NYC's Joyous Knicks Victory Celebration vs. Trump's Joyless White House UFC Fight | The Daily Show

So we got a great show for you tonight.Later on, we're gonna be joined by Senator, Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock of the great state of Georgia.He's gonna be coming on.First things, what's your weekend?Did you do like I did and have an Iran negotiations watch party?I was slipping away from it.

Just felt like every negotiation, we just had too big a petroleum deficit to overcome.But for those of us who believe enough to stick it out, Saturday night of nowhere was the moment we've been waiting for.

President Trump says the U .S.and Iran have reached an agreement to negotiate an end to the war.

Blasted our country is.Time shipping lanes.Give Donald Trump credit.He inherited a mess.

President Obama made a deal, the Iran nuclear deal, which was a terrible deal.That horrible, stupid deal where President Obama paid $150 billion for nothing.So they tried to bribe them to make a deal and that didn't work.It never worked.

Exactly!Thank you, sir.You're a f***ing idiot.We're trying to dangle billions of dollars in exchange for a deal with Iran.

We're learning more details right now about the agreement to end the war with Iran.

U .S.officials did mention that in addition to sanctions relief and the unfreezing of Iranian funds, there could be something like a $300 billion fund to help rebuild Iran.

I guess it's that kind of fucking idiot.The great Donald Trump could fight a costly war to get the United States to remove the sanctions put on Iran by Donald Trump.In the words of the great Winston Churchill, you played yourself.But the important thing is, we're gonna focus the entirety of the show today on the complexity of what a new nuclear enrichment inspection regime will look like for the hardliners that are now in...That's not what we're going to talk about tonight!Ending 53 years of basketball futility, and the people responded with the appropriate level of chill.

You're sitting at home and you're watching this kind of footage, and you wonder to yourself, these people, the streets of New York losing their minds.Funny story, the little guy on top of that other guy's shoulders works here.Here's Mr. Scott Herkman.

Very superstitious, so I'm up here until next year's finals.Let's go!

It was an incredible night.The city, everyone was out celebrating.They were in the streets.They were in the subways.Uh, we haddrumlines.

We had bagpipes.We had fireworks.Bagpipes.And we had an MTA bus driver breaking and dancing.MTA, more like M -T -Slack.I love how the bus driver gave back the liquor bottle they handed him.

Like, no, seriously, I do have to drive.I am, in fact, a professional bus driver who works.It was such a special night.Uh, the Knicks victory brought out appearances by the entire NYCU.There was Spider -Man, and there was also Spider -Man.And then there was, of course, Spider -Man.

And, oh, no!It's been five minutes!

Spider -Man, the microphone.When those Spider -Men saw each other, you know, if there was any confusion about which one was...I wonder if they were...All right.And then just when you thought it was over, NYCU brought out a post -credit cutscene of The Hulk.

Smash!

Dude, this is more hell than anybody was...But you know what's crazy?If that guy throwing them haymakers had been Wemby, the refs wouldn't have fucking called the controllers' movements.Their arms are so long.People, he's 112 feet tall.Would you call a foul?

And by the way, New York is so awesome that even the people here that aren't superheroes were suddenly superheroes.It's like the whole city had been bitten by a radioactive spider.My favorite, though, was this guy casually parkouring across a light fixture to go from one end of the bus to the other.That's badass, because I don't know if you know this on those buses.Perfectly passable.Could've just walked down the aisle.

And ladies and gentlemen, while I am not technically in light post scaling shape, I did attend the festivities.My friend, Mr. Robert Smigel, one of his sons, my son, my wife, down in the village, outdoor watch party, pretty cool, and I handled it.I was pretty, pretty cool.To be fair to me, I thought I was filming the game and I just don't know how to work my phone.I really sound like I just got a perfect colonoscopy report.There was truly no place I would have rather been than right on the streets of New York.

And shout -out to the unsung MVPs of the night, the people who had the genius idea to go out on their fire escapes and project the game onto the sides of buildings.No matter where you were, the game was on, from Central Park to those phone -charging kiosks to atop the head of this one kindly gentleman.It was amazing.No one had the heart to tell him, you have to plug it in.who keep this city safe and clean for the rest of us to enjoy.New York's finest, New York's bravest, and New York's definitely strongest, the sanitation department.

And also, these two guys who clearly thought, this is our chance to do our part and help out the city and get rid of a body.Shirt bros aren't out on the city at 5 a .m.throwing garbage bags into a truck unless they really need to get rid of shit.the city at 3 a .m.

it was a bit of a mess by 8 a .m.it's like the night never happened because they had to get ready for the Puerto Rican Day Parade the World Cup andPride.Shit cray here, and they did it unbelievably well and beautifully.The point is, this whole moment really showed the joy and beauty of life in this big city.

I have to tell you, I was so proud, so happy, truly.

I'll be honest, I don't think there's anyone out there who could look at those celebrations and see anything other than America at its best.

