Keep Calm and Party On | Ariana DeBose

shipped that you just can do. You can't go to the gym now, there's not like I'm gonna go to the You can't go to the gym. I mean you can try, but you can't really. You never know. They'll stop you. And then you're like, I didn't you know what I mean? Like the pandemic shuts your ship down for you, which I'm gonna miss, is what I'm saying. Now I make all my resolutions things that I would wouldn't do normally, like as a resolution, but are achievable now. So now I'm like, I need to catch up on

all those TV shows. That's my news resolution succession. I'm doing it, baby, And then when I'm done I'm like, look at this. The year is still on track, do you know what I mean? Just in that zone and need to eat all those chips before they get stale. That's a resolution, And you know what, I'm on track everything. I've just made all my resolutions about ship that I do in the house, you know, make sure I use appliance, is a bit more more microwave you can get going,

you know, use the scale in the bathroom. You never think about whether your scale works or not. I'm this year, my resolution is to see how high the numbers can go, just you know, like a car, you know, like sometimes you just rev the engine to get things going. I want to do that on the scales of bram get into two fifty. Come on. That's essentially a resolution, and I'm not failing yet. It's actually made me realize. This pandemic has made me realize that resolutions are all about perspective.

You know, you think about it as things that are unattainable, But if you make the things that you were going to do anyways, you're only succeeding in life. Coming to you from the heart of times in New York City, the only city in America it's the Here's edition. Tonight, Morris Party to her Flipper, confronts Matt Gates and Ariana Deba. Is The Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump

straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with Donald Jumanji Trump America's best President. Last weekend, he was back on the rally circuit, kicking off his campaign to reclaim the Oval Office and the White House Disney Plus account. But Trump might want to slow his role a little bit, because it turns out he's not the only one making

plans for his future. Former US President Donald Trump, he is in hot water today with the New York Attorney General, Leticia James says her team has uncovered numerous instances of quote, fraudulent or misleading practices related to the Trump Organization's financial documents. The case also turning up the heat on Trump's children, who James says, quote have been closely involved with the

transactions in question. Investigators now taking legal action to compel Ivanka and Don Jr. To comply with subpoenas and appear for sworn testimony about the company's financial dealings investigators say in two thousand sixteen, Trump claimed his triplex was worth about three hundred and twenty seven million because it was over thirty thousand square feet. In reality, the AG's office

says it was eleven thousand square feet. They say the Trump CFO Alan Weisselberg, charged in a separate criminal case, admitted the value of Trump's apartment was overstated by give or take two hundred million dollars. Oh no, no, no, no, no, Donald, No, you can't exaggerate your apartment's value by two hundred million dollars. I mean, I'll give it if it was an n f T. But this is an apartment, my friend. I mean, at the same time, Old Trump does not give up.

Let's be honest. Let's doodle brag about himself, even if it gets him in trouble. I bet when a cop asks him if he knows how fast he was going, He's like, yeah, I do four billion miles a second, the fastest anyone has. Every good. Oh, it's so fast, So fast? Do you want to test it again? So fast? Asked me what I've been drinking all of it? And look, I get on Trump for a lot of stuff, but I can't get mad at him for this because deep down, he's just a landlord. And this is what every landlord

in New York does. They'll say an apartment has three bedrooms, and then you get there, two of the bedrooms are somehow in the kitchen. But it's still the best deal for your budget, so you sleep in the dishwasher. I mean, it is what it is, all right. But let's move on to the question everyone's been asking, what the hell happened to that package I ordered? Well, it turns out your asshole neighbor didn't swipe it off your front porch

this time. It actually got snatched long before that. If you ordered something from Amazon and didn't get it, it could be in this mess. This is the scene in Los Angeles. Trains carrying crates of orders are being robbed, with packages strewn around the tracks. As free trains slow down or come to a halt, the thieves leap on board with bolt cutters, open giant containers and take whatever they want. This is what they leave behind, all these boxes,

some empty, some not. Look this box was full of COVID home testing kits, a precious product tough to buy it. Many pharmacies This Amazon envelope wasn't even opened. The thieves just tossed it away. This track strewn with boxes, stretches as far as you can see in both directions. This entire area was cleaned up in mid December, which means that all of this came from train robberies in just the last month. God damn did you see that mess. It's like a Thomas the tank Engine episode of Hordes.

