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the year, and he's shirtless the whole movie. Alets start starts joining us, everybody, let's on. We're going to be talking about the big election in France. It is a very important story. But don't worry, I will be doing a silly accent to first, let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right, let's kick things off with the big media news. As you know, as you know, not Neo, there are now more streaming services than heart takes about Elon Musk right,

there's everything. There's there's Netflix, there's Hulu, there's Paramount Plus, there's HBO, mans Paramount Plus and of course everyone's favorite Paramount Plus and so last month, seeing the gap in the market, CNN launched its own streaming service called CNN Plus, and this was a big deal. In fact, they said it would be the future of news, and if that's the case, the future is looking bleak. Quest than a month after launching, CNN Plus announced today the streaming services

shutting down could launch March twenty nine. Warner Brothers Discovery Networks made that decision, though, saying it was about quality and quote customers will be best served with a simpler streaming choice. Last week's CNBC reported that the streaming service had less than ten thousand views a day. About three million dollars has been invested so far in CNN Plus. The plan, according to my sources, was to put a billion dollars into it over the course of four years,

hoping to hit profit after four years. Wow, did they say that less than ten thousand views a day? You could have just been on TikTok. That's wild. CNN Plus was such a disaster they'll have to send Anderson Cooper to cover it in a type black T shirt. It's a stay say. The craziest part of the story is that they said they spent three hundred million dollars on this thing, three hundred million dollars. What did you do with that? Did you like clone wolf Blitz or something? Not?

Because if you did that, I'd actually watch that show. Yeah, I've got breaking news, I've got breaking news. But you want to know what the worst part about the CNN Plus thing is is that I can't make jokes about all the shows on it because nobody knows what they are. Yeah, it's not fair. It's not like you're gonna understand a joke about the CNN Plus show Jake Tapper's book Club because you don't even know if that's a real show. But it is? Or is it? Now? I'm kidding it's fake.

It's fake. How you believe me it's actually real? Do you sing love? Do you don't know? It is a real show? What's a real show? All right, But let's move on to a different spectacular disaster. Rudy Giuliani, former aide to Donald Trump and lawyer who makes all these clients look innocent in comparison. Since his role in the attempt to overthrow the election, Giuliani has largely disappeared from public view like a snail retreating into its shell. But

way more disgusting. And if there's one thing America loves, it's a big comeback. And last night Rudy got his a little bit of controversy on the Mass Singer. Last night, personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulianni popped out of a giant rooster suit while singing a rendition of Bad to the Bone the Way. But but as he revealed himself, this is what happened. Judge gen Jung stormed off the stage

apparently didn't like it, saying I'm done. Yeah, Rudy Giuliani just got voted off the Mosque Singer, which means he's about to spend the next five years claiming that he actually won the Mosque Singer. And I guess history history was made last nights because for the first time in the Mosque Singer's history, a contestant took off their masque and everyone's like, no, no, put it back on, put it back on, put it on. We don't want to

get put it back on. It's also weird how Rudy has the time to be on a game show, but he's too busy to testify in front of Congress, like maybe they should have just tricked him, right, Congress should have just like made it seem like it was the most singer combined the whole thing, pop him in the giant cocks room, and then send me in front of

the giants committee. He too it. Yeah, that's the game show American means Bernie Sanders would be sitting there like, oh, based on his other disregard for democracy are I'm gonna guess the rule star is Rudy Juliani. Let's pick up the mine sing the world bothering doulf I called yours heaven. I could see the melting through the mask. I say it. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go, let's check in on traffic without very on Royal Junior.

Everybody's going on. But you see that trod. We looked at the road, you know, before you have a man, let me just say something about to see an M plus thing. Huh. I don't appreciate the fact that they didn't give it a chance. All right. Look, I don't know how you'll do in Africa like in America. Like if you're in a bad relationship, you don't break up, you get married, and you add a kid and a house and credit card debt and another kid. You cheat on each other a little while, and then after twenty

years you get a divorce. That's the American way, and you've got to give stuff a chance just because look that. I think that's a terrible way. I mean, that's probably why Afghanistan was so long. Roy You shouldn't get out quickly when you realize you made a mistake. So when something's bad, you're saying you should just end it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What you mean, like, what about this? You're going in this? This is this is what I'm doing, this job, You're going in this soon? No, this is

this is am I says. I say, you say this is great. What do you mean this is going? This is going well, just practical. You should then you think, should you give me a little money because you look, I'm sorry to jam you up like this, but this is live TV. This is a perfect place. I got you by the balls right now. I just need to because you do this. I don't know this, you know, I don't know. Don't encourage him. Do the topic. It checks all right the road. If you used to the traffic.

