so hopefully they will have much fun here with you.

Desi, I would love to start with you.

Because we all watch this, and you make it seem easy.

But there's nothing easy about what you produce each night.

So when we watch one of those field pieces,

how does it go from concept to execution?

- One of the cool things about "The Daily Show"

that a lot of people don't know, is that

anyone who works at the show can pitch an idea.

So anybody who works there, whether you're

a writer, a producer, a correspondent,

it can certainly be an intern.

Maybe an intern pitches an idea

that takes off and is great.

So usually a field producer or the head

of the field department will pick up on an idea

and appoint a producer and a correspondent.

We spend time thinking about what the comedic take is.

Is it something that's an issue that

seems to matter to people?

Then we start the pre-production process.

Then we take it to Trevor.

And Trevor either approves it or doesn't approve it.

Then we hopefully go out.

It can be a long process.

It can sometimes take a week or so.

Or sometimes we are coming up with something

and going out and shooting at two o'clock in the afternoon

for the show that night.

Which has happened.

- So this question just goes to anybody

who wants to take it, which is

what's one idea that you have pitched

maybe multiple times and you just can't

get on the air.

- Falling school.

- Camels. - Baseball.

- Falling school. - Camels.

- There's a guy that will teach you how to fall.

(laughing)

And it's meant for the elderly.

- [Dulce] What?

Why you look at them?

- Because they get injured when they fall.

Everyone can get injured when they fall,

not just the elderly, but you understand my point.

So I wanna go do a field piece where I

learn how to fall, because every senator

is like 165 years old right now,

so we gotta teach America how to fall.

You're laughing, that should be enough

to get it approved.

(laughing)

- He has been trying to drive this thing home

ever since he started the job.

- I mean, you just learned how to stand,

so now you want to learn how to fall?

- Camels, camels.

- Camels?

- Camels. - Camels do know how to fall.

- But you're not telling the whole---

- Tell the whole story.

- It's Australia.

- Tell it. - I've been pitching camels

since I joined the show.

It never gets approved.

- [Dulce] What about camels, Ronny?

- Australia has the largest population

of feral camels on the planet.

(audience laughing)

- Did ya'll know that was a thing?

- No.

- They had the largest population of feral camels.

- I thought this was a comedy panel.

- And this is why it's not a piece.

- No!

- No, no, they still do.

Everything else died, the camels survived.

- [Michael] You see how I set him up?

- The camel survives because they are

perfectly adapted to the desert.

Nobody wants to talk about this except for me.

(audience laughing)

And just running around the middle of Australia,

just messing shit up.

- What's in the middle of Australia to mess up?

- Like nothing much really, to be honest.

But the government sent guys in helicopters

to shoot them down 10 years ago,

and they did it and they ran out of funding to do it.

And the camel population increases exponentially

every five years and it's gonna overrun the country.

And no one wants to talk about this except for me.

- I think what happens in the field department

is that a lot of stories that we pitch

that are good and are addressing a real issue,

the bigger question in the building becomes,

how does this attach itself to the national conversation

about that issue.

More often than not, a lot of the better

field pieces we do are an extension of something

that Trevor's already talked about at the desk,

or something that would have worked at the desk

but it's such a deeper issue that we go out

and actually try and figure out what's going on

with that issue.

So unfortunately, there aren't enough people in America

already talking about falling or camels.

- Do we have enough gun people in politics?

No, why?

Everyone's old as shit.

- [Dulce] So let 'em fall.

- That's all I got, that's all I got on that.

(laughing)

That's all.

- Jab, you bring up though a good point

which is how--

- Camels. - How do you avoid

following the bouncing ball?

How do you come back to what matters,

to what matters to your audience and making sure

that you're focusing on that, and not just doing

recitations of the President's Twitter feed?

- We do that, too.

- I think if you just actually care about

the thing that you're talking about,

then I think people will identify with it

no matter what it is.

Because if you genuinely care, then someone else

is going to care, it's important.

- And we are all different people.

