Posted on 02/14/2007 4:49:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Sounds like that clip I posted yesterday was some of the stronger material, god help us:
This show was meant to be a conservative version of “The Daily Show.” It is a botch.
“The 1/2 Hour News Hour” does not comment on what is happening; it simply takes swipes at people. These people include Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Ed Begley Jr. Other joke topics are the ACLU, Time magazine, children’s books and global warming.
Laughter, of an awfully canned variety, greets all the gags. Nothing happening on screen justifies these outbursts.
Hey, I’m all for a good dig at the high and the mighty. But these satirists fall short of hitting their targets with wit, timeliness or punch…
Fox News Channel will offer a second episode at 10 p.m. March 4. If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear of this dreadful show again.
Even discounting for the presumed anti-FNC liberal bias of the reviewer, it’s a pan. Which brings us to our exit question, per an e-mail exchange I was privy to this morning involving bloggers who shall remain nameless: with this show poised to do for conservative humor what “Pink Lady and Jeff” did for variety, is it better if Fox just pulls the trapdoor and walks away whistling?
Update: False flag!
The new FoxNews’ show is, because it is playing on an ostensibly all-news network, is thus compelled to follow Tina Fey’s mistake, albeit with even weaker material. Material so weak, in fact, that one suspects the writers are all liberals deliberately sabotaging the show, or so horribly out of touch with conservative opinion as to have no real idea what a conservative might find funny, or — likeliest of all — convinced conservatives are abject morons who will not get a joke unless it’s seltzer-down-the-pants woca-woca-woca sledgehammer obvious.
Uh oh, I can't afford to lose too many more.
Pink Lady & Jeff is available on DVD these days.
They can lose the canned laughter....you can hear the same guy over and over again.
Fox is to the right of American CNN but American CNN is to the right of European CNN.
I heard some hype for this in an interview on Michael Medved's program but I wasn't hearing much of the "comedy", just the concept.
Get some FReepers on that staff.
It sooo bad that it's Jenny McCarthy bad. Remember her NBC "comedy" show? Better yet, DON'T remember it.
Canada banned Fox News for awhile (while permitting Al Jazeera).
Is it "That's My Bush" bad?
Selective memory can dump the libeal stinkers (like the female president show).
Take a look at the video and judge for yourself. That "BO" shtick was old weeks ago. It was ORIGINALLY posted here on the FR but has already become stale.
So you made your decision based on one little snippet?
I saw the clip and thought it was funny. But I'm nobody...
Jo Q. Conservative who happened to see the material as
refreshing. I'm still going to watch the program and make
my own decision.
I was surprised by a bit on SNL last year that had Palestinian terrorists hiring Steve Martin to speak before a crowd they had gathered. He kept weighing the tradeoff of dealing with violent antisemites and being "the biggest star" in a region of the world.
Folks don't always agree on what they think is funny.
They should have got you to write for the show. If you did half the job on the media and the liberals in general, that you do on the DUmmies on a daily basis it would be hilarious!!
"Refreshing" material that was posted WEEKS ago here on the FR. I believe Charles Henrickson was the one who first posted some "BO" material. So when is FNC going to send him a royality payment for using his material?
I'll take your assessment for now, I don't have high bandwidth at home.
But I still think that there are some great conservative humorists and would like to see them get on this show.
Why not an animated segment (flash animation) from that GOOD conservative strip about the multicultural office workers?
If the program is going to be canned, why not shoot for a conservative Laugh-In approach?
Daily Show type anchor comedy tends to work while it is fresh.
Rush was always good at finding video clips. Laura Ingraham had staffers milling about the anti-American/pro-Communist war protest. Show some of that footage.
People would wonder "what's real and what isn't" just like the old Realist used to do.
I will be posting some scripts from my "Media Circus" concept concurrent with the FNC "comedy" show bombing. I already hate those writers for being so untalented at the very least. BTW, I have a reputation for, despite being otherwise totally amiable, being hell on "comedy" writers. At the Laugh Factory I actually got into a fistfight with one of them. It was on a stairwell. I got in a lucky punch to his jaw and he slipped more than reeled from the punch and fell down the flight of stairs.
Free Republic is pithy, and a great resource for material,
but it doesn't mean comments like "BO" have made it to the
mainstream. If I were Charles Henrickson, I'd be flattered.
You should drop to your knees and praise the Almighty that you didn't have to be subjected to that "comedy" show. Trust me, it is horrible. Plus check out the comments of the others. They agree.
If I were Charles Henrickson, I'd be pissed off over being ripped off without being compensated.
Generally speaking, comedians are some of the most miserable humans on earth.
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