‘The Daily Show’ Skewers Gavin Newsom for Sex Scandal and Failure to Solve Homelessness and High-Speed Rail in New Segment (EXCLUSIVE)

Gavin Newsom is the latest figure to be roasted by “The Daily Show” in a new installment of its “Daily Showography” series — this one tracks the California governor’s personal and political scandals. The seven-minute segment will air as part of Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Comedy Central talk show.

Presented as an awards-season “for your consideration” spot, the satirical biography ribs Newsom for being a “leading man” who is “now playing in select venues, but is preparing to be released nationwide” — a reference to the likelihood of his 2028 presidential bid.

The narrator of the segment pokes fun at Newsom’s “classic rags to riches story” — quoting the governor as saying, “My father, his closest friends in the world were some of the richest families in the world” — before quipping, “Fine, he’s a nepo baby, but so is Dakota Johnson and we love her.”

“The Daily Show” then chronicles Newsom’s post-college years, when he started a wine company “with nothing but his grit, his refined palate and the financial backing of an oil tycoon.” Says the snarky narrator: “Things were finally starting to work out for this tall, handsome, athletic, well-connected young man.”

Newsom then “landed his biggest role to date” as mayor of San Francisco. “The Daily Show” acknowledges Newsom’s role in advancing the legalization of same-sex marriage while simultaneously skewering him for having an affair with the wife of one of his staffers.

Most of all, the “biofilm” mocks Newsom for his failures to end California’s homelessness crisis or build high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles. In the video, Newsom is clipped again and again — from 2010 to 2025 — promising to solve these persistent issues. (A fast train connecting the state’s two biggest cities is still a pipe dream, with Newsom recently boasting about construction on a rail line in Central California. “Soon, this futuristic bullet train will take people from the thriving hub of Merced all the way to the shining metropolis of Bakersfield,” the narrator quips.)

Of course, no roast of Newsom would be complete without mentioning his pandemic setbacks, including the French Laundry scandal and the recall election. “The Daily Show” has an idea for why Newsom was ultimately re-elected: “Luckily, the COVID vaccine meant he could show his whole face again, so he won easily.”

The segment concludes with Newsom’s ascent to becoming a 2028 frontrunner, asking viewers to “consider Gavin Newsom: a screen-ready Christian Bale type … he’s more than a politician; he’s a leading man.”

“The Daily Showography” has also produced segments skewering Joe Rogan, Jeff Bezos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marco Rubio and Vladimir Putin. The Comedy Central program received two Emmy nominations this year for editing for a segment in a variety program — for its episodes on Stephen Miller and Kamala Harris.

Watch “The Daily Showography of Gavin Newsom: Leading Man for Your Consideration” below.