John Early on Maddie's Secret

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Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twentyenty one plus only must be physically present inew Jery and Pennylvia Tas and seass apply You're listening to Comedy Central From the most trusted journalists at County Cental, It's America's only source for news. This is the Daily showh with your host, Jeordan Ser so much to talk about tonight. Boston is getting sober by accident. I bro out at the White House's UFC fight, and Jie Vance has a new book out. It's the perfect book to read on the beach before walking into the ocean. Let' get into the headlines into the FIFA World Cup. And yeah Gams are happening all over North America. I am so pumped. I haven't used my hands for anything all week Wiping my butt with my feet was a challenge, but don't worry, I'm still working on figuring it out It's also been a big deal for the host cities, although some could have prepared just a bit better. Boston has found an unintended consequence of the World Cup. They're running out of beer. Some bar owners say soccer fans are drinking beer almost faster than they can cour it. Boston ran out of beer But how will they get the children to sleep? And by the way, it's not just bars. There's no beer at any of the places in Boston that serve alcohol, restaurants, taverns, libraries, hospitals, AA meetings The city is bone dry. I mean, how could this have happened? There's a decent chance Scotland had something to do with it. The pase Parking is no Scot fans just bumped the place dry and all they had was like bud light I love how even Scottish fans are like, we're desperate for beer, but not like Bud light desper In fact, I believe we have a clip of a Scottish fan in Boston being told there's only bud lightight left. It's a proud culture, a very proud culture You know what looks for right. Let's move on to the only thing more exciting than the World Cup, Jadie Bance Now he's been making the rounds to promote his new book. He was on Fox News. He was on Megan Kelly. He was on The View. He was on CNN. And of course he also swung by the popular right wing podcast Fat Guys with Gatees and sunglasses Now, obviously, this press tour has an ulterior motive. It's no secret that JD Vance wants to run for president someday. But there is one little hiccup that JD is trying to overcome. JD Vance does not ooze warmth Or Chm Who's not the most charismatic individual? Heacks charisma. Tuly zero charisma. Yeah. None. He has no Riz, which means charisma for you guys be not improisa You know what If this student Council president says JD There's no iz I believe it But this press tour is the perfect opportunity for JD to show off that natural charm and camera presence that will launch him to the presidency. JD, hit us with a joke. What do you call a fly with no wings? a walk. Okay, very good Can you feel the electricity? I don't know how you do it, but you make Mike Pence look like Richard Priyor I mean, seriously, seriously, JD, for someone whose mom did a lot of drugs, I thought you'd be cooler. But if JD's appearance on the five didn't show his presidential chops, it did show how he is such a good vice president for Donald Trump, spepecifically, his lack of ability to speak up for himself. He'll stomach anything that comes his way, even if that thing is objectively disgusting. All we like pickle cake here Dozens of layers of creamy green frosting complete with tiny chunks of pickle rind. I was going do fudge because it's National Fudge Day for the VP, but I thought it would be too gay. So I did pickle cake instead. I'm not sure if I got idea pickle. Thank you for being here, mister Vice President. Okay Hold on, you think fudge is gay, but the pickle cake is straight shaped like a penis. Oh no, F for me, I'm all heteroman. I'll have this dildo pie. Thank you very much Look, look, Fox news, Fox, Fox, Fox, listen to me, I'm here to help. Your homophobia is ruining your lives. Look, you have, You have to do. Listen, listen, listen, listen. You have the opportunity to enjoy delicious fudge with your friends. But instead, you're eating fucking pickle cake Your ignorant cruelty has trapped you in a fudgeless prison of your own desire You know what? Move on Let's move on from JD to the man whose gold slathered office he hopes to step into. Today, todayoday, the details of Trump's peace deal with Iran finally came out. And this is going to shock you doesn't actually include any of the big wins he promised. In fact, it kicks the can on Iran's nuclear stockpile while allowing Iran to eventually charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz and committing the US to end sanctions and facilitate a three hundred billion dollars reconstruction fund You know what I'm sure like everything else, the entire GOP is going to fall in line and support the deal one hundred percent. The details of this agreement, as we've seen them, it does not look like we are the victors. This doesn't feel like a victory. I thought somebody was spoofing me. Iran is the biggest winner of all this. Trump stages an Iran retreat. Tremendous foreign policy blunder. makes absolutely no sense. Smacks of impeasement. It's not defensible. inexplicable disaster. They played him like a byiol land Excuse me, sir I don't know if I'd equate Trump with the soft, dulcid