Fox News’s ‘comedy’ show with Greg Gutfeld gets universally panned

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I know they’re staffers because it’s the kind of sharp, pained laugh of a person who’s barely getting paid enough to be there.” Jon Lovett, the former speechwriter for Barack Obama, was amused by the claim that the content was going to be different from other primetime shows on Fox News. In a tweet, Frank Lesser, an Emmy-winning writer for The Colbert Report, suggested that Mr Gutfeld is “protesting ‘cancel culture’ by making a show so awful he’ll get cancelled the old-fashioned way.” Comedian Ron Funches tweeted that the show would be “renewed off of comedians hate watching alone”. “It was a confused ramble containing five-year-old reference jokes woven into a toothless meandering ‘stand’ against social media and corporations that concluded with an impotent humorless sputter of self-importance,” he said. just a little bitter and angry.” Other reactions to the show to date include political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen describing it as “offensively, aggressively unfunny”, and MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan noting: “You could literally grab someone off the street at random and they could write funnier material than this.” In response to one clip, film writer and podcaster Scott Weinberg wrote that he “cringed so hard I tore a muscle in my face”.