FOX News Channel has been working on a news satire show with a right-wing slant to compete with the Daily Show, the 1/2 Hour News Hour. It was created by the same guy who created 24. Apparently, they've leaked a snippet of the new program to see how people react:
See, I can't stand the Daily Show, so you'd think I'd find a show like this interesting. Based on this clip, I'd be surprised if it's on for more than 2 months. It sucks.
FOX News Channel has been working on a news satire show with a right-wing slant to compete with the Daily Show, the 1/2 Hour News Hour. It was created by the same guy who created 24. Apparently, they've leaked a snippet of the new program to see how people react:
That was annoying at best. The anchors were rigid and seemed disingenuine. Sure it's supposed to be comedy, but they came across as wooden and fake. The laughter was annoying and the jokes weren't really that funny.
It'll probably be off the after a week.
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I just watched a clip of it where Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter were president and VP in 2009. They made fun of Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean the most. Man, Fox news is a cancer.
Say what you will about the Daily show but at least they make fun of both sides of the aisle.
See, I can't stand the Daily Show, so you'd think I'd find a show like this interesting. Based on this clip, I'd be surprised if it's on for more than 2 months. It sucks.
I saw a clip of the show and it was so horribly bad it made me cringe. It was the clip with Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. The thing that made it so horribly bad besides the bad writing/acting was the laugh track.
Wow.. that was... that was just bad. I'd watch a right wing Daily Show, but that feels more like talk soup with an agenda. *shudder* I hope it dies a fiery death.
Wow. That was horrible. First, the writing was worse than SNL. Second, the newscasters had absolutely zero charisma and delivery--which is the exact opposite of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Third--why the **** did they hit the laugh track at things that practically weren't even jokes? "Obama positions guaranteed to drive voters wild." What? Sorry, that one must have slipped a few yards under my feet. Finally--damn, could the opening animation and camera swoop have ripped the Daily Show more? It was almost to a "t."
Wow. That was horrible. First, the writing was worse than SNL. Second, the newscasters had absolutely zero charisma and delivery--which is the exact opposite of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Third--why the **** did they hit the laugh track at things that practically weren't even jokes? "Obama positions guaranteed to drive voters wild." What? Sorry, that one must have slipped a few yards under my feet. Finally--damn, could the opening animation and camera swoop have ripped the Daily Show more? It was almost to a "t."
Maybe it's just a poor clip, and some of the rest of the show's better. *shrug* If this is an accurate indication of the show's quality, however, TDS and Colbert have nothing to worry about.
That being said, I think it's stupid that it's only geared for right-wingers (insert Fox News joke here), when TDS skewers both right and left.
There were a few one-liners in the Obama piece that were ever-so-slightly humorous, but it ran too long; the anchor section, however, was patently unfunny. Poor writing, as well as horrible delivery. Much like the mistake made by many "parody" movies, the simple fact that you're doing a parody isn't amusing. It's merely a setting. You have to actually have good jokes in there to bring the funny. "Hey, we're telling jokes about Democrats!" isn't actually a joke.
I can't add anything else that people haven't already said. I seriously thought I was watching a Daily Show intro when they did that first swoop.
Maybe they figure they get the same kind of base conservative talk radio has. But if they are going for that, they'd better have their current writers drawn and quartered first.
(And I've seen the John Stewart v. Crossfire clip twice in my media classes this semseter, in 2 different classes. Wtf.)
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I don't want to live in a world where there are no consequences for being stupid. A few thousand years ago these users would have been eaten by lions.
That's what I thought about it too. The canned laughter especially added to that element, but the delivery of the jokes almost seemed like they were reading from a news prompter. The hosts were acting like they were from an infomercial or something.
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Wow.. that was... that was just bad. I'd watch a right wing Daily Show, but that feels more like talk soup with an agenda. *shudder* I hope it dies a fiery death.
Thats exactly the feeling I got - a bad Talk Soup with a political agenda.
Oh and Trolo - The "joke" you mentioned, "Obama positions guaranteed to drive voters wild." - I think what they were going for there was a spoof on articles from all those Cosmo-type magazines "100 Sex Positions To Drive Your Man Wild". I still agree it wasn't that funny, but I think thats what they were going for there.
I think the problem is that The Daily Show is a comedy show that uses politics for humor, where as this is a Political show that is trying to use humor to get across its politics. Obviously they are not reversable.
I kept thinking I'd already heard this title years ago so I finally went looking. It was the "1/2 hour comedy hour" I was thinking of. Which was actually made twice, once in 83 (the one I remembered) and once in 90. Victoria Jackson should sue them for ripping off the crappy name of her crappy show.
The two big problems for me were a lack of facetiousness and the laugh track. Craig Kilbourne and Jon Stewart are both caustically sarcastic, and I think that lends itself well to a show that mocks the news. The co-anchors on the 1/2 Hour News Hour were too much like some city's "Action 5" local news team, with poorly delivered canned dialogue.
The laugh track was overbearing. I've heard a more convincing laugh track in an episode of Three's Company. They really need to get a live audience in the studio. And if you can't get people who lined up at FOX News' studios specifically to see a right-wing Daily Show to laugh, then they need to hire better writers.
I've heard that Larry Miller is working for the show, so I was a little surprised by the poor quality of the jokes in the clip. Of course, Larry Miller tells jokes about his personal life, not about politics. They really missed an opportunity by not signing Dennis Miller for this show. I don't know if they pursued him, but he recently signed a deal to do an afternoon talk radio show. I guess since he is really only right-wing when it comes to terrorists, they didn't want him.
I would imagine that the show would get better over time, but it has a huge disadvantage in that it is on FOX. If the executives at FOX News are anything like they are at FOX television, this show has about 5 episodes to become a huge hit before it's cancelled.
I would imagine that the show would get better over time, but it has a huge disadvantage in that it is on FOX. If the executives at FOX News are anything like they are at FOX television, this show has about 5 episodes to become a huge hit before it's cancelled.
I would imagine that the show would get better over time, but it has a huge disadvantage in that The Daily Show was here first and most people that can spell their own name can see its a blatant and poorly constructed rip off of it
Even if they fix the laugh track and the writing and the on-air talent, they are thoroughly doomed by being on Fox News.
TDS's biggest target isn't politicians, it's the media, particularly the utter crap that gets dumped on the air to fill the 24-hour news cycle. Not a topic I expect these new guys to be able to broach from the inside (although I would be impressed as hell if they did), but the natural "conservative" analog would be a near-constant mocking of the liberal media.
Which means this show is just another vector for the tedious, endless Fox vs NBC (or CBS or the NYT or whoever it is this week) slapfight. Joy...
I think the problem is that The Daily Show is a comedy show that uses politics for humor, where as this is a Political show that is trying to use humor to get across its politics. Obviously they are not reversable.
I agree that the Daily Show is a comedy show, and a hilarious one at that, but if you think they aren't using humor to get across their politics you are fooling yourself.
I agree that the Daily Show is a comedy show, and a hilarious one at that, but if you think they aren't using humor to get across their politics you are fooling yourself.
My point was that it is a comedy show first. Like I said, its been years since I watched, but if I remember right, way back when Clinton was in the white house it took pot shots at him too. Can anyone remember the show from back then?
TDS's biggest target isn't politicians, it's the media, particularly the utter crap that gets dumped on the air to fill the 24-hour news cycle.
That's actually something that occurred to me earlier. So much of the show revolves around making fun of the ridiculousness created by the news networks. The correspondents are all pretty much mocking representations of the people you see on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Evening News, etc.
