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Comedian Michelle Wolf's Netflix talk show,"The Break With Michelle Wolf," will not be returning to the streaming service for a second season.
Deadline reported on Friday that Wolf's Netflix series had been canceled only about three months after its first episode aired. The show's last episode was released on July 29.
Wolf has not yet made a statement about her show's cancellation.
The "Daily Show" star gained widespread notoriety earlier this year after giving a speech during the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner in which she repeatedly slammed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful," Wolf said at the dinner. "But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like, maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies."
Many reporters and public figures found that her comedy bit crossed a line, but Wolf has continually defended herself.
More: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/402443-netflix-cancels-comedian-michelle-wolfs-show
Funtatlaguy
(10,883 posts)Whiny voice
Poor inflection and intonation
Go write for someone like Colbert or Samantha Bee who have excellent delivery.
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)She's never been my favorite - when she was on Seth Meyers I had trouble listening to her. And you identified the reason. Some of Seth's writers can be very funny, but her voice and delivery don't earn her friends, especially if they're already looking for a reason to have issues with what she says...
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)msongs
(67,421 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)And their standard bearer is much tougher to listen to - constantly lying, threatening people and selling out this country. I'd welcome a bad joke, but tyrant already is one.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)bdtrppr6
(796 posts)love the funny, but can't listen to the delivery
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)I canceled Netflix years ago. Terrible company.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Especially the one that pokes at the late night comedy standard formula and the way she goes after the media she is brilliant sometimes having me look at things in a new way.
I don't have Netflix though. I couldn't care less what her voice sounds like.
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Never made it to the second episode.
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)And of course there was the fallout from the Correspondents' Dinner...
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Some of the material was excellent but the delivery was aweful.
If anything the correspondence dinner helped her. It got people like me to actually look the show up to watch and support her. No one upset with anything she did at the correspondence dinner is going to watch or like her anyway. Its her job to keep an audience hooked once they tune in. She clearly wasnt able to pull it of. She has a lot of things going for her and will be just fine.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...but I wasn't enamored with her show - I saw 1 ep and it didn't have me laughing very hard, unfortunately.
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)I like her a lot. She's smart & funny IMHO.
Ponietz
(2,987 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Her show, like Larry Wilmore's, needed time to find its rhythm, get its pace, voice, stride, recurring bits. I hope she gets some good opportunities in the near future.
Netflix are cheap bastards, they have so much crap content they vacuum up and offer the viewers, a zillion dollar profit they gouge from subscribers, and they opt to program cheaply shot stand up shows.
That's like when the networks shifted their programming to reality tv shows, so cheap to produce.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, the various Marvel series, Dear White People, Narcos, Godless these are just off the top of my head, and are all high-budget and high-quality productions that rival anything on network or cable television.
The show in question failed because shes a better writer than presenter. Thats no crime, and her skills are sufficiently well-known and in-demand that her career will survive and she will thrive.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)gulliver
(13,186 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)She is the most powerful when she does live Stand Up.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)It was terrific.
Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)To me, talk shows were always in the category of "disposable television" - they are cheaply made and are something you would watch because you just happen to be home at the time they air and you've judged them to be an adequate time filler - but they aren't something you would ever go to any real effort to see beyond flipping to the channel they were on - watching something on a streaming service seems to me to require more of a deliberate, conscious decision than most viewers have typically afforded to "disposable television" - daytime soaps, game shows, talk shows, etc.
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klook
(12,160 posts)Her voice is part of the humor -- kind of like Gilbert Gottfried's. And she has a kind of conspiratorial smile much of the time that's infectious. I look forward to seeing her in other contexts.