You're listening to comedy Central State of the Unions vestige of a time that's long gone. Like before technology, you needed the president to come and do that. Now we don't need it. Like, what's the person's gonna come and tell you inflation is high? Yeah, we know, we know back in the day that you needed the president to come and be like, guys, so there's a new disease is called tuberculosis. The ship is coming for you, guys. And then you're like, Toberca, what's that too late for you?
My man? All right, next day of the Union, you know what I mean, Like it was like a thing. Now the president just comes to tell you stuff. It seems like the president is reading like Twitter, but like like a year late. And the President is like, you know, we saw people in the streets protesting. My man, we we we we already saw that. It's like, sorry, guys, I I print all my tweets and then I read them a year later. The state of the Union is strong.
One year, just one year. The president should see people are listening to be like, guys, Oh, the ship is the ship is crazy. I mean, like I hope we get stronger about this ship is crazy. Man at the State of the Union. Yea, yeah, yeah yeah. Have you guys seen the press of guests? Have you seen what's happening in Russia? I don't know, man, I don't know. Instead of the Union, we'll get by, Okay, we'll get by. I just want to be honest with you, guys. We're
a country, right, Let lie about these things. Yeah, guyslet'ta go get a drink after this. Coming to you from the heart of Times where in New York City, the only city in America. It's The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight the World boycotts Russia black State of the Union. Here by about curve is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. We are now on day six of Russia
invading Ukraine for no particular reason. So let's jump straight into the latest news in our ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine. As we all know, Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine last week. And if you didn't know that, then that opening graphics thing must have been a really weird way for you to find out. But anyway, when Russia first launched this invasion, what seems more and more plausible is that they thought Ukrainians would just be
like Russia. Ukraine, what's the difference, come on in? But quite the opposite has happened. Ukrainians have stood strong, They've united in their defense, and because of that, Russia has really ramped up their attacks. This morning, Russia escalating its attacks, striking civilian targets in Ukraine's second largest city, Khaki. An administrative building targeted with a massive strike. Multiple social media videos from the scenes showing the attack by Krkiv Freedom Square.
Jude Rights Watch pointing to this video online accusing the Russians of using cluster bombs on recision. If verified from the tack on civilian areas would be a war crime. Now the capitol itself maybe in the crosshairs of an all out battle. New satellite images show a massive forty mile Russian military convoy on the move from the north. Russia's advance is leaving a trail of destruction in its path, wrecking villages and suburbs on the way. Holy ship. That
looks terrifying. You see the bombs dropping on the parking lot, the building. You know that just blew it up. Everything, Everything blown to smoothly. And this is, by the way, is before before the forty mile long convoy gets there, the one that's heading to Kiva. Think about that for a second, like this is this is so unfair. And I mean, we've always known that Russia is unfair. We know that they don't play fair. I mean they sent an actual steroid to compete in the Olympics. But this
is beyond unfair. This is a war crime. And if anything, it's exposed Russias lies about why they're coming to Ukraine. Oh, we're coming to liberate the Ukrainian people from what? From what? Having a place to stay. There's no wonder that the entire world no longer wants anything to do with Russia. And the more Putin escalates, the more the world backs away, backlash against Russia from the business sector and beyond local and national businesses, sports and even the arts pushing back.
Just seconds ago, we got word that Apple is now officially banning all products sales in Russia. Meanwhile, ICE skating's world governing body has suspended Russian and Belarussian skaters from participating in international competition, effective immediately. As for entertainment, Warner Brothers has halted the release of The Batman in Russia. Disney and Sony also announced that they would pause film
releases in Russia. Finally, Netflix will not plan to add Russian state TV channels to its service, despite a new law in the country that requires that they do so. Yep. In addition to cutting off Russia's banking and let's travel, the world is now cutting off its access to technology and entertainment. And Honestly, as much as I agree with movie companies cutting off the Russians, I don't think they've gone far enough. Like, if you really want to punish Russia,
you should just block new movies. They should rerelease old movies, but without any of the good parts, you know. Yeah, it should just be like now showing in Moscow theaters, It's Star Wars, but just jarge Our binks the Matrix but Neo never leaves the office and m Night Shamalan's old. They don't have to change anything for that one. They just leave it the way it does and send it
to Russia. But between getting kicked out of international sports and losing access to Western products, Russians are going to start noticing that the life that they used to has changed because of Vladimir Putin's decision, although Putin he's trying to fill that void himself. What are you worried about the movie not pulling in Russia? We will do not worry, but we throw you in jails. Now. Russia have mainly great TV and movie to watch thanks to new streaming
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jail now. Despite all of the destruction that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine, the President of Ukraine is still standing strong. Today. He delivered a speech via satellite to the European Union where he vowed that Ukraine would never surrender its freedom,
and he received a standing ovation from the speech. Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister of Russia gave a speech to United Nations Human Rights Counsel, and most of the diplomats stood up and walked out of the speech in protest, which I mean, to be fair, nobody wants to hear a speech about respecting human rights from someone who's currently bombing civilians. It's like the guys from Jackass giving a lecture about
testicle safety. In fact, the way things are going these days, there's a decent chance that any speech by Russia is just gonna end with And so in conclusion, look the doors released the poison. Thank you for sending my thought. Now that's for the people of Ukraine. Everyone around the world has been inspired by the resistance that they've put up so far, you know, and their ability to tell Russia to go fun itself in so many different ways.
