Ronny Chieng Is Killing It on The Daily Show

Also featuring: Jon Stewart

Happy National Golf Cart Day! I’m Geoff Plitt, and welcome to What You Need to Know, the brief, weekly newsletter where I share the best comedy videos I’ve seen all week. It will always be free, and you’re welcome to become a friend by following me on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, where I share my own jokes every week.

And now, the videos you came for:

1. Ronny Chieng is on a roll at The Daily Show. He’s one of my favorite hosts of the show, so I’m featuring mostly his clips this week. In this segment, he points out that nobody shows the American flag more love than Trump does, but now you can, too:

2. Another clip where Ronny covers the latest news on Trump’s felony conviction, which has him seeking revenge on Hillary Clinton. Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene hates New York, a viral TikTok elicits discourse around shopping cart safety, and Troy Iwata provides updates on an Amazonian tribe ruined by Elon Musk’s Starlink internet:

3. Here’s a clip where Ronny dives into President Biden’s executive order to close the border ahead of the election, which has both sides of the aisle up in arms. Plus, Trump stammers when asked if he would declassify the Epstein files and X, a.k.a. Twitter, announces it will allow porn. Plus, Desi Lydic joins Ronny to discuss North Korea sending trash balloons to South Korea:

4. Finally, Jon Stewart rips off the mask of corporate “values” and examines how corporations will perform caring about issues like DEI, climate change, or patriotism, as long as it means bigger profits, and how quickly they backtrack on those moral stands when it no longer suits their bottom line:

Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend.

- Geoff

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