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?

  • pezboy74@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.