We've seen powerful images posted to social media showcasing the courage of ordinary Ukrainian people. We are seeing Ukrainians coming out manning checkpoints, taking their hunting rifles shotguns, standing next to Ukrainian troops. They are cutting down road signs by the roadside in an attempt to confuse advancing Russian troops it's a popular sentiment on the streets. This man's sign is too vulgar to translate. Schmatko is a grandmother and
a retired economists. These are the only weapons she has, but she says she's ready to fight. Let those Russian ships come here, she says, we are ready to greet them. This shows what is purported to be a Ukrainian farmer attempting to tell a Russian tank off his land with his tractor. Do you have a message for President putin geogas will find out event of the You know what I love about the bleep sound is that no matter what language you speak around the world, you always know
what it means. Yeah, because if I tell you to river, you can safely assume that I wasn't wishing you a happy birthday, and yo that she was crazy. Did you see that this is the middle of the war. That farmer told a Russian tank away with his tractor. That is the most gangst thing on the farmer's side and
is the most embarrassing thing for the Russian soldier. I mean, especially the way like he's chasing off of them, like the cops just Tody's called, oh come on, that was about to feed them meat, and despite the overwhelming odds, you have to respect the fight man. You have to respect the fight that the Ukrainian people are putting up.
Civilians are grabbing shotguns, farmers are towing tanks like. One thing we're learning from this war is if you're gonna invade a country, maybe don't pick the one where the grandmas know how to turn their knitting into a firebomb. Or you look thirsty, how about the drink. But as brave as these people are, everyone is still terrified about the potential outcome of this war, and that's mainly because the madman who has launched it is really, really, really unpredictable.
Growing fears about the mental stability of Vladimir Putin as Russia pushes ahead with its invasion of Ukraine. One American familiar with the intelligence telling san end quote Putin has been completely isolated, partly because of COVID. He's now just basically by himself, completely cut off from most of his advisers, isolated geographically. The only people talking to him were secon
fans who are just feeding his resentment. We saw new images that show the lengths Putin has gone in recent weeks to isolate and socially distanced himself from others, even his closest advisors and cabinet members. We're seeing him sitting at the end of a very long table. Those long tables have become his trademark, and his aids are clustered altogether. On one end, he sits by himself on the other.
U S Intelligence has learned that Putin has has exploded in anger at people in his inner circle, expressing frustration over the state of the military campaign in Ukraine and the worldwide condemnation of his actions. That's unusual, they say, because as a former intelligence officer, Putin usually keeps his emotions in check. Yeah, apparently Putin is really piste off because this invasion is not going how he planned. And this is a big deal because usually Vladimir Putin doesn't
show any emotions. Like if you've ever seen him, he's always got this weird combination of being super calm and also super dangerous, like a cobra that took too many edibles. You know, it's just like, s how do you do a colebron weed? And you know, it actually makes sense. It makes sense that people haven't seen Putin show his emotions before, because remember Vladimir Putin is a trained spy.
