Seriously, Comedy Central. Stop trying to be woke and inclusive and just concentrate on hiring people who are funny.
Grace’s interview with that astrophysicist was not funny. She actually made fun of him with the mimic game! What was the point of that? Her “jokes” are what I might expect from a five year old, which I guess matches the fact that she seems to have never lost her baby teeth. I didn’t laugh a SINGLE TIME during the whole piece.
Her comedic style is childish, dense and purposely ignorant. NONE of that fits the Daily Show, which is smart, smarmy, sardonic and witty. Ok, and purposefully ignorant.
I can think of several other correspondents who would have handled that piece 1,000 times better than Grace… Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic…
Grace Kuhlenschmidt actually made Michelle Wolf seem funny by comparison! Was that your goal?
Sounds like you’re doing a cancel culture.
She’s hilarious and I love her podcast
It doesn’t work in TDS correspondent interviews.
That segment was very hard to watch. Next time I’ll fast forward through it.
Or, you could give them a chance. Farell was a failure on his first months on SNL. Lots of others. Jon Stewart bombed his first Three shows til he got tge Daiky Show.
Nope, it’s not nerves that makes Grace Kuhlenschmidt so wrong for TDS, it’s her comedic style. Just like Dane Cook or Jeff Dunham with be terrible on TDS. They have the wrong skillsets.
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Never heard of that person. Did a brief search and found a couple videos. Wow, not funny
They hired her to piss you off specifically.
Not funny is not funny no matter what the social intention. No need to whisper into a dog whistle about it.
tbf, neither is Trevor Noah.
The show has always hired a diverse slate of correspondent. If she doesn’t work she won’t last. You are right it is a very unique skill set to make it work as a DS correspondent. But this is one place where someone who isn’t a cis white man isn’t a diversity hire.
Maybe hearing people from different perspectives will help broaden your views of the world. Also, the new people are replacing a Mount Rushmore correspondent who the show screwed over.
Also, the show is kind of rudderless without a permanent host. To me the host sets the tone of the show which allows the correspondents to follow.
Stop trying to be woke and inclusive
People that whine about ‘woke’ tend not to be people that really get comedy to begin with.
This is tough because I don’t find her funny at all but OP is, for sure, a huge ass dork who clearly wants to keep talking about one thing.
The woke thing is over done. It tells me more about the person saying “this is woke”. I don’t think the Daily Show has to signal anything on the left. Is it possible, that they hired someone who isn’t funny and that person just happens to be over weight and a lesbian? I’ve seen a LOT of unfunny white male comedians. No one says they were a diversity hire. The OP makes the assumption daily show knew she wasn’t funny and hired her because she’s a lesbian, jumping to that conclusion because it’s the thing they notice most. I’m fairly certain if that was the case, I’m betting there are funny comedians who happen to be lesbian.
The woke thing is over done.
Who are you to tell Black activists whether their terminology is “over” or not?
“Woke” originated in the Black community in the 1940s and was a common term for describing awareness of even subtle racial discrimination. It was then appropriated by White activists in the 2010s and applied to virtually every form of social justice. Which in turn led to conservatives using it as a catch-all term for everything progressives support.
TL;DR - White folk (liberal and conservative) ruined a term used by Black folk.
I believe they’re saying “complaining about being woke” is overdone.
Nothing wrong with being woke. It’s the idiots that complain about it that is tiring and eyerolling.
Um, white males CANNOT be diversity hires in the American entertainment industry. By definition and population. Do you know what a diversity hire is??
I cannot believe TDS producers thought she would be a good match for the show. And of course there are funny comedians who happen to be lesbian and/or overweight… However Grace Kuhlenschmidt isn’t one of them.
She’s so bad on the show, I cannot think of another explanation as to why they hired her.
Another confounding example is Olivia Munn. I thought TDS hired her because she’s Asian and young men find her attractive. I was pleasantly surprised her one or two appearances on the show were really funny. Then they fired her.
Oh wait, so you’re saying that the entertainment industry is unduly represented by white males? I would’ve thought your type was bemoaning about how there aren’t any more and THEY should be the new diversity hires.
Damn dude didn’t know you were so woke
The fact you assumed Olivia Munn was also a “diversity hire” is just further proof that you think anyone who is not white is a diversity hire. That’s weird man. Olivia Munn hosted Attack of the Show on G4 for years and even played a reporter in the news room for 2 years. Couldn’t it just be the case that TDS thought she’d be a good fit for the job? But oh no they must have hired her bc she’s hot and Asian. You’re telling on yourself there man.
Neither is the Daily Show.
The interview was really cringey and not funny - but saying TDS’s senior correspondents would have been way better isn’t really helpful - of course they would - they been doing this for years and are senior correspondents because they are so good at it. And if the senior correspondents had the time to film all the reports they probably wouldn’t have hired someone new.
The Daily show has had dozens of correspondents and many of them lasted less than a year. I doubt Grace will last if she doesn’t find a unique voice that fits with the tone of the show but one report is hard to judge that on - the playful banter and mockery that is the Daily Show’s trademark is super hard and the fact Grace can get on camera and even be in the neighborhood of what we have come to expect puts her in the very top of a very niche field. So she’ll either improve or they’ll find someone who can pull it off.
The main issue is your statement - a “woke” hire? - which seems to imply you believe there’s a whole bunch of fit straight males that got passed over (based on you rallying against her gender, body type and her sexual orientation in other replies). The increase in this type of show that Daily Show’s success has driven really means there isn’t just a ton of people who do this well on the first try that aren’t already doing it. There not just 100s of fit white male John Stewarts out there.
