DL Hughley Will Host New CNN Show

Don't you just love it when unlikely black folks infultrate into the ranks of the "higher ups"? I do! And I really like this news because I love CNN. Anyways, Comedien D.L. Hughley is set to host a show that will offer a slightly skewered take on the worlds news and events.

If you watch Comedy Central then you would know what this will entail. Like Jon Stewart or even Stephen Colbert, D.L. will incorporate his comedic side into what ails our country. CNN is taking a chance by diving into the increasingly crowded arena of news-driven comedy. The show, set to air on Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET beginning Oct. 25, will feature Hughley and guests riffing on politics, entertainment, sports and pop culture.

For sure this is a move made by CNN to gain approval with the younger audience who as of late, have been getting more of their news from "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" than they do from mainstream news outlets. The Show will include one-on-one interviews with newsmakers and the reporters covering them.

"D.L. is a very thoughtful, well-informed guy with unpredictable views, and I’ve always admired his comedy," said CNN/U.S. prexy Jon Klein. "The basic premise of the show is, what if a guy like him was let loose in the CNN building for a weekend after the lights went off?" Klein said CNN could not release the name of the show yet.

While Comedy Central has two dominant players in the news-laffer genre — "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" — Klein said the new CNN skein will be different. "Daily" and "Colbert" are "fake newscasts, whereas this is really D.L.’s observations and comments on the week’s events and his riffs on the news," Klein said.

"I’m a big fan of both of those shows," Hughley said, "but I’ve got a different skill set. I’m not going to parody a news show or a news anchor. My show will reflect my views on things just as their shows reflect their views. For instance, as Hughley continued, "There have been six movies with a black man as the president, and in all those movies, the world was coming to an end. If this election isn’t art imitating life, I don’t know what is."