The Complicated Aftermath of Queen Elizabeth II's Death | Jennette McCurdy

into it. We've got a royal show for you tonight. Queen Elizabeth is being attacked by bass King. Charles is finally get his hands dirty and here with a new memoir about being a child star on Iconie Janette McCurdy is joining us on the show. So let's do this people, let's start. If you don't headlines all right, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a

few other things going on in the world. First up, following last week's extreme heats, California has announced that they will become the first states to introduce a ranking system for heat waves so people can easily understand how hot it's going to get. Which isn't that just temperature? Did they just invent the thermometer? Like what, I guess I could see how this will be useful. It will be

like hot, extremely hot, dangerously hot. And then in dress alba, and if it's idriss alba, stay in doors, stay in doors and check on your grandmother. In economic news on Tuesday, the government parted that despite raising interest rates, inflation is still incredibly high, and in response, the stock market dropped thirt points, the worst drop since And can I just say the stock market is a little bit no, I mean, every single one of our wi supposed to be really

an inflation not inflacion, down unemployment. We just have to do it. We'll roll with it. But the slightest bad news and the stock markets like, oh, I'm craggy, this is my worst day in two years. Anything I can ever come back frightness. And then every time the next day it will be like, so I might have reacted a little harshly yesterday, I might have ever reacted, And I feel like today's gonna be my best day ever.

So much drama. In science news, NASA is testing a new planetary defense system by launching a space probe directly into ANATIONID to see if it can knock it off its course. Yeah, and I guess if that doesn't work, I'm assuming NASA is gonna go with Plan B, which is talking to the asteroid about bitcoin until it naturally

veers away. I'm just gonna drift away from Earth. But let's move on to the big news of the day, and it is still about Queen Elizabeth, the second Queen of the Adels and the First men Calisi of the Great Grass Sea and Wales, mother of Corgis and maker of chains. After ninety six years of living her best life, the Queen's passing has obviously made headlines all over the globe, so let's catch up on all those headlines in our

latest installments of the Royal Rumble Today. Queen Elizabeth was laid in states at Westminster, and no surprise, the British went all out for it, because the British love doing ship all dignified. But they do. Have you seen the changing of the guard. That's a forty five minute ceremony just to clock out. So when the Queen herself dies, best believed the pump was going to be a free way. I'm talking streets filled with giant British flags. I'm talking

soldiers with their fanciest hats. I'm talking to cosket decked out with the royal crown on top of it, which means technically, for a while that casket was the rule of England. Yeah, I read that on Wikipedia, and officials expect that more than seven hundred thousand mourners will come to see the queen lying in states, with people waiting up to thirty hours in a line stretching five miles long. It's basically like trying to vote in Georgia. That's how

dedicated you have to be to see the queen. But my favorite ritual, my favorite ritual in this whole thing is that, and this is completely true, the Royal beekeeper has to inform the queen's bees that the queen had died. That is a real thing that they have to do. And look, they don't have any footage of it, but I feel like I can imagine that it didn't go well. Hello everyone, Hello, I'm afraid I have some difficult news.

The Queen is dead. Yeah no, no, no, no, no, not your not your queen, not your queen, the queen, not your queen. Calmed down, everyone calmed down. Everything is going to be fine, and everything is gonna be fine. Okay, we have a new leader and Charles will now be the king. No, no, no, camp I'm coming into me.

So yeah, a lot of people are mourning. But it turns out while the Royal family has their official rituals, the people have their own way of mourning their beloved queen, and Buckingham Palace has politely asked them to cut that ship out. Who've also heard that authorities are asking the public to stop leaving certain gifts outside Buckingham Palace. What can you tell us about that? Yeah, so there's this typically asking people not to bring anymore toy bears. So

this all started during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The Queen participated in a video skit alongside an animated version of Paddington Bear that was a real hit here a sensation, and so in honor of that, people have been bringing toy bears and marmalade sandwiches, which were mentioned in Naskit, to the grounds of bucking I Palace. There have been so many bears brought that the Royal Park Service is asking people not to bring any more bears into instead

