I think the exit of Jon Stewart is mostly to blame for this. The Daily Show has lost 35% of it’s viewers since the dismal Trevor Noah took over. I stopped watching (with the occasional peek to see if he’s improved – no). And without that Daily Show lead in, I stopped watching the Nightly Show, too.
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I agree, I would love to see him come back to anchor the Daily Show, Trevor Noah is ok but he is a beat off.
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It’s tough when you lose your lead in star, John Stewart. Neither of those two shows were as good as the Daily Show was, but Larry is a funny guy and I like his take on things.
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Too bad.
I like wilmore a lot, and thought his was a refreshing and much needed voice.
The cast was uneven (putting it nicely here); there were a few stand outs,
Mike yard was great, a real find. Cory albanese was often fun.
But most of the others were not, and the sketches and panels were more miss than hit.
I stopped watching a few months ago; I guess others did the same.
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Yes, but according to the article, Larry was losing more than half of TDS’s lead-in. Both shows were introduced together. So while I find TDS unwatchable and am waiting for CC’s good sense to bring someone else in to THAT chair Larry wasn’t doing ot for me either.
Then again, I am not the demographic they are going for.
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It was the double whammy of Jon Stewart AND Steven Colbert leaving. Wilmore is a very sharp and funny guy, but you changed up the entire format from an incredibly sharp edgy satire, eviscerating right wing shows and talking points, to a more traditional stand up/round table that largely focused on events from a Black perspective. That was both a step back and a narrowing of focus that guaranteed a drop off in viewers.
And, Trevor Noah has been a great disappointment in replacing Stewart, made all the worse that other talents at the show that were passed over…John Oliver, Samantha Bee…have gone on to do tremendous shows on their own. Watering down the lead show, with the above problems? I think this was kind of inevitable.
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Nothing scares a corporation more than comedy…
No, we got it. Colbert was MUCH better in that slot. And that Colbert was also MUCH better than the Colbert currently on CBS.
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I felt that too–not being the demographic they were going for. If you’re not in the target audience (young males), you’re the target.
Would prefer Samantha Bee myself.
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lol, wrong demographic here, too. But I think the article had some of the numbers wrong, i just read that TDS had dropped to 1.2 million, not 2.1 as the article states. But both those numbers are unsubstantiated.
I’m sorry to hear that the show was cancelled, although I don’t watch Comedy Central very often. I thought the funniest skit I’ve seen on the show was the “black Donald Trump” who was one of the show’s black members in a blond Donald Trump fright wig doing a rap version of some of Trump’s narcissistic, stream-of-consciousness spiels.
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CC doesn’t have great ratings at this hour anymore, so any double-digit loss is going to be problematic.
Roger that. Oliver and Full Frontal are required viewing in my household.
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He has some great talent on the show. Mike Yard is very funny. Grace Parra is a living, breathing cartoon character. Fabulous.
And they have the by-far best Trump knock-off of anyone.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Her “Full Frontal” is hilarious and, like Stewart and Colbert before her, highly informative.
I admit that TDS and the Report were early morning breakfast-making kitchen TV daily fare (thank free hulu!) and although I was most definitely not their target demographic, my son loved that we had a show that we both enjoyed and which also gave him a daily dose of both info and laughs.
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If they’d have moved him to a better time slot I’d have watched him more. Usually, that’s what they do before they cancel shows outright. Following the new Daily Show can’t be easy…especially when he had the monologues from the network late night shows in competition with him. I thought he was brilliant on his show and offered something no other show was able to tap into…specifically how we deal with race in this country. Once Obama leaves office I fear those issues will once again be put on the back burner…as in, out of sight, out of mind. Shame.
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The panel discussion portion was what killed it.
I know… Bill Maher does them too but his isn’t that great either.
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I totally agree. The segments either needed to be much funnier or much more intelligent. Having not terribly sharp people talk about something isn’t interesting if you are evaluating it based on the merit of the conversation, on one hand. On the other, the comedy from those bits was not great either, being basically like a couple comics spit-balling/brain storming, where most of that stuff would not make the final cut for presentable material.
Ricky Velez can be funny, be he’s not stealing any scenes in those bits, and on the merit of his opinions side is pretty dumb about politics and current events. If he can’t make you roll on the floor laughing, and isn’t insightful, what was the point of hearing what he has to say? (for example)
Colbert had no diversity in his writing staff, but at least they’re funny. Sam Bee is accomplishing both goals, but is only doing one night a week at most. Wilmore’s show was diverse, but the talent of that diversity wasn’t where it needed to be.
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They lost me once they brought Francesca Ramsey on board. Who told her she was funny?
Sad for all those who are now out of work.