Overview
- The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give the Man a Prize premiered Dec. 8 after The Daily Show on Comedy Central, with streaming on Paramount+, The Daily Show’s YouTube, and VOD beginning Dec. 9.
- Klepper says he and his crew were forced to leave a Portland naked bike-ride protest after ICE agents fired pepper rounds and shoved demonstrators, an account featured in the special and reported in interviews.
- In Oslo, Klepper interviewed Norwegians and Nobel officials, including former committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen, highlighting emphasis on democracy as central to peace and widespread skepticism that Trump merits the prize.
- The special includes conversations with Trump supporters and an interview with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who has nominated the president for the Nobel Peace Prize, to reflect backing for his campaign.
- Promoting the program on Morning Joe, Klepper said he is “not seeing” evidence for Trump’s self-styled “President of Peace” image, framing the special’s inquiry into rhetoric versus events on the ground.