The Daily Grind

Scott Hardie | January 20, 2024
They've been diligently searching for a year, and yet Comedy Central still cannot find a new host for The Daily Show. Are you a fan of the show? Do you like any of the guest hosts in the last year? Who would you like to see behind the desk?

That show is more sensitive to identity politics than most, so I don't know whether the selection of a white man would fly with their audience, but my pick would be Adam Conover. He's a comedian, activist, and veteran TV host who has fought plenty of his own battles in the "War on Bullshit" that Jon Stewart once called the job. Consider his recent furious rant about child labor; trim down the length by a few minutes and it would fit right in on TDS. He's as angry as Lewis Black, but he still cares about societal problems instead of being defeatist like Black.

Kelly and I brainstormed a few other celebrities who we wouldn't mind seeing as guest hosts for a week -- Awkwafina, Laverne Cox, Killer Mike, America Ferrera, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, any real news anchor -- but I don't see any of them taking the job permanently, nor any of the big names that Comedy Central has lured to the desk within the last year. Already very famous people aren't looking to be chained to a desk like this.

I guess as long as they don't pick Mike Richards, they'll be all right.