About this episode

Zhubin Parang discusses the character arcs in Les Misérables and shares the plot in a way to help listeners fall asleep.

Zhubin Parang, who has been with The Daily Show since the first time around with Jon Stewart, fully recognizes that among the many characters in the musical Les Misérables, only Javert really has an actual character arc. Only he goes somewhere over the course of the story. The rest kind of hold their ground, face grim adversity, and sing sing sing. That’s all good with Zhubin, he loves the crap out of Les Mis and has seen it many times and, in order to put you to sleep, Zhubin is hear to tell you EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN LES MIS. I mean, that ought to do it, right? Les Mis without the singing or the acting or the sets and costumes? Just... plot points? We’re dreaming a dream of you dreaming, Sleepyheads.

People in this episode

Host: John Moe

Guest: Zhubin Parang

Topics covered

• musicals
• Les Misérables
• character arcs
• The Daily Show
• storytelling
• comedy

Keywords

• Les Misérables
• Zhubin Parang
• The Daily Show
• musical analysis
• character development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Daily Show

Books & works: Les Misérables

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