Daily Show Interviews CPUSA Co-Chair to Claim Mamdani Is Not a Communist
23rd October 2025
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is so desperate to prove that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is not a communist that it sent Desi Lydic to interview Communist Party USA co-chair Joe Sims to insist that Mamdani is not, in fact, one of them. Of course, Sims had to propagandize as well as he lamented his movement’s “bad reputation” and that communism is actually all about freedom to do what you wish, which might have been the funniest moment on the comedy shows all year.
After a montage of clips of people calling Mamdani a communist, Sims asked, “You’re saying Mamdani’s a communist?”
Lydic insisted, “I’m not saying that. People are saying that,” which led Sims to again wonder, “Really? How come nobody told me? I’m the co-chair of the Communist Party.”
Just as you don’t need to belong to the Libertarian Party to be a libertarian, you don’t have to belong to the Communist Party to be a communist.