bring organic tributes such as unwrapped flowers. Okay, hold up, hold up, hold up. This woman ruled the world's largest empire, and that's what people remember her for. People like, oh the lady who are tea with Paddington? Yeah? Are you kidding me? She was the longest reigning queen in world history. She drove an ambulance in World War Two. She enlightened legends, and she had Princess Diana Killden. You remember her from

a sketch show some respect Caddington Bears. By the way, I'm not sure leaving a trail of teddy bears outside the palace is a good idea. I mean, that's already how Prince Andrew finds his girlfriends. But it's not just marmalade and bears. People are leaving all sorts of things. They're leaving flowers, they're leaving pictures. I'll tell you what. This is a great opportunity to get rid of anything

that you don't want to. Just disguise it as a gift, Just be like, oh, glorious Queen, and I honor you with this ottoman that has a wobbly leg. It is from the Great Swedish Kingdom of Ikea. But while some people and bees are morning her Majesty's passing, many other people are having a slightly different reaction. Not everything was scripted today. One person protesting Prince Andrew was quickly removed from the crown a day earlier. It was signage not

shouting that police in Edinburgh had issued. This woman's sign was in protest and imperialism inflicted the global South, she says, and now has been charged with breach of the peace. Another man, Simon Hill, where he was arrested and de arrested in Oxford and a proclamation ceremony for the king after he shouted out who elected him? I love that. I feel like everyone in the UK is amazing. It's like people heckling you'r sick. Old man's were like, who

elected him? That's a great lion? Who made you kid? All right, your mom, sorry about that, but yeah. The police in Britain have arrested people for disrupting the royal ceremonies basically but with their opinions, which I was like, as the crown has gotten soft, someone just holding a sign your guys back in the day, a crowd that didn't like you. Their opinion would be that your body should be separated from your head. Now they're just holding up a sign. You can just turn the other way. Yeah,

you still got a neck. Use it like you're gonna arrest the lady in Scotland for holding a sign. I've seen, brave heart. When the Scottish want to protest the British crown, you'll know, you will know. And this really makes you appreciate how much freedom of speech people have you in America. You can do whatever you want here. You can say the president, you can give a congressman the middle finger, you can try to murder the vice president. It's all

free speech. Maybe it's all free speech. And the backlash, the backlash to the British monarchy hasn't just been coming from the United King himself, because in many parts of the world, especially Africa, people have a very different relationship

with the queen. Across the African continent, there have been people who are saying I will not mourn for Queen Elizabeth and they heard it more than a million people into a concentration comes where they were tortured and the humanized, which is why you see a statement like this from the South African opposition and party, the Economic Freedom Fighters that said, we do not mourn the death of Elizabeth because to us, her death as a reminder of a

very tragic period in this country, in Africa's history. During her seven year reign as queen, she never once acknowledged the trust the is that her family inflicted on many a Native people that Briton invaded across the world. If there is really life and justice after death, Elizabeth and her ancistors get what they deserve, May Elizabeth and her

ancestors get what they deserve. You know what I love about that line is that you can't really get angry, because if you do, then it means that you acknowledge what she deserves is bad. Mad she get what she did? How dare you say that, Well, why don't she deserve? I don't know, and I know some of these reactions seem extreme, but when you consider what the British Empire did, these reactions are actually pretty reasonable. Right. You can't expect

the oppressed to mourn the oppressor. It's never gonna happen, and it would be like giving a utgy for the guy who stole your hub caps. So I didn't know more Reese. Well, but he was definitely a go getter. By the way, has anyone seen my hub caps? And I of some people would say, but look, Trevor, the Queen wasn't really in charge. She's just a figurehead. You can't blame her for the atrocities that the British Empire committed. Yeah, yeah, fair enough, But you also understand in her entire reign

she never repented. She never once made amends. Right, there wasn't even one like notes apopology on her Twitter. Nothing. I mean her crown. Her crown still has that big ass diamond that they took from South Africa, right, it still has the color of the diamond is the ultimate conflict diamond. The least you could do is give it back to who, I don't know what kind of loan because like you could you could try no find find a South African who hosts a letting a TV shows.

