We wagered early on that Chocolate News was going to be terrible. Though we'll hate to see David Alan Grier without work yet again, it feels good to be right.

Surprisingly, the Afrocentric fake news show's premiere numbers were relatively large. According to the Nielsen ratings, 2.2 million viewers tuned into the debut episode last week, a million more than had watched the hit Colbert Report's first episode. Now if only Chocolate News' content could keep up with Colbert's.

As we said in our original post on CN, Grier is far too theatrical an actor for his part, that of "Dag," a mouthy, ballsy newscaster out to slaughter sacred cows in the black community. Occasionally he's funny, but most of the time he's just over the top and irritating.

That said, though, Chocolate News' biggest liability isn't Dag. In fact, even if Grier toned down his act, or was replaced with a more appropriate host, CN would still be difficult to watch. That's because, frankly, it's rarely funny. And occasionally, it's downright offensive.

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