Ship is crazy and how could this happen in Joe Biden's America? The President loves trains and now they're getting robbed old willy nilly. That's not right, people. This is like if during the Kingson administration everyone was rubbing blow jobs. It's unacceptable. I mean, what if those packages contained like your grandmother's blood pressure medication, depending on how you feel about your grandmother, that could be a disaster. And the worst part is that when they don't want the packages,

they just leave them on the ground. I mean they even ditched COVID tests, which is just dumb. Those tests are worth more than the actual train. And you know what this means, right, and knowing how picky these robbers are is gonna make Valentine's Day extra stressful because either your surprise gift doesn't show up and your girl is piste off, or it does show up and she's still piste off. Well, if this necklace was so great, why didn't anyone steal it off a train? You cheap ass bitch.

And no, I don't think these robberies should be used as an excuse to have more police in America. I know people are going to say that you don't need more police for this. All you need is to fill one random train car with angry bees. Problem solved, all right. Finally, let's talk about a major new development in criminal justice reform. News anchor drop a Beach, jay Z and mic Mill teaming up to support a proposed New York state law

that would block lyrics from being used during trials. Both jay Z and Meek Mill they signed a letter saying this tactic effectively denies rap using the status of art, and then the process gives prosecutors a dangerous advantage in the courtroom. By presenting rap lyrics as rhyme confessions of illegal behavior, they are often able to obtain convictions even

when other evidence is lacking. The rappers are joined by other artists, including that Joe Big Sean, Kelly Roland, and Robin Thick and imploring lawmakers to sign the Rap Music on Trial Bill and turn it into law. Yeah, that's right. When someone gets arrested, prosecutors dig up any rap lyrics they might have written, and then they present them like it's a confession, which is ridiculous. People. Rap is an art for right. These songs are performances. The rappers are

just reading out their journals. Just because you rap about killing someone doesn't mean you did it. It's just that a lot of words rhyme with kill, chill, hill, window, sill, uncle, phil, all of the words you need in a rap song. And you don't want worries about legal troubles to interfere with musical freedom, especially not rap music, because throwing in the word allegedly after every rap lyric really screws with

the flow. Obamatomically Allegedly people are saying abomatomically, And if we're being honest, it's not a coincidence that they only do this with rap music, because this is just another way of targeting black people. I mean, half of country music songs are about the singer burning their excess car because they cheated, but I've never seen any of them prosecuted for it, So I hope this law gets past. I mean, the only downside is that criminals are going

to use it as a loophole to hide evidence. Every Wall Street board meeting is not going to have an m C in the corner. Oh my home is in the back. Move your account to the Cayman Islands. Bim bim bim bian. They can't use that, right, Yeah, we got them Goldman Sex. By the way, when I first heard that they wanted to stop prosecutors from using rap lyrics and trials, I thought that they meant the prosecutors

were the ones rapping. Grammars are really interesting thing that shapes how you see things, because I thought, like, the prosecutors are actually in court, like, Hi, my name is what my name is? District Attorney Theodore wasn'tiak. But all right, enough of that, Let's move on to our top story, which is about Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the only kid to make it out of

the Village of the Damned. Right now, he's embroiled in a huge scandal over secret COVID parties, So let's catch up on all the latest in our ongoing segments, Keep calm and party on. You may remember the outrage across Britain a couple of months ago when Boris Johnson was accused of throw being a secret party in the middle of lockdown against his own COVID rules. By the way, but the truth is there wasn't a secret COVID potty.

Turns out there were many secret COVID parties, and now Boris may have partied himself right out of a job, and the walls seem to be closing in on Boris Johnson. New poll in fact for the Observer newspaper shows sixty three percent nearly two of every three Briton's want Johnson out. As many as twenty Conservative members of Parliament say they planned to submit letters of no confidence. Fifty four letters are required to trigger a no confidence vote in Parliament.