That's I just don't feel comfortable doing. Look, can you just pay me now for the rest of the year. Just pay me now years you've got credit card on you on your card, let me get you credit card. We're gonna take you to the very inferences. They're like little days, welcome back to the day to show you may or may not know this, but right now Europe is experiencing one of its most uncertain periods in a long time, with a lot of questions that they have

yet to answer. You know, how involved should they get in the war in Ukraine? Should NATO continue to expand? Is Harland the same place as the Netherlands? And if so,

why do they have two different names? And with Angelo Merkel no longer holding everything together like Europe's later Hosen, all eyes have now turned to France, and it turns up before France can figure out what to do with Europe, they've got to figure out what to do with themselves, as will learn in another installment of other Countries have

news too. For decades now, France has been one of the few countries in Europe you didn't have to worry about, right, They didn't make Nazis, They didn't go bankrupt, they didn't hire a wet teletubby as their prime minister. But this weekend, this coming weekend, as the French people get up for a national election, everyone is wondering if this is the

moment when France goes off the deep end. A rematch runoff in the battle for the most powerful politician in France current President Emmanuel McCrone and far right candidate Marine Lapin. The two will face off on April as a repeat of their two thousand and seventeen election. This is the far right leaders third and final attempt at the French presidency, and if you go by the polls, she's never got

as close as this. With the very latest polls suggesting more support for Marine Lapin, more people are asking whether France is on the verge of its own Brexit moments or Trump moments. There's a possibility of a French Trump. Jesus, if you thought Donald Trump was Herni horny before. I don't think the world is ready for what this election could bring. Can you imagine that? My fellow bellegians, then

Mona Lisa, but she needs to smell more. If I win, We're gonna make Mona Lisa smell again, so much smelling, sut malling. But yeah, France's current president's Emmanuel mccron is going up against far right candidates Marine le Pan right in an election that is happening this Sunday. And yesterday they sat down for their first and only debate of the campaign, and throughout the night you could tell that

these two do not get along. French President Emmanuel mccron is barring with his far right rival Marine le Pen in a fiery, high stakes TV debate last night, two politicians who clearly don't like or respect each other. The longer it went on, the worst the atmosphere. I find it so hard to follow you, as you have made so many false accusations. Stop mixing things up. Do not give me a lesson. I'm not giving you a lesson. Do not give me a lesson on how to finance

my plan. You know, I know this fight was considered intense by French media, but by American standards, that was pretty true. Everyone stayed in their seats, no one screaming. If anything, it looked less like a debate and more like a stressed couple arguing at a restaurant. You know, it was like, no, Brian, I told you my parents gave me that money. I don't want to spend it on cryptole. I told you, babe, it's not crypto, it's an n f G. I would difference. What's the difference? Oh?

That was missing from that debate was that moment you know, when you're having done any fighting as a couple, and then the way it comes over and makes it super awkward. That's that's all. This mystic was just the way to coming in in the middle of that whole fight, you know, just being like okay, everybody, so um, the specials of the day are Oh, I feel like I walked into something here, did I I'm feeling a little tension. Did he Did he say something to you? Is that? Is that?

What it is? Yeah? You know what I feel like, you guys need to work something out. I'll come back. I'll give you some time. I'll be back in about ten seconds. Okay, okay, bye bye bye. Not The stakes for this debates were probably the highest that France has ever seen because this election has gotten a lot closer than people expected. You see, when these two faced off in mccron beat lapin By, but with only a few

days left in this election. Recent polls have showed Lapin within single digits, right, So she's not leading in the polls, but remember neither was Donald Trump in Yeah, my point is, hopefully mcrown visits whatever France's Wisconsin is. And there's a number of reasons. There's a number of reasons that the

pen is catching up to mcron. Right. The country has experienced a refugee crisis, there's obviously been a pandemic, and of course there's rising inflation, which is why a lot of French voters are angry at mccron and saying things like this. In fact that everyone talks about the taxes, the taxes, the taxes, this woman said, we have no spending power. We just work and buy groceries to eat, We go out to restaurants less, we do less Otherwise, it's really tough. At the end of the month, I

think Frances collapsing from the inside. You know, every time you think pre stereotypes are exaggerated, you see something like that, because no, because using your cuisine to comment on the dire state of your politics, that's the most French thing you could do. You don't have a country is collapsing from the inside. No, because think about I've never seen people in any other country make a metaphor like that

on the news. Not once have I seen someone being interviewed in the streets of Nigeria being like, our problems run deeper than the flavors. That's not a thing. It's not a thing. But of course, elections are about choices. A lot of French people are thrilled with mccron's presidency, but they'll still take him compared to the person that he's running against, the notorious Marine le pan because you see,

she has a long history of being Islamophobic, of being xenophobic, agoraphobic. Basically, she doesn't like a lot of ship is what I'm saying. And on top of that, the people that she does like tell you a lot about the type of leader that she would be. Lapin is a NATO skeptic. She wants to leave the EU and has modeled her campaign on President Trump. Lapin has a hit story of closing up to President Putin, even putting a picture of them together in one of her campaign pamphlets. The policies I

represent are the policies represented by Mr Trump. They're represented by Mr Putin at a that take didn't age well, and she likes Putin. I mean to be fair to her. They asked her about Putin in twenties seventeen, and back then Putin was just undermining elections and poisoning people. It was still too soon to tell. She was like, I'm on the fence. You never know, but you see its views like these that led to Lepen getting crushed when she ran in seventeen. But here's what's dangerous about her.

