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The 25 Funniest Fictional Talk-Show Hosts
Featuring a glamorous talking pig, an intergalactic superhero, an Emmy-winning actor (surrounded by ferns), and more than one podcaster.
Over the course of their 2007 SuperDeluxe web series Tim and Eric Nite Live!, they announce celebrity guests and topics that rarely arise, summon George Bush back from the dead to win Super Tuesday, air an agonizing writers’ room meeting, and hire a therapist who overstays his welcome in the grand tradition of Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. She excels at baiting guests, from Phoebe Bridgers to Chet Hanks, to talk themselves into cancellation with questions such as, “What’s your favorite race?” “How often do you compare yourself with the most powerful Black woman in America?” And, “Would you rather have world peace or diversity?” It only made sense for Ziwe to guest-star on Succession as host of The Disruption With Sophie Iwobi, a much-needed foil to Kendall Roy’s sudden interest in allyship. Instead of hand-holding each guest, André asks Raven-Symoné about working with Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson, reminds Mel B about Margaret Thatcher’s “girl power” funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland, and poses to billionaire Mark Cuban that unregulated capitalism exacerbates imperialism.
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