tones of a violin. He's more like an entitled kazoo or a maraca filled with angry bees So Trump has a lot of work to do to appease this angry faction of his base. He could appeal to their sense of reason or to the obvious need for a negotiated settlement that will necessarily require some concessions or He could just push the shit on Obama butt. I mean, the JCPOA done by Obama He handed them a billion seven in cash they tried to bribe their way out of it. And you know what Iranians did. They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch. Okay, thank you very much. I You know what? I never thought I'd say this, but can you carry yourself with a bit more dignity in front of the dictator of Egypt? Dear Lord, man, there's a pack of poor French translators off to the side like a kiscet stupid sin of a beach But Who knows? Who knows if this peace deal with Iran is going to work, But if all doesn't go well, rest assured, Trump has a very solid plan B. Well If it works out, I'm gonna take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD. You better be careful, JD Look at that trp, always playing five D scapegoating I tell you, Janie is gonna be so bummed to hear about this once he finishes shitting out all of that pickle cake For more analysis on Trump's Dal with Iran, let's go live to the G seven with our very own Ronnie Chang What is your analysis of this deal? Jordan, my analysis of the deal is that it's incredible.u I love this deal. I love how Iran gets three hundred billion dollars. I love how Iran gets control of the strait. I love how it lets Iran pick the next James Bond. It's all great. No notes. you are number one, mister President. Wait That all sounds bad. Well, it sounds like you should shut the f up then, Jordan This This deal ends the war. Do you want this war to end or not? Okay Well Yes. Of course we all want the war to be over. Okay, well then shut the f up. because if he thinks that we think the deal sucks, he's gonna go back to the war. This is not a man who takes an L with grace, okay? I mean, Michael Jordan takes L's less personally than this guy Which is why he won the war. Mr. President Job with the gar You made a great deal with your great big pitas. I love it. I love it Is it right? G Yeah But this deal almost makes it seem like we lost the war. Okay Well then you f tell him then. you tell him, you tell him he lost the war. Do you remember what happened last time we tried to tell him he lost something? He tried to kill my p. tried to kill my petss But if we accept the deal, no more missiles, no more global recession, no more AI Lgo memes, but the term the terms of the deal are bad. Jordan, there's not gas, There's no gas. Okay? The world has like six gallons of gas left. I went to a gas station and fill out my car and like dust came out of a nozzle, okay so So listen to the words of Yoko Oo's weird white boyfriend with the glasses, okay? justust go. Give peace a chance. Okay What so? So we're just gonna be slaves to this man's ego. We can't criticize the deal. Of course you can. Quietly in private. Like this Talk like this. this deal is shit, okay, We lost the war And then you come out and you tell the president that he's a special boy and we love his big p. C you do it, Jordan? Do it. Okay. All right. All right, fine, mister mrter President, you made a great deal. Now what did he make a deal with withith his big, beautiful penis. Okay, who whoa, whoa, who, Don't be gay about it. I mean It's this big pickle penis. o Yes, Ronnie Chang, everybody donon't go away I finished a five K in ninety fourth place. rightight after a man wearing jeans, they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Bet three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly Ili like that Joker in Denim Beth three hundred sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present inew Jery and Pennsylania Tasason seass apply big birthday UC show brought to you by Mster Energy drrinks in America's Lost Dignity. So, I went down to DC to be a part of history and check out the vibes As America's counting down to the Big two hundred fifty, Trump has been hard at work renovating the place, and he's maybe cutting a few corners. But this past weekend was flagday, so Trump had to party. It was also his birthday, so he threw the classiest of celebrations. He had BMX jumps, birds of prey, fighter jets, and one big UFC fight on the White House lawn And I traveled toward Capitol to tap in for the fun. How two hundred fifiet, baby,? two fifty. You want people knocked out. And what people knocked out? twow hundred fifty, babbe? twow hundred fifty. twow hundred fifty here for the fight. Everybody's in a really positive attitude. They're happy to be here. Dude, even a homeless here't cool man. Yeah. There' the homeless herere like Can, man. They got like outfits and shit. They're like Ronald scooters and sh. Those aren't homeless people. Those are people who used to work for the federal government about a year ago. why are you here? Freedom and beer. My future ex wife, hopefully Thank you for your honesty. People just coming here because they want to see the American dream. and this is it. This is the American dream.ic This is the American dream. Tw sweat guys fighting on the White House alone.y not? Well, it feels like the American fever dream to me. What it's