# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/21 "2013-01-24T19:17:45Z")
I rarely watch the Daily Show, but I loves me some Lewis Black, so I came in here to skew the results. 🙂 Hodgman, on the other hand, should be hosting a US version of QI. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/22 "2013-01-24T19:26:04Z")
Another vote for Mandvi, “Senior Foreign-Looking Correspondent”. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/23 "2013-01-24T19:30:47Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > 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. > > 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). I figured Oliver would get the most votes, so I wanted to give Madrigal some love, based almost solely on the segment you linked to. I find Jessica Williams pretty horrible, though. ---
**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, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/24 "2013-01-24T20:06:43Z")
Is Larry Wimore the Senior Black Correspondent? If so, he is very funny and razor sharp in his observations. I can’t remember the last time I saw him on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/25 "2013-01-24T20:23:33Z")
I would probably call it a tie between Mandvi and Oliver, but since Oliver is running away with this thing I’ll vote for Mandvi. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/26 "2013-01-24T20:37:41Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Is Larry Wimore the Senior Black Correspondent? If so, he is very funny and razor sharp in his observations. I can’t remember the last time I saw him on the show. Yeah, he was on in the last two weeks. He appears slightly more often than Lewis Black. From [his Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wilmore), he’s an award-winning writer and producer, so it’s not like the Daily Show is his only gig. I get the impression he calls the show when he has a great idea, which would substantially raise his batting average. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/27 "2013-01-24T20:40:25Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I figured Oliver would get the most votes, so I wanted to give Madrigal some love, based almost solely on the segment you linked to. I find Jessica Williams pretty horrible, though. It takes a while for the new folks to settle in and for the writers to learn their strengths. Olivia Munn’s first appearance was dreadful, as was John Oliver’s. The worst of them are better than 90% of the performers on any given season of SNL. ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/28 "2013-01-24T20:58:07Z")
My all-time favourite correspondent moment was when Samantha Bee went to the Al-Jazeera International studios and got the female co-anchor to identify herself as “Peppermint Gomez”. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_Cello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/29 "2013-01-24T22:03:36Z")
I voted for Mandvi, but Oliver is right up there with him, maybe above him. I don’t find Jessica Williams that funny, but I do find her attractive for some reason. I am surprised at the lack of votes for Jason Jones. I think he is pretty good, about on par with his wife. I think that he does have the same problem that Rob Corddry used to have. I thought Corddry could be hilarious, but too often he would think “This would be hilarious if I pretended to give this guy a blow-job”. After 7 or 8 times, the joke begins to lose its charm. Jones has some of the same instincts. ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/30 "2013-01-24T23:00:46Z")
Jones and Bee are funnier when they’re in the segment together, as was the case when they played a white-trash couple being visited by a census taker. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/31 "2013-01-27T02:21:14Z")
Al Madrigal is probably my current favorite in terms of his on-show performance, but I’m a big fan of John Oliver more generally. His podcast, The Bugle, is one the highlights of my week. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/32 "2013-01-27T12:59:36Z")
I wanted to vote “Anyone but Samantha Bee” - she annoys me to no end every time I see her. Instead I went with Aasif, but it was tough because I really like most of them. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/33 "2013-01-27T22:03:43Z")
Yeah, I decided Lewis Black didn’t count, so I didn’t vote for him. I must say I am saddened by this lack of love for Jason Jones. When I saw the thread title, there wasn’t a second of hesitation before my brain shouted out “Jason Jones.” His coverage of the RNC? Classic! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/34 "2013-01-27T23:23:01Z")
Kristen Schaal left the show. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/35 "2013-01-27T23:24:52Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > John Oliver is my favorite, followed by Aasif Mandvi flip that and you have my two favs ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/36 "2013-01-27T23:34:28Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Olivia Munn’s first appearance was dreadful, . Yeah that was disappointing. Munn can be very funny, and I was looking forward to it when I heard she joined. But all the three times or show she was on were excruciatingly awkward and unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064/37 "2013-01-27T23:39:23Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > 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. > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Larry Wilmore. He is smooth and funny. Another vote for Wilmore, who, coincidentally, can also deliver the deadpan humor brilliantly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-daily-show-correspondent/648064.md?page=1)