Prime Minister Johnson his face calls to resign after reports that number ten Downing Street hosted parties over the past two years. The events were held when the United Kingdom government imposed strict COVID restrictions on gathering. I recognize the

enormous sacrifice that people have made. I apologize for miss judgments that may be made in number ten by me and anybody else, But please, can I ask him to wait for the inquiry to conclude one misjudgment that really hurts the apology to her Majesty the Queen over parties allegedly held in Downing Street the night before her Majesty sat alone at the funeral of her husband. You know this sucks for Queen Elizabeth. I haven't seen her that disappointed since she found out what Prince Andrew did on

his vacations. Apparently these are not the only photos Andrew and I can hardly blame her, you know, I mean, her husband had just died and here they were throwing parties without her. I mean, come on, this is our first chance in seven years to catch some fresh dick and no invites though that ship is messed up. Or you don't think people move on, you need to grow up. But you can see why so many people have turned on Boris or a scandal because while he was having parties,

the people of Britain were dealing with severe lockdowns. And I'm not talking about American lockdowns. I'm talking about real lockdowns, like there were curfews, the government limited how many people. You could see people weren't even allowed to have anyone over for Christmas. Yeah, if Santa came down your chimney, you'd have to shoot him dead, but they don't have guns in the UK, so you just have to beat

him to death. And look, I know Boris isn't the only political leader who has been caught partying against his own rules, but he might be the only one trying to pretend that he doesn't know what a party is. Prime Minister Johnson maintains he believed it to be an official work event, not a party. Now in email leaks showing a hundred people were invited to socially distant strings in Downing streets and to even bring their own booze.

The idea that you walked into the garden, there's forty people there, the tables are laid out with food and drink, and there's alcohol being served in the middle of a lockdown, and you think that's the work event that is just to Chris, isn't it. You are just taking the mickey out of the British people. Most nobody told me, and nobody nobody said that this was something that was against the rules. There was a breach of the COVID rules.

Or we were doing something that wasn't a work event. Yeah, no, nobody told me. I I didn't know it was a party. How do you know what a party is unless somebody says it's a party. How could you not know that that was a party. I mean, it's not a work event. They said bring your own booze. That never happens for a regular work meeting. No one's ever like, we really need to figure out our fourth quarter projections, So grab

some tequila because dad is making mugger readers? And also, am I the only person who finds aware that the leader of the government is the one saying nobody told me that this was against the rules. Nobody told me. Nobody told you. They're your rules, your rules to deal with a global pandemic. This isn't your kid's birthdays. You gotta remember the ship now. Boris's own former top aide says that he had warned Boris that the party broke COVID rules and that Boris has been lying under oath

to Parliament about it. But maybe these parties are just emblematic of how Boris thinks COVID rules didn't apply to him, like Apparently, back when Boris had COVID, he refused to stay in isolation and it got so bad that his staff and this is completely true, had to put chairs in the doorway to his office to block him from leaving. Yeah, honestly, I was shocked when I read this, mostly because I didn't know it was that easy to stop British people

from going places. Turns out, if Africa just put a couple of chairs in front of England, who could have stopped colonialism. So as of now, Boris is in big trouble, as they say in England, trouble. And really, if you're a prime minister who's been breaking the lockdown rules that you imposed on everybody else, you have to resign or

you can do this, you are morning. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has announced the end of all pandemic restrictions in the United Kingdom, saying that people will no longer be asked to work from home, masks no longer required in schools, the mandate to wear mask in public removed

as well. According to the Guardian, the swift change is seen as an attempt by Johnson to quell conservative anger over his lockdown breaching parties at Downing Street, and having looked at the data Katholey, the Cabinet concluded the once regulations laps, the governments will no longer mandate the wearing of face masks anywhere or ship. Boris went from B Y O B to d G A F. You can't break the rules if there are no rules. That's right, everybody,

