The Monday version of Comedy Central’s The Every day Present included a video package deal of correspondent Roy Wooden Jr. in Britain asking foreigners to sentence America, trash the Second Modification, and marvel, “How do you present people who you’ve got obtained an enormous dick, however you don’t have a gun?”
Temp host Wanda Sykes launched the section, “Over the weekend, America had yet one more mass capturing, this time in Monterey Park, California. Tragically, 11 folks misplaced their lives and we ship our ideas and prayers to the victims and those recovering. And sadly, that is all we do in this nation. As a result of it solely occurs right here. And why is that? Nicely, everyone knows the reply, however we despatched Roy Wooden Jr. abroad anyway to double examine.”
The section featured Wooden speaking to a number of folks, the primary was man named Edward, who was requested, “Okay, so do you’re feeling safer right here or visiting America?”
This might have simply as simply been a query and reply about crime as Edward answered, “Right here. Safer right here… As a result of all people’s packing within the States.”
Wooden’s questions obtained worse from there. After asking why British police don’t carry weapons, he requested an unidentified man, “However how are you going to by chance kill any person you wished to kill?”
Once more, that might have simply as simply been a query about crime in blue cities, however that will have sophisticated the narrative The Every day Present was making an attempt to advertise.
Naturally, not one of the folks interviewed defended the Second Modification, however numerous them not less than tried to know why an American would possibly suppose in a different way. The identical couldn’t be mentioned for Wooden, who requested yet one more man, “So within the U.Okay., how do you present energy? How do you present people who you’ve got obtained an enormous dick, however you don’t have a gun?”
Wooden then requested a feminine Norwegian vacationer an analogous query, “As a lady, are you impressed by males who have large weapons?” After the lady claimed that weapons aren’t widespread in Norwegian properties, Wooden adopted up, “Okay, so in Norway, how do males let ladies know that they have an enormous dick?”
After all, the thought of feminine gun homeowners was misplaced on this concept of genital compensation.
Later, Wooden was with two ladies from South Africa when he requested, “Why do you suppose People love weapons a lot?”
One in every of them replied “In all probability the Structure and simply because they loopy.” At the very least she was half-right. Nonetheless, Wooden adopted up, “Rattling, you simply hit us proper out the gate. What’s America’s status on this planet?”
Given the context of the dialog and function of the section, it isn’t shocking, she answered “In all probability mass shootings, as dangerous because it sounds.” Additional alongside within the section, Wooden defined throughout a voiceover that, “weapons aren’t simply hurting our folks, they’re hurting our road cred all over the world.”
The primary unidentified man was then seen declaring that “if you happen to look at it from a gun perspective, a few of the different subjects that are happening presently as nicely, I feel, it’s affecting a bit of little bit of its credibility on that international stage,” whereas the South African girl added, “It is an issue when weapons have extra rights than ladies, so, inside a nation.”
The truth that he was begging the query can also be an issue for Wooden if he wished People to take this section significantly.
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Here’s a transcript for the January 23 present:
Comedy Central The Every day Present
1/23/2023
11:18 PM ET
WANDA SYKES: Welcome again to The Every day Present. Over the weekend, America had yet one more mass capturing, this time in Monterey Park, California. Tragically, 11 folks misplaced their lives and we ship our ideas and prayers to the victims and those recovering. And sadly, that is all we do in this nation. As a result of it solely occurs right here. And why is that? Nicely, everyone knows the reply, however we despatched Roy Wooden Jr. abroad anyway to double examine.
ROY WOOD JR.: A short while again, I traveled to marry outdated England, a nation that is every kind of weapons, swords, shields, picket catapults, horrible therapeutic massage chairs, even magic wands. However the one weapon you do not see is weapons. So I wished to seek out out why in my new section “Roy Meets World.”
Edward, the place are you from?
EDWARD: Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
WOOD: Okay, so do you’re feeling safer right here or visiting America?
EDWARD: Right here. Safer right here.
WOOD: Why? Why do you’re feeling safer right here?
EDWARD: As a result of all people’s packing within the States.
WOOD: You actually do not see weapons out right here frequently.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably not. Even with the cops– in case you are strolling round and you do see some cops, they don’t have weapons on them?
WOOD: Why is that? Why y’all police do not have weapons?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I truthfully do not find out about that one.
WOOD: However how are you going to by chance kill any person you wished to kill?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is the entire level, you shouldn’t be doing that.
WOOD: So within the U.Okay., how do you present energy? How do you present people who you’ve got obtained an enormous dick, however you don’t have a gun?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 2: I do not attempt to present folks that I obtained an enormous dick. I do know I obtained one. Like, I feel—
WOOD: As a lady, are you impressed by males who have large weapons?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, we don’t have to make use of this in Norway. It is not widespread to have weapons in personal properties in any respect.
WOOD: Okay, so in Norway, how do males let ladies know that they have an enormous dick?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Present it to them.
WOOD: Cannot try this in America. That isn’t an possibility.
WOOD: So they’re packing. See? There’s a lot our two cultures can be taught from every different.
Why do you suppose People love weapons a lot?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 2: I feel it’s one thing, like, deeply ingrained within the tradition, like, weapons have been round for a protracted, very long time within the U.S. Like, within the U.Okay., it isn’t so a lot of a problem as a result of it’s very underground, the place as in America, it’s normalized. Like, each—you’ll be able to stroll right into a Walmart, you can purchase a gun.
WOOD: Sure, and a pack of Skittles and a few ice cream and be proper again out the door.
So the place are y’all from?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: South Africa.
WOOD: Why do you suppose People love weapons a lot?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE 2: In all probability the Structure and simply because they loopy.
WOOD: Rattling, you simply hit us proper out the gate. What’s America’s status on this planet?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE 2: In all probability mass shootings, as dangerous because it sounds.
WOOD: That’s all we’re recognized for?
[crosstalk]
We obtained sizzling canine, we obtained Steph Curry.
Why do you suppose People love weapons a lot?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 3: From an outsider’s perspective, I feel they’re additionally actually happy with their navy and every thing.
WOOD: Nicely, we’ve whooped loads of ass. America has whooped loads of ass.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 3: You suppose so, not less than, yeah.
WOOD: Examine the stats.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 3: Yeah, okay yeah.
WOOD: British ass, Civil Conflict, we whooped our personal ass.
So, they did not actually know America’s document on the courtroom and seems, weapons aren’t simply hurting our folks, they’re hurting our road cred all over the world.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really feel like, you understand, the U.S. was type of like this beacon that lots of people adopted, if you happen to look at it from a gun perspective, a few of the different subjects that are happening presently as nicely, I feel, it’s affecting a bit of little bit of its credibility on that international stage.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE 2: It is an issue when weapons have extra rights than ladies, so, inside a nation.
