FOX Takes back Teh Funny
Special FOX News Alert Post
On Sunday, FOX News unleashes what it hopes to be The Daily Show for right wing nutjobs, titled The 1/2 Hour News Hour. FOX News must not have a lot of hope for the show, because I can't even find a link to it on their site.
But I did find a teaser on Youtube:
What's to like: BO Magazine is kinda funny. Because, you know, he's a smelly black man. Haha! Too bad the fake stories inside aren't funny at all. I mean, "Things I hope to Accomplish Someday?" Maybe you have to be old and white to laugh at that. Personally I'd have gone with "Barack's Malt Liquor and KFC In Every Pot Policy" or "First Ho!" There's plenty more where that came from. Call me, FOX! /em pinky-thumb telephone motion
What's not to like: What, they couldn't find a Jew to host? Dear god, the Zionists really are losing control of the media.
Segments to expect:
- Zany subtle yet over the top explanations from Resident Expert Ann Coulter, who thinks she's on the real news. High-larious!!
- Senior Black Correspondent Colin Powell gets no applause, only uncomfortable throat-clearing.
- "This Week In Gloria Steinem" will leave you in stitches. Abortion stitches.
- When news falls through the cracks, Sean Hannity will tell it to pick it's goddamn lazy fucking self up you worthless welfare bum sonofabitch!
Survey says: Conservatives will pretend to love it. Liberals will smugly enjoy the fact that the Conservatives have to pretend to love it. Look for a major news outlet (*ahem*) to pick up a fake news item as the real thing within weeks.
Please FOX, never change!
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February 17th, 2007 at 10:03 am
They don’t need to link to it on their own site when every liberal site advertises it for them. It’s like some crazy reverse marketing experiment: showing it to the reverse of the target audience and hiding it from people who might actually like it.
They’ll need to add a new part to the Nielsen ratings: “Are you only watching this show ironically?”
February 18th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Please tell me that I’m just sleepy and missing the inside joke? Trying to make a second ‘Daily Show’ but for conservatives is a bad idea. Humor only works when it’s not forced, and this would be forced.
“What’s your show pitch?”
“It’s like the Daily Show but with 100% less liberal in it!”
Then again, Comedy Central is copying fox when it comes to the Colbert Report. Liberals aren’t very original either…
February 18th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I just finished watching the show, and it was worse than I could have possibly imagined. Honestly, I think this is the first time I can truly say I was embarrassed for FOX News. Nothing good comes of an intro with Rush Limbaugh as the President, and Ann Coulter (who called it? Amber called it!) as the Vice President. And then there were the fake PSA’s about the ACLU, which could only be called comedy because they were accompanied by a laugh track loop.
You’re absolutely right Grimwell, it’s completely forced. And what the creators of the FOX show don’t seem to understand is that The Daily Show succeeds not because it’s a “liberal” comedy show, but because it’s a comedy show. If you’re a politician and you say/do something funny/stupid/insane, your political affiliation doesn’t matter, Stewart is going to nail you. (And Colbert proves that you can copy and be funny, but the comedy has to come first.)
In any case, the show just wasn’t funny. It was abominably bad, all the way down from the writing to the production values. I’m surprised that FOX gave it the go-ahead in its current form. It should have been sent back and completely re-tooled.
Here’s how bad it was: they used a laugh track even though they had a live audience. That’s gotta hurt.
February 19th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I’m glad I didn’t watch, nor will I after that resounding thumping!
February 21st, 2007 at 4:40 am
Thanks for “taking one for the team” and sitting through that show so the rest of us don’t have to. It was painful enough for me to watch the trailer I will continue to get all my news from Stewart and Colbert.
February 24th, 2007 at 8:39 am
The most basic rule of good comedy is that it must be based on reality. How many times have you said, or heard, “Oh, that’s so true!” when listening to a good comic? That’s the whole flippin’ point. We laugh because comedy takes a different angle on reality and shows it to us in a way that is revealing and, often, uncomfortable.
To have a neo-con slanted comedy show, you’d have to get back to reality, first. Seriously. It could be done, but not be the present administration or Fox. Same thing, I guess. Because they’ve already abandoned reality to get their spin on life teh universe and everytihng. Which is why The Daily Show is so damned funny; they remind us that the emperor has no clothes, a big butt, and seems to like dancing nude on camera. It’s just not funny when the emperor’s flunkies’ response is to put on a show that says, “Oh, yeah! Well, uhm… your clothes are… uh… well… baggy! Yeah… that’s it… They’re BAGGY!”
You can’t be funny when you start wars on bad intelligence, out CIA agents and ignore hurricanes. You’ve already used up your allowance of “reality bending” on reality. The other side gets to play the “funny” card more often.
Now if Fox wanted to do a show that exclusively poked fun at the French (and Belgians)… THAT would be the bomb.