no mosques, everybody, no restrictions. Are no more haircuts, bitches. And yet you could argue that suddenly lifting restrictions is just a cheap and dangerous attempt to curry public favor at the cost of writing a lethal virus. But on the other hand, restrictions are lifted, baby, So break out the liqu of Britain. It's time for a work event, all right. When we come back, Jordan Clapper has a very polite conversation with Matt Gates and it goes very

well for everybody. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. It has now been a year since the patriotic group of heroes stormed the capital to save democracy by hanging Mike Pence. So to give the day the honor it deserves, we sent Jordan Clapper down to the capital for a January six edition of Jordan Clapper Fingers the Pulse. It's been just over a year since the attack on the U. S. Capital, so last week i went back to Washington, d C. But

now I'm ready for anything. This time. I'm prepared contact in case they get thrown in jail, money belt in case I need to bribe an oath keeper when they take over the city that doesn't go down. I got Potbelling's money when I leave on a Union station. But unlike last year, today there was a piece a quiet a calumn that almost suggested perhaps our country is truly healing from the events of that day. And then we found this guy screaming at CNN s John King broadcasting

from a balcony. Fake news, bullshit. You what's your gorgeous shocking. I'll try to get across the people in the world. Man. I watched and watch Fox News every day, Chris Talker, Kennedy, I watch all of you guys. You know what it's like, money talk Yeah, rush hour, wear your shirts. F Biden, Joe Biden. I respect to our president. It's important to have respect for the office of the president exactly, and at the same time, were a shirt that says Biden

I mean for me? Yes, do you understand the inherent contradiction in that? Yes, I do, I do? I do, I do, I definitely do. When we drove by, I saw you screaming up at the second floor there at John King from CNN and go h you're saying that what I did there that was not That was me my personal opinion towards John King and and fake news. See then yes, so fake news CNN should go itself. Yeah, respectfully, respectfully, Yes, yes, I now do I want my kids seen me saying that? No,

of course not. But I mean we all have arguments. You did have your kid, I saw your kid in the cart, and I about for my kids in the car. Oh today, But they don't. They don't understand. I have aged to understand. Okay, so they did, see, they just don't understand. Correct. Unfortunately, our nation's leaders were respectfully divided on how to best remember the day. On the one hand, you had the Democrats condemning the attacks as only they know how We're privileged to have a contribution from one

of the great creative talents of our time. Lynn, then well, Miranda, and on the other hand, there were people like Representative Matt Gates and Marjorie Taylor Green who were unapologetic about what happened. And we're even planning an event of their own, proud of the work that we did on January six

to make legitimate arguments about election integrity. So we're going to make those arguments today and a press conference at two fifteen, and we're actually gonna go walk the grounds that that patriotic Americans walked from the White House to the Capitol Ah, a solemn walk in front of the media, to re enact the events of January six. Plenty of time for me to ask some questions as they patriotically

sauntered down. Oh ship, they're just getting into their cars. Hey, Matt Canson, you're gonna reenact the events in January six? Who is going to take a ship in the Retundan? And also who's gonna who's gonna make uh the gallows? Isn't this a little bit childish matter? Is that what attracts you to this? Oh? Well, I'll catch him at one of the other sedition re enactments. Of course, there were some who witnessed the event's firsthand who have a

different attitude towards the rioters when it comes to insurrections. Come, I don't give an I quote you on that. Yeah. Representative Ruben Diego was inside with fellow congressman of both parties, just yards away from the violence. Look, I was scared for the country. I was scared for my colleagues. Um, I was piste off. The thing I remember the most is seeing the fear in the eyes of some very young staffers. I was here that day. It was chaotic. I gotta called an asshole just over there? Was it

by a member of Congress? Or the guy had a pitchfork? Do you know the pitchfork guy? Is he a member of Congress? Ars he he might be probably from the Freedom Caucus. Yeah, the guy he's talking about the pitchfork. If he's not in Congress, he's definitely running in the mid term. Is the front runner. Yet later, outside the halls of power, Democrats gathered for a vigil, hoping the country would never have to go through a horrible day

like that again. But down the road there was another vigil for outside in jail right now, going to vigil number two, where they'd chose to look on the bright side of the potential treason. What would you call the events of January six a wonderful, glorious event. People were excited that day. January six was the greatest day of montar life. Okay, and you're obviously not a police officer.

