Daisy Does America

The premise is apparently supposed to be an English person intrigued with American culture who seeks to learn more and assimilate; (Alistar Cook had such a program). This pile of rubbish (as our English friends might say) is nothing but a contrived one-joke insult to the audience.

Daisy, shamelessly stealing the schtick of her former colleague "Ali G", seeks to find humor in asking stupid questions with a straight face to unsuspecting people (and then wildly mugging for the camera). Example: claiming she wants to become "a star" she is shown walking the streets of Hollywood asking passers by if they can "make her a star". The humor in this is severely constrained by the fact that she is being trailed by a camera and sound crew, making her motives obvious (particularly in LA, home to "reality television". We see her squealing and running awkwardly from some pigs on a hog farm in another episode; (wasn't this scene directly lifted from Paris Hilton's "Real Life"?)

Finding interlocutors with strong and difficult to understand accents, and eccentric organizations to make fun of seems to be the general theme of this lamentable failure of an entertainment program. Daisy did not have to come all the way across the Atlantic to find such victims, but the Arquettes themselves are so out of touch with the US and "regular people" ensconced in their Hollywood redoubt that they are at least equally to blame. Daisy does America? Please don't.

Daisy does America.

Hmmm, let's get a random English woman, send her to various middle-America locations where she'll obviously be out of her element and have her exploit these simple folks who have been exploited before (Daily Show, etc) and are inherently easy to make fun of anyway.

The joke(s) must be in the presentation. Yeah, right.

The forced attempt at humor is painful to sit through. Yet another "reality" show (read : who needs writers) that misses the mark. Donovan is painfully unfunny as...herself(?). Cox and Arquette produced this tripe. Which goes to show if you have the money...you will be indulged.

More low humor served by and for the lowest common denominator.

I had to post this comment in stark disagreement with the negative comment posted. I think "Daisy Does America" is hilarious, and Daisy Donovan delivers a smart and witty performance. If you enjoy watching the correspondent bits in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where an interviewee doesn't seem to realize that the interviewer is poking fun at them, then you'll enjoy this show as well. Daisy does much the same thing in a different context. However, whereas the Daily Show heavily edits their interviews to make them funnier, Daisy pokes the same fun at herself and the people she meets in a seemingly improvisational way.

I have to admit that the previews for the show didn't have me too excited, but once I gave the show a chance I found myself laughing the whole time. Daisy Donovan has been comedy gold in the UK for years, and she delivers just as well in this new show (not to mention that she made FHM's top 100 sexiest women three times which makes for comedy with a pretty face). Fans of British comedy will especially enjoy this show.

I'm not one to complain about TV shows, esp when I have the option of simply changing the channel but this show is absolutely the worst show ever made.

All this show does is play on the stupidity of Americans, they take ordinary (or somewhat eccentric) Americans and put them in awkward and uncomfortable situations while at the same time completely slandering and embarrassing them. Daisy, the "host" of this "show" is completely useless and is more embarrassing to the UK than anything...

Mark these very words you are reading, this show WILL be cancelled by the season's end - it's terrible. Patriot or not, it pains me to even have to watch a commercial for this horrible "comedy" - the only thing Courtney Cox did right was sign on with friends, after that, it's all been downhill.

Horrible, horrible show. WORST EPISODES EVER (simpsons fans you know what i'm talking about).

PS - shaking someone's hand for extended period of time...I mean, HOW IS THAT FUNNY??? Not that TBS is known for winners or anything...

I apologize for being blunt, but if you enjoy watching "Daisy Does America," you desperately need to get out more. Seriously - if this agonizingly untalented woman can be given her own show, you might as well give one to my mom, as well. She's middle-aged, too, and like the show's namesake, frequently embarrasses herself and others in her attempts to be funny.

**An important note regarding the principal reason for this show's blinding, stifling lack of quality:

While most people on here accuse "Daisy" of lifting its premise from "Da Ali G. Show", in actuality this is a shameless CARBON COPY of the very great "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends" on BBC2, albeit stripped of the razor-sharp wit and profound social commentary. Oh, and subbing in a painful-to-watch host in place of Mr. Theroux himself. Rent the source material if you want to see this sort of thing done right.

Anyway, may it be canceled as quickly as it deserves.