The Daily Show might have the week off, but correspondent and rotating host Ronny Chieng found himself on ABC’s Tuesday taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! recalling Election Night, which he compared to watching a slow-motion car crash. Likewise, he longed for a conservativism that is not populated with “[bleep] morons.”
Kimmel asked about The Daily Show’s live Election Night special, “And you probably had it in your head that it would go one way or the other? Were you prepared for any eventuality at that time?”
Chieng affirmed “we were” before claiming that “covering the election live in America was both a dream come true as a political historian junkie, U.S. political history junkie, and it was also like watching a car slowly crash into the country. And there’s not much you can do about it at that point other than make dumb jokes…
