Comedy Central's Klepper allows Jordan Klepper's faux a-hole character to try on genuine anger

The A.V. Club

"It’s good TV, and a canny way for Klepper to take his fake conservative blowhard role to a whole new arena," says Dennis Perkins of the former Daily Show correspondent's new series. "And if stunting up the deliberately disingenuous, faux Fox News blowhard character Klepper portrayed so slyly during The Opposition’s short run was all that he had in store, Klepper might have run out of steam before the end of the three episodes provided to critics. (The first episode eventually plays like a slightly too-extended Daily Show human interest segment.) Instead, Klepper finds Klepper stepping outside his old world—literally and figuratively—and marking out some adventurous, often riveting, new territory."

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