Conservative commentators have long compared Vice President Kamala Harris to the fictional vice president from the comedy series Veep.
Now some more unlikely figures are making that comparison.
The Daily Show released a video of Harris’s speeches cut together with clips from Veep. “The Veep reboot looks amazing,” the caption said.
The comedy Veep, a comedy about a bumbling vice president who “falls up” into the White House, ran from 2012 to 2019, before Harris’s time as vice president.
Harris says in the video, “When we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community.”
Afterward, the fictional Vice President Selina Meyer says, “Well, we are the United States of America because we are united — and we are states.”
Or is it the other way around?
Take a look —
The Veep reboot looks amazing pic.twitter.com/6qwJdcmFBA
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 3, 2022
The Daily Show panders to a liberal audience, but it still earned some laughs with this video.
One viewer tweeted, “Hilarious! And I love Kamala.” Another viewer commended the series for targeting both Democrats and Republicans. “I did like it better when they made fun of everyone,” he said on Twitter.
Others commented simply to commend the performance of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a television veteran best known for her role as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld.
The Daily Show tweeted this video shortly after announcing the departure of longtime host Trevor Noah.
Noah announced the news himself. Noah surprised the studio audience during Thursday’s taping, dropping the news after discussing his “feeling of gratitude” that it was the seventh anniversary of when he took over for Jon Stewart.
“I realized, after the seven years, my time is up,” Noah said.
In 2015, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart became The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. In the process, it lost it’s remaining prestige.
During Noah’s first year as host, The Daily Show received no Emmy nominations for the first time in 15 years. Since 2018, the series has been racking up nominations again, but it has yet to win.
The series also lost about a third of its viewers during Noah’s first year as host. The show took several years to recover.
In 2020, a magazine writer for The New York Times observed that the rise of Trump coincided with the rise of eight liberal clip shows: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, The Jim Jeffries Show, and The Break with Michelle Wolf.
By the 2020 election, six of those eight shows had been canceled. Now the last holdout — The Daily Show with Trevor Noah — is leaving the air, too.
In other words, every liberal “news satire” show of the Trump era has ended.
Even outside the liberal clip shows, television late-night comedy’s ranks have been shrinking, with Conan O’Brien pulling the plug on his show last year.
Still, Fox News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld — a conservative — has been pulling an unexpectedly large audience in his 11 p.m. timeslot. Some weeks, he pulls more viewers than the network hosts like NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and CBS’s Stephen Colbert.
Neither Noah nor Comedy Central offered a timetable for his departure.
Still, the network said it was “grateful to Trevor for our amazing partnership” and indicated that it was excited “for the next chapter” of “The Daily Show.”
Noah himself said hosting the show has been one of his greatest challenges and joys.
“I wanted to say thank you to the audience for an amazing seven years,” he said. “It’s been wild. It’s been truly wild.”
Like many pandemic-era comedians, Noah found himself suddenly thrust into the challenge of producing a program without an audience.
He said he realized there was more that he wanted to do recently when he was able to travel again.
“I miss learning other languages,” he said. “I miss going to other countries and putting on a show.”
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article.