time to be alive, right? I'm you with my daughter, trying embarass her a lot. Yeah. She's trying to find a boyfriend. She's trying to find a boyfriend. This is the brought to a UFC fight. Exactly. God bless. Father of the over here. Flayers can always defend against anybody trying to get after my daughter. I'm pretty sure they can defend them. Yeah, that's what they're known for. Healthy masculated health. Yes. I was alive during the nineteen seventy six two hundredth anniversary You were there twenty six and I was there. Who fought then? Nobody fuck then. What? Nobody fucked in. Everybody loved each other. Everybody was shaking hands. need to just love each other. Yeah We need to act to peace. We need to put that on a stage so people can try to aspire to su somethinger. Absolutely. do that by finding some guys that will just beat the shit out of each other. Well, maybe if that's what it takes,. It's a wonderful gift for a man who's been a fan of fighting since before the nineteen seventies energy crisis What do you think about Trump throwing a fight on his lawn on his birthday? It's like the most American birthday you can have. Oh, my God, there's guys jumping dirt bikes. There's guys fighting in the front yard. Yeah ye. This is like the best birthday a ten year old could have. we're all ten year old at heart right? So we're ten year olds at heart. How many fight do you think they'llay awake for inside Don't you hear he's up twenty hours a day, He doesn't ever sleep? But I do think he sleeps because we watch it on televphion. No, you watch them freeze frraying the camera when he blinks his eyes. Okay. I mean, there's some of those are al camera freezes. No, no. Rest in his eyes. He might rest his eyes. So for anyone not resting their eyes, what will this UFC two hundred fifty event actually look like Who thinks gonna to win big fight tonight? My favor fight is definitely Paya Vvers Son and I got Prea by knockout in three. You know the big fight I assume the J sixers versus Capitol Police Oh. Is that not happening? My money's at a Citol Police though. always root for an underdog here. Of course, there is a very real historical precedent to spectacles like this. Kind of going back to gladiators. It does It feels gladiatorial. Yout mean what the Romans loved it. the Greeks loved it. Everybody loves it some kind of gladiator. Is it sort of like a colosseum We all come together way, but yeah.. Yeah. The emperor is giving us bread and circus. Yeah. Yeah ye. Or monster drinks and circus. Yeah. Yeah. So which emperor is Trump? Is he like Nero or Bro? like He's like Anakin Skywalker. Not like Darth Vader. Not like Darth Vader. No. Anakin, he had those authoritarian leanings, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, he had some power and you know he knew how to use it. you know with great power comes great responsibility. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what Spider Man said. He might be like Taligul, That's true. Taligula tried to get his Horse voted into the Senate, I believe. I mean, Trump tried to get Mark Wayne Mullen in there. So Maybe that's not a fair comparison I mean I have seen horses count, so that's not a fair comparison. Yeah. But ancient rules don't matter because this crowd is still giving their champion a big thumbs up How do you think Donald Trump do in the? Who's fighting Barack Obama? Thank you win that. Do you think Donald Trump would beat up Barack Obama? How tall Barack Obama? Wlings fans. I mean, is that really we're gonna get that nitty gritty? you think's gonna be that close? Donald's down to that man. Donald Trump is pooling blood at his ankles and falls asleep at MSG Donald Trump versus Barack Obama, whoo wins? I don't know, Trump's a ly White House, radical people say he's in great shape, so You you trust that? Are you trusting them? A are you trusting your eyes on this? I. JD Vance proozpic thinking Donald Trump is Hitler versus Jade Vance as Donald Trump's vice president, who wins? I'm still working on JD Vance, but you're not sure. No. Would you watch a JD Vance fight fighting himself? somethingbody tells me this fight is happening in his head all the time. could. As the combat sports evvent sponsored by American institutions like crypto dot com and Holymarket play it out on our actual White House lawn Viewers everywhere saw some of the uglier side of the culture. Michelle Obama is a man. I wondered what does this say about America to the rest of the world? I can understand the criticism. Like I get what people are saying. You know, it looks bad on the country. Youve got a lot of countries that are jealous because Well some people see America as sort of like a land of Borish folks.. trrashy, no class. I don't think we're any more trashy than any other country. You know, like I read something today, Oh, it's a big redneck yard sale. You see that that spin. peopleople spins it. There's people having a fight on a front yard in front of an open construction project with a guy who's bragging about an above jown pool. and somehow that feels trashy Yeah, you have any fear that there's criticism that this is a little trashy? No. Hey, are any of us trashy? What Oh you are Yeah self identified. Thank you for now. Thank you for your honesty. Happy birthday, Emperor Trump. Come back down early. We'll be joining you on the show. on' going