Spies have to keep their emotions in check. Like even if a spy goes to a party and at that party they're serving pigs in a blanket, you can't freak out and get all excited like normal people come be like, oh ship, they got pigs in a blanket. No, you can't do that. You've gotta be like pigs and blanket. It's okay, I guess, give me like seven. But you know, it does make sense. It makes complete sense that he's lashing out. Now, remember this, Putin doesn't know what it's
like to lose. He wins every re election without campaigning. He wins judo matches against world champions. Now suddenly he's having trouble beating a country that's a fraction of the size of his No wonder he's mad. And by the way, this war shows you the big difference between a guy like Trump and a man like Putin, because like as bad as Trump was, he never had the vision and
the focus that Putin has. You know, Putin's dreams to reunite the Soviet Union and turn Russia back into the superpower that it was the only dream Trump ever had was to combine a big mac with the bucket of KFC. Yeah, that's probably what he made the Area fifty one work on. Forget the alien autopsies. This is more important. We need to get the chicken inside them, meet deep in a gender. The point is this. The point is that anyone in the world can be a madman. But once you add
power and vision, that's where ship gets real. But please, please, I beg you don't confuse Putin with Russia because although he's in charge, there are a lot of people in Russia who don't like their president or his war, and they have also been displaying some extraordinary courage. Resistance to Russia's attack on Ukraine is growing, and not just around the world, but also within its own board anti war
protesters risking their safety here in St. Petersburg. It's one of many protests across the country as Russian authorities have detained nearly six thousand people, grandmothers, teenagers, women, you name it, some saying they'd rather risk arrest than live with guilt. Women. I want the whole world to see that we don't want it, this woman says. Powerful signals of an awakening to aggression and injustice. No war please. This is what
a number of athletes and celebrities are advocating for. Russian tennis star Andre Ruble asking for peace after his win Friday, hundreds of journalists signing a petition at the director of the Bullshoi Ballet signing a petition, even the children of onogochues and of Kreminine officials speaking out on social media against the war, and the Russian lawmaker who voted with President Putin just this week now saying I didn't vote
for Kiev to be bombed. Man, You've got to give credits to people protest in this war, because you know how brave it is speak up against Russia inside Russia, Like I'm not even in Russia, and I'm going to test my coffee for poison after this show, Like you know, it's it's always funny how people in America, I think the world has ended when they get banned from Twitter, But think about it. In Russia. They don't delete your Twitter, they delete your life. And it's not just many Russian
civilians who are against the war. No. One reason the invasion might not go as well as Russia has hoped is that even some of its own soldiers reportedly don't want to be there. Many of them thought that were just doing military exercises and they weren't even told that they were being sent into war. Just think about that. I mean, I think we can all agree that war is the worst kind of surprise there is. I mean, well that and the reveal on love is blind. Oh you have a face tattoo in the shape of a
goatee and so happy. So even within Russia, people are standing up and risking their lives to stop an unjust war, which is probably why Putin is sorting to things like this. Putin is ramping up efforts to control the narrative at home, banning media from characterizing Russia's attack on Ukraine as an assault, invasion, or declaration of war. Instead, state run media propaganda paints
Ukraine as Nazi aggressors and Putin as Russia's defender. The Russian state TV has not been showing a Russian forces attacking Kiev or attacking Harkiv. Russians who watch TV don't really see all the things that are going on in Ukraine. We have seen crackdowns on social media over the last couple of days. Twitter has been operating at an absolutely sluggish face. The Russian government has said it will censor parts of Facebook. Wow, So not only is Putin cracking
down on descent, but he's lying about what's actually happening. Yeah, he's even banning the media from calling it an assault, an invasion, or a war, all of the things that it is. By the way, she means, Russian news costs must be like deepen the the sours. How do you even describe this? Now to our ongoing coverage of the international bullet exchange taking place in Ukraine right now? What's crazy about this whole thing is how Russia isn't banning Twitter.
Did you see that? They said, they're just slowing it down, like really slowing it down, which I feel like it's somehow worse, you know. I mean, if you banned Twitter, fine, you've banned it at least that way people get, you know, time, you'll be more productive. You're non productive, I would be Twitter suddenly disappeared, so much more time to watch TikTok. So look, people, there's really no sugarcoating the situation right now. Despite the bravery of Ukraine and the efforts around the
world to punish Russia. This invasion might get a lot worse before it gets better, and if Putin is as crazy as he seems, our only hope at this point is that, like some hero, Ukrainian farmer will come to him and his giant as table away as far as possible. All Right, we gotta take a quick break, but when we come back, we'll hear Roywood Jor's address on the States of Black Shit. You don't want to miss it.
Welcome back to the Daily Show. Joe Biden has just finished his State of the Union speech tonight, and we didn't see it because I couldn't find the remote until after it was over, So we'll just have to cover it tomorrow. But as always when the President talks about the State of the Union, were at the Daily Show offer our annual response where we cover the issues that are of special importance to Black America. So please rise your ass off the couch as Roywood Jr. Delivers the
Daily Show's annual State of Black Ship address. Didn't even black people, African Americans, and the new and improved brown emminim. I'm coming to you from one of the blackest locations in America on top of one of those houses from the Super Bowl half time silver as gonna speak to you. Snoop Dogg is twelve feet below me highs Hill. No I did that the Super Bowl into two three weeks ago. But tonight, Black people, we are gathered to once again
ask ourselves the question, well, we is the passion. It's been an interesting one for our community. Black people got a lot of what we've been fighting for, just not in the way we had hoped. New York City has got a black mayor, but he's a cop. Black athletes made history, but it was at the one Olympics. I don't know how to do none of that ship. Black people got out of prison, but one of them was
Bill Cosbit. It's the last time black folks make a wish with an evil jinia coming out of bottle of vodka. Let's learn not. Of course, was the year of Black Progress, which meant one was the year of white people freaking out about Black progress. White people spent the last year furious at the idea that their children might have to learn that racism exists, and voting rights are disappearing around the country and they're not going to be easy to restore.