So if you pursue what you're passionate about

or what you're interested in,

it's gonna be much different.

I don't give a fuck about camels, okay?

But Ronny loves camels.

- That's hostile.

- I don't give a fuck about old people.

Michael loves old people falling, so.

Quote that tomorrow. - Not falling.

- Jaboukie, there was a moment in one of your pieces

where I couldn't tell whether or not

the subject was bought in and understood

what was happening.

It was a piece you did about Arizona,

and about how temperatures are rising in Arizona.

You keep repeating Nelly lyrics.

You said, "Nelly tried to tell us this."

And then you keep saying, "It's getting hot in here."

And the person's like, okay, it's hot.

But then, there's a later part of the piece

where you're walking down the hallway with the expert

and you have no pants on.

So I'm assuming that he knew that was coming.

- Yeah, he asked actually.

It was his request.

No, I think Brian was really cool.

He was pretty game for it.

I think people know "The Daily Show" institution,

so that a lot of people are ready to play,

and it can actually be hard to catch people

off guard sometimes, because they go into it

thinking a certain way.

With that, it's either you have to play it

really quiet and subtle, or you just have to

lean into it and see how far you can poke them,

for them to break this steely reserve

that they have set up.

- Or they're so ready to play a game

that you're not playing.

(laughing)

- That happens too.

- So I was interviewing someone for the chip piece,

and he kept making these jokes and I was just like,

I don't know what's happening.

Because they were like true Dad jokes.

But then I also think he'd never talked to

a black person before, especially a black woman.

So we're going through the takes,

and we'd be having a conversation,

or he would want to redo the take.

Which is fine, because we're taping something.

He's like, "Well, let's just go back

"because we just need to run through this again."

And he was like, "Okay don't hit me."

And I was like, "What is happening?"

But it was always like, "Don't get mad at me,

"don't hit me, don't hit me."

And I was like, "Sir, what do you think

"is gonna happen today?"

- I think a lot of what happens in our field pieces

is it's just a conversation.

And we can be talking to someone that has

a position that we may find to be incredulous,

but to them, this is their reality,

this is what's real.

We did a piece at the University of Texas

where they'd outlawed sex toys, but they're

allowing concealed carry on campus.

So, we spoke with a pro-gun advocate

who's anti-sex toys, and he was adamant

about why sex toys are worse than guns.

That's just a real conversation.

Within that is the humor.

So a lot of the times, you don't have to try.

You just talk. (audience laughing)

- A sad, sad man.

(audience laughing)

Or sad wife of that man, I don't know.

(audience laughing)

- Ronny, there was a piece that you did

with Andrew Yang.

What--

- Oh, sorry, yeah. - Okay, hey.

- I was thinking about some field pieces and camels.

Sorry. - Camels.

- You sort of start out with this premise.

You were like, "You're Asian, so I'm going to

"vote for you.

"That is the entire premise of my vote."

And he really wanted to pull it back

to universal basic income.

Like he was gonna get that point in, regardless.

What kind of response did you get from the Yang Gang

on that piece?

- Oh, you mean, honestly I don't know.

I swear to God I'm not trying to,

I don't know what the response was from them.

- I can tell you.

- Did they like it?

- Yeah, it was cool.

- Okay, great.

- They rock with you.

- Do you all check your social media?

Are you sensitive to the feedback loop on your pieces?

- Jaboukie, do you wanna answer that?

(laughing)

- If you don't know who Jaboukie is.

Currently suspended on Twitter.

- Twitter jail!

- There are certain things that will

slip through the cracks and I'll see it.

I think when I first started, I was definitely

in every comment section, like,

he's doesn't know what he's talking about,

but like so hurt on the inside.

But at a certain point, I was like it's done.

Nothing you say is going to change

what the piece looks like,

so why should I care what you think?

- Well sometimes they catch you off guard.

I just did this desk piece talking about,

like listen, if you're sick, please don't

go to work, that's all I was saying.

And people started losing their minds.

And it was just like, "You have the luxury

"of not going to work."

And this girl just went off on me and I was like,