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It's not fair to expect Buress to be able to flex his strong weird-sleepy-literalist game this way in every sketch. If the rest of the sketches fell occasionally flat, they did show a way forward. The execution on his fake audition tape for host of The Daily Show relied too heavily on the absurd ("In other news: Barack Obama addicted to edamame… that's more interesting than ISIS." Actually, it's really not at all). But there were other moments where he captured Jon Stewart's hunchy, self-serious body language perfectly. He ended that sketch saying, "Why am I even doing this? There's no chance you're going to give this show to a black dude." It's a nice reference to the fact that, with Trevor Noah incoming, almost all of Comedy Central's major shows at the moment are actually headed by minorities or women.
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