We may need to get whoever brought back Lebron's hair to leave the fight. The black folks have also seen our fair share of triumphs over the past year. Obama's white friend turned June teenth into a national holiday. Rank no more faking sick to celebrate June teenth. You walk in that job and you look your white supervis in the face and you say slavery in you hit the door. My own faking sick is just for the days that I'm hungover. So for that we say thank you, President
Biden and also Vice President Harris. If we can find her, she's kind of doing a Frank Ocean Kendrick Lamar Laylo thing, but we only hear from her once or twice a year. Respect Queen One also saw black folk make progress in non traditional black spaces like spelling bees. Over the summer, Zaila avant Gard became the first African American to ever win the spelling Bee, which I think is g r a t E. Black people also took time to get our minds right this year, because being black can be
taxing on your mental health. You constantly got to be thinking about racism or whether or nothing, or reboot Martin. That's why Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles made headlines when they took a step back from their sports to take care of their mental health. Black athletes appreciated Osaka and Bills setting an example for them, and the white athletes who were competing against Osaka and Bills appreciated the chance
to win for a change. But enough about the past, because we are here to talk about the future, and the future looks bright for Black America. In the entertainment world, We're gonna get a new Jordan Pill movie, a Black Panther sequel, and a Beyonce album is slated. I can't think of a better way to pass the time in
an eight hour voting line at mid terms. In politics, a black woman is likely to become a Supreme Court justice for the first time in history, making her the most powerful black judge in the nation, right behind Judge Mathis and Lauren Lake. And there's a whole new generation of black excellence on its way. Megan Marco had a baby, Little Knives Excess, Little Knives Excess doing it now, and Rihanna is pregnant. The only way this could be better is if Rihanna's baby is born holding her new album
So Black people. When you asked the question where we is, say to you, we are on our way to a year of success, excellence and reaching our full potential as the people. Unless thing over unless unless there's a new COVID thearium. In that case, Stereo asked inside and watch the new season of Atlanta. God bless you, God bless black people, and God bless Nicki, Minaja Cousins, Swollen Balls say good evening. Pull me out, Drake, thank you for that.
Roy All right. When we come back, the star of Better Call Shure, Bob Odenkirk will be joining me on the show, So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is actor, director, and writer Bob Odenkirk. He's gonna talk about his new memoir Comedy Comedy, Comedy, drama. Welcomes to the Day Show. Hello Trevor, um to see you. Good, to see you here. Good, Yeah, good to be in
the Space round table. Thank you so much for joining me, especially to talk about a book that I mean, it's like part memoir, but really it's I feel like this is a how to guide for anybody who wants to just work and grind through life. I hope. So that would be great if it had more than one use. No, I feel like that's one of the biggest uses. That's when we hold the door open to stick it under the door. Please. But it's a really good book about your life but comedy. It's about show biz, it's about
hanging in there. It's about a lot of dead ends, which uh, I only included about I'm gonna say a third of the dead ends because it's very hard to write about shows and things that no one's ever gonna see or can see. I I wrote the book for a number of reasons. One, you know, pop culture moves so fast these days, and a lot of the things I did are smaller, cultish things. I'm still very proud
of them. Mr Show I was part of Get a Life, helping with Tenacious D and Tim and Eric and and But these things are all going to get covered over
by lots more gloppy comedy and stuff. All of these feel like the stepping stones that got you to the world that we see you, and now that the person that we see today, I like, I fell in love with you obviously, like many people from Breaking Back, you know, that's where I went, Like, this guy is I've never loved a lawyer who's sneezy, who's you know what I mean. I feel like you changed how we even see lawyers for some reason. Love this guy guys he's a bad
you think way, you think he's a bad guy. No, No, I think he's a good guy. But his guys, his choice to be Saul good Man, uh to put on this front to you know, embrace situational ethics. I think it's a bad choice. I don't like. Yes, I think it's people like that. But in the end, in the end, because I know the end. Now, we finished two weeks ago tomorrow, we finished shooting. This is long away to in the end, I like where it goes. Okay, so we'll see you will see when when when you read
this book? I mean the titles is a comedy, comedy, comedy, drama. I don't know your story. A lot of people don't know your story. They just see a person on TV. They like, this person is amazing. Then we see you somewhere else. This person is even more amazing. We assume life has always been amazing. Then we see the grind. We see, like you said, it's failure, failure, failure, did end didn't, didn't, didn't moment of success, no failure, failure,