Celebrations turning into full -blown chaos.Mayhem in Manhattan.Unruly troublemakers.One person was shot, four injured in slashings or stabbings, and five police cars were badly damaged.

Um, on a Saturday night?I think that might be a record low.I get what they're trying to do.They're focusing on the bad stuff.Uh -uh!To portray that the prevailing emotion and behavior in New York City on that Saturday night was one of chaos and barbarity.

But I was there.You're lying.It wasn't.It was an overwhelming sense of joy and solidarity and diversity and community and a good amount of crying and a lot of contact high.And we are just...So sorry, right -wing media, that we in New York City couldn't live up to your definition of a peaceful gathering.

Now, that's how you behave in public.Although, to be fair to that mob, you know, they lost.Sucks.Anger justifiable.But I guess it's all about what side of the aisle you sit on.Where you see a mob destroying a school bus, I see people of all faiths and creeds and colors and sexualities coming together to destroy a school bus.

It ain't a melting pot until you light that bitch on fire!So, right -wing media, you cannot tear us apart.Our mayor is Muslim.Our bagels are Jewish.Our Timothée Chalamet.Nixon 5.

Some shit happened that wasn't great.The night was marred by some violence.I mean, what would you guys on the right rather be watching?

The White House is getting ready to rumble with UFC.Very excited to see this.Epic.Epic day.Hey, isn't that awesome?Fight night.

I'm actually personally looking forward to it very, very much.I have a ticket.Plus one, my brother.I gotta tell you, I'm pumped.I feel like my life is gonna change this weekend.

Is that guy trying to f*** his brother?What?

I don't know what's going on here.

We're probably gonna be holding on, which I don't know what's gonna happen.So you didn't care for New York's joyful night marred by a small amount of violence because it wasn't focused enough on the violence part?Yes, Sunday night gave the president and his acolytes an opportunity to rebut the joyous communion of teamwork that embodied the New York Knickerbockers for a joyless Vegas -style trudge through the People's House, now transformed into a gold -plated pummeling center where the gladiator's god was praised for his forbearance and, of course, nutsack.

Shout -out to Trump for having the balls to put some shit like this on.

And if you were at home watching this, thinking to yourself, is this a parody?Are they filming Idiocracy?Next thing you know, they will be branding the cutaways to our country's commander in chief.

I got to thank President Trump for making this happen.This is unbelievable.It takes such a special person to be able to have the balls to do something like this.And I have so much respect for him.

Monster energy drink?Is that really cool?Are we now just taunting the old man?Pretty late night, Mr. President.Getting sleepy?Got an early negotiation in the morning?

I bet you're not man enough to throw down a red, white, and blue raspberry snazzler!That somehow managed to find a way to devalue both combat sports andour national dignity.Who even aired this embarrassing shit?The event aired on Paramount Plus.What a fine event it was.

Once again, leaders of Paramount Plus providing us all with incredible content at reasonable prices.proud to stand with the Paramount family, and whatever shows they decide to either cancel or put on.

And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man!

F***ing asshole.I look forward to his performance on next week's Comics Unleashed.Myself out.And by the way, if you thought this entire spectacle was inappropriate for something that takes place in the peripheral vision of Lincoln, well, that's a you problem.

Something that middle America the average American could connect with it's coming back to a sense of like we don't need the snobby elite

anymore pretending they're too good for us.

Yeah, you know, the average American, they don't want their White House to stand for certain morals and values.The regular people in this country want their president to live in a slightly more violent Hooters, a slightly less violent Waffle House.But somehow, those of us who live in the shithole parts of the country are the ones looking down on you?

They'll probably be having, like, a pride show or something for 250th with, you know, half -naked men.

Did you even hear of this?You guys always trying to draw a distinction between the real America of the heartland and the elites in the big city, but it's never been true.If being a real American means sacrificing, and working your ass off to try and achieve the dream of a better life for your children?No Americans are more real than New Yorkers.None of them.We have eight and a half million people here.

There are probably more hardworking American value individuals in the liberal hellhole of New York City than exist in the entire states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Mississippi combined.And, yes, maybe two to three percent of those people are...Spider -Men.But still, New Yorkers don't go to the Met Gala.And trust me, there are elites in the heartland.too.

I know for a fact Tulsa is ruled by kings.New York's a hard place to live, man.It's a hard city to live in.There's 100 different nationalities in a two -block radius.Ten pounds of people in a five -pound bag.And it's one of those bags that people should really use to clean up after their dogs, but they don't.

They sometimes don't.But that's why weekends like the one we just had are all the more magical, where you feel the joy and striving and hope, and let's face it, aroma, of the people that you live really too close to.The real division in America isn't between cities and rural areas or suburbs or heartland values and coastal elites or liberals and conservatives.It's between people anywhere who find joy in community versus those who seem to only find it in fealty.And I know which America I want to occasionally step in dog shit in.