Daisy Does America

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!

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.

Absolutely speechless. What can be said about a show like this? Nothing comes to mind, I just sit in "aw" and ponder how easy it is to get a pilot passed these days. A failed attempt at humour and most definitely a soon to fail pilot.

I can't begin to express the pointlessness and mindless banter that Daisy talks about. "Who, Who, Who let the dogs out?" I'm sorry, I missed the part where we're supposed to laugh. As awkward as this sounds, the shows puns are without pun. Watching her show is like listening to Lil' john rap, you get all hyped from the beat, but then you realise that all he says is "yyyeeaahhh", "hokaaayy" and " WHHAATT!". One step away from the infamous Paris Hilton - The Simple Life, only without eye candy. Tough break Daisy, I hope you didn't quit your day job.

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.

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!