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Yeah, let's begin with some shocking news about the twenty twenty four presidential election. It turns out that the guy who has spent his whole life wanting to be president now wants to continue being president.
We do have real breaking news this morning, as President Biden is officially announcing he is running for reelection. The President launched his campaign with a video that took aim at Republicans over abortion, social security, and culture wars.
When I ran for president four years ago, I said, we're in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for reelection.
That's right, Joe Biden is running for reelection. Well, not running exactly. The man is eighty years old. Let's say he's stairlifting for reelection.
Yeah, if Joe, If Joe Biden does win, he would be eighty six years old when he reaches the end of his second term, hopefully, which is one reason my seventy percent of Americans don't think he should run again.
And to be fair, eighty six is old, not just for a president, but for any job. If my lift driver rolled up and was eighty six years old.
I'd be like, do you need health getting home? But I don't know.
Maybe it would be good to have an old man president, you know, if the economy collapses, he could just find never ending supply of quarters behind your ear. But there is one thing Joe Biden has going for him, Donald Trump. Shockingly, polls show that most people don't want him to run either. And in Trump's case, it's only partly about his age. It's also about his tendency to steal stuff like classified
documents and the election. Not to mention, this guy's in court every other week, hush money, tax money.
He has a new.
Trial starting in New York today and you barely even knew about it. Trump is in so many different types of legal trouble. He can be in every spinoff of Law and Order. The guy's going for a crime, egot. So those are America's choices. A guy who's in his eightieth year of life and a guy who's facing eighty years to life. It's guts, But unfortunately America only has two people, although there is one person who suddenly has
a lot of time on his hands. Tucker Carlson, Yeah, yesterday, Carlson got fired from his job at Fox News, and it was a huge surprise to everyone, including Tucker. Apparently they only told him ten minutes before announcing it publicly, which is so cold. That's barely enough time to pack up all his Nazi memorabilia, not to mention he was Fox's most popular anchor and they still fired him. That'd be like if MSNBC fired well, imagine if there was a show people watched on MSNBC, it would be like
firing them. And look, I know people love making fun of Tucker, but just put yourself in his shoes.
Say you're this massive piece of shit.
With no real friends, and you got to giggle like a tickle me Elmo and a dumb, floppy haircut, and you always have your your mouth hanging open like you're dry in your teeth. I forgot where I was going with this. Oh, Tucker's an asshole. Now we still don't know exactly what got Tucker fired. Maybe it was election liies that cos Fox News seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. Maybe it was insulting his bosses in private texts.
Maybe it was his overall vibe of creepy dad driving the babysitter home, or maybe it was this.
The Daily Beast reports that Tucker's repeated use of the sea word was a key factor in his demise. According to text messages from the dominion lawsuit, Tucker referred to Trump lawyer Sidney Powell as the sea word, and a former producer at his show alleges she heard the word around the office constantly.
Female politicians who came on the show were mocked.
There were debates about who they'd rather sleep with seaword all the time?
They use the sea word all the time, Like, how do you use the sea word at the office all the time? Oh, Susan's taking lunch orders. Tell me, I'll just have a salad.
Hold the cop you know what, do you want to share a cup for the audience at home. I know that just got bleeved. I just said the word cut. But you know what, you know what, It's okay.
Tucker's allowed to say the sea word because he is one. Let's begin with an update on former Fox News grand Wizard Tucker Carlson. Last night, Tucker re emerged for the first time since he was fired, recording a personal video from his business Sanna Good Evening.
It's Tucker Carlson. One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind of decent people. The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They're completely irrelevant, They mean nothing. In five years, we won't even remember that we had them. Where can you still
find Americans saying true things? There aren't many places left, but there are some. And that's enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope, see you soon.
Wow. Good for Tucker.
Even though he's isolated in a remote cabin somewhere, he's still getting his message out, just like the unibomber. And you know what, you know, let's give Tucker credit for not saying the C word once during this video. Vo Tucker, I know, I know that was really hard for you, Although it is funny how he said, when you step outside the noise, people are actually pretty nice, buddy.
You are the noise. You are entire your.
Show was you being mean to people, trans people, immigrants, women, Lady emin ms Tucker complaining about people being mean is like Guy Fieri complaining about how there are no salad shows. Meanwhile, CNN's female expiration date checker, Don Lemon, was also fired this week, and he's handling things much differently.
Don Lemon spoke for the first time at a star studded event, appearing on the red carpet at the annual Time one hundred gala in New York City.
What is next for you, Don, I don't know. Sitting on the beach with this gentleman all summer and having a great summer and I'm gonna have the summer of a twelve year old.
Yeah, Don Lemon's gonna have the summer of a twelve year old. So I guess getting horny while reading the Harry Potter books, I like how Tucker's like, I'm gonna do whatever it takes to fight for the truth, and Don Lemon's like, I'm gonna go boogie board. Don listen, you don't need to go back to being a twelve year old to live your best life.
