Comedy Central Cancels The Opposition, Will Air New Jordan Klepper Weekly Series Next Year

It's the second short-lived 11:30 p.m. ET show since The Colbert Report signed off in 2015

Comedy Central is heading back to the drawing board again as it searches for an 11:30 p.m. ET companion to The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.

The network has canceled The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, which will end its run in two weeks. The show, which just debuted last September, satirized hyperbolic alt-media outlets like Breitbart and Infowars. Klepper played a fictionalized version of himself, a character he described last summer as “a know-nothing provocateur who fights for the common man … Alex Jones meets Garrison Keillor.”

However,

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