Jordan Klepper's 'Opposition' canceled by Comedy Central, but new weekly series planned

Comedy Central's latest failed experiment in finding a companion for "The Daily Show": "The Opposition with Jordan Klepper," which the cable network canceled Friday after a nine-month run.

The series, in which Klepper, a former "Daily Show" correspondent, played a bloviating conservative character modeled after pundits such as "InfoWars" host Alex Jones, attracted less than half the audience of Trevor Noah's "Daily Show," and followed the earlier cancellation of "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore," which lasted 19 months in 2015-16. The final episode of "The Opposition" airs June 28.

But Klepper, 39, is not entirely finished with the network: Instead, he'll get a weekly primetime series in 2019 in which he'll shed the "paranoid" persona. The new show will see Klepper on the road, "speaking to real people and addressing issues important to him and to the country," the network said in a statement, "driving the narrative instead of regurgitating it." (Another former "Daily" correspondent, Wyatt Cenac, has a similar show on HBO). 

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“I couldn’t be more proud of the hard working, creative staff of 'The Opposition,' who tirelessly filtered the world through the chaos of America’s fringe," he said in a statement. "Moving forward, I will be leaving 'The Opposition’s' paranoid Jordan Klepper character behind. I figured maybe, right now, the world could use one less (expletive). This new Jordan Klepper guy I know intimately cause I’ve been him for the better part of my life. He’s eager to get into the field, talk to real America and make a (kick-butt) television show.”

Starting July 2, repeats of NBC's "The Office" will fill the 11:30 EDT/PDT time slot, but Comedy says it plans to eventually replace "The Opposition" with another original series.