There was no insurrection that day. If there was any intention on our part, we would have been actually freaking arm. If there was intention, people would come with it, and we would have been with zip ties or bear spray or a pitchfork felt fence. What about the people who did come with zip ties, bear spray and pitchfor us, Well, that those were arms, Those are just minable defensive measures.

Who is the candlelight vigil for that? All of the patriots, all of the hundred forty patriots, the police officers were injured that day. Yeah, so it's for the police officers that this is for the patriots that are in prison, the people arrested for injuring the police officers that day. It was the people standing up to say you stop the steal. We're here at the sight of where the January six protesters are being detained. This is a vigil for them. Their rights have been taken away. So criminal

justice is obviously a big issue for you. I'm interested in protecting everyone's rights. Are you going to Rikers Island to protest the fifteen people who died last year? I am not. Even a year later, selective victimization was still trending hot. At the end of the day. It might have felt that nothing has really changed, that we were locked in endless loop talking about the same things with the same people. I felt like that, apparently for a good reason. I saw you in Hershey, that's right, you

bet hanging in there? Are you bet? I've a wouldnt just a near downfall of demography. It's been it's been a busy it's been a busy year or two. Yeah, it's been a little hectic, hectic year. Indeed, thank you so much for that, Jordan's and if you want to see even more from Jordan's trip, check out the link below for additional scenes available only on the web. All right, when we come back, I'll be talking to the star of the critically acclaimed remake of West Side Story, Arianna Debos,

So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is award winning actor, singer, and dancer Arianna Debos. She's here to talk about starring as Anita in West Side Story. Arianna Debose, Welcome to the dayly Show. You I don't think we're talking, we're talking. What are you talking about? Yeah? And welcomes. It's really good to have you here, especially now. Like you know, some people,

if they're Broadway officionados, have seen you. You know you've You've been just I think you've been grinding at this thing in Broadway with ten years right where you've done everything, every different type of production. You're a consummate performer, singer, dancer, actress, everything all in one. But it feels like this is your moment, Like you don't where the overnight success comes together after ten years. It feels like that's that moment.

Does it feel the same way for you? I hesitated to say it, but yes, um what he hesitates because I'm really enjoying it, like I'm having fun. I don't want to want it to go away. You know moments, their moments, they're like they're they're fleeting. No, no, no, no at all, Like COVID is a moment and look how long it's going for you know what, You're not wrong? So um, I'm just um, whatever it is, however anyone

interprets it. I'm just enjoying whatever this is while it lasts, because it's been really fun and it's not every day you get to make a movie with Steven Spielberg and and what you're asked to execute, it's actually something you do. I was like, Oh, I have to do other kinds of homework, but the bones of what this job is, I got that great. I love that, and I mean, you know, it's it's also you need to be in

a position where you're having fun. The audience is having fun watching you have fun, and then the critics are having fun as well. Like that's the perfect combination of what you'd like in OX. You know, because Screen Actors Guild nomination, right, Golden Globe winner, congratulations, thank you, right, um, Like it just feels like you you're in this world. In CP Award as well, I should mention, yes, that's also another nomination I was really honored by by. I'm

honored by it all. I'm I'm very grateful for the opportunities to be seen, especially for artists of color. Like it feels like we're all starting to have a different kind of moment right now and most of our work is not only being seen but considered invalued in different ways. That's really the heart of why I'm so excited. I think it's an honor for anyone who gets to talk to you because of what you're doing in all of the mediums you're doing it in. Like Triple Threat gets

thrown around a lot. You know, people like you, but you really are that. You know. SNL was one of the best examples. Congrats by the way, we thank you, Thank you. I had a lot of fun on that show. You looked like you did. You did so well that like I've seen people crush it on SNL, I have seen very few people crush it to the point where people watching are like, where's her SNL? That that would

be fun, people like when doing her own things. Well, that's cool that I'm actually not not so shy about the fact that I really want to bring the Variety showback, like I really want to do it. So if anybody wants to hit me up on that, cool um. It seems like to me, you are soon becoming the puzzle piece that everyone is going to have to figure out how to fit around. That's cool. I've never been I've never had that I've ever had that. I genuinely feel

like that is what you are. You are very quickly becoming. I mean, West Side Story is a few films get remade with as much pressure as this one has had. You are playing a role that is arguably one of the most important roles in not just film history, but then like in the history of so many Latino actresses where they go like, this was this was it? You know, this was the Rita Marino moment that changed film for a lot of people. It had an influence in your life,