Just like a terminator, she gets smarter with each sequel. Yeah, no, you see, after the last election, she started to rebrand as a kind of gentler racist, you know. Yeah, may I take you back to where you came from? And the way she did that? She did it but not abandoning her extremist views. No, she just doesn't men shoo them as much anymore. It's basically like when you do a zoom meeting and then you point the camera at that one team corner of your apartments. Do you know

what I mean? Now, all of the sudden things seem under control, but you've still got a family of raccoons eating leftover Chinese food on your couch. It still the same world. And Lapan hasn't stopped at just moderating her words. No, she's trying to revamp her image to cultivate a more cuddly version of herself. Marine Lapan has wrapped herself in nice words and her cats. She's become a cat breeder. Everybody loves that. This kitten is so beautiful, that her

name is her majesty, so endurable. That's how you know Lapin had the worst possible image before because her pr people were like, you know, it will make you more relatable, becoming a cat lady. It's going to help. So that's where France stands headed into the election this Sunday, Moderate incumbents with weak approval numbers, hoping to hold off a xenophobic Putin ally who's coming back for one last shot at the presidency. And you know, that's what I love

about French politics. It's just so different from the USA. All Right, when we come back, Alexander scars Gard is gonna be joining on the show talking about to heavy show. My guest tonight is Golden Gold and Emmy Award winning actor Alexander scars Gard. He's here to talk about his latest role in the Viking epic The Northman, Please welcome Alexander Scott god on the man himself, Alexander Scot Sweden sexiest man five years yeah, five times over twenty years ago.

Welcome to the Daily Show, Frank Things. First, Um, you were on you what you're on? Stephen Colbert showed yesterday? Weren't you? Yeah? Huh yeah? And Stephen Colbert tested He said today he tested positive for COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah he did. Um, so we may or may not have made out. I thank thanks God blurry after the show. Um, no, I yes, I was on on Stephen Colbert Show last night, and uh I've tested potton. M h. You're saying I've tested on negative extremely negative three times today, so I

should be fine. But this is probably a good idea. Oh yeah, because we make this a very awkward first date. This is ah, this is my first time being in this situation. Yeah, this is not This is like Putin's table when he talks to people. That's what this is. Let's figure off what we're doing, what we can do, we can We've got basically as intimidated as his advisor. But this is like long range. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having This is my first socially distanced interview.

I like this, this is you know, we got the vibe going on. Congratulations on the movie. I like, first of all, I love Vikings. I love no, really, I grew up loving Vikings, just like the mythology, like the you know, the dragons of stories that every thing, because you know you'll you'll you'll you'll watch stories or you'll read stories as a kid, right, but Viking stories always seemed like it was like the best combination of everything. And you took what ten years to get this movie going?

Pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I feel like it's pretty It's like your herit said, you are like a Viking essentially. Well, I was born in Sweden and from and I'm from a Sweden family. And my last name scar Scart actually means scar as a Viking name, Gored means farm and it's a allegedly a place in on one of the islands outside of Sweden, So you're Viking. Who knows it was a thousand years ago, but according

to my grandfather where direct descendants of scar Let. Me say something, if I have any name, if like my last name was Trevor Giant Slayer, I'd be like yo, I slay giants. I'm related to people's slaves. Just just claim it. So, so let's talk about the film a little bit. Man. It's I was actually it's funny. I

was in the movie. I was watching everything everywhere all at once, and that's when I saw the first trailer four your film, and it was epic, Like, I mean, it's there's this one scene where you grabbed, like someone throws a spear at you, and then like your character grabs a spear throws it like that was the moment, you know when you watch your trailer. I was like, I'm in, I'm buying, I'm I'm buying my tickets. No, it's one of the most epic looking movies every well

we want. That was kind of the reason I wanted to make the movie because I've never seen a big, epic Viking movie that took on the mythology seriously or really went in deep into the mythology and where you could experience on the fantastical world, the mythology the spirits through the eyes of someone a thousand years ago. So that was kind of the goal. And starting you've done it, Man, it looks amazing. You look amazing in it. I mean,

you know, like when the state is getting better and better. Actually, if if Steven didn't have COVID, we would probably be making out as well. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for being Thiop being negative and be so positive and joining as star has got everybody Themochman alpens Old Kids. April twenty second, We're gonna take a quick break, will be right back off of this.

We'll about to keep cutching because Shorlan Up Offenders the Blood of Hungary or Democracy is coming up next until tomorrow there and for the French elections this weekend. Mary and Leapin. May you be a successful at CNN Plus. Watch The Daily Show weeknights and eleven ten Central on Comedy Central. In stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast