Global Courant 2023-04-25 08:59:29
Comedy central
One of comedian Desi Lydic’s greatest talents is “Foxsplaining” the news to The Daily Show audiences, including the previous bombshell that Trump’s indictment.
So it seemed coincidental that Lydic’s first guest night as host of the show happened to coincide with big news from Murdoch’s empire: Tucker Carlson has been fired of the network, effective immediately.
“You know that stupid look that always appears on Tucker Carlson’s face? Well, today he has a good reason for that,” Lydic said, before going to a clip from CNN where they shared that Carlson had gotten the boot — and that Fox News had only issued a very brief statement on the matter.
Lydic’s first reaction to the news was “wow!” — followed by genuine surprise that a “network so opposed to gender-affirming surgery is just cutting off their own dick.”
While details are still emerging as to exactly what happened, Lydic said she’s pretty confident claiming that Carlson was totally unprepared for his unexpected fall from the conservative pundit’s mercy. A number of reports point to a bovine with Rupert Murdoch – not the Dominion libel lawsuit— as the motivation behind the firing, a fact the Daily Show guest host finds ironic. “Tucker said for so many years that Mexican people were coming to take our jobs,” she says. “Turns out he should have been worried about Australians.”
While the exact reason why Murdoch chose to do away with Carlson has yet to be revealed, Lydic said she hears reports that the media mogul was bothered by some of Carlson’s conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6.
“So let this be a lesson to everyone,” says Lydic. “If you try to overthrow American democracy, you can stay on TV for TWO more years – and that’s it!”
For now, she’s going to focus on worrying about when and where Carlson will show up next, an anchor or something else entirely.
“I’m glad he’s gone,” Lydic said. “But if I’m honest, I’m also a little nervous about what he’s going to do next. You know? It’s like, after that Papa John Dismissed. You just knew he was somewhere working on a pizza that would give you even worse diarrhea.”
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