Actual Comedians Roast Greg Gutfeld’s New Fox News ‘Comedy’ Show
The morning after Fox News premiered its deeply unfunny foray into the late-night comedy space, comedian Ron Funches summed up the general reaction by tweeting: “Gutfield gonna get renewed off of comedians hate watching alone.”
Greg Gutfeld—a longtime co-host of Fox News’ The Five who is known for such edgy commentary as downplaying the cost of war, dismissing obvious racism, and unabashedly sucking up to Donald Trump—premiered a new 11 p.m. show Monday night called Gutfeld! Its title evokes Jeb Bush’s failed presidential campaign and the logo design seems to directly resemble the Garfield comics, as comedian Tim Heidecker highlighted ahead of the broadcast.
“I’m as giddy as Kamala Harris explaining kids in cages,” Gutfeld told viewers at the top of the show. “Or Woody Allen hearing about kids in cages.” From there, he presented bizarre “parodies” of MSNBC’s Brian Williams reporting “from the surface of Mars” (referencing a six-year-old media scandal, how topical) and a poorly acted mock-CNN panel in which two white people accused each other of being racist.
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