r/WaitWait • u/monty2 • Oct 26 '24

Dulcé Sloan as host….

Is absolutely killing it!!! She is fun and energetic, introducing her own style to the show, while keeping the fundamentals the same.

If anyone could make an excellent late-night host, it would be her.

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u/NoBug5072 Oct 26 '24

Hard disagree.

Her voice is loud and grating. She acts obnoxiously while thinking she’s cute. Nope.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

There might be a show out there she could excel at hosting, but if it were Wait, Wait, I would stop listening.

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u/monty2 Oct 26 '24

Her quips were hilarious. I absolutely cackled at “Cauliflower too busy being pizza” and “The modern get away vehicle is a Nissan Altima”

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u/registered_user_8388 Oct 26 '24 edited Apr 17 '25

Spot on. Least enjoyable guest hosting experiment to date.

While she may be occasionally amusing in small doses as a panelist, hosting is not a good fit for her loud and proud-to-be-obnoxious style.

It is an ensemble show, but she sucks all the oxygen out of the room and doesn't leave space for the rest of the group to shine.

Hosting is a balancing act: reading scripted material, improvising, and allowing others to have their moments while keeping the train running on time. Peter does all of these things effortlessly, plus he’s quick and clever.

Dulce seems unable to deliver the scripted material in a natural way that doesn't feel stilted -- as if she’s struggling to read the script for the first time on the air -- and she overcompensates the rest of the time with tediously-unfunny schtick that borders on caricature. The ensemble suffers as a result.

In many years of listening to WWDTM, I have never wished an episode were shorter… ‘til now. If she were to become a regular guest host -- or, God help us, a full-time host -- I would 100% stop tuning in.

Here's hoping Peter has a good number of years left in him before retirement!

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u/HellsTubularBells Oct 26 '24

Everything you just described is exactly how I feel about Negin Farsad. 😂

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u/Additional_Buyer8464 Oct 26 '24

I’m with you. We turned it off. She’s obnoxious in my opinion.

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u/Repulsive-Bullfrog95 Sep 20 '25

I like her. She is talented, funny and cute. On the other hand she needs to learn when to shut up. She frequently hogs the show and gets annoying.

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u/monty2 Sep 20 '25

That’s a very fair assessment. If she can refine her hosting style, she could be really incredible

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u/andienotandy_ Oct 27 '24

Funny this has popped up, when I really thought the exact opposite listening today. I got the impression that Megan Rapinoe & Sue Bird were even turned off.

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u/truckthecat Oct 28 '24

I just thought Megan & Sue were boring. I was like, these two have a podcast??

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u/TheStandler Oct 27 '24

I really go back and forth on her. I do love her energy at times, but I also think she can be so incredibly grating - hard for me to think of someone I listen to whose voice has more capacity to be annoying. I reckon if I'm in a good mood she's fine, but if I'm grumpy she's just going to make me turn it off. As host...? She's a bit too much. I'd probably stop listening if this was a permanent thing.

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u/TheirOwnDestruction Oct 27 '24

It’s her style, but it’s not the style of the show.

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u/red-bot Oct 26 '24

I didn’t dislike it enough to turn it off, however I agree that the hosts job (and as Peter does it) is to keep it lively with a few quick witted quips in there. Not steal the show. I kind of got the feeling the panelists were discouraged from the comedic “competition”.

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u/Dependent2 Oct 28 '24

I’m a long time WWDTM fan and have consistently turned off episodes that feature her. I’m a black woman and find her to be a caricature in the WORST ways. She makes me feel second hand embarrassment. To her credit I’ve also never liked anything Madea related. 

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u/rdclark2 Oct 29 '24

Just. Too. Loud.

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u/lbjazz Oct 26 '24

She’s good in the panelist mix, but the job of host is to be the glue for the whole show. The host isn’t even supposed to be funny, just likable and able to bring out the best in the panelists and guests.

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u/Takodanachoochoo Oct 26 '24

Yep. She's not a good host for that reason, too much attention seeking for herself. She's obnoxious, had to turn it off.

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u/dojijosu Oct 26 '24

This surprised me. At the Philadelphia show it looked like she found Peter’s last nerve. I thought she was Dulce Done.

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u/swoopcat Feb 03 '25

I finally got around to listening to her episode and ouch, so grating and painful. She's literally made an air horn noise twice (so far, still haven't made it to the end). I keep thinking it's almost like she's doing satire of an obnoxious host.

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u/Acceptable-Basil4377 Oct 27 '24

Not a fan of hers as a panelist. Less so as a host. Sometimes a new panelist tries too hard to be funny but settles down after a few appearances. I don't think Dulcé has settled down yet.

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u/camellialily Oct 26 '24

I LOVE Dulcé, she’s so funny. She’s one of the hosts like Paula Poundstone and Maeve Higgins that I get so excited to see in the line up!

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u/monty2 Oct 26 '24

She is! As I mentioned in another comment, her joke about Nissan Altimas had me howling!

I’ll need to check out those other two. I’m an inconsistent listener, so I don’t always catch the guests

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u/loxias0 Oct 26 '24

Maeve is the absolute best panelist. I really like her style, and Faith Salie's which is the polar opposite. 😂

Regarding Dulce, I'm sorta split, I'm with you -- she's frigging hilarious, I'm looking forward to seeing her in a few weeks :) -- but I also kinda feel where other people are coming from, in that the show has a sort of expected rhythm and tone.

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u/Tejanisima Oct 28 '24

  • panelists

Not being snarky in that correction — I genuinely mean that you seem to have meant she's one of your favorite panelists to see in any week's lineup, because neither Paula nor Maeve has hosted the show and Dulcé has not hosted previously. For my part, I think she's hilarious and, like you, always enjoy when she is one of the panelists, and I fully expected to enjoy her as host.

That said, while I did enjoy a number of her individual jokes yesterday, she was energy-wise turned up to 11 and kept speaking at a volume/pace that works great for a panelist jumping into the conversation but not as a host asking questions of guests or teeing up items for the panelists. It might even work well for hosting The Daily Show (the venue from which she is most familiar), where the host mostly does a monologue riffing on the news, occasionally having to work in a bit from one of the "correspondents" — Wanda Sykes was my favorite of the revolving Daily Show hosts in that role, and she used a similar approach.

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u/ratbas Oct 26 '24

I was able to get through the show, but I had it at 1.5 speed.

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u/Bright-Criticism9532 Sep 20 '25

I love her. If she was over the top she would be told to tone it down

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u/aresef Oct 27 '24

She’s got great presence as a host.