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Michelle Wolf’s new Netflix talk show The Break debuted over the weekend on Netflix, and guess who’s not a fan: that’s right, Fox & Friends! You had that answer ready before you even finished reading that sentence, didn’t you?
No surprise, the hosts of Fox & Friends are still not fans of Wolf’s humor, which they were most likely introduced to during the comedian’s memorable hosting gig at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner a few weeks ago. Wolf drew a lot of criticism for jokes she made about press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Wolf went in on Sanders again in the first episode of The Break.
“Well if anyone’s an expert on hypocrites, it’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” said Wolf in a desk piece on the first episode of The Break. “And for the record, that was not a looks-based joke. That was about her ugly personality. She has the Mario Batali of personalities.”
This observation did not sit well with the Fox & Friends hosts, who called Sanders “one of the nicest people” before devoting a few minutes of their morning to comedy analysis. Co-host Pete Hegseth asked if that was funny, and co-host Ainsley Earhardt responded, “It’s not funny.”
Hegseth knows it’s not funny because he is, admittedly, a “very generous laugher. I wish that was even remotely funny.”
Co-host Brian Kilmeade proved that he knows a thing or two about insult comedy by praising those that can pull it off like the late legend Don Rickles and… Rush Limbaugh?
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“I think if you listen to Rush Limbaugh, even if your’e a democrat, he doesn’t have hate coming out,” said Kilmeade. “He has opposite opinions and a lot of times he does it tongue-in-cheek.” But when it comes to Michelle Wolf, Kilmeade says “there’s no humor, it’s just venom.” If only Michelle Wolf could be as civilized as noted stand-up comedian Rush Limbaugh.
The convo closed out with Earhardt repeating a theory about comedy that she thinks she may have heard Jerry Seinfeld say once. “We’ve heard you’re a good comedian if you can do it without saying sexual stuff. I’ve heard that,” said Earhardt. “In this case, I think you’re a really good comedian if you don’t get political.”
Yeah–why can’t Michelle Wolf just be as apolitical with her comedy as Rush Limbaugh is with his?
(via Mediaite)
