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Trade News | October 16, 2008 | Comments (25)

Jason Jones and his wife Samantha Bee are the latest to take whatever fame and cred they’ve earned from “The Daily Show” and try to spin it into bigger success. The pair have signed up to create and write a new show for themselves at CBS, an untitled comedy about a celebrity chef and the woman who helps him run the empire of his chefdom.

Can’t say this is a surprise really, as (a) Jones and Bee are funny as shit and (b) they have been noticeably absent from “The Daily Show” of late (and while that’s surely due, in part, to their recent child, I suspected it was also because they were phasing out for an opportunity like this). But they’ll still be missed on “The Daily Show.” Especially Bee because, god damn it, there just aren’t enough funny women on TV these days, although new occasional “Daily Show” correspondent Kristen Schaal is trying her damndest to help fill the void and doing a pretty good job of it.


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Comments

Good for them. It'll be sad when they're gone from the Daily Show, but the more intelligent funny people writing shows, the more likely it is that the term "comedy" will actually meaning funny rather than "a string of cliches set to a laugh track".

Speaking of Daily Show correspondents, I'm developing an industrial strength crush on Wyatt Cenac. He's fantastic.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at October 16, 2008 8:27 AM

So...let me get this straight...they are in works for a rip off of the BBC comedy "Chef!"

Yeah...nice.

How about an open thread, or even a diversion comment about how 80% of the time USA copies of BBC TV shows suck with a nuclear powered turbo charger that's being humped by the f'ing energizer bunny.

Posted by: Chuck B. at October 16, 2008 9:20 AM

So...let me get this straight...they are in works for a rip off of the BBC comedy "Chef!"

Yeah...nice.

How about an open thread, or even a diversion comment about how 80% of the time USA copies of BBC TV shows suck with a nuclear powered turbo charger that's being humped by the f'ing energizer bunny.

Posted by: Chuck B. at October 16, 2008 9:21 AM

They're one of those couples that are just awesome together. Both are cool enough on their own, but the idea of the two combining their coolness just makes me really happy for some reason. It's probably the crushing loneliness and despair in my own life. Also, I like the funny.

Hopefully The Daily Show can find additional solid female talent to add to Kristen Schaal's.

And yeah, Genny, Wyatt is really good, from the little I've gotten to see of the show lately. I dig his dryness.

Posted by: Sycamore at October 16, 2008 9:55 AM

I'm seconding the Wyatt Cenac love. I wish the daily show would use him more... especially in long pieces about old florida jews.

Posted by: soto at October 16, 2008 10:26 AM

Until John Oliver leaves for his own show, I won't be too sad for the Daily Show. However, I must say that the idea of a show about a celebrity chef sounds like it's been done. And that's very disappointing indeed.

Posted by: Audiosuede at October 16, 2008 10:52 AM

I've grown a little weary of John Oliver. He seems to be on MUCH more than anyone else. I personally like Rob Riggle.

Posted by: chad at October 16, 2008 10:59 AM

Didn't they do this show already?

With fucking Emmeril and... Spenser for Hire?!?!?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 11:05 AM

Seriously, I love Jones and Bee, especially Bee (which child do you think is going to be cuter, theirs or Will Arnett and Amy Poehler's?) but I'm still holding my breath for their success.

For every Colbert, Carell (who did the voices of the Ambiguously Gay Duo, if I remember correctly), Helms, Black, Showalter, and Wain we have a Littleford, Rocca, Bakkedahl, and Corddry.

That said, I really hope Sam Bee succeeds if only to show that you don't have to resort to the level of Sarah Silverman's form of arrested development "comedy" for people to consider you funny as a woman.

Posted by: Renee at October 16, 2008 11:17 AM

The Daily Show is a victim of its own success with correspondents. They've had such good ones, who have gone on to such successful other things that they end up getting mined by the soulless wisps of popcorn and money residue that run Hollywood. Colbert and Carrel were on the Daily Show for years. But now that they've got their own shows (and now Bee and Jones are leaving) you just get the impression that John Oliver will be gone within a year of coming on and nailing it.

