{"id":85670,"date":"2025-08-15T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:17:09","slug":"the-daily-shows-jordan-klepper-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85670\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper: Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDuring the last Presidential election, Jordan Klepper<\/a>, one of the hosts of The Daily Show<\/a>, was snowed in at Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin after a Trump rally.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis flight was delayed three and a half hours so he decamped to the airport bar.<\/p>\n

\n\tWho happened to be sitting next to him? A man, dressed in a custom suit made to look like President Trump\u2019s border wall, who had spent the previous day trying to troll Klepper and his crew as they filmed at the rally.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut instead of this turning into an argument or a fight (Klepper may be 6\u20194\u2033 but was absent of his security team thanks to the snow), the two just talked. They may not have necessarily agreed with each other, Klepper realized that Brick Suit Guy, otherwise known as Blake Marnell, was not an idiot and admitted some of Trump\u2019s weaknesses and there was a \u201csoftening\u201d in relations.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Klepper was getting on the plane, an airline employee asked if Klepper was prepared to accept the responsibility of sitting in an exit row and he said to Marnell, \u201cI hope this freaks you out.\u201d Marnell laughed, wasn\u2019t offended and found humor in the moment, something that Klepper found optimistic about the political divide.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis may not even be the strangest moment that Klepper has had with a Trump supporter. He was recently asked to officiate the wedding of Edward X. Young, a man who has attended over 100 Trump rallies, live on The Daily Show.<\/p>\n

\n\tKlepper told Deadline that he doesn\u2019t think they can make it happen. One, The Daily Show isn\u2019t live and also, Klepper jokes, Jon Stewart would \u201cprobably want to do it and it would become a whole thing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I could bring people together. That\u2019s my dream,\u201d Klepper added. \u201cAs much our as media and social media wants to tell the story of partisan rancor, which is definitely there, if you push beyond that and the cameras go down, the phones get turned off and you have people who talk at airports and need officiants at weddings, that\u2019s where I\u2019m not a complete pessimist about the future of this great country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKlepper has spent more time in the middle of the country than most late-night hosts.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe has visited a lot of political rallies, mostly Trump events, for the last ten years via his Fingers The Pulse segment, which this year has been nominated for two Emmys including in the Outstanding Hosted Non-Fiction Series or Special category for its MAGA: The Next Generation special.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m truly curious about what lies out there. It\u2019s the thing only our show does. We sit in studios and we watch the news, we comment on it, but we also get to go out and talk to people and I\u2019m always surprised by what I find. We have assumptions about what people believe. Then you get there and you get weirder shit, you get more humane shit, you get more insane shit. You get nice people. You get mean people, but you\u2019re also face to face and engaging with them and I do find a sense of hope in human interaction. So, I continue to keep going out again and again, primarily because that\u2019s how I get my health insurance\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile there won\u2019t be any rallies until the midterms start kicking in, Klepper and the team are always looking for new places to be sent. \u201cWe\u2019re always on the lookout for school board meetings or whatever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation, which has nearly 2.5M views on YouTube, saw him profile the rise of youth voters for Trump. He attended a UFC fight, a college campus and spring break, where he spoke to a number of Young Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe magic of the Fingers The Pulse pieces, is we need to go someplace where there\u2019s a pulse. We need to go someplace where people are gathered to care about a thing, and if that\u2019s a cultural thing, that\u2019s exciting to see what they care about, what are the passions behind that Turning Point event or a political event on a college campus. When there\u2019s a news story that pops up that we are curious about how the base feels, let\u2019s go there as fast as we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tKlepper will be likely out on the road a lot in 2026 during the midterm elections. He\u2019s looking to see whether Americans are \u201cgoing to adjudicate the Trump administration and the Republicans on how well they govern\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou have the things like the big, beautiful bill, Epstein, and these gosh darn tariffs that are going to affect the price of eggs and whatever those weird little dolls that look like evil animals are called. They\u2019re coming for the Labubus, they\u2019re gonna cost twice as much and do people care? That\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna be curious about with the midterm. The whole point of putting a person like this in power is that they make your life better. Do you give a shit? Will you take that into the ballot box?,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tKlepper will also be on the road this summer, but in a different fashion, traveling to cities including Portland, Durham, Atlanta and Austin as he works on his Suffering Fools show.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is part stand-up and part storytelling. \u201cAs an improv and a sketch guy, I\u2019ve always been a little reticent to call myself a stand-up. Last year, I started going up an reading longer form stories and seeing what the responses were. Then I started to incorporate some slides and some PowerPoint to kind of utilize some of the things I was doing at The Daily Show. It\u2019s been fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs he\u2019s been touring, he thought people would ask about the \u201cfun, frivolous nature of entertainment\u201d such as what it\u2019s like to meet Paul McCartney or how tall is Jon Stewart. But he found that people wanted to know how to fix democracy or talk about infrastructure. \u201cI want to answer that in the most entertaining form I can,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart returned to host The Daily Show in February 2024, but only on Mondays, allowing Klepper, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic, a chance to spend some real time behind the desk.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJordan Klepper on The Daily Show (Comedy Central<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels like we\u2019re a group of traveling theater folk who have have different jobs each week, and you help each other out. It\u2019s a late-night show, but it\u2019s, it\u2019s more than that, there\u2019s a cast of characters. One week, I\u2019ll put on a suit, sit behind a desk and interview Bill Clinton. The next week, I\u2019ll be given an ill-fitting Superman outfit that makes my balls look ridiculous. You have to balance those things, and that\u2019s part of the fun of the show,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe last few weeks haven\u2019t been the most fun in late-night, thanks to the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tKlepper said it was strange because he\u2019d had a blast hosting that week, more people had been watching The Daily Show in a decade<\/a> and the show got 12 Emmy nominations<\/a>. \u201cThen we heard this news about Stephen and it broke our hearts. Stephen is obviously a member of The Daily Show family. I grew up watching Stephen and doing Stephen Colbert scenes at the Second City,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe mood was helped by Stewart, who came in on the Monday morning and talked through the news. \u201cJon doesn\u2019t suffer fools and he doesn\u2019t indulge in bullshit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs a member of The Daily Show, what is frustrating right now is I don\u2019t fully buy this, this death of late-night narrative that is bubbling up,\u201d Klepper added. \u201cYou can make arguments about the advertising structure on linear television or how it\u2019s not financially viable for a streaming era, but from The Daily Show point of view, we have never created more content, never had more people engage or watch our show than ever before. Meanwhile, you have like this authoritarian regime that is bitching and moaning about these late-night hosts when other institutions are coming down\u2026 and you have comedians all coming together to say \u2018Fuck you, we\u2019re going to find humor where we want to find it, we\u2019re going to say what we want to say and we\u2019re not going to be afraid\u2019. That\u2019s to be celebrated. I feel so proud to be a part of that lineage and that voice in that moment. The emperor doesn\u2019t have any clothes. Let\u2019s amplify the people who are pointing at it and calling it out, as opposed to the people who are bullshitting that he looks great in that gown,\u201d Klepper concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tFind him at your nearest airport bar or officiating a MAGA wedding soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the last Presidential election, Jordan Klepper, one of the hosts of The Daily Show, was snowed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4207,88,59249,9610,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-85670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-comedy-central","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jordan-klepper","11":"tag-the-daily-show","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}