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Josh Johnson

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“We love to get out on a laugh, you know? But I genuinely believe that. I think that we, because of how individualistic we've become and because of how we've been socialized to think about our own upward mobility, we deeply underestimate the power of cooperation and community. Not only do I think that is the only way forward, but I think there's a lot of hope in the fact that we have not yet seen its powerful impact in our lifetime. So once again, the people that fought for the four-hour work week, the people that fought for everything that we enjoy without really having to think about it, they were the people that came together for those efforts. And so it can be done. It's already been done before, and we can do it again.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I swear I'm getting to it. But in case I don't, you should just cut the episode right there. That would actually be very fun. You're like, Josh, I said hopeful”
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“So even if things, let's say quote unquote, get worse as well, those things will not be permanent. Everything changes with time and all we have is each other. And so we have to take care of each other. Each other are the priority. I think that the way that people look at the market as well, you see so many YouTube videos go up on Friday, like how to protect yourself from the Trump terrorists. It's like it's not yourself. You cannot protect yourself. You will not be able. If the Titanic is sinking, you are doomed if you're trying to swim it alone to safety. That's just not going to work.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay. I think that However, you're feeling right now, you should talk about it. And you should talk about it earnestly with people that you care about. And I think that when you do that and when you do that enough, and not saying everyone works themselves into a frenzy, I mean, when you talk about how you feel about what's happening with other people, you see how they feel about it. I think that those are the ways that you figure out what to do about it and when you know what to do about it and you take action, then things will change. And so whatever you're feeling right now is not permanent. It's not permanent in any manner of ways.”
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“Somebody finally said it. And I think that that's what happens to artists if they get two in their heads and if they let people pump them up too much. It's like, you know, I could also still snap. Let's wait till I'm dead to call me anything. Okay. All right.”
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“Didn't train. They were like, I'm the best. That's what's gonna happen to me. I'm the best. And then they got in the ring with someone who didn't think they were the best and they were pummeled to oblivion. And it's Yeah, that was”
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“It's a lot like when you are a rapper and you're coming up and you have a lot of connection to community and people vibe with what you're putting out because they're part of that struggle that you're currently in because you're trying to get out of there. But then you do get out of there from success, from Grammys, from notoriety. And then all of a sudden you kind of don't know what to do with it because now you're like one of the greats. And then you don't relate to the people. The people don't relate to you. So if you just approach all the art that you make the way that like a boxer is supposed to approach a fight there are plenty of fighters who thought that they were the goat and”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If we really do all die, if this kills all of us, then yeah, I guess when we are in the ether, if we still have consciousness floating in the universe, we can be like, that one guy was pretty good, now that time's over and we know there's no one else coming, that one guy, he did it, you know. And I think that one thing that I find very interesting, I think every comic knows this is that the people who enjoy them the most, the people who have found that comedian to be their favorites will call them the goat, depending on who you ask. It's Wanda Sykes, depending on who you ask, is Maria Bamford, it's Bill Burts, Dave Chappelle, it's Chris Rock, it's Kevin Hart, it's whoever. And I think that that sort of thinking, if it seeps too much into the mind, it can actually diminish the work.”
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“I don't believe in. In a concept of a goat, really? I think maybe if you ask me on a different day, I'll give you a different answer, but I think that when something like art is so subjective, then you can be first at something, you can be the best at a particular thing, but I think that as long as we all have different preferences, as long as we all have... Different views on what art is, I think it would be a bit short sighted to call anyone individual the goat. And that doesn't just go for comedy. It kind of goes for everything because time's not over. Don't get me wrong”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I do think that there is some amount of. I mean, I don't even know if fraternity is the right word, but there is some amount of camaraderie that every comic feels when another comic is genuinely censored. And I don't mean censored as in like they did their jokes, they made their money, then people got mad, and they're like, y'all are killing me. I don't mean that. I mean when someone genuinely loses an opportunity because of what they have to say. I think that if anything, I wish that more comedians would be vocal about Amber Ruffin's situation the way they are when a comic is like, you know, Putting stuff out, making their money, but then getting backlash, and somehow that's. Isn't an attack.”
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“So, yeah, I think the tariffs is one thing that, like, in earnest, I don't necessarily find funny at all, but I think I can make funny through pointing out the things that we all see, that sort of like emperor having no clothes aspect of, like when you do that. Thing is not funny. You're being led by someone who is deeply gullible, who isn't wearing clothes. It is funny to be like, hey, he naked.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A good question I mean, I do think that even though we're not in it yet, I look at the tariffs very seriously and I think about how there are people who voted for Trump who are just happy to see rich dims lose money because they don't have any money in the stock market. And I don't think that they understand that it doesn't stop there. It's not like this stock market is this isolated thing and that a lot of people will lose jobs when the rate of unemployment goes ups go up. I do think it's something very, very serious. And so there's a lot of about it that I don't find funny. I can still write jokes about how haphazardly it was put together about people's reactions, about the inability of people to fix it. And that still doesn't take away from the seriousness of the people who will suffer from it.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that. My role, my responsibility is to do what I'm doing right now and do it to the best of my ability to share as openly as possible, to remind people that they're not only not alone, but also that they have people right next to them that will take care of them. We're so individualistic and we have so much capital on the mind that you forget that you're not in constant competition with everyone you meet all day. And so I think if I can nurture that relationship and strangers towards each other, then I'm doing what I'm meant to do.”
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“Yeah, I think that my role, the thing that I hopefully do best is give people joy. I don't know. I think that it would be dishonest of me to list a bunch of lofty things that I know that I can't really do because we do need the serious people to do the serious things. And I'm here trying to make people laugh or I'll point out when I think something is dumb. And I think that no matter how much a person may need that, that's not the same thing as passing legislation. That's not the same thing as they don't.”
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“100%. And who knows? I've had friends be like, oh, people are going to take it for granted and then they'll check out or maybe they'll watch and then they'll stop watching. I'm like, yeah, but I don't know. I'm doing it for the people that are there.”
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“Go ahead. Yeah I do think that there's a possibility that that happens, but there's also a possibility that I put out a half hour or whatever amount of time until I die and people check out anyway. It's like I can't control what other people do. I can only do the best work that I can. And for right now, I'm having a lot of fun doing what I'm doing. I'm very appreciative that people are enjoying it. For as long as it lasts, I'm thankful. I think that people look at anyone who is interested in their work as like As if it's like you have to be interested forever or it counts for nothing. If someone's a fan of what you do for seven years, that's incredible. And maybe they don't stop being a fan, but maybe they're like, ah, we get it.”
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“Yeah, it's like you use the leverage you have when you have it and you build relationships that are just advantageous to you as well. I think that there's sometimes a level of trust in systems that we found to not be trustworthy for a long time.”
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“And I think that the next wave of comedians that make money, whether it's online or like touring or anything like that, are going to be finding more independent ways to produce their stuff. And the thing that big corporations have over being independent or working on something that's new in a way where you don't know if it'll work out is that they have the structure in place. And so when you see something with that big of a structure, it can catapult someone. If a company comes to you and they're like, oh, we want to be your sponsor and we're going to fund your next three projects and everything. That's very enticing, but they own that. But it's all of your work. And I'm not saying that you never engage with a corporation at all. I'm not saying that you never.”
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“Yeah, so it's like, even if the actual creation of the thing is mine, if you are on the tour with me, I want you to feel like a part of the tour is yours and you can use the skills that you learn on the tour to go off and make your own thing in a way where I just feel like corporations are very good at trying to make you feel that way while also trying to keep you the entire time.”
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“Comes to ownership, and when it comes to you creating the things that you want to make and having some say in how they get created, that having that ownership, even if it doesn't look like much initially, is going to pay off dividends in the future because you can choose your collaborators. Like I've done my best to surround people, so surround myself with people that I trust with the things that I'm making. And I want to make sure everybody feels content with what we're creating together.”
