Daisy Does America

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 have to say that I think this show is extremely funny. When I was watching the one where she was showing dogs I was laughing so hard I was crying. Maybe the humor is "stupid" but I find it refreshing to see a WOMAN who can make you laugh and who isn't afraid to make an ass out of herself in the process. I like the very laid back stupid humor. I have to watch show after show and movie after movie of men acting like immature idiots. Lets see the women step up and be funny without being bitchy or bossy the way Daisy does. She seems like she would be a fun person to hang out with. It seems to me like she is making fun of the people she encounters as much making fun of herself in an non hurtful way. I think she would be a fun person to hang out with and I cant say that about most of the people I see on these other shows. And heres something, if you don't like it change the channel!

After being forced to view months of trailers for this new show by the Arquettes, I swore never to watch it out of principle. However, tonight (too sick to get up and find the remote!) I caught the "beauty contest" and "dog show" episodes. This show is very simple in concept, but it works because Daisy is so endearing. Some viewers object to the show because they feel it exploits everyday, unsuspecting people. The humor is in how they react to her. No one will tell her if she is making a complete ass of herself! Hilarious! Daisy comes across as being sincere and enthusiastic, so sometimes it's hard to know when/if she is being sarcastic. Very dry, very British, it's great stuff!

If the Arquettes thought this show would appeal to the general public, then it's obvious they are completely out of touch. There is nothing funny or clever about ridiculing country folks or inner city kids for a cheap laugh. Daisy exploits these peoples' good nature as they welcome her into their communities to help Daisy achieve her bogus American "dream."

Daisy (and her producers) say that she's not afraid to embarrass herself, when it's obvious from watching the show that she is trying to make her guests look stupid with her attempted behind-the-back sarcasm and ridicule. Nevertheless, the Arquettes, Daisy, and TBS are the only ones being humiliated.

That being said, Daisy is just not very funny either: shaking some guys hand for five minutes, bugging her eyes at the camera, and running around like a lost child. None of that is original or very funny. Her dry attempt at slapstick humor would make the Three Stooges (and Benny Hill) cringe.

Maybe Daisy would be funny in another setting, but the whole premise of this show is offensive and definitely NOT funny.

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.