Yes it did. And I saw it when I was Gosh, I guess I felt like six or seven, you know, and I didn't understand who she was, but I understood she sort of looked like me, and I wanted to dance just like her. And then, and not until my adulthood did I really understand the full spectrum of of what West Side Story did for her, what what and what she came to mean to our community. But then also the struggles that she faced after winning an oscar.

You know, it's like she became the first Latina to win an oscar, and then all of a sudden there was no work, so she had to find other ways to expand her career, and I as it makes me very sad that that was her experience, but also when you look at her breadth of work, she showed you that Latino's are not we don't just do this, we do this. That's really cool. I mean, I think specifically related to West Side Story, my being after Latina. That makes me especially proud of what I've been able to

accomplish because we really are not represented on screen. And I don't think that any film is a perfect film, but I do think the fact that we that my inclusion in this film works were the beginnings of getting it right. And if Stephen can do it one of the greatest directors of all time because he is um, then I think everybody else can. He's one of the

greatest directors of all time. But you said you said know to him when he asked you to read lines, Well, I did, but that was simply because I had found out about this audition very very last minute. I was on Broadway at the time. I was playing Donna Summer, which was a very challenging role for me, and leading a company takes a lot out of you, and I don't make a habit of going into a room within the one in it and being unprepared. Do you like?

But if I like, that's that's the difference. If I walked into the room and Steven Spielberg was on the let's say I walk into the elevator in this building, and then with Steven Spielberg, and then he said, Trevor, I need you to read these lines. I just stought reading the lines, started reading them. I wouldn't be like, no, Steven Spielberg, I haven't prepared. I would just read you said you said no. I said no because I wanted. I was like, this is I'm not prepared to show

you a viable interpretation of this character. And I would rather do that. Then. I'd rather give you something that's usable than give you something that's like, oh my god, thank you so much for coming in and next like I want to. If I was gonna do it, it already took a lot of guts for me to walk into the room because I didn't actually believe that i'd ever be considered for the job, but alone get the job. Um, then I was going to do it and do it

well in a way. I feel like you saying no to doing it incorrectly and wanting to do it your way and the best way possible is part of your character, Like, that's that's who it is story, it is, that is who she is at her heart. And I think a lot of my characters like there are different bits of me within them, and that is the part of me

that is Anita. So before I let you go, I'd love to talk about one of the most just like amazing moments in in film, and and that is when a character who has created a moment in history comes back to the film. Obviously, I'm speaking about Ria Marino, who comes back in West Side Story playing a different role, but comes back as an executive producer. And then you're in a scene with her. I wonder if that if

that was a lot of pressure for you. Was there any moment that you shared with her where you were like, Okay, this is this is my thing that I've sort of inherited from her, and I have the opportunity to turn it into what I want. I mean, we we spoke briefly at the beginning of the process, but she was very supportive. Thank god. She made me feel very comfortable and just encouraged me to bring everything that made me unique to the character and just let me gave me

permission in her own energetic way to fly. And now the scene you're talking about is its deep, heavy subject matter, and so I sort of shifted into just focusing on who the characters were and playing the truth of the characters. Because if I had actually thought about, all, right now, you're going to yell at rhom reno, I don't think anybody if it hadn't been me, I don't think anybody would have been comfortable with doing that. Well you know what you did it you you looked more than comfortable.

I mean you you you're just sailing. And congratulations on the award. Congratulations on the nominations and everything that you're going to achieve. Man, thank you for joining on the Thanks for having me. West Side Story is in theaters right now. You definitely want to go and watch it. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. Well that's our shore for tonight's but

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