It could be any one of them. Then we'll be on the park to forgiveness. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a quick break, let's check it on the stock market without finance expert Michael Cost to everybody, Michael, it seems like chaos, man, What what the hell is happening in the markets. Look, the market is down, but Trevor, I am crushing it. I mean I crush it so hard. NASA is shooting a rocket into me to keep me from crush You

can even harder than I already m Yeah. By the way, that's nuts. The NASA is doing that, shooting a rocket into an asteroid. Right, you know what NASA stands for. Okay, no asteroid sucker. Hey, NASA, you give us twenty five years. We'll take care of Earth on our own. Okay. Well, by the way, I got a hot tip for you. Okay, And I got a hot tip for you, okay. So behind me here these are the three major stock indexes. And we're gonna get to that. But first that story

about in California. How that the new labels for temperature, Trevor. Look, look, we can do new labeling. We can we can limit carbon emissions, we can go fully electric. But you know what the source of that warming is. No one wants to talk about this, Okay, the sun, that's right, Hey, son, what's your problem? You know you only work half the day. You're you're so sensitive. We can't even look direct actually at you. Everyone has to revolve around you and son.

You discriminate against white people. It's true, it's true. It's true. It's true. The whider you are, yeah, thank you, thank you. The whider you are, the more the sun hates you. But I guess when you're a star, they let you do it. Cost the cousin, what do you? Just stop talking about the sun? Right, just get to the thing, you know. Meanwhile, the moon is just so chill, you know photographs. Well, let's you walk on. It controls the tides, so I get an early waves so I can rip

double barrel a frames. Think about it. We made love under the moonlight romantic, We made love under the sunlight. I get arrested for public fornication. Okay, don't worry. I got de arrested later. But why when I get to the chart, the on get the chart. The char Americans lost billions in value yesterday. That's the negative. Okay, now here's the positive. We had billions. That's really good. That's

a side of a wealthy country, Trevor. If South Africa had a bad day, what do they lose forty bucks? You know? I mean, look, look, look, look, look look at this drop off. Look at this drop off right here. That's the SNP. That's the NASDEC, that's the DOW bang all at once. By the way, SMP and DOW. Don't be afraid to do your own thing. Okay, just once. I want the nasteck to go down and the STPN now to go up. You don't always have to follow the Naztec. It's a naztec jumped off a clip, would

you because you did? I don't remember the good news in the stock market. When someone loses money, somebody makes money. And here's my hot tip, all right, find the person that made the money and steal the our money. Okay, Trevor, back to you. That is that's a lot a tip. That's a that's a crime. Michael class everybody, all right, when we come back, we're gonna look at how Charles has gonna been king for a few days. When we're gonna wady at war. You don't listen at the crime.

Talking back to the Daily Show now, before the break, we were talking about how there is a ton of baggage surrounding the British monarchy and it has a lot of people asking questions about its future. You know, shouldn't continue. Should they make Ted lasso the queen? You know he might surprise you. Should British taxpayers have to continue funding the royal family or should they just privatize it the

crypto dot com King of England. Either way, it's gonna take a lot of work to shape the monarchy into something that everyone can get behind. Based on his first weekend power, it looks like King Charles isn't the guy to do it. When we begin with King Charles and his problems with pen his reign to this point has been marked by pen problems. The latest was in Northern Ireland where he wrote the wrong date on a document

and then the pen started leaking. He's gonna get And that trouble came just days after Charles appeared to get angry when there were too many pens on a desk he was using, urgently telling an aid to get rid of them quick quick, quait I'm sorry, what the hell was that? Did you see that thing he did? Okay, okay, okay. He's also the rule of an animal kingdom. And by the way, I love how Charles says the pens leak on him all the time, because is the way bloody

you literally the King of England. Dude. If you don't like the pens, get different pens. I'm not an expert in the monarchy, but I'm pretty sure the hierarchy doesn't go Prince William, King Charles and then the guy who buys the pens. I don't think that's how it goes, just getting new pen. I will say, though, I feel kind of bad for him. I do because in the old days, the king would have never had these issues.

