Thirty F#@cking Years: Ronny Chieng & Jordan Klepper on Their Daily Show Journey

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Introducing Meta Glasses.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:02)
You have questions, they've got answers.

**Jordan Klepper** (0:05)
Hey Meta, what's the capital of Peru?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:08)
Lima.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:09)
How do you say, where's the restroom in Spanish?

**SPEAKER_5** (0:12)
Dónde está el baño?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:14)
Hey Meta, is a hot dog a sandwich? Technically no.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:18)
Spiritually, yes.

**SPEAKER_6** (0:20)
Hey Meta, what should I do with my life?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:23)
That's one of life's biggest questions. What do you think?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:27)
Ask anything with the new Meta Glasses.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:30)
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**SPEAKER_7** (1:01)
You're listening to Comedy Central.

**Jordan Klepper** (1:05)
A little bit of drugs, a little bit of sex, and a little bit of political satire.

**SPEAKER_9** (1:09)
I was...

**Ronny Chieng** (1:10)
Oh, man.

**SPEAKER_9** (1:10)
This is just...

**Jordan Klepper** (1:11)
That's a stew, Ronny.

**SPEAKER_11** (1:13)
He's doing this hand motion.

**Ronny Chieng** (1:15)
He's doing a hand motion that's very disgusting.

**Jordan Klepper** (1:30)
Welcome to 30 Fuckin Years, a special podcast mini-series celebrating 30 fucking years of The Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper.

**Ronny Chieng** (1:37)
And I'm Ronny Chieng. We're here to talk about that's a really long... Oh, I already messed up.
And I'm Ronny Chieng. We're here to talk about how that's a really long time for a TV show to exist and revisit some of our favorite moments and segments.

**Jordan Klepper** (1:49)
Right. Are we going to call it the fact that you are wearing sunglasses and a suit?

**Ronny Chieng** (1:54)
Yeah, yeah. Just trying to dress up for this audio medium.

**Jordan Klepper** (1:58)
It feels like comics unleashed in here.

**Ronny Chieng** (2:00)
Okay, I'll take off the sunglasses.

**Jordan Klepper** (2:03)
It's cool.

**Ronny Chieng** (2:03)
It's actually bright. It is bright in here. That's why I was wearing the sunglasses.

**Jordan Klepper** (2:06)
Do you feel cool when you wear sunglasses?

**Ronny Chieng** (2:09)
I guess.

**Jordan Klepper** (2:09)
I mean, I guess we all... I don't think that's a bad thing. That's part of what it is.

**Ronny Chieng** (2:13)
Yeah, it's weird that this someone nailed sunglasses, right? The first time they put on sunglasses, they're like, oh, it's functional and it just makes everything cool. Yeah.

**Jordan Klepper** (2:22)
So, I don't know.
Have we ever reached a point where it's uncool to wear sunglasses? Or it's... Not that it's always a cool thing to have sunglasses on, but it feels like at some point, sunglasses became equated with like a cool aesthetic. And then people like, you're trying to be cool. But I don't know if we ever reached a point where putting on sunglasses made you not cool.

**Ronny Chieng** (2:45)
It's weird, because the uncool one is when you wear Oakleys in a truck, with like a, you know, like a Under Armour t-shirt who's probably sponsoring this podcast or something. But, you know, so there is a way where it kind of, it looks tacky, but even then, you can't deny that putting on the Oakleys makes that tackiness like 10% more stylish.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:08)
You're right. You know what I mean?

**Jordan Klepper** (3:09)
Yeah, so you have a criticism around the style of glasses. An Oakley or a wraparound in and of itself is an aesthetic. But probably if you're going for that aesthetic, there's no way to get there faster than put it on the wraparound.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:19)
Yes, correct.

**Ronny Chieng** (3:19)
Yes, yes.

**Jordan Klepper** (3:20)
30 fucking years of this. Can you believe it? Of this kind of banter, you can just see why this kind of stuff. I can't believe it.

**Ronny Chieng** (3:25)
I feel like this show has outlasted America. We've outlasted quite a few things.

**Jordan Klepper** (3:30)
We totally have.

**Ronny Chieng** (3:31)
What's the longest one? Meet the Press is the longest running TV show, right?

**Jordan Klepper** (3:35)
Yeah, I think Meet the Press is up there.

**Ronny Chieng** (3:37)
Well, up there. We are up there.

**Jordan Klepper** (3:39)
We are up there. I'm going to take 30 years. That's a long ass time.

**Ronny Chieng** (3:43)
It is. No show has ever lasted that long.
And also, we are also a show that's like a current affairs show, kind of. You know, political satire. I do feel like there's always a place for political satire, don't you think?