didn't did it moment again. And it feels like throughout your life, like Saul Goodman, you've been just trying to get that grip on on this world, in this career. Are you happy with where your life has gotten to? Is this a celebration of that now? Very much so? Yeah. And by the way, I mean, look, I've had unbelievable success in the last few years with better call Saul in this film. Action film Nobody played really well around the world, and uh, of course that informs it. But
I'm very happy with where I'm at. But I also I am happy with all the variety of things that I did and have gotten to do. And I think that that's a great quality to show businesses is the different avenues you can go down over time, because this business loves people reinventing themselves. It does feed on the injured. You know, if you're trailing blood, you will get eaten and spit out. But if you can just regenerate yourself quickly and go I'm back, the business is like, oh great,
he's back, and and that's pretty neat. I was really touched by you sharing parts of your story and how you know you grew up as one of seven than siblings, right, you know, and your dad was struggling with alcoholism, walked out on the family, et cetera. It feels like that really changed a lot of how you wanted to be a dad. Like in the books, there's a really beautiful part where you go, I don't want to do a bit of Coal Soul because I want to be a
better dad. I want to be at home. And then it's your kids who say, no, you gotta go do the show. Did you manage to call the kids? How did this? I don't wonder too much about it, but that does seem a little magical because my kids were thirteen and fifteen at the time, and then when they first came to me and said we are going to do we want to do better Call Soul. It was a joke at first. The first scene I did with Brian Cranson on the set of Breaking Bad in the office.
As soon as we were done with the take, one of the camera crew said, can I get a job on the sequel? And everyone laughed, and then it became this kind of running joke. There's got be a sequel, they should do a show about Saul. And then Vince Gilligan came to me more than once. You think there's a show in that about Saul. I think there is. But when they said, you know it's shot in Albuquerque, I looked at my kids and I thought about our life, and I did think of all my own dad, and
he did not prioritize his family at all. And I just said, I can't do it. I can't leave yet. There's too much work here at the house. And U. The kids overheard that, and I hung up the phone and my son was standing there across the room and he he goes, so you're not gonna do that show? Huh? And I go, no, no, it's not it's not time. And he goes, well, you're gonna disappoint a lot of people, and uh. And then we carried on talking and he said, we'll help out at the house, Dad, We'll make it work.
So I let it go. And then my daughter came to me and she had talked to my son, and uh. And my daughter was more like a kid who grew up in Hollywood with questions, Uh, what would it be like? Would it be hard to do? Do you think people would like it. And then she said if it's bad, how bad would it be? Real manager type year old? Yes, And I go, it wouldn't be bad. It would be an interesting experiment. That's the worst it would be. And she goes, well you should do it. I love that.
I love that. Before I let you go, how's your hearts? But I'm great at I did? I did you just have a you know, I finished the book long before I had the heart attack. Um, I did. I had a heart attack. And I was very lucky to have it on the set and there were some pros around who immediately gave me CPR and everybody listening take a CPR class, brush up on it. They saved my life. You you don't remember any of that. I don't remember any of it. The next day after the surgery, I
woke up. My family was there and I was like hey. I was like, I gotta go back to work, and they were I'm in a hospital gown and and they go, um, no, you don't you have an heart attack. I'm like, well, no, no, what no? I was. I was at work And then they go, how did you get here? And I go and my brain did this all on its own. I d I drove here and I parked on level two, and then because I knew you guys were here, and and then I came in here, and my wife goes, so you came in here, and you got in that
bed and you put that gown on. And I looked down and I'm like, yeah, like my brain made up a little story about how I had gotten there. Totally weird. But I'm great. I'm glad man, I'm glad. I'm glad, you're great. I'm glad we get to celebrate the final season with you. I'm glad we said we get to celebrate the book with you. Um, congratulations, thanks and say heights of the kids will thank them for all of us as the fans will. We really do appreciate them,
all right, people. Bob's book Comedy Comedy, Comedy, Drama is available right now. We're gonna take a quick break, but
will be right back after this. Well that's our show for tonight's, but before we go, Families in Ukraine are fleeing violence and urgently need emergency aid CARES Immediate Crisis Response aims to reach four million people, prioritizing women and girls, families and the elderly, so if you can donate at the link below to rush urgently needed water, food, hygiene kits and ongoing support in Ukraine to the people who need it, then please go to the link below Until tomorrow.
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