Ed Helms and Daily Show writers on Fox News and satire.

In our third Slate Plus bonus episode from Slow Burn Season 10, host Josh Levin talks with three former staffers from The Daily Show—correspondent Ed Helms, head writer and executive producer Ben Karlin, and writer Chris Regan. We would run into people at Fox news at like, you know, conventions and, and when they’d find out we were from the Daily Show, sometimes they’d be like, God, I wish we could do what you do. There’s a show called Mystery Science Theater 3000, which would watch old movies and kind of do a running commentary about these like really cheesy B movies. I mean, it was a lot of easy fodder for us, and it was very tempting to do that, but we would seize on any opportunity to make fun of anybody as long as it was there was an angle basically and as CNN, you know kind of tried really hard and kept on going through these kind of identity crises and and you know MSNBC was on the scene and they were like the little brother that was you know, trying to get some attention, but couldn’t like, we tried to find ways in, um, on that. Um, it just felt that Fox because it stood against all these other, you know, kind of traditional institutions, it felt oftentimes like one stop shopping NARRATION: Finally, we’re going to hear from a Daily Show writer, Chris Regan.