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Oct. 30, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Making the Daily Show: Election 2024 Docuseries Part 1 | Louder With Crowder
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
There were fewer than three weeks before the U.S. general election.
Trump said he wants legal immigration.
He was also pressed about the violent attack on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters on January 6th, 2020.
So, every morning, get up.
Um...
Listen to these news briefings.
NPR, Fox News, BBC News, Reuters, and then a comp leads together the main networks.
Maybe listen to some music, try and get my head in the right space.
Some comedy if there's someone inspiring I'm looking for.
Sometimes an audiobook.
I'll warm up my vocal cords if I need to.
There are rumors that he doesn't in fact play piano with his member, but in fact prefers suckling at the point.
And then when I get to the office, I have two more briefings that I read.
One is compiled from Brodigan, my longest standing employee.
When you get to be our age, you're always doing like the four squats and like shoulder twists.
Odd.
Cat.
Strange fella.
But a hell of a good cook.
And as I do that, I kind of do that at the same time as going through the show map and also checking any trends for other news.
You know, honestly, I don't know.
The process is get up and work.
I'm just literally doing this and go four, three, two.
And by the end of it, the pain is gone.
Like, it completely alleviates the pain temporarily, like for a good hour or two.
What I got here, we were running everything with Steven's personal Gmail.
It was literally run out of his garage.
This whole studio here, it's the same exact studio, just in his garage.
So, just a little perspective, yeah, it was all just very, it was shoestring put together and we had to turn it into a business.
So Stephen and I got connected through a mutual friend.
I was also kind of, you know, one of the earlier videos that Stephen did with the blue bedsheets.
I was Aisha.
I played his kind of, you know, not Muhammad wife.
Muhammad had many wives.
Not Muhammad!
Who are you speaking of?
Shut up!
You're not the boss of me!
And we just became kind of friends and it grew and grew and finally becoming more of a fixture on the show was supposed to be just like a few week thing.
And that was, you know, in January of 2017.
So, been here a little while.
Oh, I know!
The numbers are consistently going in the same direction.
Well, I've been doing comedy almost 10 years now and I was up in the Seattle area and just been doing comedy there for, I think it was like eight years, nine years before I met Steven.
I had known who he was mostly from the change of my mind.
Then I worked with him and was like, wow, this guy's hilarious.
Let me check this out.
And then I look back and I find out that he's like one of the pioneers of You know, comedy on YouTube.
I didn't realize how big Steven was, like, before YouTube demonetized him.
But to have a fan base like he does on a regular base, I mean, I got my own little following, you know?
But that was when I was on Comedy Central a lot and had specials.
But nothing, you know, nothing like this.
So I've been a fan of the show for years.
I've been following Steven for a while.
And I always wondered what it would be like.
It always seemed like a fun place to work.
And actually, it really is.
It's everything I thought it would be.
Well, I had done Steven's show years ago, and then I get a call from Steven or Darren or whatever, and they said, we want to, you know, we want your show on the network.
It's a real romantic story.
I've seen the show, thought it was great, obviously.
And I said, yeah, I'd love to do that.
I like Breitbart's quote that Steven has hanging up that says something about I like defending my point and have fun doing it.
Does the tone in this office pair well with the seriousness of the work we do, the comedic tone?
It absolutely does.
The work is serious.
The way we joke about it And ridicule it.
It just adds this layer to the message that we're trying to put out that I think is what makes the show unique and really the best show in this sphere.
I started on the show about two years ago.
Started as an editor shooting sketches and I work on The Daily Show running that and over pre-production and production.
A typical day at Louder with Crowder.
I get in at about 4.30, make the coffee.
Well I come in pretty grumpy.
Morning Tim.
Because I need a coffee.
What I do for the show ranges depending on the day.
It could be writing some of the show content, it could be certain production elements, it could be doing interviews, on the ground stuff.
It just kind of depends.
We're a smaller company and so everyone's kind of I would say very well versed across the board and my position is no different.
But I think probably the most integral part would be producing and kind of crafting the daily show.
By about 5.30, I'm looking at the show map and the stories that we're gonna put in and write for Steven.
Coming in and writing some sketches with Johnny Boy and Steven.
I check, see what's going on.
I try to see what the workload's looking like, what you guys see, how stressed out you are, so I'll know kind of what I'm walking into.
I know it's early for BTS. So I had been with ESPN for just shy of a decade and I'd been listening to the Show on a regular basis.
So I put my feelers out and I happened to see that there was a recruitment post on LinkedIn and I went for it and here I am.
I'm wearing glasses that help them not burn out at 6 in the morning.
We do a quick talk over for 15-20 minutes about the topics and then from about 6 to 8 we're to the grindstone.
We're in a document Laying out the levels to the story, certain statistics, undergirding research, communicating with Steven or Gerald on certain changes they might want.
And we have to start figuring out, okay, what can we keep in?
What do we cut?
And yeah, we basically just go through, we try and start at the top of the map and work our way down so that obviously what hits first is first out the door.
I take a lot of pride in making sure that whatever we get out is actually useful for people.
I think that's the biggest key takeaway from everything that we do.
We do a lot of comedy, which is fantastic.
I think that's kind of the backbone of what we do.
But we give people information in a way that's useful.
We have a little less than an hour to finish up any jokes you want to add to the show and kind of get together in a little huddle and go over a few ideas.
I mean, I freaked out when I got here and I saw the production level.
Yeah, I think I have the strongest team I've had ever.
I couldn't believe the whole setup.
I had seen the show and I couldn't believe the production quality.
I was blown away when I got here.
The volume of work and the quality of work that we put out here is just insane.
It's unmatched.
There's immense amounts of talent.
Very high-performing, I always want to say athletes, because it reminds me of playing sports where you really have to depend on people to do things in crunch time.
In a live situation, and again, like I mentioned, that's not something you find in other jobs.
Even Steven says, like, this place is the NFL of production.
Like, this is where the best people come, and hopefully we get the best people.
Even if they don't seem like it, like, they turn into the best people in production.
Yeah, Matt is up to make this amazing team.
We can work together in a way I never really have with others before.
I think it really makes for a superior product.
This is something that's different than what you're going to find out in the marketplace.
It is truly a combination of late night and kind of politics, almost stand-up comedy in some ways, and then professional wrestling to a degree with skits and themes and all that stuff.
It's this whole amalgamate.
Okay, let's go.
This doesn't feel like a day job to me, half the time.
Because I'm a comedian and I get to go do comedy.
Good morning.
Got a little BTS action.
Hey, a little BTS, a little morning BTS. Yes, yes.
Want to walk us through the process?
This is called a show.
It doesn't really feel like work.
You walk in and everybody's kind of positive and optimistic about things.
We're cracking jokes with each other.
This is number 47.
We all know who's boring, right?
Come on!
HR Sam doing HR things.
It takes a very special mindset to work here.
The level of difficulty and stress, if it's not making you stronger, it's going to kill you.
Laney Brain might be the loudest person I've ever met in my life.
If you could find me what the housing surplus or shortage in the 1950s was.
There are times when he's very passionate about something that I'm not.
And so sometimes those can be contentious back and forth, but I know where his heart is.
I know what he's trying to accomplish, and I agree with that, and so it doesn't bother me at all.
Lane stole my pen again.
Neither one of these is my pen.
Neither one of these.
Again, every single time.
Matt.
Out.
Noodles in the flesh.
Jesse, what's up?
All right, BTS. What are you doing?
Well, we're cutting some clips here, OK? And this is what it looks like.
I have to actually put them into the computer, have to format them correctly according to this, and then spit them back out.
The clips are in the computer.
They're inside the computer.
Yeah, the crew's great, man.
I'm amazed.
Every day when I come in here and I ask for a Photoshop or something, and it comes out not what I wasn't picturing, but so much better.
Her yearbook message is also pretty cringy.
Cringy, we're not the only ones who think so.
Wait, the...
He said this bitch!
It also said, favorite activity is sex.
Probable destination, Kevin.
That's hilarious.
This guy's cool.
This guy is cool, dude.
She definitely went to Google and typed in gay font.
Gotta add a little more blur, possibly, but you'll see this online.
