{"id":581737,"date":"2026-08-11T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581737\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:16:10","slug":"the-daily-show-audition-tapes-john-oliver-michael-che-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581737\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Daily Show’ Audition Tapes: John Oliver, Michael Che and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>\u201d released a slew of never-before-seen audition tapes from past and present correspondents in a 10-minute compilation posted to YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video, honoring the satirical news program\u2019s 30th anniversary, features audition tapes from all five current rotating hosts, many of whom are seen in the footage bantering with either Jon Stewart or Trevor Noah, depending on when they first joined the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome of the auditions are presented like correspondent segments, with Jordan Klepper, for example, wearing a suit and riffing with Stewart in front of a green screen showing Washington, D.C. Others are more casual, with Desi Lydic seemingly talking to a producer reading a script off-screen.<\/p>\n

\n\tA fresh-faced John Oliver, who joined \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d in 2006, is seen joking around with Stewart before the audition starts. \u201cNow, if you do come work for us, you know you can\u2019t use the name John,\u201d Stewart tells Oliver, who quips back, \u201cThat\u2019s fine. I\u2019m prepared for that. I was going to take \u2018Rico.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe auditions also include Samantha Bee, who served as a correspondent from 2003 to 2015 before leaving to host her own show, \u201cFull Frontal,\u201d and Michael Che, who was on \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d for three months before departing for \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJessica Williams, Roy Wood Jr., Rob Riggle, Jason Jones and Wyatt Cenac are also featured. And, in 2002, Ed Helms and Rob Corddry are seen performing the same bit, about changes being made to Winter Olympic sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the audition tape compilation below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Daily Show\u201d released a slew of never-before-seen audition tapes from past and present correspondents in a 10-minute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,22075],"class_list":["post-581737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-the-daily-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}