Gavin Newsom is the latest person to be featured in a new installment of “The Daily Show’s” “Daily Showography” series. The series tracks the California governor’s personal and political scandals. The seven-minute segment will air as part of the Comedy Central talk show’s Wednesday night broadcast.
The satirical biography, which was featured as a “helpful” spot during awards season, mocks Newsom as a “guru” who is “currently playing in some venues but preparing for a national release” and references a possible 2028 presidential bid.
The segment’s narrator poked fun at Newsom’s “classic rags-to-riches story,” quoting the governor’s line that “my dad and his closest friends were one of the wealthiest families in the world,” and quipped, “Okay, he’s Nepo’s baby, but so is Dakota Johnson, and we love her.”
“The Daily Show” then chronicled Newsom’s post-college years, when he started a wine company “based solely on grit, fine taste and the financial backing of an oil tycoon.” “Things were just starting to click for this tall, handsome, athletic, and well-connected young man,” the sarcastic narrator says.
Newsom then “played his biggest role yet” as San Francisco’s mayor. “The Daily Show” has acknowledged Newsom’s role in pushing for the legalization of same-sex marriage, while also accusing him of having an affair with the wife of a staffer.
More than anything, this “biofilm” mocks Newsom for his failures to end California’s homelessness crisis and build high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The video cuts repeatedly to Newsom promising to solve these persistent problems from 2010 to 2025. (High-speed trains connecting the state’s two largest cities are still a pipe dream, and Newsom recently boasted about building a railroad in Central California. “Soon, this futuristic bullet train will take people from the thriving center of Merced to the shining metropolis of Bakersfield,” the narrator jokes.)
Of course, it would be impossible to talk about Newsom without mentioning his setbacks due to the pandemic, including the French Laundry scandal and the recall election. “The Daily Show” has this to say about why Newsom was ultimately reelected: “Fortunately, thanks to the coronavirus vaccine, he was able to show his face again and won easily.”
The segment ends with Newsom emerging as the front-runner in 2028, asking viewers to “Think of Gavin Newsom, the Christian Bale type you’ll soon see on screen…He’s not just a politician, he’s a guru.”
The Daily Showography also produced segments skewering Joe Rogan, Jeff Bezos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marco Rubio and Vladimir Putin. The Comedy Central show received two Emmy nominations this year in the variety show corner editing category for an episode with Stephen Miller and Kamala Harris.
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