Don't let anyone tell you your pastor prime.
In the last few decades, women have made big strides in the workplace. We're no longer getting harassed while wearing big, ugly shoulder pads.
It's twenty twenty three.
Now we're getting harassed while wearing super cool big shoulder pads. Needless to say, corporate women still face challenges.
When it comes to the CEOs of the largest companies, women are still vastly underrepresented.
There are currently.
Thirty eight female CEOs at the S and P five hundred, and women CEOs are forty five percent more likely to be fired than their male counterparts. There's also evidence that women who are appointed to the top job aren't necessarily set up for success. High level women are often during a time of crisis. It's a phenomenon called the glass cliff.
Women who negotiate our sixty seven percent more likely than women who don't receive feedback that their personal style is intimidating, to aggressive or bossy.
When women have a child, their earnings decline for each child by four percent. Wow, Whereas men there's a fatherhood bonus and they actually earn more when they have children. It's called a motherhood penalty.
That's right.
It's it's really hard to be a woman in the corporate world. And they didn't even mention the fact that the office is always so freaking cold, So no wonder women have to work harder. It's the only thing that will keep us warm. With all the challenges women are facing in the workplace, I thought it was important to offer some mentorship to the next generation of female leaders.
Take a look. Hi, everybody. Hi, my name is Desi and Day.
I'm going to tell you how to climb your way to the top of the corporate.
Ladder, just like the boys.
And sometimes that means playing dirty, and sometimes it's going.
To be an uphill battle.
All right, look to the person to your right, now, look at the person to your left. Okay, we're still learning rights and left. By the end of today, only one of you will remain.
Doubly.
Yes, we don't want to be boys, but we should be like the boys. Not in a way that we're like the boys, but we're going to be like empowered women and we're going to get extreams accomplished. Then we're going to get money. Then when we're going to put in our bank account and get more money.
Yeah, because you worked for it, And I think, what did she? What is the key takeaway is.
That we want to beat the boys?
Yeah, but what we.
Want to fill our pockets with mine? Okay, who here knows what a CEO is?
No, nobody knows Europe.
You want to be a CEO? Sure, do you know what a CEO is?
Yeah?
Chief executive officer?
I have no idea.
The dross.
So like you're like, you know how a teacher is the leader of the classroom. Oh yeah, and they're in control of everything happening in the classroom.
Oh yeah, it's just like that.
Except they don't have to pay out of pocket for office supplies.
So okay.
Part of making it to the top of corporate America is knowing how to negotiate for yourself.
Do you know what that means? No? What does it mean to negotiate? Oh? Okay?
The most important thing about negotiating for a raise is that you're touting your accomplishments. What chores have you been doing lately? Have you been adding value to your family? Have you been saying helping her brother tie his shoes? That's mentorship.
I don't know how to tie his shoes.
Do you know how to slip on a pair of pumps?
Oh?
Yes, and it doesn't matter. Okay, do any of you want to be Mommy's, Mommy's mommy wonderful.
That'll be forty thousand dollars up front. Oh, it's called the mommy tax.
Nobody has that.
Kind of money.
What about nine thousands?
I like the attempt to negotiate, but no, it's a hard and fast forty grand No. Okay, there are two types of CEOs. Has anyone here heard of Elizabeth Holmes or Anna Delby?
Is Anna Delby the Persian who has pretended to be like the Russian heiress or whatever?
Why?
Yes she is. You are my prize student. Here's the lesson we learn.
You only know the names of the women who have done illegal things. Okay, Belle, congratulations, you are now our new CEO.
You now get to clean up the mess of the previous CEO.
Mate, My life the the CEO school.
Yes it is, but it's not always fair and keeping the bag.
I'm not paying a night out, and that is.
How we negotiate.
My guest tonight is the creator and star of the hit Netflix comedy series Working Moms. Wa Welcome my good friend Katherine Rightman. Oh my gosh, be goodness, look at this. So Catherine and I met how many years ago? Just a few two three, We're so young and Lee fresh and young.
We met doing a hidden camera prank show. That's right that I believe NBC.
Called their worst primetime ratings in history.
There's something like that. I think they might have said that. Yeah, yeah, but you know what we say that about all the shows, that we were very special. We really were. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we really were.
And this was my first big break, the real wedding crashers, and I think it was yours too.
So we really cut our teeth together.
We did for ten weeks in Vegas, and we somehow made it out alive.
I don't know how. I mean, by the skin of our teeth.
I slapped bitch, slapped me, True Tristorian, True Brad, who was in.
On it, just five fingered me right across the front. Yeah.
Yeah, that was a rough day. We didn't we couldn't even afford a medic The budget was so low.