There's be no leaking pens. Also, the king would never get corrected after righting the wrong date that that just would have been the new dates. The king would just be like Valentine's Days, the fifteenth right, Yes, of course,

my lord, of course, my lord. Canceling your dinner, everybody, I don't care if you are going to propose, just cancel it, Patty can Let now, look, maybe King Charles is just stressed out right now, maybe that's why this is happening, because becoming king is a lot of pressure. I mean, there's like fifteen different folks to memorize, and you have to sleep with that crowd on. That's not comfortable.

But if you paid attention to King Charles, back during his prince days, you would know that this is pretty much how he's always been. The Prince of Wals has grown up in such a privileged lifestyle that he doesn't have mechanics to choose for himself anymore. Everything he's done for him is pajamas oppressed. Every morning is che lasers are pressed flat with an iron. The water temperature has

to be just tepid and only half full. Prince Charles does have his valet squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning. If anyone gets anything wrong, everybody is scolded. On one occasion, he rang me from his library and he said, oh, Paul, a letter from the Queen seems to have fallen into my waste paper bin. Would you pick it out? The waste paper bin was there, He was sat. I had to bend down into the paper bin and pick out the letter put it back

on his desk. Will that be all, your Royal highness? You know what? This guy had to bend down and pick something up for Charles for it, Like when I was a kid after King's had to pull swords out of stones. This dude can barely pull his dick out of his own pants, Percy, I need assistance. I'll cancel your dead I need to pay you know you know

what this this, this tells you. The story about Charles is like one the royals have been royally spoilt, all right, and too I can tell you that nobody who works in that palace is African, because I'll tell you not if there was one African mom who worked in that palace. You try and pull that, you try and pull that, just be over there, just be like, can you come and pick this up for me? And she'd be like, are you are you? Are you missing your us right now? Are you telling me to pick up where I am?

That there is only one king and that is Jesus is only one king in this way, and that is jes You pick up that pepper. You pick up that pepper, now, Charles look instead of getting angry, Maybe we need to understand that the Royals aren't ordinary people, you know, They're like strange creatures you need to observe from a distance to understand. And that's probably why David Attenborough has teamed up with the BBC once again for a new kind

of nature show. Here we have a rare sighting of a silver hairs Charles, who has just been made leader of his island kingdom. He is the alpha now, and he is not afraid to display his dominus. The rest of the tribe watches as the Alpha performs a ceremonial task, the ritualistic marking of his territory on an incredibly large piece of paper. Boodwit Charles, He's disleased a tossen with the positioning of a pen. He bears his teeth in an attempt to intimidate you. Confuse us. A message has

been sent. Your new ruler isn't in her heart? All right, Sat June, Because when we come back, Janete McCarney will be journey on the show to tell us why she's glad her mom dal go away. Welcome back to your Damner show. My guest tonight, there's a former Nickelodeon star who is here to talk about her best selling memoir, I'm Glad my Mom died. Please welcome Jeanettemcody. Ye, Jeanette McCurdy, I'll come to the Daily Show. I feel so short, aren't touching? That's fine as long as like you can

you can swing them and you can. Yeah, it's as long as you enjoy it, I can lower the desk as well if you'd like. This is good, Okay, good, Okay, I can't actually do it, I'm glad you asked me

to do it. Um. Welcome to the show, and congratulations on writing a book that I think, for many people is seen as not just something funny, not just a story that's interesting, but in many ways a cathartic exploration of how we see the relationships that we have with many of our parents, our care give us, whoever it was in our world. Because you wrote a book entitled I'm Glad My Mom died and it is a massive hit. So two questions, One did you hate your mom? And

two does everybody? Um? No, I definitely don't hate my mom. I I think she was a really complicated and nuanced person, and I try to kind of articulate her to the best of my ability and all of her many shades and colors. To me, her humor is really uh. She could say things that were so wild and at times abusive, but she just had a certain cadence and a rhythm that was so humorous. So I tried to capture that.

