Jordan Klepper (center) in Norway for 'The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give That Man a Prize' Comedy Central Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Jordan Klepper's latest Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse special took him to Mississippi, Oregon and Norway in search of an answer to the question: Does Donald Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? The short answer is that the Nobel committee didn't think so. The 2025 prize, to be awarded Dec. 10, will go to Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado. But Klepper wanted to get at why the president was campaigning so hard for the Nobel, and what the notion of "peace" looks like now both in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Related Stories TV An MTV Mogul's Wild Tales: From Sex Clubs with Sumner Redstone to Advising David Ellison TV Jon Stewart on Entertainment Execs: "I Don't Know That You Feel the Other Humans in the Room Anymore" "As we were putting this special together, two conversations were taking place in the country," Klepper told The Hollywood Reporter. "There were troops being sent to Portland and to Chicago. There were these ICE raids and these protests. And at the same time, Donald Trump was campaigning openly for the Nobel Peace Prize. We saw a special in that conversation." The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give That Man a Prize airs at 11:30 p.m. Monday on Comedy Central, following The Daily Show. The half-hour special follows Klepper to Mississippi to speak to Trump supporters; to Oslo - home of the Nobel Prizes - to speak to Norwegians about their views on the matter; and to Portland, Oregon, for a naked bicycle ride protest that took a turn when federal agents used chemical munitions on the crowd. He spoke with THR about putting together the special, what he and his crew try to do with the longer shows and whether being known for his Daily Show work makes his job easier or harder in the field. Can you tell me about the various places you went and people you spoke to for the special? We went to Mississippi and talked to Trump supporters about why Donald Trump was the most peaceful president. They talked about the wars that he has solved. They talked about him bringing strength to cities. We went to Congressman [Anna Paulina] Luna, who has nominated Donald Trump for the peace prize as well as putting him on Mount Rushmore, and talked to her about the qualifications Donald Trump has for being a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Then we went all the way to Oslo to talk to people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize about what the qualities of a Peace Prize winner look like, how those connect to a Trump administration. I talked to the lovely people on the streets of Oslo about what they thought about Donald Trump being nominated and potentially winning a Nobel Peace Prize, and they were all lovely, lovely folks who didn't mince words, but did it in such a lovely Norwegian way. We even found a small group of Nordic MAGA. That takes us to Portland, where there was a naked bike ride to protest the ICE raids and the ICE detention center there. I talked to the protesters there about this idea of peace, about Trump's thoughts and actions against democratic norms. I disrobed, got myself onto a bike and rode along with these folks. These are the things I do for comedy, for America. In doing that, I saw what felt very representative to America in 2025, which was a group of naked people, people dressed as cartoon characters, frogs, chickens, protesting outside an ICE facility where agents are shooting pepper ball bullets into the crowd. What started as an act of protest turned into a violent [scene], where protesters are bowled over by ICE agents. A clarinetist is shoved into the ground, is taken away across state lines for a couple days. People don't know where she is. As we capture all this conversation around what does peace look like on an international scale, what does it feel like here in America? That's the shape of our special, and I think Portland was, in many ways, an encapsulation of that feeling of what I think a lot of people are feeling in America right now. There are these international conversations around what peace looks like and what democratic norms are, and yet, you go to some of these places, and it feels both absurd and violent at the same time. And as this is all coming together for you, there are threats of military action in Venezuela and the targeting of the supposed drug boats. Yeah. We're having this conversation as the Venezuelan drug boat attacks are happening, and also there's a large conversation about American war crimes. This all comes on the heels of negotiations about between Putin and the Trump administration and Ukraine. So it was very much at th