finished a five K in ninety fourth place. Right after a man wearing jeans, they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Priz Metro, I'm Beth three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly I like that Joker in denim. B three hundred sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twentyenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jsey and Pennylvania Tas and seass apply who directs and stars in the film Maddie's Secret. Please welcome John Erlely Ji. how do you want me to orient myself? Yeah, what do you think? This is I have a BFA, so I know that I can slightly turn, I can cheat out and still address you. Yes, that's good. to the crowd. This is your audience f. And'll just they'll just come I can already sense the director in you. this is what's amazing. Yes, this is. You were a director in this. You wrote this.. You star in this? This is pure uncut John early. Oh ye. sorry, I' getting turned on.ere were at all afraid if this went poorly, you wouldn't have someone else to blame? No, I actually I wanted to do all those roles so that you know no one else would get any of the blame so I could spare my friends any of the blame. So this is an act of kindness. Y. Yeah, it really shows throughroat. Yeah. So what was for people who haven't seen it yet, which it's not out yet. they're not as cool as me where they get to see Scret before. What is Maddie' secret about Well, I won't tell you Maddie's seecret. Thank you. but no, Maddie's seecret, it's about a kind of bright eyed, optimistic, plucky U humble dishwasher at a big kind of content farm food media. company called Gorm Mabbe. I'm proud of that. And then and she gets kind of promoted to an on camera position. She makes a viral recipe and she kind of becomes a reluctant food influencer and this kind of rising fame reawakens these old demons. she struggled with an eating disorder as an adolescent It's in many ways a kind of contemporary retelling of this old eighties TV movie called Kate Secret staring The Great Meredth Baxter, which is a TV movie that a lot of Gayen pass around to each other And you're just like, I'm going make this and we're going update it for I want to do that. Let me do that. Yeah. What is so funny about the food influencer culture Well, I don't know. I can't really explain what I find funny about it. I mean, I have all these little earworms from, you know living in LA and New York and being around all these kind of trendy foods and Uh It's kind of mysterious to me what I find funny about it. Just hearing little like, you know, Hlloi with a Yuzu Krorosho crris. like I don't know. Yeah I don't know. I can't explain that. But The tone is so fascinating. Yeah. I think what I was so struck by is it seems to walk the line of both like An homage, a bit of an ironic wink, but also it's remarkably sincere. Yeah. Is that sort of the intention from the get go kindind of I mean, I have to say when I started writing it, I really thought I was making something or I was going to make something that was a little more sharp toothed, a little more like like kind of hard brash satire and then you know, I don't know. maybe I would have been able to sustain that tone if I were twenty three, but I'm twenty four I played cam. You played cam with them. I'm twenty four. Yeah. Great, great.. No, I'm thirty eight. And I guess I just kind of almost immediately found out that I just felt a little maternal towards her. I felt very protective of Maddie and so as I started as I kind of wrote the script more and more, the satire of it all sort of melted it away and it became very like hearted and sweet or something. Yeah. I mean, it's many things I don't know Well, that's what I think is kind of remarkable. It seems like there's, I don't want to say there was a shift halfway through in tone, but it seems like The beginning To me is an invitation to people who might know you for your comedic work. and the right yes, if you know John Elely for his comedic work But then there's a shift to some dark themes. Yeah. Like were you conscious of that in the writing and in the directing of how to welcome people into maybe a genre they're not as aware of Yes, I was. I knew it was a risk. I knew it was like a kind of I knew it felt to me like a kind of tonal experiment and one that I would never know the results of until the movie was like fully edited. Basically I was just kind of following the demands of the genre, like these kind of old TV movies, they actually have these like Greek stakes, you know, it's like people die and they're like, you know, and there's betrayal and, you know, it's they're very intense. And I was like, okay, if I'm gonna do this I'm going to do it. And so I knew that like Basically, I was asking this kind of ensemble of largely comedic actors. I was like, we're just gonna to like commit to this and tonally will let the chips fall where they may. I had a feeling that If we just threw ourselves into it, it could be extremely funny and possibly extremely moving too And sometimes it's both I think that's what's kind of remarkable about it. But you do have very funny people. You have anes Bear, Connor O'Malley.. A you fighting like turn it downown? This is not a moment for comedy. I mean, comedians aren't necessarily known for their restraint more often than not. They can own a scene