But I certainly didn't hate her, and I think. I think that's why it was so important for me to write this book, because getting to the place where I was finally glad and relieved that she was dead, you know, it took me so long to be able to accept that um reality. And I also think that's something that people I didn't hear anybody talking about. I didn't hear anybody saying, you know that the sort of honest reality of what their experience with their with their parents was,

if they had a similar one. It feels like a thing that you can't say because society doesn't accept it. It just you have to keep moms on pedestal one and we all have to have the same experience, and that just wasn't mine. So it felt even more important to express it in the book. You you go through your entire journey. Many people, you know, in American some parts of the world will remember you from my colleague you. You were this massive child star and on the camera

you were all smiles. You made people laugh, everybody enjoyed what you were doing. As soon as you read through the book, you realized that you were suffering, You're experiencing trauma. It was really abusive in how you were doing what you were doing it. It feels like in many ways you were living your mom's dream and she was making you do this. Yeah, I would love to know how you did it, Like did you have a switch? Did

you have a did you compartmentalize? Because you you talk about it in the book, but you could you could never tell. You could never tell on screen what you were going through. No. No, So my mom always wanted to be an actress. Her dream was to be famous, and she would recount sort of these tales of how her parents wouldn't let her. She would camp out in front of Donny Osmond's house bring him like posters. Chris Knight had played Peter Brady in a Brady Bunch. She

swore like, oh, they had a relationship. I think that was not true. Chris Knight, if you're watching, please let me know if my mom actually had a relation with you. Um. But so, she she was always fascinated with kind of Hollywood and the aura in the romance as she saw it, and so she put me in acting when I was six to kind of give I think in my eyes it was to live vicariously through me and to fulfill

her dream and what she had always wanted. But it seems like she subjected you to a nightmare because you were in a world where it's supposed to be fun. You know, you're making kids television and yeah, and yet it seems pretty horrible. I also wonder if this is the relationship of many child stars or do you know, was was this isolated or do you think this is a lot more normal than we'd like to admit. I think it's way more common than anyone would care to admit.

I know, just from my experience of going into auditions countless times, I'd have like a hundred three feet for my mom would be having me child gatorade. I'd be walking in to like pretend to be a homeless child, which is just already so kind of messed up as

it is. And there's these this you know, dozens of other girls lined up to also try and be this homeless child, and the moms are like eyeing each other and like, oh, I hope my daughter is better being homeless than yours, And it's like this is so what is this world? It's so weird? But I I am able to now kind of look back and see the humor in it, and I think it is a very absurd reality. But I do think there's a lot of

inherent um iron camera there. I think what you've done in the book is precisely that you've looked back and you've seen the humor. You use the humor because this book, without the humor is a devastating tale of a young child who it really would be so awful. Oh my god, it would be awful. I think it just would be. It would be a lot harder for people to read. I think it would be. It would be painful because it is still the real thing, you know. I wouldn't even think of it as a pretty grab. But but

the humor is a coping mechanism. It's a tool you're processing your life through. There's a point in the book where I find myself reading the stories of your mom, understanding the complicated world that she existed in, but then wondering, you know, like how you see her, Like like did you forgive her? Were you able to let it all go? Do you still do you still hold some of those feelings? Like what has your journey been? Oh my god, what

a big, good question. That's such a deep like this is what I spent ten years in therapy to be able to now say on the Daily Show, that's so cool, that's really awesome. Um, well, I'm glad you initially you know you're speaking kind of the humor, and I do think it's a great coping mechanism and and I don't I try not to use it as a defense mechanism.