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“Talk a little bit about this? Yeah, I think that there are ways in which the economy is changing that If you don't think very deeply about what it is that you want to do and how you want to distribute it, you will be not left behind in the way of get in now or it's over. I mean, you will be sort of like following the lead of a corporation who went ahead and figured out how to get around the idea that you could be independent. So for instance, while we sat here when vaping was getting big, right? And there was all these things going on about how big tobacco was scared of vaping and they were actually lobbying to try to get all of these municipal laws passed. And while some of that was happening, they were also quietly investing in vaping and then buying vape companies because they knew that the tide was turning, everything was shifting, and they weren't going to be able to fight it forever. And so I think that when it comes to distribution, I think it went.”
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“What I'm attempting to do with the tour and each tour for the rest of the time that I'm doing comedy is that I think that if you can go somewhere, I mean like Flowers is a little on the nose, but every state has a flower, cities have particular flowers that grow there in a way that they don't grow anywhere else. And so if you can visit and sort of plant these seeds and you can nurture them, leave them with the people that came to the show and sort of leave that general message there that when you come back to sort of water that idea that there might be something that's grown in the meantime.”
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“Then it's more so what you sort of leave behind. And so on Flower Store, we're doing our best to get better and better in every city at community outreach. And some of that community outreach is just letting the people know who come to the show what's already happening in their community, like all the good work that's already being done. So even if we don't start something new, we let the people know that, oh, there's this animal shelter here that is just not even six blocks away from the theater and they're taking volunteers and you can sign up or you can donate. Whatever the thing is, because I think that one of the reasons people feel so beat down all the time is that they are unaware in all the noise of the internet, of all the good work that is happening around them. Yeah, and the solutions. And so... That is like.”
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“Yeah, I mean, the purpose of the tour, the idea is to, for myself especially, to sort of learn how to Plant these sort of seeds of mutual aid and things that we can sustain long after the tour is over and long after I'm gone and everything because I think that if you can set something up like that like we don't really think about the people who are the reason that we have like a 40 hour work week but there were people that like protested died there were people who put themselves on the line and so even though they're gone and we don't really know their names we get that benefit And so it kind of felt like, you know, to answer your question, hopefully as succinctly as possible because I do talk a lot, is the same way that when I moved Chicago, I was like, okay, I can either do lighting or I can do comedy. One gives me a lot of joy. One, I think I'm pretty good at, but both, I'm probably going to be poor. And so I just picked the thing that gave me like more joy. And I think that if I'm not going to be here forever anyway.”
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“Said he'd be good at it. I'm just saying the thing that he chose was like, I'm gonna go after like the idea that people have ideas that I don't like. I'm gonna try to completely shift culture and thinking in a way that is like so animal farm, so 1984. And it's like you could, he's kind of out of problems, so he has to make some. And he's only out of problems because the real problems the world is facing are not things that he's interested in.”
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“I mean, when you don't have an Odyssey, then you have to create one. And you only create one of two ways. There could be an actual problem in the world. I'm not going to tell anybody how to spend their money, but Elon could easily be like, you know what seems unconquerable hunger. So I'm going to attack hunger for the rest of my life. I'm going to go at war with hunger. What are the best ways that we can attack hunger and stop hunger, right?”
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“But I do think that some of that regression in a lot of its forms, no matter how it happens, is like pain. And I think that there are some people that no matter how much money they have or clout, no matter how they look to us on the outside or deeply fearful of even the person, of discovering the person that they are, because I think you have to face a lot to do that. And so rather than open themselves up to What would potentially make them a better person or at least give them a deeper understanding of other people, even if they don't change their mind about anything, they sort of regress because that is the I don't know. A part of me sometimes, it's not an indictment on all of us, but sometimes it just feels like the manly thing to do.”
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“I think if I had the chemical makeup in the brain born in the time, had the parents of the nurturing of a different person, I'd probably be just like them. I don't necessarily, like I hold my beliefs very strongly, but I don't hold them so strongly that I'm like, no, even if I had been born 20 years ago, I think exactly what I think right now. It's like, no, I had to be introduced ideas. I had to be brought along. I had to learn. I had to make lots of mistakes and logic and then be educated about them. And that's just to get me where I am now.”
