I’m really interested in that area that exists between rhetoric and reality. So, the first episode deals with service people, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, we love our military.’ Well, I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but they might not be feeling the love. And the second episode is about essential workers and the idea that they’re not the beneficiaries of any of the interventions. Honestly, it’s the same things that animated The Daily Show, we’re just adjusting the dials slightly. If The Daily Show was the weather report, I thought maybe it’d be interesting to do something that was [about] the climate. Now, one of the beautiful things about The Daily Show is that it was forgiving. When we shit the bed, there was always that, ‘Well, we’ll get it tomorrow.’