or find a joke. They like to find and fill those spaces. Yes You know, I don't know what I like about the genre that and I say that very loosely, like TV movies or old school Hollywood melodramas They're very forgiving You know, like you can you can kind of like fling a line out there and you can really miss the mark. You know, you can do poorly Like I do a lot in this movie. And and it still can kind of hold that, you know, And and that was sort of by design because we didn't have a lot of time. We didn't have a lot of money, you know, this is a very humble fil And you know, we shot it at my house and it was very kind of like done in the style of like a sleepover, you know. but like I guess I chose a style that could You know, when you watch a TV movie, you kind of expect some people to be bad. Yeah Yeah. You want shit to go down. Yeah. and you want fangs to come out? Well, I more mean bad like in the acting sense. Oh. Right. Okay. yeah, you want people to be bad at their jobs and the execution of it. Okay, yes. that's not what I'm hoping for at the beginning of my entertainment choices. but's continue. But I think there's joy in that. I mean I think there's like it's, you know would They don't TV movies were like trying to do this thing that big old school Hollywood melodrammers were doing, but with no money, you know. And so like And that was the position I was in. So I don't know. I kind of I think they're very charming. I don't know. I read something camp, the tone of camp, there's both intentional and unintentional camp, right? And whether or not unintentional camp is something that can be achieved anymore. Yeah. Was that something that was in your mind Definitely. I mean, I think like mayaybe what I started making was kind of intentional camp, or it was camp that knew itself to be camp You know, and then But it was striving so hard to be the first kind of like pure naive kind of camp, you know, And then it lands somewhere in between. Well, there's a There's a wonderful dance sequence in this fil that is an emotional core and center to this film. Yeah I'm curious having seen your past work, how early on did you know there must be a dance sequence in this film? I'm always trying to narratively justify. always I'm always trying to find an excuse for dance and I At first I was like, oh, I can't. I have to be honest, when I was writing this, you're gonna to think I'm insane, but when I was writing this movie, I wrote it exclusively to the Shaft soundtrack. really. I was I was very I was really going through, I really haven't left this. I was in a very intense Isaac Hayes moment of my life. listening to a lot of Isaac Hayes. and I wasn't high. They wt No good creative ideas ever come out when you're high. No. But you know I was really getting to the Chef' soundtrack. and you know the kind ofor the sunny kind of seventies horns of the Chef soundtrack, I was like, oh my God, this is the tone of the movie. I was like imagining Maddie like jogging through the city and you know and be like, Hey, Maddty, you know Why was it? What were we talking about? Oh dance, dance d, dance. And so as I was listening to Shaft and I wasn't high, I was thinking like you know, I couldn't help but, you know get into the groove to quote Chagana. Oh I was thinking did that. I suppose Madonna did it as well. Yes. And you know and I was like, oh, if I put dance, there's no way I can put dance in this, That's too broad, that's too silly. But then I was like, no, like in all of these movies, there's always a kind of all these eating disorder TVvies Some sort of physical form of exercise that pushes the inenue over the edge, you know. And I realized I could kind of I realized it could be a dance class. I just I found my way to dance as I always do. So you write yourself into a corner and then dance out of it, right? Y And to me I wanted to do like to me, this was like, can I make showgirls basically Can I make showgirls with my friends with a really low budget? Like that is kind of the prompt of this movie. It has a very showgirls spirit. I I mean, I would say you are twenty twenty six as Elizabeth Berkeley.. I've been saying it for years ,'ll take a quick we have Space Force cameras on every single door, every well, there are no doors that have been pretty was shattered, but every area of that if somebody walks in, And he's got a badge with his name on it like Mohammed something Which is about a fifty fifty guess, Muhammed something Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show Week nights at eleven, ten Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus Comedy Central podcast finished a five K in ninety fourth place. Right after a man wearing jeans, they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing. I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metra, I'm Bet three hundred sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker and denim B Bet three hundred sixty five. winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present New Jersey and Penslvania,as andZ supply I finished a five K in ninety fourth place. rightight after a man wearing jeans, they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing. I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Priz Metr, I'm Beth three hundred sixty five. 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