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“But I also think it's just like. Me no matter what your sort of studying to find background on to speak about as earnestly and intelligently as possible, I think if you have an understanding of people, you'll understand a situation. And I've met people like Elon and I've met people like Trump and I've met people like Chuck Schumer and I've met people that remind me of other people not saying that those people are the same as the people that I'm mentioning, but I kind of try to put a lot of the things that I make through. The sort of lens of We are all basically the same. And what I mean by that is that I try not to pass Judgments that hold forever because I truly believe is just my thing. I'm not asking anybody else to believe it. But I think that if I had been born at a different time as a different person, I would be them.”
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“And the great thing about the internet is that there is some passivity there. It's like if you really think that I suck, you don't have to engage with me at all. If you're like, this isn't what comedy should be. Or if it's for you and you're like, oh, I really wanted something that whether it's breaking down a thing or joking about a thing that is obscure, then you can find it and you can. Have fun with it, but I don't know because I also don't know if I'll always do it this way. I think the whole thing, any creator is supposed to evolve in some form. And so this is what I'm doing for now. Maybe I'll do something different a few years from now.”
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“Yeah, I think that at a certain point, if you really take your time and think out an entire idea that there are going to be people who appreciate that and appreciate the through line that you create, the line of logic, so at least they understand your worldview and the worldview of people that believe what you believe a little bit better. And I think that maybe that's what's resonating with people right now because I'm especially not really trying to convince anybody of anything. These are the things that I believe, these are the things that I think are funny.”
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“Maybe. I don't know. I didn't necessarily engage with it that way because I figured something out. I just was doing my set and then I put it out and people found it and liked it and that's a real blessing. I don't really know if that will even be the case for long. I just know that this is the way that I approach comedy. This is the way that I find it fun and fulfilling. I'm happy that people enjoy it. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea, so I understand that as well. But to me, I think that in a world that's like bombarding you consistently all the time with a message as quick as possible convince you of something and convince you of something that's a belief that they would like for you to hold for the end of time because whether”
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“Hopefully find something to offer up besides just this is a mistake, boo on you, then I think that you do have a Catalog that you can look back on with a lot of things that hold up that people can enjoy or take something away from for as long as a long time.”
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“Stuff from before okay. Got to work on some tags But yeah, no, I think that those are my. My attempts to take it away from just one specific thing, I understand that it is incredibly scary and disheartening to see this sort of like whatever you want to call it, Trump America or anything. But Trump is a symptom of a larger issue and those issues will exist long after he's gone, long after I'm gone because the issues that people make. And I think that there are attitudes that get us back to places that we've been before where it already didn't work out for us. We've seen it's like some of the worst parts of history seem like they're going to repeat, but we already know. We've already sort of learned the lesson. And so that's actually what makes things timeless, sadly. Isn't even someone being extra poignant or like having words strung together in a sentence that have never been done before is the fact that we keep making the same mistakes. So if you can speak to a specific mistake and you can”
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“I feel like even though I talk about things topically, I think that if you let all that stuff sort of pass away or you edit it out of the set, there is an attempt I'm making to talk about a larger thing that who knows I don't get to decide and I won't be around if it holds up.”
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“I don't think so because I feel like what I was doing, I definitely had heroes especially, but I think that one of the reasons it was Felt like difficult for me to find my footing in stand up for a little while was that the way that I wanted to do it was not something that I really saw a lot of. I saw pieces of it in other people, I suppose. I really appreciate the way that This may not even make sense, so feel free to stop. But I appreciate the way that Carlin had almost like a timeless tense to him because. He could have, yeah, George Collin, he could have talked about one specific politician, one specific moment in time, one specific story. But the takeaway, even when he did do those things, was that this thing is applicable for the rest of time as long as this injustice persists.”
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“Yeah. And I heard that, and I was like, no lie. I don't like Trump at all, but I need that what's about be true. Let me go ahead and look up like 14 sources to make sure that that's what happened. Because I know that they got their own formula wrong. And that was also like as someone who's never been great at math in class. Understand exactly where they were coming from, messing up their own formula. But no one's ever depended on me. I never came home with a C in math that my mom was like, that's it, we're selling everything. This is... We were looking to you and you boxed it.”
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“The formula was, yeah, I was talking about the tariffs and I was like, I'm reading things that I'm just. Because so far it's been very dumb. I just want to make sure it's as dumb as I think it is. Before I talk about how dumb it is, because in case I'm wrong, I'm not helping. I'm just making it seem. Yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool.”