When we come in here to the studio to do run-through, and that's when Stephen will have a large number of his changes, which usually leads to, I want to call it a chaotic 30 to 45 minutes.
Run-through.
What time is it?
It's run-through time.
It's run-through time.
It is.
Yes, sir.
Let's get ready to run!
Come in!
Run through!
Get in here!
Do it!
What are you doing?
Get to the run through!
Okay, so we're gonna have to do that.
Jesus.
You gotta be silly.
Time?
About 8 o'clock we're doing the run through for the show, and between 8 and 9 a.m., is when, you know, the last-minute comments come in.
And then prep the machine, pull in the assets you guys have built.
Then we do run through, and that's kind of when you learn what the show's really about.
This is where we're really getting a synthesis with the production people.
This type of energy requires me to rise.
Let's go!
Let's go.
More effective to show that footage first and then show this guy.
When they were told to go home and then people came back to Cal, that is unrelated to the pipe.
The amount and the quality that we were able to put out consistently, it's absurd.
How are we doing today?
It's another busy morning.
We're going right up against Run-Through and we're still pulling plenty of stuff in the map.
It can be an intense room in the mornings, but I like that.
I think I thrive in that environment.
So it's very high stress, but it's super rewarding because you get to see the fruits of your labor in real time and there's not many jobs that you can do that with.
A lot of times in Run-Through we're more or less prepped for the show and then, you know, Steven being the creative that he is.
Starts riffing off of a lot of the stories that he sees in the map.
He'll be like, hey, maybe we should have had a Photoshop here.
He's trying to plug this.
Yeah, it's an HGTV show.
What's our record for assets added in run-through?
21.
I believe the money wants to help.
- That claim?
- Um, but if you're not validated, you're gonna say, you're gonna keep it light and faith.
- It is an intense environment. - The pithers are people that were stopping. - The cuddlers getting revised. - They're getting secured to trade in. - How do you steal an election?
We're allowed to talk about it on YouTube right now.
We'll go through the five steps that can, and at least at some point have taken place, and Mug Club has an exclusive today, some undercover footage.
Look, you're gonna be mad.
It'll be fun, but you'll be mad.
Alright everybody, one minute till countdown.
How we doing out there?
Let's go.
By the time 10 after 9 is rolling around and the countdown clock is going, that's when we're getting still last minute changes.
Sometimes even after the show started, we're getting changes in.
There's such an intensity to the room when we're prepping for a show, when we're going into a show, even during a show, that it just makes the room electric.
I like the pressure.
I like the hustle and bustle.
It's fun.
It's exciting.
It's really nothing like I expected.
More difficult, but more rewarding than it.
Run-through's sometimes more fun than the show, but I mean, that's when everyone's loosening up and getting all the stuff that you can't say on air out.
Oh, now I'm going double Windsor, dude!
I hope you're still tying the tie when the morning show news media is intense.
Comedy is intense.
Because you're trying to capture something and do it.
You're trying to do something great.
Hey, we're getting ready for elections.
When the run-through ends, hopefully we have more than 20 minutes.
And, uh, it's game time that we go and we have the show.
All right.
There's not another place like this that really isn't.
Damn, I'm a Texan.
You know, helping to write skits and researching stories for Steven Crowder, that's kind of insane.
I never imagined it, but I'm so glad it turned out that way.
I love this place.
I love the work I get to do.
Live shows is my favorite part.
Performing, slinging jokes, laughing.
That's my favorite part.
It's been nothing but entertaining.
It's not just a job.
What we do here is, I think, more important than the job.
I feel like I'm all in at this point.
For our audience, they choose to give us some of their income that they worked their asses off for.
So just the utmost gratitude for the mug club members Okay And action.
My name is Crowder.
Commander.
A letter with Crowder.
Leader.
So sketches, a lot more goes into them than it might seem.
It's way more involved than I thought it would be.
There's not another place in the industry where you could just...
Change your role, or say, hey, I want to try mixing the show today, or I went over an audio, or, you know, you get to contribute, you get to be on cam.
How about the view?
It's like a horse baby.
You crush it right there.
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