The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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• Trump's El-Sayed attack, 2026-10-31
  Plays Vance and Cruz attacking El-Sayed
  Plays clips of J.D. Vance and Ted Cruz attacking Abdul El-Sayed, extending the closing Republican argument beyond Trump: Vance ties him to the Green New Deal, defunding police and Hassan Piker, and Cruz calls him a jihadist leprechaun.
• Trump's El-Sayed attack, 2026-10-31
  Plays the jihadist ad and mocks the name
  Plays a Republican ad warning that Democrats will invite hordes of jihadists and end Christmas, then mocks the rally's mangled pronunciations of Abdul El-Sayed's name. Extends the El-Sayed attack with the ad itself, which the earlier coverage did not have.
• Alaska result lawsuit, 2026-10-31
  Reports the DOJ bid to block Alaska certification
  Opens a new story the episode had not touched: the DOJ request to block Alaska certification, the Times report that Democrats recruited the second Dan Sullivan from a panhandle fishing village, and the 'incumbent' label added to the ballot. Plays it for jokes about name confusion and Peltola's age.
• Trump's Husted rally remarks, 2026-10-31
  Reads the walk-back of the Husted remark
  Plays the walk-back clip and reads the explanation straight: he studied the senator's ass to see where the power came from. Stays with the joke, then pivots to Ken Paxton's appearance.
• Obama's Cheesecake Factory line, 2026-10-31
  Argues Trump walked into Obama's renovation line
  Plays Trump's rally riff on fixing the White House plaster, window ornaments and marble, then argues he walked straight into Obama's renovation line. A reaction bit that stays inside the Cheesecake Factory framing.
• Obama's Cheesecake Factory line, 2026-10-31
  Debates whether Cheesecake Factory is blue-collar
  Plays the right-wing media clips calling Obama elitist over the Cheesecake Factory line and argues about whether the chain is blue-collar or fancy. A retelling of the reaction already on the record, with the hosts' own bit about fries in a cup.
• Obama's Cheesecake Factory line, 2026-10-31
  Plays the Saddam Hussein Cheesecake Factory line
  Plays the Obama rally line and the right's response, which centers on the Cheesecake Factory slight rather than the Saddam Hussein comparison. The joke about cheesecake assembly lines is the show's own, not a new development.
• Acton's mother ad, 2026-10-31
  Adds the 2021 kitten-killing court records
  Takes up the Ramaswamy ad and the family history behind it, then plays Trump's exchange with an NBC News reporter and his defense of the ad. Adds 2021 court records showing Acton's mother was convicted of killing kittens.
• Trump's conditional bribes, 2026-10-31
  Treats the Camp Lejeune if as the story
  Picks up Trump's conditional promise to settle remaining Camp Lejeune water contamination claims only if Republicans hold the House and Senate, and treats the 'if' as the story: a quid pro quo on sick veterans played for Looney Tunes villainy.
• Trump's El-Sayed attack, 2026-10-31
  Fact-checks the metal detector line
  Plays the Michigan rally clip in which Trump calls Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member and says he would be the only senator to pass through a metal detector. The hosts fact-check the metal detector line and frame the closing GOP argument as Islamophobia.
• California's Proposition 40 Wealth Tax, 2026-10-30
  Reports four of five billionaires already left
  Field report on the California ballot proposal taxing billionaires' net worth at 5%, with the March for Billionaires organizer and Tom Steyer, who backs taxing himself. Notes four of the state's five richest billionaires have already left.
• Alaska result lawsuit, 2026-10-29
  Adds the DOJ bid to block certification
  Covers the DOJ request to block certification of Alaska's Senate race only if the Republican loses, the same-name confusion argument, and The Times report that Democrats recruited the second Dan Sullivan from a fishing village. Notes the ballot now labels the incumbent.
• Obama's Cheesecake Factory line, 2026-10-28
  Plays the clips of the right's split
  Plays Obama's rally line and the conservative response, then catches the right contradicting itself: some call the Cheesecake Factory a blue-collar institution, others call it fancy. Klepper stays with the clips and the confusion rather than the original joke.
• Kushner book denial, 2026-10-27
  Walks through the Dutch hack of Kushner's phone
  Cole walks through the Dutch operation: NATO allies got into a Russian GRU server in 2017, found the Russians inside Kushner's phone, then read his First Abu Dhabi Bank account off his screen. He names the first two transfers out and declines to discuss sourcing, citing a grand jury subpoena.
• Kushner book denial, 2026-10-27
  Details the alpha and beta accounts
  Cole details what became of the floated fund: $2 billion split into alpha and beta accounts at First Abu Dhabi Bank and the Central Bank of Israel, with alpha money routed to Erik Prince and a Cuban hitman to arm Haftar in Libya. He says his sources put Kushner on the account as a signatory.
• Kushner book denial, 2026-10-27
  Details the floated $10 to $12 billion fund
  Cole details the book's central money claim: MBZ and MBS floated a $10 to $12 billion foreign policy fund to Kushner in early 2017, one idea being to build Trump's border wall. When that fell away, a smaller pool replaced it, which Cole likens to Iran-Contra.
• Kushner book denial, 2026-10-27
  Argues Kushner ran a shadow foreign policy
  Cole walks through the book's core allegation: Kushner ran a shadow foreign policy with MBZ and MBS, who would fund a deal favorable to Israel. Adds that Kushner had no statutory authority, no Senate confirmation and, for a time, no security clearance.
• Kushner book denial, 2026-10-27
  Reads the lawyer's blanket denial on air
  Opens the Matthew Cole interview by reading Kushner's lawyer's denial on air and getting Cole to confirm it is a blanket denial of everything in the book, before any of the book's claims are laid out.
• Acton's mother ad, 2026-10-27
  Recaps the ad and the mother's custody loss
  Covers the Ramaswamy ad through Stewart's outrage: the mother's 50-year estrangement, the custody loss after her husband was indicted for raping Acton, and Trump, Ramaswamy and Vance siding with her. Plays the NBC exchange with Trump for laughs.
• Trump's conditional bribes, 2026-10-27
  Plays the clip and lands on the if
  Plays the clip of Trump tying Camp Lejeune claim settlements to Republicans winning the House and Senate, then lands on the word 'if' and calls the condition cartoonish villainy.