The Hinterland
Rants from the hinterland. Denver writer and pretend anthropologist Dave Cullen's take on the world. May contain gushes of enthusiasm.

Saturday, February 11, 2006


If Ed Helms were funny

Then the Daily Show would be funnier, too.

So many of their great correspondents keep graduating. Which is fine, because they keep finding great new ones, and we get to see the old ones in other things.

But then there's this Ed Helms situation. The show will be rolling amusing along and then Ed appears. And everything grinds to an immediate halt. In theory, his bits are funny, it's just that they're . . . not.

At first I thought he would grow into it, because they often do. They I realized he wouldn't, and they'd realize the mistake they made and move him back to writing or whatever they've done before.

But they seem to be going the opposite way. He's one of the few correspondents they've had without an ounce of humor, yet lately they seem to be using him every other day.

Strange.
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