Usually when Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper does his man-on-the-street segments he travels to a conservative event and tries to make conservatives look bad, but on Tuesday he shook it up a bit. After the failed assassination attempt against President Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Klepper traveled to Times Square to interview foreign tourists to make conservatives look bad for not embracing gun control.
The purpose of Klepper’s field trip was supposedly to mock various Republicans for citing Saturday's events as proof that Trump's ballroom is needed for security purposes, but initially Klepper really just wanted to talk about guns, “Just days after political gun violence in our nation's capital, I went to Times Square to ask people from foreign countries why this is happening here.”
The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper went to Time Square after the WHCD to interview foreigners in an attempt to convince Americans to ditch the guns. A typical exchange would be "What are things Americans can do to make America safer?" and someone answering "Lose the guns." pic.twitter.com/GSpfIOU0DR
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The would-be assassin also had knives, but the anti-gun foreigner clips started with one man declaring, “In London, there has never really been a big thing, you know?”
A woman added, “It's crazy because that kind of stuff usually wouldn't happen in, like, Europe.”
Unfortunately, gun-based political violence is not unique to America. In 2024, someone tried to shoot the Slovakian prime minister. Outside of Europe, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by a gunman at a campaign event in 2022, the same year that someone tried to shoot the former president of Argentina, and just last year, a Colombian presidential candidate was shot and eventually died from his wounds two months later.
As it was, a second man claimed, “I think most of Canada is pretty safe. You were able to safely speak your mind without having to worry about being shot down.”
Klepper was then shown with the aforementioned woman, “With that outside perspective, like, what are things Americans can do to make America safer?”
The woman simply replied, “Lose the guns. That would help.”
Klepper then asked a third man, “If we don't do that, is there anything else?”
Initially, he replied, “Try to be decent, respect people in general, of course.” However, that wasn’t good enough for Klepper, “Okay, let’s say if that’s not our sweet spot, what else you got?”
The man then gave Klepper what he wanted, “Reduce the number of guns.”
Getting to the ballroom, Klepper wondered, “Have you considered more ballrooms?” and the man answered, “Without guns, yeah.”
Klepper’s segment was not the first time The Daily Show has used foreigners to denounce Americans and their guns. Back in 2023, then-correspondent Roy Wood Jr. traveled to Britain to get the people there to do the same thing and claim that people support the Second Amendment to compensate for their small male parts.
Here is a transcript for the April 28 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
4/28/2026
11:10 PM ET
JORDAN KLEPPER: Just days after political gun violence in our nation's capital, I went to Times Square to ask people from foreign countries why this is happening here.
MAN: In London, there has never really been a big thing, you know?
KLEPPER: The whole gun thing is not a big thing?
WOMAN: It's crazy because that kind of stuff usually wouldn't happen in, like, Europe.
MAN 2: I think most of Canada is pretty safe.
KLEPPER: Yeah.
MAN 2: You were able to safely speak your mind without having to worry about being shot down.
KLEPPER: And doing that with words not shot down—
With that outside perspective, like—
WOMAN: Yeah.
KLEPPER: What are things Americans can do to make America safer?
WOMAN: Lose the guns.
KLEPPER: Okay.
WOMAN: That would help.
KLEPPER: Okay. Noted.
WOMAN: Yeah.
KLEPPER: If we don't do that, is there anything else?
MAN 3: Try to be decent, respect people in general, of course.
KLEPPER: Okay, let’s say if that’s not our sweet spot, what else you got?
MAN 3: Reduce the number of guns.
KLEPPER: Reduce the number of—
MAN 3: Guns. Number of guns. Yeah.
KLEPPER: Have you considered more ballrooms?
MAN 3: Without guns, yeah.
KLEPPER: Okay, you are really hung up on this gun thing.
