Daily Show Asks: You Wouldn't Trust The NBA, So Why Trust Pro-Lifers?

Posted • June 16, 2024: Even by the standards of late night comedy, The Daily Show’s Grace Kuhlenschmidt is painfully unfunny. On Thursday’s episode on Comedy Central, she joined temp host Jordan Klepper to do her usual routine of playing an overly excited dumb woman who needs to be told what to do by everybody from the NBA to NASA in a ham-fisted attempt to satirize pro-lifers. The backdrop for the segment was the Supreme Court unanimously ruling that a pro-life group does not have standing to sue the FDA over mifepristone and the Southern Baptist Convention formally voting to oppose IVF. Klepper suggested, “That is a lot to process in a single day. Women must be feeling pretty overwhelmed.”

Kuhlenschmidt pretended to be overjoyed with the news, “Are you kidding? This is my dream! I get to wake up every day and get told what to do with my body by a random group of people I've never met. If anything, they don't give me enough rules.” (…)

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