it’s reporters say.

AmyDickerson · Mar 2023

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