Comedian Ron Funches summed up the general reaction the next morning after Fox News showed off his deep, funny intrusion into the comedy space. tweet: “Gutfield is being renewed by comedians watching alone.”
Greg Gutfeld – a longtime co-presenter of Fox News The Five known for such outspoken comments as lowering the cost of the war, dismissing clear racism and shamelessly sucking up Donald Trump – had a new 23:00 program on Monday night called Gutfeld! Its title calls on Jeb Bush’s failed presidential campaign and the logo design looks directly like the Garfield comics, as the comedian Tim Heidecker highlighted before the broadcast.
“I’m as dizzy as Kamala Harris laying children in cages,” Gutfeld told viewers at the top of the show. “Or Woody Allen hears about kids in cages.” From there, he presented bizarre ‘parodies’ of MSNBC’s Brian Williams about ‘from the surface of Mars’ (referring to a six-year-old media scandal, how current) and a poorly acted panel in which CNN accused two white people each others of being racist.
Since Gutfeld used his opening monologue to directly attack the big late hosts, against whom he “would compete”, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon accuse them of being essentially a risk-averse, fawb crybabies, and “joke” “that Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers ‘walked away from being obscure together’, we decided to ask real comedians to criticize his ‘comedy’ efforts.
Remarkably absent from the late-night hosts on Gutfeld’s shit list was HBO’s Bill Maher, perhaps because of the sarcastic “New Rules” that every episode of Real time seems to be his biggest inspiration.
Former Daily show producer – and current Oscar nominee for writing Borat subsequent Moviefilm—Jena Friedman immediately recognized the similarities and told The Daily Beast, ‘It’s like watching a man impress Bill Maher through a divorce,’ adding: ‘His Bill Maher impression is not not bad! ‘
“He reminds me of the boss whose jokes you have to laugh at,” she continued. “I did not think it was bad for someone who had never done comedy … just a little bitter and angry.”
“Just because something has the cadence of a joke, does not make it a joke,” said the former Nightly Show author Sasha Stewart added, before also referring to the lukewarm laughter that could be heard in the background. ‘I’m sorry for the five staff members who make up the laughter track. I know they are staff because that is the kind of sharp, painful laugh of someone who is barely paid to be there. ”
Conan author Laurie Kilmartin was reluctant to criticize the “competition” directly, but she tweeted this “promo” for the program before it aired:
And Blaire Erskine, best known for her MAGA mocking Twitter videos, mostly had a lot of questions. ‘Why does he call himself’ GG ‘as if he were someone’s grandmother? she wonders. ‘Why do I feel like he’s reading his telepompter’s opening manifesto for the first time? But more importantly, why is he clinging to a clipboard containing a stack of empty folders?’
Former White House speechwriter Jon Lovett, who wrote some of Barack Obama’s best jokes for White House correspondents and presents his own version of a monologue-style monologue on his podcast each week Lovett or leave it, found some humor in Gutfeld’s assertion that he was doing something “different” than any other Fox show.
‘Like a monologue about bravery to tackle the culture of cancellation. Finally, someone is willing to say at 11 what was also said in 8, 9 and 10. Greg will not be silenced! Lovett told us. ‘The whole thing is pretty embarrassing. Fox News is angry. “But then he added, ‘I approve of all Woody Allen jokes.’
Anthony Atamanuik, van The Presidential Show fame, was likewise stunned by the anti-corporate rant that occupied the second half of Gutfeld’s monologue. “It was a confused scramble with five-year-old reference jokes intertwined in a toothless meandering ‘stand’ against social media and companies shut down with a powerless humorous spurt of self-interest,” he said.
Others were less willing to give Gutfeld the time of day. Reached for comment, former Nightly Show the host Larry Wilmore replies in two words: “No thanks.”
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