“I think it’s been a lot of nerves this year, week.”

After a couple of false starts at Manhattan’s Beacon Theater during a taping for an upcoming Netflix special, his first of two recordings on Saturday night, the comedian Theo Von was starting to find his rhythm. As a podcaster, Von has become in the last year a sought-out interviewer for A-list actors and musicians, and so recognizable as a political entity that the Department of Homeland Security momentarily made him the face of its immigration crackdown this week.

“Heard you got deported dude, bye,” Von says in a clip included in a sizzle reel that the agency posted on X.

“Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this. I know you know my address so send a check,” Von wrote in response. “And please take this down and please keep me o

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