“The Daily Show” compares 'vague' Democratic National Convention themes to “Fast & Furious” film titles

“How do you have themes that are so vague and then still run out of ideas by Thursday?”

The Daily Show has a bone to pick with the themes represented each night of the ongoing Democratic National Convention. 

During Monday’s episode, host Michael Kosta emphasized the importance of the political event's themes, noting that they help the party to “lay out their specific vision” for the future. He then cut to an MSNBC clip that unveiled the full list: Monday’s For the People, Tuesday’s A Bold Vision for America’s Future, Wednesday’s A Fight for Our Freedoms, and Thursday’s For Our Future.  

And, well, consider Kosta… curious? “Huh. A bold policy move by the Democrats: Tuesday is for the future, and Thursday… is also for the future,” he joked. “How do you have themes that are so vague and then still run out of ideas by Thursday?”

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Kosta then compared the Democratic party's uninspired titles to the Fast and the Furious franchise.

“This is like when The Fast & the Furious movies ran out of different ways to say that the movies would be fast and furious,” he quipped, before going on to list a series of both real and fake Fast and Furious film titles: “2 Fast 2 Furious, Faster and More Furiouser, and Fastestest and Furiousestestest.” 

He jokingly added, “We get it, the car goes vroom.”

Kosta’s not wrong. The Fast & the Furious’ 2003 sequel was genuinely titled 2 Fast 2 Furious and — barring 2006’s Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and 2009’s Fast & Furious — the franchise has largely stuck to incorporating the number of the current film installment into its title like Fast 5, Furious 7, F9, and, most recently, Fast X.

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Elsewhere, Kosta also poked fun at all of the “unsubstantiated rumors” touted by reporters that superstars Taylor Swift and Beyoncé may potentially appear at the convention, too.

“Why are our news reporters talking out of their ass like that?” he asked. “This feels like hosting a birthday when you’re 13 and being like, 'Hey, my cousin says he knows Tony Hawk, so he might show up.’”

Whether Swift and Beyoncé actually show up to the convention remains to be seen, but the pair both previously endorsed President Joe Biden in the 2020 election and encouraged their fanbases to vote in the years since. Beyoncé's 2016 track "Freedom" is also currently being used as Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' campaign song.

Watch Kosta speak fast and furiously about the Democratic National Convention in the clip above.

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