Dick Street - Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse | The Daily Show

in his farewell address president obama urged us to get engaged in politics and uh not just to sit back and check out of everything then he went kite surfing but still the people are taking to the streets and in new jersey it's one street in particular confusion and concern over some road names in new jersey there is one name in particular that's causing issues of its own i'm standing right now on ellsworth street but if i cross howard avenue here this now turns into dick street city leaders have proposed changing the name of this section of ellsworth to dick street to make it easier to find in an emergency now now i i know i know your first instinct when you hear dick streets is to think that now we're gonna start making dick jokes you know like uh how dick street is only two blocks long and it's slightly bent or or how this is a bad time to extend dick street when it's cold outside that's not no no no no no guys no this is not about dick jokes this is about ordinary citizens who are fighting a government that thrusts itself into every crevice of our lives and it's hurting people homeowners on ellsworth want to know if they can change it to something other than dick street i don't i don't like it he thinks switching his home address from ellsworth street to what he calls a less than flattering street name will make his property value go down so i don't want to screw up my life see that real people and you can't tell me that this guy doesn't deserve better because his name is anal imagine his life probably coming to this country growing up with a name like that some people are worried about whether trump will cover their pre-existing condition but this poor man has more pressing issues he doesn't want to be anal on dick street and and when you're a local activist there's many different ways that you can try and tackle a problem some people prefer to see it on the ground others prefer a bird's eye view john sedlak seen here with his pet falcon says living on this street isn't as embarrassing as everyone thinks i know people that are named dick or the name's richard are called dixo of course the name dick does not embarrass him this man does not play by our rules people he's walking around new jersey with a falcon on his arm that's new jersey that's a falcon not just a falcon by the way a hunting falcon you see that thing like what is he catching rats who is this person was he catching like his neighbor's poodle what is it like oh is the street name okay yeah that's that's far down on this guy's list he's too busy fighting sauron or whatever i don't know what he's doing with the falcon who is this person now the clifton city council will vote on dick street next tuesday and the people will make their voices heard and we at the daily show wanted to be a part of that so we sent jordan klepper to get a firmer grip on the story [Music] trevor i'm here in new jersey at the center of controversy where the wholesome people of ellsworth are fighting not to be associated with the sick perverts of dick street i went straight to the outraged residents of ellsworth street to see the situation on the ground we don't want to change the name i think they should leave the name the way it is i don't want to no my street name dick street come on you're a laid-back guy you got a little light can you in your front window yeah it's kind of cool to live on dick street no not for me i left ellsworth and headed all the way over to dick street where the locals were proud of the name dick street i live here all my life on it since i was a kid why do you think those people don't want to be associated with the dicks over here what's the big deal is it is it is it gonna kill you you know it's like house is always changing everybody's doing this everybody's doing that today what are you talking about you know like different how that's changed that used to be like that i've actually i've never okay but back on ellsworth the locals were still outraged i would assume that city hall would change the name to something different than a dick street because if i need to sell the house what do you want me to tell other people i live in a dick street is there a better name for this street we don't want the dick at the beginning would you take a dick at the end no i have a daughter if my if somebody asked my daughter where do you live on a deek street would you be comfortable having a daughter who lived on a big willy street that's fine johnson street that's fine wang street bank street is fine penis street nope okay so that's the line that's the line street nope old man ball street nope ball street no old man street old man street yeah it's fine okay perfect thanks to obama's inspiring call to action the citizens of soon to be dick street won't take this lying down you

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 09 2021