The Daily, Nightly, Late Night Thread

Welcome back to the all new Daily, Nightly, Late Night Thread.

Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Whitney Wolfe and the panelists on the Nightly Show are Bill Nye, Michelle Buteau and Ricky Velez.

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Whitney Wolfe is the CEO of Bumble and former co-founder of Tinder.

Bumble Is Exactly Like Tinder Except Girls Are In Charge

It’s almost identical to Tinder, complete with the design of the profile pages, settings, and swipe functionality. Within settings, you can see that discovery preferences are just like Tinder, with a slider for age and options to search men, women, or both. Users have no control over distance (with matches being served closest to farthest away. That feature likely has to do with offering as many matches as possible while seeding the app to enough users for distance settings to make a difference.

But there is only one significant thing that separates Bumble from Tinder: On Bumble, girls hold all the power.

Boys are not allowed to send the first message on Bumble. Girls must initiate the conversation with their matches, or else they disappear after 24 hours. The only control the guy has in the situation is the ability to extend one match each day for an extra 24 hours, whispering a Hail Mary prayer that the chosen girl will throw them a bone and send a message.

Wolfe understands better than most that no dating app works without women who are active and engaged on the platform. On Tinder, it’s relatively easy for people to use the app exclusively as a game, swiping left and right on potential matches until their thumbs are sore without any intention of making a connection.

Bumble forces the connection without setting up women to get a ton of unwanted messages from prospective gentlemen.

With same-sex relationships, the app has no rule on who has to message first, whether you’re searching for romance or merely friendship.

Following Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe’s dramatic departure—she sued the company for sexual harassment and published her text conversations with fellow co-founder Justin Mateen as evidence—the 26-year-old hasn’t retreated from the online dating space. In fact she‘s set out to remake the entire premise. (Wolfe and Tinder have since settled their lawsuit, and Mateen is no longer with the company.) Wolfe’s current venture is Bumble, a self-proclaimed feminist dating app where women have to make the first move.

In some ways, Bumble resembles Tinder. Users swipe left (or “no”) and right (or “yes”) on profiles of potential partners. If there is a match, both users are notified. But on Bumble—unlike Tinder or OkCupid—only the women can begin a conversation. In the eight months since its launch, Bumble reports to have ballooned to over 500,000 users, whom the company said spend an average of 62 minutes per day in the app. Perhaps still more impressive: the ratio of women to men using the app, which is just about even—uncommon for this sector. The company also plans to make incorporating L.G.B.T.Q. communities a priority, though it has yet to introduce any particularly innovative features to that end.

Bumble is a free app, though Wolfe said the company is looking at ways to monetize its user base. “Not tomorrow, but not as far as next year,” she said. VF.com chatted with the C.E.O. about what inspired Bumble, what it’s like to date as a millennial, and what is yet to come in the business of digital romance.
Meet the Tinder Co-Founder Trying to Change Online Dating Forever

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If you did not see Larry's takedown of Jeb! and his racist comments, you must. It is really, really good.

.@larrywilmore on Jeb Bush's "free stuff" comment: http://t.co/...pic.twitter.com/yjhOlw9i4y

— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) September 29, 2015

#TONIGHTLY: @BillNye, @MichelleButeau& @RickyVelez talk about the #MarsAnnouncement. 11:30/10:30c on @ComedyCentralpic.twitter.com/WeIUXIk7fb

— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) September 29, 2015

Bill Nye

is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist, and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.

Michelle Buteau

Born in New Jersey to Caribbean parents, comedian/host/performer Michelle Buteau brings a cheeky swagger, unique perspective and big personality to stage and screen. You can catch her co-hosting on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live with Nick Lachey weekdays at 9AM. Michelle has been a staple at VH1 appearing on countless I Love The series, Best Week Ever, where she was nominated for a New Now Next Award, and also played the sassy sidekick on The Jenny McCarthy Show. As a comedian, Buteau has toured the country performing at colleges, clubs and comedy festivals. Her television stand-up appearances include the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Comedy Central and Last Comic Standing. As well as playing Private Robinson on FOX's critically acclaimed series Enlisted, Michelle is also known as 'The Crazy Girlfriend' on Comedy Central's Key & Peele and Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show.

Ricky Velez

Ricky Velez is a stand-up comedian and a contributor to The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central.

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This Week's Guest List

THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, Comedy Central

Tu 9/29: Whitney Wolfe
We 9/30: Gov. Chris Christie
Th 10/1: Ryan Adams

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, CBS

Tu 9/29: Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Dominic Wilcox
We 9/30: John Oliver, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill Withers, Ed Sheeran
Th 10/1: Claire Danes, Secretary of State John Kerry, PewDiePie
Fr 10/2: Morgan Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Sean Murray

CONAN, TBS

Tu 9/29: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ike Barinholtz, Andrew McMahon
We 9/30: Kunal Nayyar, Ed Burns, El Vy
Th 10/1: Starlee Kine, Watkins Family Hour

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC

Tu 9/29: Viola Davis, Michael Pena, Slightly Stoopid
We 9/30: Don Rickles, Ken Jeong, Kelsea Ballerin
Th 10/1: LL Cool J, Kate Mara, Andra Day

THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBC

Tu 9/29: Julianne Moore, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, DNCE
We 9/30: Julianna Margulies, Andy Cohen, John Scofield
Th 10/1: Miley Cyrus, Sam Rockwell, Disclosure
Fr 10/2: Seth Rogen, Victor Cruz, Chvrches

I have a meeting tomorrow evening so I may not be able to list the panelists on The Nightly Show since they have been posting that information in the evening.