Look at how they are bringing back outside hosts for a second round even before all the current correspondents have had their own full week; Ronny and Dulce have only had two nights a piece thus far.

given his radio reach

How can he do both? If he is selected, maybe he can manage it for a short time, but how would anyone think he can keep that many balls in the air for at least the seven years Noah was in the chair?

If a current or former correspondent isn’t chosen, I am not sure I am going to stick around. I’d make an exception for Silverman.

It’s an obvious slap in the face to any current correspondent if CC decides to fill the seat from outside the house, and I’d expect all of them to leave TDS within 18 months if that happens.

I presume that Wilmore and Klepper, both having had shows cancelled on CC, have that in the negative column for permanent hosts

Charlamagne also had a cancelled show on CC, so why is being brought back for a second round? I am not going to look it up, but I would guess his show performed worse than both TNS and TO.

I loved the Dennis Rodman clips!

Also, the “Nightly” entertainment skits were good with Grace Parra (the “clueless” correspondent).

• Desi Lydic, 5 episodes (April 24–27 and November 22, 2023)
• Dulcé Sloan, 2 episodes (May 1 and November 20, 2023)

I don’t know why they are trying to reinvent the wheel.

Why go through the rigmarole of guest hosts anyhow? They didn’t do that before choosing Trevor.

Maybe the gimmicky factor raised the profile of the show a bit?

Wednesday’s episode wasn’t very good. I wanted to like it, but it didn’t have much going for it.

I love both Klepper and Lydic as performers. I can’t imagine the dual host thing as anything other than an idea of CC producers. I don’t know, but I assume it has something to do with saving money.

The War on Christmas field piece was okay, but nothing new. The editorial from Leguizamo was alright.

The NC rep seemed like a chill guy, and he was able to articulate the good and bad of tiktok (it’ll be a cold day in hell before I ever use it).

Finally, let me say that there was nothing about this week that even remotely fit the theme of “News Team Takeover”, especially since Lewis Black was pictured, and he didn’t get shit, and it was also only three days trying to highlight five people.

“News Team Takeover” should have had an actual theme, like a skit of the correspondents crashing through a door into a CC executive suite, and tying them up, or pretending to steal equipment. Something instead of the big nothing that we did get.

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t Ronny have the fewest hosting nights with just one? Jordan, Desi, and Michael each had a week. Dulce had one night right before the strike, and then started this week off, but Ronny has only hosted once on Tuesday. I hope he gets his own week in December, and Dulce deserves a full week, too.

C’mon, that’s disingenuous. The strike lasted five months. Nothing moved during that time.

But they definitely need a permanent host upon their return in January.

You’re really incapable of parsing the difference between a comedian who yells and a comedian who doesn’t?

Thanks for the comparison.

I might just not be a fan of Gen Z humor. I remember reading a comment here on reddit from a Gen Z’er breaking down how they saw the differences in generational comedy. When they were describing what Gen Z kids found funny, I thought “That doesn’t sound like comedy, that doesn’t even sound funny”.

Generations change, and no future generation is obligated to understand what previous generations found funny. I don’t like Benny Hill-style comedy, even though that was top notch for its time.

He’s entitled to his opinion.

It’s not only racist but sexist too.

Did you even read what i wrote? I am neither sexist nor racist. All of the other comedians I listed–who are black women–would do a fine job as host.

WTF are you talking about?

That’s great.

I’ll be hard-pressed to stick around if she wins the crown.

People like different things.

List of black women comedians that don’t use being loud as part of their shtick:

1. Dulce Sloan
2. Jessica Williams
3. Franchesca Ramsey
4. Robin Thede
5. Holly Walker
6. Niccole Thurman

All female black comedians who have worked on The Daily Show, The Nightly Show, or The Opposition and can deliver comedy without shouting their lines.

Sloan did great. Iwata also had an awesome segment.

I noticed that there isn’t anything wrong with Jones’ reporting, it’s simply that her delivery is too fucking loud.

Part 2

Give a book the same attention you give your phone.

They absolutely do. Trevor didn’t always choose every guest (of course there is cross-platform promotion), but he had a big say in who he interviewed.

Likewise, the guest hosts are choosing who to interview. How many times have you heard “I wanted to have you on because…”

Kosta interviewed that adventure wilderness guy because he went on his guided trip. You think CC found that guy on their own and wanted to promote his outdoor wilderness project?

will be interested to see what he does next.

TDS’ gift to the world is the number of unknown comedians they gave a spotlight to that were then able to make it big working with Stewart and went on to launch their own careers.

It’s the show that launched a 1,000 careers, to paraphrase.