Some of you are really going to thank me for this. May before last, Comedy Central debuted a new series starring Jordan Klepper called simply Klepper. And you can just imagine how many meetings it took to come up with that.
They'd canceled his previous series, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which I enjoyed but did not consider a great loss. I thought Mr. Klepper was brilliant on The Daily Show, especially in the Jon Stewart years when it was tough to stand out from the herd of brilliant correspondents. But on The Opposition, he tried to do to Alex Jones what Stephen Colbert had done to Bill O'Reilly and the difference wasn't different enough to make it a different show.
So they gave him Klepper and after eight episodes, they took away Klepper. I thought every one of the eight was real good and that he broke new ground as a correspondent who not only reported on social injustices but actually got involved in fighting them. For one of the stories, he even got arrested and in others, he probably put even more of himself on the line. Throughout all eight, he managed to not only be funny but also, given the gravity of some of the topics, appropriately funny.
Klepper came and went with very little notice but I saw all eight…and have been watching them again. Comedy Central has put them all on YouTube…for how long, I do not know. Below, you can watch Episode 1 and here's a link to the entire run. See if you don't enjoy them as much as I did and still do…