# Wyatt Cenac on WTF: Huge fight with Jon Stewart **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076 "2015-07-24T17:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/61 "2015-07-27T17:24:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Totally disagree. His mom is not owed a relationship from him any more than anyone else is. If she’s being awful toward him–and it sounds like she is–it’s completely reasonable for him to cut her off. There’s nothing petty, hysterical, or immature about ending a relationship with a toxic relative. That’s the thing though, I don’t necessarily buy her being a toxic relative. He has a right to do and engage with whomever he wants, but that doesn’t mean his interpretations and perceptions are correct. Go listen to the Champs podcast he was on. He talks about getting into dust-ups with other people who were being “unfair” to him. Even the idea that he’d pick an anecdote about his parents yelling at him because he was failing all his classes as an example of them being overbearing is kinda ridiculous Not even mentioning the fact that his whole beef with Stewart was after he expressed his disapproval three times, and was basically told they disagreed with him. If you tell your boss you think what he’s doing is wrong on three separate occasions, then basically intimate he is a racist, him cursing you out is FAR more understandable. That’s not to say I can’t see Stewart being a jerk on occasion, but rather that Cenac seems to be a guy, like Maron ironically, that handles situations like that really poorly. Even the idea that Stewart erred in his eyes by not being a more paternal figure or close friend to him is strange. Cenac just strikes me as the type of guy who yells at his parents telling them he didn’t ask to be born. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/62 "2015-07-27T19:16:57Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Since this story really hit the internet in a big way after Thursday’s episode of _The Daily Show_ I’ll be curious if Stewart addresses it tonight. They’ve been pretty good owning up to things they do or say on the show. I’m wondering that as well ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/63 "2015-07-27T19:29:29Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just wait until you hear the truth behind Jim Gaffigan. And what he did with that Hot Pocket that time! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/64 "2015-07-27T22:34:36Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > You disagree with what? I didn’t say that Mandvi isn’t funny. But How he got the job is a publicly known story. He got it because they needed a person with his ethnic and religious background. That’s a fact. > > My point is that on our society today, minorities and women who are perfectly qualified for a job are way less likely to be hired unless you intentionally set out to hire them. > > There are way too many societal and cultural weights favoring hiring of white men in all kinds of professions to pretend you can apply some sort of color-blind criteria in these kinds of situations and end up with equality. Sorry - misunderstood. Yes, I recall his story about how he ended up on The Daily Show. He’s funny, too, fortunately! Your other point is valid. As an old, straight white guy, it has been fascinating to see the beginnings of this hearing other voices. Good to see. Change is hard for macho-type cultures like the U.S.'s. This will be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/65 "2015-07-28T01:57:52Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > What I suspect is that The Daily Show has a focus on hiring reporters that are not white men. I would personally prefer if they hired whoever is funniest, and I suspect this is not what they do. If it was, I don’t think they would’ve hired Olivia Munn and Jessica Williams. I’m also skeptical about that new guy Noah, but we will see. I still think they would’ve hired Cynac though, for instance, or Aasif Mandvi. See, if I were to suspect that someone got hired on to the Daily Show just to fill out the demographics, Cenac would be my first guess, not Williams. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076/66 "2015-07-30T12:48:06Z")
If you want to seek offense from Stewart’s impressions it’d be his portrayal of Lindsey Graham as a stereotypical gay Southern belle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wyatt-cenac-on-wtf-huge-fight-with-jon-stewart/726076.md?page=3)