https://www.thedailybeast.com/ziwes-talk-show-is-beating-the-jimmys-at-their-own-game

"As celebrities become increasingly desperate to brand themselves as good people, the talk show stage has become a space to virtue signal in an uncritical spotlight, buoyed by Jimmy Fallon’s repetitive signature cackle, James Corden’s exclamatory interruptions, or, until recently, Ellen DeGeneres’ well-documented faux kindness reserved only for important celebrities in an otherwise highly toxic work environment," says Veronica Phillips. "Ziwe (https://www.tvtattle.com/shows/ziwe) is a breath of fresh air, an antidote to the draining talk show cycle. Ziwe is not the first show to satirize talk show aesthetics (the nihilistic, tortuous The Eric Andre Show, running now for six seasons, comes to mind immediately), but Ziwe’s polished sheen and its similarities in form to more traditional talk shows (the nice set, the weird thematic games, the sketches, songs, and opening monologues that center Ziwe as our host and guide) run parallel to, and more obviously skewer, what can be so exasperating about the various cookie-cutter talk shows of right now."