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07-26-2017, 10:42 PM
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jordan-klepper-daily-show-tca-1202506132/
‘Daily Show’ Alum Jordan Klepper Says New Comedy Central Show Is ‘Alex Jones Meets Garrison Keillor’In 2005, Comedy Central premiered “The Colbert Report,” in which Stephen Colbert of “The Daily Show” took on Fox News with a character who was shared a name with his creator but was a parody of the flag-waving, right-facing primetime hosts on the cable news network.
More than a decade later, Comedy Central is taking a similar swing at the emerging alt-right news ecosystem.
Speaking at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Jordan Klepper (http://variety.com/t/jordan-klepper/), who will host Comedy Central’s upcoming “The Opposition With Jordan Klepper (http://variety.com/t/the-opposition-with-jordan-klepper/),” described the show as a vehicle built around a faux alt-right host, taking cues from outlets such as Infowars, Breitbart News, and The Blaze.
But the show will not be a targeted shot at Infowars’ Alex Jones, one of the most outrageous figures of the alt-right media.
“We’re inspired by the points of view of these alternative media sources, but I think I’m going to pull my character from a handful different points of view,” Klepper said. “I’m a Midwesterner, and I have a different tone and a different sensibility. So I like to see myself as Alex Jones meets Garrison Keillor.”
That character, he said, will be “a heightened version of myself—a character, somebody who is a know-nothing provocateur who fights for the forgotten man. I may at times also forget that man. But I will remember him and try to sell him supplements that are made in China.”
‘Daily Show’ Alum Jordan Klepper Says New Comedy Central Show Is ‘Alex Jones Meets Garrison Keillor’In 2005, Comedy Central premiered “The Colbert Report,” in which Stephen Colbert of “The Daily Show” took on Fox News with a character who was shared a name with his creator but was a parody of the flag-waving, right-facing primetime hosts on the cable news network.
More than a decade later, Comedy Central is taking a similar swing at the emerging alt-right news ecosystem.
Speaking at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Jordan Klepper (http://variety.com/t/jordan-klepper/), who will host Comedy Central’s upcoming “The Opposition With Jordan Klepper (http://variety.com/t/the-opposition-with-jordan-klepper/),” described the show as a vehicle built around a faux alt-right host, taking cues from outlets such as Infowars, Breitbart News, and The Blaze.
But the show will not be a targeted shot at Infowars’ Alex Jones, one of the most outrageous figures of the alt-right media.
“We’re inspired by the points of view of these alternative media sources, but I think I’m going to pull my character from a handful different points of view,” Klepper said. “I’m a Midwesterner, and I have a different tone and a different sensibility. So I like to see myself as Alex Jones meets Garrison Keillor.”
That character, he said, will be “a heightened version of myself—a character, somebody who is a know-nothing provocateur who fights for the forgotten man. I may at times also forget that man. But I will remember him and try to sell him supplements that are made in China.”