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“As best I could. I mean, if anything, that's what gives me if I decide to asset about something or someone and then in trying to find background on it, I'm realizing how little I understand about the subject. That's what gives me at least more respect in how I talk about it just because I know, even if the audience doesn't know, I know that I didn't when I read it, I didn't understand it.”
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“Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I feel like I also sometimes will categorize jokes by like a different thing than what is the memorable part of the joke.”
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“There's a piece of the set that I remember because I did a few jokes. So I don't remember the first one was, but I had this one joke about how my family got a new alarm system I said the neighborhood that we lived in and everything, and then that someone tried to break in and we found the alarm system works perfectly because the cop showed up two days later. And that was. Was in there”
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“You know, I talk a lot, and I was like, this is at least a forum where I'm supposed to. And so I couldn't tell you honestly from that very first time what made me do it, but I know when I moved Chicago”
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“You know In a sense, but basically, after I graduated, I did it for maybe three, four months after I graduated locally with a lot of productions and stuff. And then I knew I was going to move Chicago. And when I moved to Chicago, I had also started doing like a couple open mic nights and stuff like that. I've always had a real passion for comedy, even more so than design, even more so than theater. But you”
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“Did yeah. Well, I was looking for something. I've always loved theater and I wasn't a performer in that way. Like, you know, I wasn't an actor or anything. But I was really engaged with everything that the theater department was doing. And so I decided, I started off as this communications major because I thought that I was going to write films and I thought that communications was the best way the best route to when I'm not writing films. I could be working on something else and I can just learn that general world of media. And then I just found myself so passionate about theater and the productions that the department was doing that I thought lighting design and the way that it's like subtle but incredibly necessary. Was something really interesting. And so I graduated with a degree with that as my main focus.”
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“Their Is negating the fact that your face is also being eaten at the same time. That's the whole reason you didn't want the leopard face party because you were like, I like my face. And so I think”
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“The leopards eat your face, and it's like this is the thing about that. I totally understand where that logic comes from. I also very much understand like that feeling, like that, does a very human thing. We all have it for each other. Sometimes, and it could be politics, it could be you telling someone not to date someone. You know what I mean? Like it could be, it could be anything. But the problem with the leopards eating face party is that the satisfaction you get from watching the person that voted for the leopards to eat faces.”
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“Yeah Yeah, and so I think though that Lot of different connection points are getting made in how people are reacting to things. And I think it's obviously very difficult. It's really hard if you spent a year and a half sort of sounding the alarm that things like this would happen and then no one cared or people laughed in your face and then they do start happening and then all of a sudden people care or they stop laughing or they still try laughing your face while they're actively hurting and I think that like they're I don't ask anyone to to like live life as I see fit but I do think that for some people there's a point where their empathy sort of ends and they get on this sort of like nihilistic doom roller coaster where they're like well good let's go ahead let's burn it all down just so you can suffer just so you can learn your lesson”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That looked dope, so I'd rather that as I sit on my iPhone, I'd rather that. Back when men were men and those men wrote about how bad life was.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, how dare you? But you do see people online saying things that are like, well, this is good. This is the manly thing. This is like going to make men again because we're going to have to work so hard to eat nothing that we will be like men again. Remember like our grandparents who were men back when men were men? You know the men that died young? Those men, we should be more like those men who got things like, I don't know, like tetanus from. Not having the shot or having the shot and not wanting to take it. Yeah, yeah. So we're really, I don't know. I used to truly believe, and I'm not trying to not answer the question. And there's flying cars and stuff like that. I used to believe that with enough of everything, we would get there. And now I'm not totally sure.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that there is a There is a hesitance that I'm seeing in real people that doesn't seem to exist online as much. The thing about being online is that it doesn't tell you how everyone is feeling and neither can being in person, but it does tell you the most extreme version of what a person thinks. If you don't have to be in person saying the thing, you'll say whatever, right? Like I'm pretty tough behind a keyboard.”
2025-04-10 · On with Kara Swisher · The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson Can Make Even A Recession Funny · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT