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Fav Guest Hosts?

posted 2 years ago by Rorikon (17855)
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https://youtu.be/3_q9DpTbha8

Hasan Minhaj steps in for the week Febuary 27, followed by Marlon Wayans the week of March 6; Kal Penn the week of March 13; Al Franken the week of March 20 and John Leguizamo the week of March 27. Dates for additional guest hosts, including TDS correspondents and contributors, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Guest hosts have been filling in since Trevor Noah exited the show on December 8.

Of all of them, I prefer Hasan. He's the closest to bringing the vibe of The Daily Show. Saw clips of him when he had his own show called Patriot Act. He's intelligent and way better than Trevor imo.

[–] TMC-4 (20123) a year ago

Hasan Minhaj should be disqualified from Daily Show job

https://www.justjared.com/2023/09/26/hasan-minhaj-could-be-disqualified-from-daily-show-host-search-because-of-false-stories-former-staffers-say/

Hasan Minhaj could be out of the running for The Daily Show hosting job.

The 37-year-old actor was one of four possible people to take over the role from Trevor Noah, who vacated the desk last year.

However, it seems that his recent reveal that he’s been embellishing his stories in his stand up routines, might have cost him the job.

TheWrap spoke to several former staffers on The Daily Show, who opened up about how lying about racist encounters should cost him the opportunity.

“It’s extremely dangerous to cry wolf on racism, especially if you want to be the host of a very influential, politically-driven show,” one told the outlet.

Another then added that they didn’t “know how [his staff] can take him seriously on day one when he doubled down on his own lies and ridiculous excuses that his lies were emotional truths. It’s almost a parody.”

Prior to Trevor, Jon Stewart was the host, and according to one former staffer who worked at the show around that time, writers could be fired if stories weren’t thoroughly fact-checked – something they think should extend to the hosts.

“With [The Daily Show] came responsibility. You didn’t make sh** up, and you didn’t punch down. Both Trevor [Noah] and Jon kept that ethos alive. But Hasan did both of those things,” the former staffer told the outlet. “He [Hasan] hurt other people of color by giving white supremacists the supposed proof they need that people of color shouldn’t be trusted when they talk about discrimination.”

An additional former employee said that telling the false stories “disqualifies him from that particular role,” but not cancelled they clarified, “not from many, many other things in entertainment.