{"id":676201,"date":"2025-06-19T21:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-daily-show-keeps-desi-lydic-on-her-toes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:36:39","slug":"the-daily-show-keeps-desi-lydic-on-her-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-daily-show-keeps-desi-lydic-on-her-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Daily Show\u2019 Keeps Desi Lydic on Her Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tOn May 8, the day before she popped on a Zoom for this conversation, Desi Lydic was wrapp<\/a>ing up prep for that evening\u2019s The Daily Show<\/em> when the 4:30 curse struck again. White smoke was billowing in Vatican City, and now the staff of the Comedy Central institution needed to reshape the first half of the episode around the announcement of an American pope. \u201cWe\u2019ll have an entire show written and then some time between 4 and 5 o\u2019clock, something will happen,\u201d says Lydic, who shares the hosting carousel with Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Jon Stewart. \u201cThen we have just enough time to scrap it and start from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s been a very eventful year. Is there an episode or segment you\u2019re most proud of pulling off?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe day after the election was not easy. I was hosting that day. I remember going into that morning meeting just being vulnerable about the way that I was feeling \u2014 then hearing everyone else try to find the humor in all of it. Coming in as a correspondent, I always played a character. Hosting, you\u2019re yourself. That\u2019s your point of view. So that day just felt like catharsis with the audience, as depressing as it was.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDesi Lydic, at the Daily Show<\/em> desk has a 2024 Emmy for outstanding talk series<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Wilson\/Comedy Central<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tDo you have any field work horror stories from when you were a correspondent?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI went to cover some Trump rally in Pennsylvania the first go-round. We travel<\/a> with security, but, in those days, it may have been a little more lax. So I\u2019m there with cameras, talking to people, but no one knew who I was. Then everyone starts chanting, \u201cFake news<\/a>, fake news!\u201d A guy grabbed the mic out of my hand and went, \u201cGet out of here, fake news!\u201d \u201cWell, yeah,\u201d I thought. \u201cWe are the original fake news.\u201d But it was so unsettling. We\u2019re now the enemy just by nature of being the media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA lot has been said about how some of your previous colleagues processed the host search between Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart, but how did you feel during that time?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt was disorienting. But I put a lot of faith in our showrunner, Jen Flanz. She\u2019s the whole reason that place runs the way that it does. I knew that we\u2019d just have to ride it out. And as anxiety-inducing as the whole thing was \u2014 \u201cWho\u2019s the host going to be? Are we going to have a host? Are we still going to be on air?\u201d \u2014 there were some fun positives that came out of that guest rotation: working with Sarah Silverman, becoming friends with Chelsea Handler, having Marlon Wayans come in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWho\u2019s a dream guest of yours?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tCarol Burnett is my number one, just because she\u2019s the entire reason I wanted to do comedy. My dad showed me The Carol Burnett Show<\/em> when I was a kid, and I was obsessed with her in Annie<\/em>. Most little girls want to be Annie or maybe Grace, so elegantly dressed and lovely. I was like, \u201cWho\u2019s this fun drunk lady? I want to be like her.\u201d Carol seemed like she was having a good time.<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s end on a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 outlier. You were on an episode of Two and a Half Men<\/em>. What was the role?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tUsually that show would have the babe of the week, whatever hot girl that Charlie [Sheen] was dating. She\u2019d be in a tight dress or a bikini or whatever. This particular episode, this character was one of the first women to just reject him outright. So I didn\u2019t have a lot to do in that episode. (Laughs.<\/em>)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story first appeared in a June stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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