# The Daily Show starring ... Rob Corddry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807 "2006-02-10T04:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/21 "2006-02-10T16:46:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Starting later this year, Lewis Black is doing a show called _Red State Nation_. That’ll be a third DS spinoff. Based on what I saw last night, I do think Corddry could eventually be a host of his own show. oh good - I was wondering what happened to him. I alwys look forward to the “Back in Black” segments ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/22 "2006-02-10T16:47:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Starting later this year, Lewis Black is doing a show called _Red State Nation_. That’ll be a third DS spinoff. Based on what I saw last night, I do think Corddry could eventually be a host of his own show. Third? Don’t you mean second? (That is to say, DS was the first show, and Colbert is the first spin-off, and Lewis Balck will be the second spinoff, leaving us with three shows total.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/23 "2006-02-10T18:28:14Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Third? Don’t you mean second? > (That is to say, DS was the first show, and Colbert is the first spin-off, and Lewis Balck will be the second spinoff, leaving us with three shows total.) I see what you’re saying about two coming after one, but Black’s show just _feels_ like a third spinoff to me, you know? That’s where the truthiness is. [Actually I got “third” from **deevee**. Maybe **deevee** already heard about Black’s show.] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/24 "2006-02-10T18:42:40Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > IMO, the guest got genuinely pissed when the clip of the show didn’t show him at all. I didn’t like the chemistry between the two. Other than that, Rob did ok. Nah, there’s no way Arnett actually felt slighted by that, he was just going along with the joke. Will Arnett’s toured with Corddry’s comedy troupe Naked Babies, and they’ve worked together elsewhere. The joke was the host promoting himself over the guest. Arnett knows comedy, and the only way to further that joke is to play the affronted guest. He did a little deadpan. That’s cooperative comedy. Remember, Will Arnett was certainly not there to promote his work on Arrested Development. Anyway, I agree that it fell flat. > [@bouv](#): > > “Is that a fake quetion? Am I suppossed to answer that?” (Or something along those lines.) It was something like: “I decide what my viewers get to hear.” “Is he teasing me, or is he serious about that?” (And then another question, the answer to which was bleeped out.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/25 "2006-02-10T19:01:24Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Nah, there’s no way Arnett actually felt slighted by that, he was just going along with the joke. I agree. Arnett has an interview persona, and he acted the same way on Conan a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/26 "2006-02-10T19:15:11Z")
Overall… not so hot. When Stewart talks to one of the correspondents, he does a good job of playing a genuinely confused straight man, thrown by the absurdity of the corresponent’s comments. Corddry can’t pull this off if he looks like he’s (barely) holding back the impulse to blurt out his own wackiness. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/27 "2006-02-10T19:20:01Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Overall… not so hot. When Stewart talks to one of the correspondents, he does a good job of playing a genuinely confused straight man, thrown by the absurdity of the corresponent’s comments. Corddry can’t pull this off if he looks like he’s (barely) holding back the impulse to blurt out his own wackiness. The problem there is that the segments were written for Stewart’s on-air persona, not Corddry’s. If they had time, they could find a style that worked better for him. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/28 "2006-02-10T19:22:08Z")
I thought he did a great job with the opening. Interview was OK. Best joke: “KWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/29 "2006-02-10T19:23:37Z")
2nd best: last minute of the show checking in with Colbert, who refused to talk to a stand in ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/30 "2006-02-10T19:26:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I just about died during that bit. “Filliam H. Muffman?” Oh God. I couldn’t stop laughing along with Colbert. It was good. And I have always wanted them to do either my congresscritter (Jesse Jackson Jr) or someone from IL–and they did Rod “Smith”! The name alone had me in stitches. It was seriously posited here during the election that he could NOT get elected with his last name…sorry, laughing again at it all. I wish I could see it again. I think I need TiVo. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/31 "2006-02-10T19:30:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Starting later this year, Lewis Black is doing a show called _Red State Nation_. That’ll be a third DS spinoff. Based on what I saw last night, I do think Corddry could eventually be a host of his own show. Where did you see this? A Google search on “lewis black” “red state nation” turned up zero hits. And I don’t see any mention of a show under any other name. I want it to be true, but… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/32 "2006-02-10T19:48:06Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I couldn’t stop laughing along with Colbert. It was good. I had tears in my eyes the first time through, and I watched the rerun just to see him lose it again. He actually started to laugh when he was reading the line off the prompter. The stalkery 80s “Charlene” song was also a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/33 "2006-02-10T19:50:47Z")
> [@deevee](#): > > He’s doing great. Too bad there’s no room for a third spinoff. The Hitler/Anne Frank gag was a tough one to pull off. I heard something this mornign about him starring in a new Fox series. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > I went from accepting to really liking Rob over the past few years. > > He’s an excellent host. I still compare all of the “new guys” to the two Steve’s and still not as good. > [@bup](#): > > I thought he did a great job with the opening. Interview was OK. > > Best joke: “KWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!” I didn’t get it. Is it a “Wrath of Kahn” reference, or dd I miss something earlier in the show? Either way I kind of grimaced at the theatrics. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/34 "2006-02-10T19:55:42Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > Where did you see this? A Google search on “lewis black” “red state nation” turned up zero hits. And I don’t see any mention of a show under any other name. > > I want it to be true, but… That’s because I screwed up the name - it’s _Red State Diaries_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/35 "2006-02-10T20:15:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s because I screwed up the name - it’s _Red State Diaries_. Sounds like the title is a play on Duchovney old Showtime show Red Shoe Diaries. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red\_State\_Diaries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_State_Diaries) Jim ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/36 "2006-02-10T20:17:25Z")
oops: it is. > [@wiki](#): > > Red State Diaries is a TV show starring comedian Lewis Black, being developed for Comedy Central to begin airing in 2006. Comedy Central says it will feature Black on the road exploring the red states for explanations of the subjects of his comedic rants, as featured for a long time on The Daily Show. This will be the second spin-off from The Daily Show, after The Colbert Report. > > The catchphrase title comes from the Showtime series Red Shoe Diaries, a late-night show from the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/37 "2006-02-10T20:29:33Z")
> [@AFAIKnow](#): > > I heard something this mornign about him starring in a new Fox series. > > I still compare all of the “new guys” to the two Steve’s and still not as good. > > I didn’t get it. Is it a “Wrath of Kahn” reference, or dd I miss something earlier in the show? Either way I kind of grimaced at the theatrics. yes - from ST:II WoK - about 2/3rds into the flick, upon realizing the his foe now has him at a distinct disadvantage, Kirk leans back in his chair, shakes his fists at the ceiling and screams \*KAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!! \* ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/38 "2006-02-10T20:31:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s because I screwed up the name - it’s _Red State Diaries_. You didn’t screw it up half as bad as they did. Wait until the legal department finds out that there already is a [blog](http://redstatediaries.blogspot.com/) and a [podcast](http://odeo.com/channel/6934/view) by that name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/39 "2006-02-10T20:53:30Z")
But upthread it says he said, “Kwan”–is this a reference to the Olympics? (if so, Sasha Cohen is probably shitting herself). I think I’m in love with Colbert–but I want to have dinner and \_\_\_\_\_ with Stewart. I bet Colbert could get his epic sci-fi book published now! (can you see him on Oprah? joy!) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807/40 "2006-02-10T21:37:03Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > But upthread it says he said, “Kwan”–is this a reference to the Olympics? Yeah, it was a reference to Michelle Kwan being on the Olympic team even though she missed some of the qualifying events because of injuries. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-starring-rob-corddry/343807.md?page=3)