I've never even heard of Michelle Wolf until tonight. A little digging tells me she was on The Daily Show and she has a new streaming weekly talk show coming out soon. As with every WHCD I've ever watched, some of the jokes landed but most didn't. It is a room of people who are heavy on ego and thin on skin, so even a good joke isn't going to play well. A brilliant comic is going to struggle to connect with that crowd; Wolf didn't even seem willing to try to connect with the crowd, opting to fire the jokes into the ether. I'm sure the right is going to despise the set, and I doubt the left will go out of its way to defend her.
I have to ask one question. As stated before, I had to pull away from the topical TV comedy shows back in 2016 (I just don't find the mockery of Trump or his cult of Nazis to be funny subjects of humor; they are grotesque versions of the worst aspects of mankind, and I just can't laugh when I think of them). I've watched less than a dozen Daily Shows hosted by Noah, no Sam Bee, none of the Jimmys. I do listen to British political/topical podcasts like The Bugle and BBC's Now Show/News Quiz, but their standard response to any news from Trump's America now is basically some variation of "What the fuck?!" The last of the WHCD performers I saw that unwilling to acknowledge the crowd was Bill Maher (back when he still told jokes), but he's always had a smug style to him so it sort of fit in with who he is as a performer. Wolf didn't seem smug to me, but I don't know her style at all. So my question: Is Wolf indicative of the state of the genre these days? I ask because I am so detached from the genre that I honestly can't rate her performance with any degree of self-confidence. https://youtu.be/lJlWGO5XHPk -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
