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TDS Time Machine | Dolly Parton - The Interviews

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

September 2, 2026

Join us in celebrating the one and only Dolly Parton, an endlessly generous force of nature who spent decades making the world a little brighter, louder, and more fabulous. Here are three times she visited The Daily Show to discuss her work with Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah.
Speakers: Jon Stewart, Dolly Parton, James Patterson, Trevor Noah

Topics: Comedy, News, Daily News

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**SPEAKER_2** (1:06)
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**SPEAKER_3** (1:36)
You're listening to Comedy Central.

**Jon Stewart** (1:53)
My guest tonight, a legendary country singer currently on tour with her latest album.

**Dolly Parton** (2:28)
We have a lot of people that love you a lot, so they couldn't believe I was going to be on the show.

**Jon Stewart** (2:32)
Dolly, I couldn't.

**Dolly Parton** (2:33)
But here I am. Hey, everybody.

**Jon Stewart** (2:35)
Dolly, I thank you. I also couldn't believe you agreed to be on the show.

**Dolly Parton** (2:43)
Well, I was a little nervous. They said, oh, he's not going to get all political with me. They said, no, I don't think so.

**Jon Stewart** (2:48)
Can I tell you something, honestly, I'm just reading off the top.

**Dolly Parton** (2:51)
I don't.
Well, don't get, I don't know anything about it. I'm about like Joe Walsh.

**Jon Stewart** (2:55)
Neither do I.

**Dolly Parton** (2:56)
President.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:58)
I don't know what to say.

**Jon Stewart** (2:59)
As far as I know, Eisenhower's president. I have, I don't like to follow this sort of thing.
But you know what is interesting about you, you transcend red, blue, politics, any of that. Everyone, no one has anything bad to say about Dolly Parton. Everybody loves Dolly Parton. What is the secret, just kindness, goodness or talent?

**Dolly Parton** (3:20)
Oh, I've just been around so long. I think people just kind of know me. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that know a lot of bad stuff about me, but we don't want to hear from them, do we?
We have some fans out there. But actually, I've been in the business for a long, long time. And I like people. I'm not a bit political, but I'm very patriotic. And that's kind of why I did some of these fun songs, to kind of have a voice in all that's going on today, but not trying to make any big statements. But I'm just glad people like me. And it's kind of like liking an older sister or a favorite aunt or something like that, I think.

**Jon Stewart** (3:53)
I think that how people feel about you is not so sisterly and auntish.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:58)
You don't think so?

**James Patterson** (3:59)
I think I don't think so.

**Dolly Parton** (4:05)
Maybe some old horny goats or something out there.

**Jon Stewart** (4:09)
If that's what you want to refer to them as, I think that's fine.
Now, Witcher, this is an album. It's called Dolly Parton. Those were the days. And you collaborated with a lot of interesting people on this.

**Dolly Parton** (4:21)
I did. These actually were favorite songs of mine from the 60s and 70s. And I decided to do them because I'd always loved these songs. And right in the middle of recording, I thought, I wonder how many of the original artists or writers would be willing to sing on this. So I started looking around and ask a bunch of them, like Judy Collins. You know, she sang on, we did Both Sides Now and Leanne Womack sang with her. And we even got Cat Stevens.

**Jon Stewart** (4:47)
Now, how did you get Cat Stevens? I mean, as far as I know, he is ungettable.

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