Hell even Rob Riggle is in beer commercials, and had a bit in Step Brothers. Not that I don't think Riggle is bloody hilarious, but he's been in like one sketch a week for a couple of years. Shouldn't we at least get to be entertained full time for a year or two by a correspondent before the mainstream grinds them up into sweet humorous cocaine and snorts them off Will Ferrel's ass?

Posted by: stipe42 at October 16, 2008 11:53 AM

Didn't they do this show already?

With fucking Emmeril and... Spenser for Hire?!?!?

The words out of my mouth, Slim. You saw it too, huh? I think that was the only episode.

Rob Riggle's finest moment may still be Hambone in "Clell Tickle-Indie Marketing Guru" which is maddeningly hard to find nowadays, but his DNC beer ad is still resounding in my head. Oh and John Oliver's report from Long Island is required viewing.

Posted by: Jay at October 16, 2008 12:12 PM

I saw Jason Jones, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, and Ed Helms doing improv at FIT during the summer. They were great, except John Oliver was a little on the quiet/not-as-creative side. He's great as like THAT HILARIOUS BRITISH GUY, but I can't really see him holding a show together on his own.

Posted by: dene chen at October 16, 2008 2:09 PM

Mo Rocca doesn't get nearly enough real work. A few years ago when they were handing out talk shows like Paris Hilton's pharmacist hands out RU-486, he was sorely overlooked. I would totally watch that show, and not just because he's hot.

Posted by: Geetch at October 16, 2008 5:58 PM

Mo Rocca doesn't care about black people.

Posted by: kanye west at October 16, 2008 7:29 PM

Rob Riggle's finest moment may still be Hambone in "Clell Tickle-Indie Marketing Guru" which is maddeningly hard to find nowadays

Cough.

Posted by: Sabrina at October 16, 2008 7:44 PM

Eeeeeh, Mo Rocca had a show right after he left Daily, "The Smoking Gun Live" (or some shit like that)

IT SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED, in my opinion, his hipster shtick is only good for doing little snippets or little snarky jibes on those VH1 filler list shows.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 7:50 PM

Swear I ain't lyin! All I could find was one with messed up audio sync last time I looked around not too long ago. So thanks!!

I've really gotta ask Ted what actually happened to his head.

Posted by: Jay at October 16, 2008 7:50 PM

I never saw Rocca's talk show but he's still sexy. I'd give him another shot.

Posted by: Geetch at October 17, 2008 1:53 AM

Personally I'd like to see a lot more of Resident Brown Correspondent, Aasif Mandvi. He bags my shit up.

Posted by: amanda at October 17, 2008 6:58 AM

The Daily Show is like The Colbert Report, but for people with no time for originality and laughing and such.

Posted by: ben (thpbt) at October 17, 2008 7:12 AM

Huh?

Posted by: Jay at October 17, 2008 7:20 AM

Jay, you have to ask Ted about his head... in person? Do you know him? Because that would be awesome. I love Ted Leo. And pharmacists in general.

Posted by: Sabrina at October 18, 2008 3:01 PM

Well, only about as well as anyone else he exchanges email with and says hi to at a show. Can't ask the guy to borrow money or anything. I figured they wrote some accident into the sketch, but if not it's a pretty convincing fake.

Posted by: Jay at October 19, 2008 12:31 AM

Interestingly, recent studies have concluded that Krist Schaal is the least funny person that has ever lived, narrowly edging out Goebbels and the entire cast of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Samantha Bee is hilarious though, can't wait for the new show.

Posted by: Apollo at October 24, 2008 7:07 AM

Not sure who Krist Schaal is (some kind of overhyped Champagne, right?), but anyone of a particular male demographic will remember a certain Wendy Schaal...now there's a world class rack! *winks at Slim*

I've also sensed some love going around for Wyatt Cenac, which is a good thing. Seriously, how could anyone accuse God of fucking up in a union of Chris Rock and Barack Obama?

Posted by: Che Grovera at October 24, 2008 7:50 AM