# Who is your favorite Daily Show correspondent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064 "2013-01-23T01:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/1 "2013-01-23T01:49:29Z")
I am only including the current correspondents and contributors (as listed on the [Wikipedia pag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Daily_Show_correspondents)e), otherwise Colbert and Correll would run the table. For the record, Wyatt Cenac is not a current correspondent, his final appearance was on December 13. PTF ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/2 "2013-01-23T01:55:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > For the record, Wyatt Cenac is not a current correspondent, his final appearance was on December 13. What?!?! I love Wyatt! I don’t have a favorite; most can do great. I tend not to like Jason Jones much, same with others in the past. But when any of them are on, yay… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/3 "2013-01-23T02:02:19Z")
John Oliver is my favorite, followed by Aasif Mandvi ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/4 "2013-01-23T02:08:15Z")
I find myself laughing at Mandvi most often. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/5 "2013-01-23T06:27:11Z")
I voted John Oliver, but it would have been a tossup with Wyatt if he were still on. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/6 "2013-01-23T07:06:16Z")
I voted Larry Wilmore. He’s not often on, but when he is, it’s amazing. His schtick is the complete opposite of most of the other corespondents, who tend to play the idiot. Wilmore comes across as at least as smart as Jon, and deals with racial issues as deeply and hilariously as Chris Rock or Richard Pryor. > [@WordMan](#): > > I tend not to like Jason Jones much, same with others in the past. But when any of them are on, yay… He’s often an ass, but he’s had some great lines. [This bit about the Bush administration and torture](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-8-2005/passing-the-torture) is a classic. [QUOTE=Jason Jones] McCain has opened with no torture, any time. The administration has countered that they want to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, whenever they want, with nobody knowing about it. So they’re not that far apart. There’s some wiggle room there. And if you know anything about torture, you do **not** want to spend any time in the wiggle room. [/QUOTE] I love his delivery of this. Just the thought of what sort of torture happens in the “wiggle room” makes me giggle like a fool. Yes, I am a bad person. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/7 "2013-01-23T08:17:06Z")
I voted for Oliver, but Mandvi would have been a fine vote too, both consistently bring the funny. The others are more uneven, though all of them are capable of being hilarious if they hve good material to work with. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/8 "2013-01-23T09:07:10Z")
I have a HUGE crush on John Oliver! If I didn’t already have a partner . . . . . . . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/9 "2013-01-23T10:21:42Z")
If Lewis Black was a regular instead of appearing once in a blue moon, I would have voted for him. But I voted for Oliver. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/10 "2013-01-23T10:27:50Z")
Anyone but John Hodgman, who is the man that comedy forgot. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/11 "2013-01-23T10:29:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If Lewis Black was a regular instead of appearing once in a blue moon, I would have voted for him. But I voted for Oliver. I did despite that. I probably should have gone for Oliver though, now that you mention it Black doesn’t feel like a proper correspondent. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/12 "2013-01-23T14:38:18Z")
Larry Wilmore. He is smooth and funny. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/13 "2013-01-23T14:47:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I voted Larry Wilmore. He’s not often on, but when he is, it’s amazing. His schtick is the complete opposite of most of the other corespondents, who tend to play the idiot. Wilmore comes across as at least as smart as Jon, and deals with racial issues as deeply and hilariously as Chris Rock or Richard Pryor. Me too, and for the same reason. I also bought his book “I’d Rather We Got Casinos”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/14 "2013-01-23T14:48:03Z")
Other than Oliver and Wilmore there are none of whom I’m particularly fond. They need some new blood. I recently read an interview with Mo Rocca in which he was asked would he be willing to return to _The Daily Show_ and he basically said that yeah, if the circumstances were right yadda yadda, he’d consider it. The same day I read an interview with Stewart in which he didn’t single Rocca out but said that there was essentially no love lost twixt him and the Kilborne era correspondents (which included Rocca) who apparently were obnoxious as hell to him and he was not unhappy to see any of them go (and they pretty much all did). It’d be interesting to see the backstage dealings at that show. I have no idea if Stewart’s a diva backstage, though if he is it sure as hell works so I hope he keeps doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/15 "2013-01-23T15:08:19Z")
I wish the show would use its correspondents a little more. Pretty much all of the current cast is pretty good (other then Jason Jones), and Stewart kinda crosses the thin-line between funny comedy monologue and angry old-man rant when he has to fill the whole episode himself. > [@Sampiro](#): > > Other than Oliver and Wilmore there are none of whom I’m particularly fond. They need some new blood. Jessica Williams and Al Madrigal were both hired in the last year, I think, and both are pretty good IMHO. (I think I laughed harder at Al Madrigal’s “that’s why I have such a hard time telling you how to run your Black Panther business” line from a [few weeks ago](http://www.hulu.com/watch/443681#i1,p40,d1) then I have at anything else on the show in the last few months). ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/16 "2013-01-23T15:14:10Z")
I voted for Mandvi, but Oliver is usually good also. I used to love Cenac and Mandvi doing their “Team Jesus/Team Mohammed” debates. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/17 "2013-01-23T15:48:19Z")
Mandvi is the best on the show at delivering the ridiculous lines with a straight face, which makes it that much funnier to me. The rest are funny, but there’s always just a hint that they know they’re being funny, which lessens the impact. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/18 "2013-01-23T16:27:58Z")
I like Bee and Williams most myself 😃 ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/19 "2013-01-24T18:17:26Z")
Jon Oliver, but the one I want most to nail is Olivia Munn. Who we’d want to nail is part of the poll, right? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/20 "2013-01-24T19:16:37Z")
Anyone but Jason Jones. He was in Iran during their uprising and ended up doing jokes about drinking out of the toilet. Can you imagine what Colbert (former DS correspondent) would have done with that opportunity? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064.md?page=2)