(since I started watching in 2004)
Stephen Colbert
John Oliver
Rob Cordry
Wyatt Cynac
Ed Helms
Rob Riggle
Wyatt Cenac
Jason Jones
Dan Bakkedahl
Samantha Bee
Olivia Munn.
Special credit to Larry Wilmore and John Hodgeman, who are great, but not correspondents.
No love for Steve Carell or Aasif Mandvi? Both have been on since 2004.
If we’re limiting outselves to 2004-present, I agree with most of your list, but I wouldn’t put Wyatt Cenac on there twice!
I’ve been watching since the Craig Kilborne era, and I liked Beth Littleford way better than Samantha Bee.
My appreciation for Olivia Munn is growing.
I should probably rephrase that.
Can’t rank 'em, 'cause I don’t know all of 'em, but I do have a comment.
Well, I’ve noticed her too, and while her delivery seems a bit shaky in the couple of skits I saw, she seems likeable enough.
Anyway, since I wasn’t familiar with her career, I looked her up on Wiki. This item from her bio cracked me up.
Questioned her credentials. As a fake correspondent on a fake news show.
OK, maybe questioning her status as a comedian instead, but still.
Because The Daily Show is so well known for hiring only hot chicks.
Nobody can top Colbert, which is why he got his own show, but Rob Riggle did a damn good job. John Oliver has been absolutely hilarious with the World Cup coverage, too.
I like your list, although I’d place Samantha Bee dead-friggin’-last, and believe Wyatt Cenac is more of a 4 than a 7. Why’d you list him twice anyway?
ETA: And where’s Mandvi in your list? I’d place him in 7th position.
I like Olivia Munn. I mean yeah, I greatly enjoy looking at her and imagining dirty, horrible things but I actually enjoyed her work on “Attack of the Show.” It’s probably going to take her a little bit to get comfortable.
Hehe, this is neat. The 7th Wyatt Cenac was supposed to be Mandvi.
She just did her first remote piece (as opposed to the bluescreen bits) this past week and did a pretty good job. I can’t argue with her bottom ranking because she’s such a newbie, but she’s got potential and could really play on her other, uh, attributes to real humorous effect.
I’d say:
Colbert
Mandvi
Oliver
Carell
The rest are also-rans, with Samantha Bee possibly being my least favorite.
Larry Wilmore is the Senior Black Correspondent. He doesn’t go out and do reports, but since the show has become well known, all the fun has gone out of them. They used to be about letting people show themselves to be idiots. But all the idiots are on the game. Now the various reporters behave like idiots, which just isn’t that funny.
Larry is the most consistantly funny person on the show after Jon.
The complaint, which is actually a pretty good one, is that TDS didn’t hire a female correspondent for seven years, and when they finally did it was one who had made her name mostly as a sexpot for geeky guys. They claim TDS is a boys’ club and that Munn is just the sort of woman that a boys’ club would hire.
I think Munn’s first few segments have been good, and I think once she finds her voice she’ll be a great correspondent. But I also hope that the show takes the criticism to heart and looks for some up-and-coming female comics and actresses when they hire the next one.
Maybe they could re-hire Beth Littleford and rescue her from those Laughing Cow commercials.
Samantha is hot or not. Sometimes her bits are funny, sometimes cringeworthy. I still like her. Oliver is taking over. He is on almost every day.
Colbert deserves a show of his own.
Cordry, Helms and Riggle are the same .
I like Lewis Black on the show too.
I have seen Munn on" Attack of the Show". I think after a while she will do fine. She allows herself to be the butt of jokes. Few really pretty women can do that.
Of the current batch:
He’s the only one whose appearances consistently add to the comedy. Most of the others leave me impatient for more Jon Stewart monologue time.
Larry Wilmore’s pretty much a one-trick pony. The trick’s amusing, but getting a little frayed around the edges.
Colbert has aways been great, but I can’t stay up late to watch his show. (I thought his skits with Ed Helms were the funniest ever 
)
Jon Oliver is amazingly good. He was already a decent comic in the UK (you can find him on “Mock the Week” and other places on You Tube), and I think he’s gotten eve better in the 'states. He co-presents an hilarious podcast “The Bugle” if you want more of him.
I guess Aasif Mandvi is my next favourite, and the rest have their good and bad nights so it’s pretty mixed up. (I don’t have a “least” favourite").
See, I’d never heard of Munn before she got on TDS, and my first thought on seeing her was not “Woo! Hottie!”
In any case, now this letter from the TDS chicks makes more sense.
No love for Mo Rocca?
I really like almost all of the current correspondents. There was sort of a nadir around '05-07 when Carrel and Colbert left, Samantha Bee started her string of pregnancies and we were left with the Jones and Riggle and the new guy whose name I can’t remember, none of whom were as good as the old staff.
But John Oliver and Asif Mambi are both excellent, and the correspondent segments are worth watching again.
Munn seems funny so far. Complaints that she was hired for her looks would be more compelling if she wasn’t doing a good job,(and I don’t think she’s the only correspondent from a non-comedic background either, Mandvi seems to have come from a traditional acting background (maybe they’re just moving away from having the writing staff over-lap with the on-camera talent)).
Oliver, you mean? 
Racist.
Anyhoo, of the current batch, I guess I’d rank them as:
Jon Oliver.
Sam Bee/Jason Jones (they’re funnier together).
Aasif Mandvi.
Wyatt Cenac.
I’ve only seen Olivia Munn once. Hormonal responses aside, it’s too early to tell.
Colbert’s show seems to be getting more sophomoric and less relevant. He still has moments, but the writing seems desperate at times.