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The Daily Show updated the astronauts on what they’d missed during nine months in space, and we don’t know whether to laugh or cry

Oonagh Keating. Updated March 24th, 2025

You’ve probably seen a lot of news about the two International Space Station astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Their planned eight days on the ISS turned into nine months, after the Boeing Starliner capsule that took them up developed problems that meant it couldn’t bring them down.

The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic felt that there were one or two things that they may have missed, having been literally off the planet since June 2024.

They may have had a wild ride on the ISS and the SpaceX Dragon capsule, but Earth may have been having a wilder ride. Just listen to this –

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“First, the Gulf of Mexico you landed in is now the Gulf of America, but don’t worry – the name change is symbolic. We’re not going to war with Mexico. We’re going to war with Canada and Greenland, maybe Panama …also Mexico.”

TikTok users facepalmed like they’ve never facepalmed before.

The only bad part, is that this isn’t satire.
Josh Jimenez715

It’s like the movie “Idiocracy” but with a worse story line.
Jeanie Beanieus

The White House is also a Tesla dealership.
Todd

I’d laugh if it wasn’t so depressingly true.
machofantastico5

I would’ve stayed in space tbh.
David Chavez

Sums it up so accurately it’s embarrassing.
cynmat2001

“Nasa just got Doged” … “which is a real sentence now” … best line of the day.
Swiftie_NZ

When they shared the post on Twitter, it got a very similar reception.

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We’re not sure whether to feel sorry for the satirists because they can’t top real life or to feel happy for them because half of the work is done for them.

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