But im gonna go home, save my cows up, come back. I just want to know how many cows i need. So hes like, who, lisa . Just give me two cows. I said, come on, man. Stop playing. He said, okay, one cow and a porcupine. Its my final offer. I said, man, be serious. He said, just take the bitch. Leave my name is naim. You ever have somebody mess your name up, but then when you correct them, they get mad at you like you did something wrong . How you doing, raheem . Actually, its naim. Well, excuse the hell out of me, naim. I did a show at this college. They had a poster with my name on it. Nobody knew who i was. My name is spelled, naim. My last name is lynn. So when the students came up to me after the show, he was like, man, i thought your name nah, im lying. applause i said, you must be on a football scholarship, huh . Nah, but look out. I got a lot of stuff coming out. Man, this has been a great year for me so far. This show right here. I just got my first movie, which is a big thing. audience cheering yeah. After all these years, after all these years, they finally coming out. With a coming to america ii. So im gonna be in that. Nah, im lying. Thank yall, man. Peace. Naim lynn. audience cheering captioning sponsored by Triage Entertainment group. Captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org from Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. [daily show theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Man, what a program our guest documentary filmmakers Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson. Theyve done a documentary on hunger in america that will absolutely anger you but still while you are watching it have some junior mints or something. Just to you know. You may be familiar with the new york assemblyman, he took the new York Telephone Company to task for seeming to weed out employees and took Hillary Clinton to task for embracing Yasser Arafats wife. And Yasser Arafat took mel gibson to task and also took Renee Zellweger to task. Took the School Newspaper at at high school to task. Really, really haitz antisemitism. Some of those seem like an overreyak but he feels like he is standing up for a Group Whenever he feels they are unfairly ma lined. Assemblyman dove dressed up for a party dressed up in blackface makeup, an afro wig and an orange jersey. [ laughter ] jon what . Not that it really matters but that is poorly done blackface. He doesnt look like a basketball player but a jew that went on a cruise without a hair product. What possible excuse do you have for do this . It was purim. Its when people get dressed up and try to look different and try to be different. Jon really, purim. What its purim. Everyone knows on purim you get to be racist. [ laughter ] black history what now . Im sorry i interrupted you. You were digging a deeper hole. On purim people dress up as arabs. Everything you can imagine. Jon thats not helping. Its purim. You are going to have black guys, arabs the whole bleep thing is nuts. [laughter] of course he did issue an apology in case you are wondering how a guy who loudly demands apologies every time his groups gets slighted. Anyone that was offended im sorry they were offended. It was not the intention. Thats really all can i say. Jon im sorry to discover some people are cry babies but im an are dult man in new york city and didnt realize blackface was offensive. Were jernd by jessica williamss on flatbush avenue in new york right now. Thank you for joining us. Jessica. What do you think . Outrage. Jon, its one more example of the politcally correct war on purim. Jon did you say theres a war on purim . Hell yeah there is. This is a lowdown dirty stunt. Jon how is this a same for purim. The way this man denigrates purim its the fourth or fif. Jon keep going. Its the seventh, tenth most important jewish holiday there is. Jon around there. Its to be celebrated with costumes and heros in the ancient badel. Jon respect. And he trivializes it by dressing up like a basketball player. At what point do the book ofester do the harlem globe trotters show up. Jon in my day we dressed as the characters in the story. Yourester youred move to dmorded haimis. Are you doing do that every time. He went in where is the booz . Jon you are surprisingly knowledgable about this. Yes, well. Jon do you feel like were losing the reason for the purim season . Your damn right. Purim is about getting so bleep up that you couldnt remember that they tried to exterminate the jews. Now its nothing but a Halloween Party for the kids. You cant even say it anymore. [ laughter ] now its hey, nice superman costume. What is next a. Hell no, not on my watch stewart, not in my house. Jon somewhere theres a rabinnical college laughing their ass at think. We have an audience of lutherans saying i dont know. I didnt realize. Jessica, all this is besides the point. I assume that for you, for many blackface was a bit of a problem. Oh, yeah that was bleep , too. [ laughter ] jon its 5773 and this is still happen something in i guess some people are still stuck in the 56th century. Oy vey jon thank you, jessica. Ssica,jessica, jon welcome back to the show. Continuing our coverage of the war on purim [laughter] were going to move on. White House Press Secretary is perhaps the worlds most prestigious bleep job. You bawrvegly function as a human shield against what we on earth call what is actually going on. Consider what happens when you are ready to hang up the mic. Expresident s get big speaking fees or carp pen tri work or they can rob banks. [ laughter ] where does one whose entire job consifting of dissembling to the press go . I want to bring up robert gibbs, former press secretary of the white house. Jon you go to the class. He has earned his msnbc official retro framed analoglasses. You know who wears wire rims, wait. Gibbs has been functioning as an administration mouth piece and now hes flipping. Can we trust him . Mr. Gibbs when you were working as press secretary you answers questions about drones thusly. I dont think u. S. Officials have confirmed the predator drone air strikes. Im not going to get into these matters. Drone strikes killed eight germans in pakistan today. Do you have any information about that . I dont. And if i did if i did, i wouldnt get into it. Jon shire tip for you aspiring truth sleuths out there if somebody says i dont foe about that, and even if i did, i wouldnt tell you, that person knows something about that. This guy is going to have to prove to us his changes his information hides ways dusm know about that . When i went through the process of becoming press secretary one of first things they told me is that you are not even to acknowledge the drone program. You are not even to discuss it exists. Jon the second thing they told me how the department of interior invented aids. Turns out its the new formula of new coke instead of high fructose corn syrup. You copped to lying all that is left now is to distance yourself to the lying. Our dismissal of program undermines peoples confidence overall in the decisions the government makes. Stephen jon i told them all the timer undermining and they would say gibbs try this monkey pop. Did you it bother you, mr. Gibbs. Here is what is crazy about that proposition. You are asked a question based on reporting of a program that exists. Right, so, you are the official government spokesperson. Exactly. Acting as if the entire program pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Jon what was i going to do quit . Get another in the obama economy. Come on, i told you at the time things were looking up for the economy but i was bleep on that, too. He gives he is talking about the press secretary job and are never the same. I went into this very much believing the president was committed to be a bipartisan leader. I was Deputy Press Secretary in the buildup to the war. Like a lot of americans i wasnt certain about the rush to war. I was become more disillusioned. When i left the white house i needed time to take off the partisan hat and i wanted to think through why did things get so badly off track . Jon are you happy . You are broken. You know, if im president i dont want either a gibbs shall gibbs a jaded presence knowingly spill your secrets once he leaves office or mcclellan a former believer who in cleansing his soul spills your secrets. When you need is a jaded believer. Oh. [ laughter ] a being so difficult and stub born they say it took three followups to get him to tell you what he wanted for lunch. Theres fleischer back in the day. Theres no question we have evidence that iraq has weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations have said they did. Iraq says they dont. You can choose who you want to believe. Jon cold here is fleischer now. See if you can spot the change. The report says theres ties to al qaeda. To say that president bush lied about this, paul, that is exactly the type of divisiveness were trying to move beyond in this country. Barack obama should say thank you every day that inherited a World WithoutSaddam Hussein in it. Jon did you catch the change . He doesnt wear glasses anymore. [ laughter ] yeah, yeah his eyesight has improved. The longer he lives with the spin the stronger he gets. If you want a press secretary, the man you need is right here benjamin bleep . Well be right back back [cheers and applause] jon we will imook. My guests tonight are the filmmakers behind the new documentary hunger in america a place at the table. Are you going to take them off . Good job on the basketball game. Its something important, the churches and Community Groups that handout out are doing an Incredible Service to those experiencing hunger but its a quick fix for today and tomorrow and maybe next week. We call it emergency food. Its no longer emergency food. Its called chronic use of a broken system for which people can in the be held accountable. Jon please welcome to the program Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson. [cheers and applause] nice to see you. How are you . Please sit. [cheers and applause] nice to see you. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Jon im going to say this right off the bat, youve done an incredibly done film. I want this seen in the broadest way possible. Who is going to see this . What is going happen . On march 1 its going to be released in theaters across the country, ondemand and on itunes and accompanied by a huge social Action Campaign that will live in the atmosphere. Jon about ending this hunger problem in the united states. People need to know this is really solvable. This is one of those issues our time we can fix well. He know how. We know what causes hunger. We now to fix it. We want people to see the film and engage and set up many years in the making campaign. Its going to give people tools they can engage. We can fix this one. Its something we can get right. Jon 15 Million People in america. One in six. And 17 million kids. Jon crazy. One out of every two children has at some point in their lives will have some form of hunger insecurity where they dont know where their next meal is. And their parents are spending time and energy and resources scrounging for food instead of working, looking for work, contributing to churches or synagogues. You have to ask what it says about us as a nation that we are content to let 50 million spend their day doing that. Jon this is interesting to see. I think theres a sense in the country that theres a moocher class living the life of riley, kicking their heels back, dining on the ham and mashed potatoes every night on the taxpayer dole. These are working people. 80 are working, yes . 80 of people on food stamps are working families. Jon theres a multitude of problems. One problem is not that we dont have enough food. Its definitely not. We have enough calories to feed enough people double what think need to live well. Is scarceity is not the issue at all. Jon scarceity its not the issue but financially its easier and cheaper to buy crappy food than decent food. Yes, you talked before about the moocher mentality. We filmed people struggling every day to trying to put healthy food on their table. Many people dont have access toll healthy food let alone are they able to afford it. Jon this was a problem that americans kiss covered. Im sure its been here within the country in the 170s. 1970s. Its a big inspiration to us. In 1968 cbs did a show on hunger in america. When people saw this, they really found it unacceptable, picked up the phone and called the legislators and within two Weeks Congress created Bipartisan Legislation that created the modern food safety. It ended hunger by the 1970s. Ended it. They radically modernized it. They went back to the areas they studied and reported on ten years later and found that the hunger had been was gone. Jon now that we found the solution to the hunger problem, what can we do as a government, as a nation at that point . In a word reagan. He flipped a switch. He talked about how instead of seeing how it was in our collective best interest to feed everybody. We talked about people trying to get a free ride. They cut the funding and as a result it shifted the responsibility for dealing with the hungry in this country to charities, faithbased groups and those kinds of things. Jon the theory is always hey, man, government is going to screw things up. Charities are going to do it. So we went from having 2000 food banks to 40,000 was it . 40,000. Jon how many now . 40,000 but its too big for those groups to handle. They have told us. All of the time that the need is too great and we need real Government Action on this issue. Jon these groups are doing. You are watching the work they are doing. Its incredible that the charities are doing are putting into this. The guy, lovely guy paster bob. I went the first time and i got two bags of gross riz now its driving tractors back and forth twice a day trying to keep up with the need. In his very small town of working families. If charity could have fixed it it would have because weve never had a charity response from the good people of this nation like we do right now. Jon theres a seen when you go down to congress to do a hearing and boy if a congress had a low Approval Rating before that, the disconnect even on an emotional level, the congressional response you got was shocking. It was disheartening to say the least. Jon thats a kind way to describe it. Yeah, to witness that but at the same time we also past toured the witnesses to hunger, these incredible women from north philly who traveled to have their voiced be heard. There were inspiring things taking place in that place called d. C. Also. Jon the women were great but even in that, one woman, wonderful woman who ends up getting a job way hunger group. By getting that job which does not pay her tremendous amount shes disqualified for assistance and finds herself in a situation where shes struggling. Its shock. At the end of the day we can be mad at our government but weve been talking to legislators about this. They say the phones arent ringing. Were not getting tisms or tweets on this and well change how we vote. We heard that over and over again. I buy it. Someone told us if he got six phone calls on the issue because he assumes a couple,000 people are not calling. Get involved. We make it easy for them to do that. Jon poor people need a better lobby i think. This is going to be in theyre advertise, ondemand, itunes on march 1. Youve done a tremendous job. Just a beautiful job. All around Lori Silverbush, Kristi Jacobson well be right back. [cheers and appla