Comedian Whitney Cummings is no stranger to late-night TV, having logged appearances over the years with everyone from Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Conan O’Brien to Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, but Wednesday night marked her Daily Show debut—and she made it not as a guest but as a contributor.
Introduced by this week’s host Desi Lydic, Cummings took over the show’s“In My Opinion” desk for an extended commentary aimed squarely at liberal voters—and their tendency to demand ideological and personal perfection from Democratic presidential candidates.
“I’m here to talk to you as a liberal,” Cummings announced, acknowledging that her politics have sometimes been misread. “Some people think I am right wing. Just because I look and sound exactly like Kimberly Guilfoyle. But I am a liberal.”
From there, Cummings launched into a wide-ranging—and characteristically acerbic—tour of the 2028 Democratic field, urging voters to lower their expectations or risk worse outcomes. “We’ve got to look past some of these things,” she warned. “Because the alternative could be pretty terrible. We could have President Squidward.”
Over the course of more than seven minutes, Cummings took aim at several familiar political figures, skewering Senator Cory Booker (“He’s like the Skechers of candidates”), poking fun at Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s fondness for elaborate costumes, and ribbing Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro for sounding like he’s doing a Barack Obama impression.
The throughline of the segment was less about any one politician than about voter psychology. “No one candidate is going to check all the boxes for us,” Cummings argued, likening modern political engagement to dating apps. “If you keep holding out for Mr. Right, we’re going to end up with Mr. Alt Right.”
Cummings closed by reframing compromise not as surrender, but as survival—delivering the final line with a wink. “Maybe we all stop approaching politicians like we’re looking for a soulmate,” she said, “and approach them more like we’re on Grindr.”
Past installments of The Daily Show‘s “In My Opinion” segment—a sort of celebrity op-ed spot for the show—have featured the likes of Charlamagne tha God, John Leguizamo, Leslie Jones, Laverne Cox, and Nick Offerman.
Watch Cummings’ entire Daily Show appearance at the top of this post.
she’s terribly unintelligent and hopefully this will be a one off, and hopefully was not determined by Paramount execs
+1
Her delivery sucks but at least she’s an awful person.
Wow, how could the Daily Show fall so far? She is the enemy within!
This sucks so much