I use it that way for a long time initially when I was first kind of trying to grapple with everything, and I think that led to really unfunny choices, and my my sense of humor just sort of overcompetatory and kind of flailing and obnoxious to be honest. Um, but I think finding humor in those really intense moments and that those tragedies can bring glevity where it's necessary. I

hope I've done that. Um with my mom, I haven't gotten to a place of forgiveness, and I was trying to get to a place of forgiveness for so long. In therapy, I would uh sort of plead almost with my therapist, like why am I not able to get to this place? What is what's wrong with me that I'm not able to forgive my mom for this abuse? Why am I so terrible that I can't get to

get to that place. And she eventually said, you know, Janette, what if you just kind of dropped uh forgiveness and didn't make that your goal, because that's you still trying to do your mom's work. I couldn't. Yeah, right, I mean that's exactly my react. And I moved to Aaron. Yeah, wow, Yeah, it's um, yeah, it's it's it's a journey that I

think far too many people have been. I think a lot of the success of the book has been that Obviously it's well written, Obviously it's it's it's fantastically told, but it is a very complicated topic. How do you address the lack of love or the lack of parenting that you were supposed to get from that figure, Because, as you say, Mom is supposed to be this this you know, this god, this icon of everything. Dad in

some ways as well, but not the same. And yet you're in a world where you're going, oh, no, it's true. You know, people be like, oh dad mom and dad was okay, but Mom is is untouching. Or even with Dad, you can be like, oh my dad never showed up, and people like my neither, And then it's totally normal, but I feel like with moms it is very very much and this there's this pedestal of their mind. When you when you broached this topic, when you started thinking

about it, were you worried that people would turn on you? Um? I felt even if they did, it was a message worth sharing. I really, I really mean that. Wow. I love that. Thanks, I really do. That's because that's a brave stuns to take, because a lot of people be like, how day you talk about your mom like that? It's actually it's it's it's it's so crazy, how I mean,

everything gets memified. And you know, there was a there was a post I saw online where someone was trying to chastise everybody for talking about the queen, you know, and like just going like we're dead, We're glad this monarchy is ending in some way. And someone's like, replace you think it's funny, try and replace the queen with your mom and see how funny it is. And someone put a picture of your book up and then it

was like, I'm glad the queen died. And it feels like, no, but it feels like that is it feels like that's what the book is dealing with. Is you dealing with the idea of a mom and how that how that competes or conflicts with your actual mom. Yes, oh my god, yeah that should be on the back flap. I can write it. You shared your story with us, You've gone through world. Now you are back in the world of entertainment in a very different way. You behind the camera,

you're directing, you're writing, You've got a podcasts. It's it's interesting because it's a world that was so toxic to you, and now you've come back in a different way. Do you have a worry that it may suck you back in and how do you prevent yourself from going back into that space of feeling like you're defined by the everything that's that you hated once? Oh my god, I'm I'm so can I just say I respect you so much. This is so cool. I'm so happy to be here.

It's true, like this is amazing, like very much. Um. I have been scared of that. There have been a few times when I've done some some press that shall not be named, where it's so bizarre because I'm like hearing the pre roll of you know, they show like the clip of me from the past or whatever, and it's so dramatic. It's like McCurdy vanished from the spotlight after her dramatic childhood with the trauma and the deadest.

It's like, jeez, can we calm down? And then I'm like walked out to this, you know, to this like cold, dominary kind of set, and then there's the journalist and there's three inches of makeup on the guy's face, and it's just like, you know, it does feel kind of, um, it feels easy to lose sight of reality in these environments.

And so I really try to keep myself grounded and stay on top of you know, therapy and and being in touch with things that really are are good touchdowns and grounding tools for me, because I do not want to get lost in it. But also I will say I trust that I won't. I don't think I had the tools before to not get lost in it and to not feel sort of caught up in the whirlwind

of show biz. Um. But now I feel like, you know what, there's some elements that are really cool about it, um like this, and then there are some that aren't, and and that's fine. I can use my own discernment and and just be grateful for the good experiences. We grateful for your book. Thank you it really wonderful. Ay, thank you so more. I'm g my mom died it was available. About where do you buy your book? Because that macard everybody We're gonna pay a quiquia off to get.

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