Jordan Klepper Solves Guns

Last updated

Jordan Klepper Solves Guns
Written byLaura Grey
Directed byTodd G. Bieber
Starring Jordan Klepper
Country of originUSA
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersKirsten Ames
Todd G. Bieber
Steve Bodow
Jordan Klepper
CinematographyJoel Sadler
Running time60 min. (with commercials)
Production companyStrangehouse Studios
Original release
ReleaseJune 11, 2017 (2017-06-11)

Jordan Klepper Solves Guns is an hour-long Comedy Central special starring comedian Jordan Klepper, a correspondent on The Daily Show . It premiered on June 11, 2017. [1] In it, Klepper plays a satirical depiction of a self-righteous liberal journalist seeking to confiscate all guns in America. [2] Klepper, along with the special's writers, spent six months researching guns in America before they finished the special. [3]

Related Research Articles

<i>The Daily Show</i> American late-night satirical news television program

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central with release shortly after on Paramount+ of extended episodes. The Daily Show draws its comedy and satire from recent news stories as well as political figures, media organizations, and often uses self-referential humor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Stewart</span> American comedian and television host (born 1962)

Jon Stewart is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is a host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program on Comedy Central, and previously hosted from 1999 to 2015, before returning as a host of the show in 2024. He hosted The Problem with Jon Stewart (2021–2023) on Apple TV+. Stewart has received numerous accolades, including 22 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and five Peabody Awards. He was honored with the Bronze Medallion in 2019, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2022.

Daniel Radosh is an American journalist and blogger. Radosh is a senior writer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Previously, he was a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a contributing editor at The Week. He writes occasionally for The New Yorker. His writing has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, GQ, Mademoiselle, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Might, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Playboy, Radar, Salon, Slate, and other publications. From 2000 to 2001, he was a senior editor for Modern Humorist. In the 1990s he was a writer and editor at Spy. Radosh began his writing career at Youth Communication in 1985, where as a high school student he published more than a dozen stories in New Youth Connections, a magazine by and for New York City teenagers.

Steve Bodow is an American television writer and producer. Most recently he was Executive Producer and showrunner of Netflix's Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. From 2015 to early 2019 he was Executive Producer/co-showrunner of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, following his 13 years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an Executive Producer, Head Writer and staff writer. In his time at TDS, Bodow won 14 Emmys and two Peabody Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Spade</span> American comedian and actor (born 1964)

David Wayne Spade is an American comedian and actor. After several years as a stand-up comedian, Spade rose to prominence as a writer and cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1996. Following his departure from SNL, he began an acting career in both film and television, starring or co-starring in the films Tommy Boy (1995), Black Sheep (1996), Senseless (1998), Joe Dirt (2001), Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003), The Benchwarmers (2006), Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel, The Ridiculous 6 (2015), The Do-Over (2016), and The Wrong Missy (2020).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trevor Noah</span> South African comedian (born 1984)

Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He was the host of The Daily Show, an American late-night talk show and satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 2015 to 2022. Noah has won various awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named one of "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. In 2023, he won the Erasmus Prize.

Halal in the Family is a four-episode American web series starring Aasif Mandvi and Sakina Jaffrey. It premiered on Funny or Die featuring an American Muslim family and addressing the underlying issues of Islamophobia in a comedic context. It uses the classic family sitcom formula to change perceptions of Muslims. Mandvi stated in the fifth episode of season two of Politically Re-Active that Halal in the Family is being developed as an animated series for TBS.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jordan Klepper</span> American comedian

Jordan Klepper is an American comedian. He began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. From 2014 to 2017, he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. He started his own satirical program, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was canceled in 2018. He then starred in the 2019 docuseries Klepper, before returning to The Daily Show later that year as a contributor. He often appears on a segment entitled "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse."

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is an American late-night panel talk show hosted by Larry Wilmore that aired on Comedy Central from January 19, 2015, to August 18, 2016. The show was a spin-off of The Daily Show, which featured Wilmore as a recurring contributor. It aired Monday through Thursday at 11:30 PM (ET) following The Daily Show. It served as a replacement for The Colbert Report, which aired in the same time-slot from October 2005 to December 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hasan Minhaj</span> American comedian and actor (born 1985)

Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor and television host. Much of his comedy involves South Asian culture and the modern American political landscape through the use of satire, observational comedy and black comedy. His Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and two Webby Awards. In 2019, he was listed in Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Huey P. Newton Gun Club</span> Political party in United States

The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is a group named after Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton.

<i>The President Show</i> American comedy television series

The President Show is an American comedy television series that premiered on April 27, 2017, on Comedy Central. The show was created by Anthony Atamanuik who also stars as Donald Trump, then-President of the United States, alongside Peter Grosz as Mike Pence, the Vice President.

<i>The Opposition with Jordan Klepper</i> American TV series or program

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper was an American late-night talk and news satire program that aired on Comedy Central from September 25, 2017, to June 28, 2018. The show was hosted by comedian Jordan Klepper, a former correspondent on The Daily Show, and satirized right-wing politics. It aired each Monday through Thursday at 11:30 pm (EST), following The Daily Show.

Rakem Balogun, whose legal name is Christopher Daniels, is an American activist, best known for his involvement in a Facebook-related incident that occurred on December 12, 2017, which became headline news in the United States.

Kobi Libii is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was a cast member on The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, a news satire television series that aired on Comedy Central. On the show, Libii was billed as a "citizen journalist". Other television series in which he has appeared include Doubt, Transparent, Girls, and Madam Secretary. He has also performed in several plays, including the documentary play Boiling Pot, which he co-created with Evan Joiner. The play premiered at New York City's Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007. He later performed in an MCC Theater production of the Paul Downs Colaizzo play Really Really in 2013. Libii also made an appearance on Klepper as himself.

Klepper is an American television docuseries hosted by Jordan Klepper. It is his second series for Comedy Central following the end of The Opposition with Jordan Klepper in 2018. Klepper premiered on May 9, 2019.

Lights Out with David Spade is an American late-night talk show that was hosted by David Spade. Premiering on Comedy Central on July 29, 2019, the series features discussions on popular culture topics between Spade and a rotating panel of guest comedians, as well as other filmed segments.

References

  1. Weindling, Jacob (June 9, 2017). "The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper Solves Guns". Paste. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  2. Love, Matthew (June 12, 2017). "Jordan Klepper on Guns, Trump, The Right Vs. Left and Lessons Learned from Jon Stewart". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  3. Greene, Steve (June 9, 2017). "How Jordan Klepper Found Answers to Gun Violence In 'The Bachelor,' Quiet Moderates and His Own Facebook Feed". Indiewire. Retrieved June 27, 2017.