The Daily Show: Ears Edition JD Vance Laughs Off Trump’s Jesus AI & FEMA Official Teleports to a Waffle House? | Bao Nguyen
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Apr 15, 2026 
Bao Nguyen, documentary filmmaker behind BTS: The Return, talks fly-on-the-wall access and the band's reunion after military service. Nick Offerman, actor and comic woodworker, riffs on America's 250th and pushes folks to reclaim celebration from grandstanding. They cover BTS's creative process, reunion emotions, patriotic spectacle, and how to celebrate meaningfully.
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Vance Frames Trump’s Jesus Post As A Joke
- J.D. Vance defended Trump's Jesus-as-joke post, framing it as misunderstood humor rather than a theological claim.
- Roy Chieng mocks that defense and highlights the dissonance between political spin and religious sensitivity toward the Pope's criticism.
RFK Jr. Podcast Seen As Tone-Deaf For A Government Role
- Ronny Chieng ridicules Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s podcast as ill-suited because of his voice and role as HHS secretary.
- He points out the irony of a government official exposing problems publicly instead of fixing them internally.
FEMA Official Claims He Teleported To Waffle House
- Greg Phillips, FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery head, claimed he teleported to a Waffle House and a ditch 40 miles away.
- Chieng likens the destinations to blackout-drunk outcomes and notes Trump's response was to 'find out about it right now.'