Jordan Klepper Is Ready to Pillow Fight Mike Lindell

Few rules in life are absolute, but here is one that has not changed: if you are at some kind of rally, and Jordan Klepper approaches you with a microphone, you are in the wrong place. On his visits to various MAGA-world rallies for The Daily Show, Klepper says, “You’d be surprised, people usually do want to engage with me. I get people who are like, ‘I know what you’re going to do to me, you’re going to ask me what I believe, and I’m going to get you.” And as you know if you’ve seen his videos, Klepper does not get got. “They try, and we talk, and I ask why, and often it doesn’t go super well for them.” Please, Klepper, don’t hurt ‘em.

So how does Klepper hold up under the pressure of someone else’s camera and microphone? Find out on the latest episode of Esquire’s Explain This, in which he patiently enumerates the few subtle differences between himself and Chris Evans, reveals who would win in a pillow fight with Mike Lindell, describes the wildest thing he’s seen doing field pieces for The Daily Show (spoiler: an insurrection), and dishes on whether he has any bespoke Trevor Noah hoodies in his closet. He does not, but he does praise Noah’s performance on The Daily Show: “Trevor is incredible, he knows himself, he knows his point of view. He stepped into a job everyone was afraid to step into, and he had huge shoes to fill. Metaphorically; Jon Stewart is a very small man.”

“I’m always sort of living scared of the world around me,” Klepper says, which is a wild thing to hear from a man who regularly interviews furious, pitchfork-wielding protesters. But he tries to lead with mercy: “I empathize toward folks,” he says. “People go to rallies to feel a sense of belonging, we all want that. But when I go to these rallies, what I often learn is that these people have been armed with an answer, but not a follow up answer. That’s where I perhaps feel most bad.” Does it keep him from skinning many of these people alive on national television? It does not. But it’s a nice thought all the same.

Klepper is a few months into his podcast with former GOP presidential hopeful Governor John Kasich, which is not a sentence I was prepared to type. “We talk about important things,” he says, “and then I make fun of a person who tried to run for the highest office in the land.”Kasich & Klepper is available wherever you get your podcasts, The Daily Show is on every weeknight on Comedy Central, and the rule remains: you see this guy coming toward you, go home and think about your choices.

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