{
  "id": 12769479,
  "title": "Michael Kosta Calls Out His ‘Daily Show’ Crowd for Groaning at Morbid Sinkhole Joke",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/michael-kosta-calls-out-his-daily-show-crowd-for-groaning-at-morbid",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T02:34:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TheWrap",
    "slug": "thewrap",
    "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/michael-kosta-calls-out-daily-show-audience-groaning/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "During his \"The Daily Show\" monologue on Wednesday evening, host Michael Kosta experienced a brief interruption when his studio audience reacted negatively to a morbid joke about sinkholes. Kosta was discussing the \"sinkhole pandemic\" highlighted by news footage showing the hazard of old and abandoned mines causing such incidents across the United States. To illustrate this, a reporter mentioned a 30-foot sinkhole swallowing part of a street in South Dakota and other similar incidents. In response to this information, Kosta delivered a sarcastic remark, joking, \"There's a sinkhole pandemic?! I thought the whole job of the ground was to be the ground. What do you mean there's a ground under the ground? What the f–k have I been walking on this whole time?\" This comment momentarily shocked the studio audience, causing them to groan in unison. However, Kosta remained unfazed, playfully asking, \"Your first reaction was to laugh at that,\" which turned the mood around and elicited more laughter from the crowd. He further amused the audience with a witty remark about a Google search for \"miner holes near me\" leading to an FBI investigation. The episode concluded with Kosta's monologue, which aired on \"The Daily Show,\" a weekly show on Comedy Central.",
  "summary": "“Your first reaction was to laugh at that,” the comedian counters The post Michael Kosta Calls Out His ‘Daily Show’ Crowd for Groaning at Morbid Sinkhole Joke appeared first on TheWrap .",
  "key_points": [
    "Kosta's audience groaned at his sinkhole joke.",
    "He responded with playful banter.",
    "Episode aired on The Daily Show."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}