You just had to like granted and held a coke can to my cheek. And now has that ever happened on Working Moms? Got slapped? Yeah right.
Danny Kind, who plays an on the show, loves to slap a bit.
She'll get in there. She's very physical I love her for it. I love it. Oh my god. So you.
I mean, you're one of those actors who has always been the total standout and everything that you've been in you're so damn funny.
You're constantly working, steal every scene.
But now suddenly there's this baby of your seven seasons.
Isn't that crazy of working moms? Oh? Like eighty three episodes.
Yep dropping on Netflix this Wednesday, April.
You created it, you star in it, you direct it, you executive produce it.
What is it like seeing your baby all grown up like that? It's wild? You know.
I mean I entered the show thinking it I'll probably get one season and I'll just try to be as authentic as I can tell all my stories, cram it into one season, and each season that we got picked up for another one, I was in disbelief.
I still am so good. It's so funny and genuinely I know you.
You're a friend, like it feels like you. You can tell that you put so much of yourself into it. You cover just in this. I may have snuck a few episodes of this last season because I.
Got a friend. You got a hook them, I got a hook up. Don't be asking me.
And just in this season you explore so many themes and issues that are so important. You have an entire storyline on the male birth control pill, that's right. Yeah, you explore destigmatizing shame in female sexuality, marriage ruts, the complexities of female friendships.
How do you get ideas for these stories? I guess I just live, you know what I mean? Yeah, just a day in the life of a woman. I mean, and I'm sure your audience can speak to this.
It's like having a kid, and I mean just watching this incredible show tonight and seeing all the horrifying statistics of what it means to go back to work, knowing that you're going to be looked at differently for being a mother was so paralyzingly terrifying to me, even know I had postpartum depression when I started the show and getting through it out a three month old when we started shooting, and when we wrapped the show, and I all of a sudden realized, like I feel like I
white knuckled through it, Like I don't think I took a breath until they said cut the last time.
Yeah, And that was part of the inspiration for the show. Right.
You having gone through that and thinking like there aren't shows out there that really dive into these topics.
There sure are more now. Seven years ago it was a wasteland. I mean I couldn't find any a storyline, meaning the main plot point of the show about a woman who happened to be a mother and work. I mean, look on Work in Moms. The actual amount of time where you see the female characters with their kids is like five percent. This is about women being something outside of the nursery. It's a woman in the workplace show.
And yeah, they've got to juggle it all and try to have it all, whether that's possible or not.
Do you think it's possible?
Yeah, rightly, I'm sucking at all.
I say, you can have it all, but not all. At the same time, I said, what's why.
I said, it's a different for each person, right, we all have our ways of sort of working it out, of making sacrifices.
The guilt is real. Guilt is real. Guilt.
Is said something about mom guilt that really stuck with me. You sounds like, yeah, very profound. You said something in regards to the way that you talk to your children about going to work.
Yeah, I don't say I have to go to work. I get to go to work. And I just flipped that tone.
I go, like, before I flew to New York to do this lovely thing with you, I told my kids, I'm so excited you guys. I've never gotten to do this sort of thing. I'm so happy with it. And they feel the joy rating off of me. And then tonight they were like, we're so excited for you.
And that shift's great, so beautiful because you are you are following your passion and you're clearly meant to do this, and you bring so much joy to so many people, and you're teaching them that they can one day do that too, and that's really important.
That's really powerful. Or marry a woman that takes care of them. Yes, yes, yes, also one, we're all so very powerful.
You work with your husband I do show. He plays your actual husband. He also is an executive producer and directs on the show. How does this work? Because there was a very brief time during the pandemic when we were filming from home and I one time asked my husband to hold the camera and we almost got divorced.
How do you navigate that it's triggy.
I mean, we've definitely had some serious fights. There's a but then you also find ways. I mean, look for those of us who work in separate places on our husbands or wives, you get to come home and try to share what happened, and there's sort of like a lack of can because you can't talk about what you've done. When I get home, Phil knows exactly what I've done, right. He witnessed all my wins, but he also witnesses when
I fail, so that makes it really complicated. Lucky for me, I got a guy who's a serious cheerleader, you know, he's Yeah, he's.
Had my back.
It was his idea to push me into writing this thing in the first place.
So thanks Phil. Where you're lucky to have each other, you're lucky to have each other. I am.
I am so grateful for you making this show because I finally feel like there's a show where working moms are seen and it means a great deal to me. And it's such a joy to see you do your thing and shine your light because you are just You're You're a total inspiration. So I'm really happy for you, and I'm proud that I get to be your friend?
Can I return the favor real quick?
That?
Oh, how amazing is it that we broke our teeth on the first Real Wed and Crasher show, which was a hit. Maybe not, but it was a really real critical darling total, So we're doing some really cool stuff there.
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