Thirty F#@king Years | Desi, Michael and Troy's Favorite Segments - Full Length artwork

Thirty F#@king Years | Desi, Michael and Troy's Favorite Segments - Full Length

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

August 19, 2026

In our previous episode of ⁠⁠30 F#@king Years⁠⁠, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Troy Iwata broke down their all-time favorite Daily Show segments. Now you can catch those segments in full. Brian Unger reports on a cat trapped in a tree, from a tree.
Speakers: Rob Cordry's father, Jon Stewart, Brian Unger, Ed Helms, Dana Perino, John Hodgman, Steve Carell, Rob Cordry, Erin Brockovich, Marv Hoyt, Greg Gutfeld, Aasif Mandvi, David from Simplot, Samantha Bee, Steve Mangone

Topics: Comedy, News, Daily News

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_2** (1:29)
Did you know with the Sam's Club app, you're technically in the club no matter where you are?

**Rob Cordry's father** (1:32)
Like, this is a club.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:35)
This is also a club. And this is a club.

**Jon Stewart** (1:41)
My bad.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:42)
Come join us, Sam's Club.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:45)
You're listening to Comedy Central.

**Jon Stewart** (2:02)
As unlikely as it may seem, there's still the remote possibility that you could turn on your television and not see Dateline NBC and one of its trademark survivor stories. Fortunately, we here at The Daily Show are also committed to bringing you the latest in hilarious near-death experiences.
Here's Vance DeGeneres with another. Tale of Survival.

**Brian Unger** (2:20)
Nothing tugs at the heartstrings more than the story of a kitty stuck in a tree.
Except maybe the story of a baby stuck in a tree, or an old woman in a wheelchair stuck in a tree. But this is the story of a kitty stuck in a tree. It was early January in this suburban Chicago neighborhood when Deb Walton let Blanky the Cat out.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:45)
I left Blackie outside right after the snowstorm January 2nd, and I heard a lot of commotion outside from the birds.

**Brian Unger** (2:54)
The birds?

**SPEAKER_7** (2:55)
The birds.

**Brian Unger** (2:56)
Not just birds, crows, and like winged pipe pipers, they lured Blackie into a date with destiny.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:04)
I looked up in the tree and there was Blackie, and I asked him, how are you going to get down now?

**Brian Unger** (3:13)
But Blackie didn't answer. Had he fallen victim to the dreaded crows insidious plan?
Is it just possible the crows may have picked him up and put him up in that tree?

**SPEAKER_7** (3:23)
Oh, no. I believe maybe the crows, and I'm just not trying to think like a bird, tricked him into climbing up in the tree, maybe taunted him or teased him.

**Brian Unger** (3:34)
Where are the crows?

**SPEAKER_7** (3:36)
They flew away.

**Brian Unger** (3:37)
Left him high and dry.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:38)
Exactly. They got him up in the tree, and that's where he sat.

**Brian Unger** (3:42)
And there he stayed, in some kind of a tree. What kind of a tree is it?

**SPEAKER_7** (3:49)
I'm going to take a wild guess and say an oak tree.

**Brian Unger** (3:54)
Maybe an oak, perhaps an oak.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:55)
But I couldn't tell you exactly what type of tree it is.

**Brian Unger** (3:59)
Oaky type.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:00)
Oaky type.

**Brian Unger** (4:02)
An oaky death trap. By the third day, Deb was crying out for help.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:08)
I've contacted the Humane Society.

**Brian Unger** (4:13)
And when did they come out?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:15)
They didn't.

**Brian Unger** (4:16)
They didn't come out?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:17)
They did not come out. I contacted Anti-Cruelty Society.

**Brian Unger** (4:22)
And when did they come out?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:23)
They did not. They informed me that they do not get cats out of trees.

**Brian Unger** (4:27)
So in fact, it's a misnomer. It should be the Cruelty Society.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:34)
No one in the city of Chicago will come out to get a cat out of a tree.

**Brian Unger** (4:39)
Deb, what is it about Chicago that no one will come to get a cat down out of a tree?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:44)
Policy. That's the only way I can figure policy.

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