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Fox News Channel preps right-leaning satire
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11/20/06 | Paul J. Gough

Posted on 11/20/2006 12:42:12 AM PST by peggybac

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I can't wait!
1 posted on 11/20/2006 12:42:13 AM PST by peggybac
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OMG! If this is real, it will be the answer to my prayers. I've also dreamed of a conservative version of 60 Minutes, where the reporters follow Jesse Jackson around and find out how he makes his money.


2 posted on 11/20/2006 12:46:18 AM PST by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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I am so looking forward to this. BTW, Susan Yeagley is the wife of Kevin Nealon (SNL). Kevin has donated the Republicans in the past.
3 posted on 11/20/2006 12:49:26 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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Great news! I can't wait to hear the libs start crying. LOL


4 posted on 11/20/2006 12:50:29 AM PST by sokit2mebb
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It all depends on the quality writers and on-air personalities. I have no way of knowing, but I'm betting this show will suck.


5 posted on 11/20/2006 12:50:48 AM PST by billybudd
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I hope it doesn't suck - with Joel Surnow (Exec. Producer of "24") at the helm, I'm guessing it will be great. I sure hope so.


6 posted on 11/20/2006 12:53:42 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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Kevin Nealon is hilarious doing live standup.


7 posted on 11/20/2006 12:54:57 AM PST by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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I'm all for it, if they make it genuinely funny. One thing I can't stand is lame comedy (Stuart Smalley, anyone?).




8 posted on 11/20/2006 12:56:49 AM PST by DemforBush
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If done right and they are not afraid to provoke liberals, this will turn out to be a HUGE HIT.

But I doubt this will happen, it'll probably be too PC, and it will be off air in 6 months or less.

9 posted on 11/20/2006 12:57:15 AM PST by MinorityRepublican (Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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I bet he's funny. The only SNL alum I've seen on stage is Melanie Hutsell - she was just OK.


10 posted on 11/20/2006 12:58:09 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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I'll have to keep an eye out for this show. Hope it is as good as they say it is.


11 posted on 11/20/2006 1:12:21 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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I hope it's good too. But corporate-generated copycats don't have such a good track record (Al Franken as the liberal version of Rush Limbaugh, for example).


12 posted on 11/20/2006 1:16:14 AM PST by billybudd
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Heck, they can get their jokes right here.

I'd like to see a segment where they interview Democrats in Maryland to imply, since they rejected Kwiesi Mfume and Michael Steele, that they are racists.

Heck, the conservatives wanted the black guy both times - once to muck up the Dem primary and the second time to defeat the Dems altogether. But, no, it's Tennessee that's supposedly racist, not Maryland.


13 posted on 11/20/2006 1:23:05 AM PST by Tall_Texan (NO McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Kerry, Obama or Gore in 2008!)
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It seems to be a very good idea, and one where FR could be a big help. We have lots of skilled and intelligent writers, a number of whom can be very funny. We could organize a thread where we could brainstorm ideas for this show, and have them polished by some of our members involved in TV writing. Then some of us who have connections with some Fox people could arrange for these ideas to be properly submitted to FNC, since TV shows are very wary of unsolicited scripts from unknowns, for legal reasons and because they tend to be unusable.

You know how bad the writing is on TV, with 200,000 posters we should be able to beat what is out there!! Maybe get a few bucks too!

14 posted on 11/20/2006 1:39:22 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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This will great fun, and it's about damn time!!!!!

I hope it's successful. :>


15 posted on 11/20/2006 1:44:48 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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I have been dreaming of a show like this since hearing Glenn Beck's radio show, which is at times nothing less than side-splitting, and begs for three-dimensional depiction.

However, I'll warn you all ahead of time; there are people who think biting satire is hilarious unless it could be identified as being pro-establishment. I don't remember if it was Vanity Fair or Esquire that dedicated an entire article to someone's opinion that 'Dennis Miller used to be funny; now he's a Bush puppet.' Said article came complete with an illustration of Miller as monkey to organ grinder W.

Another example: Roger Ebert found some things to like in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, but when it came to Parker & Stone's Team America: World Police, with its broad potshots at Tim Robbins, Sean Penn and other leftist luminaries of showbiz, he couldn't deal with it.

16 posted on 11/20/2006 1:56:15 AM PST by L.N. Smithee (Mostafa Tabatabainejad: Like the Toyota commercials used to say, "YOU asked for it...you GOT it!")
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What's really seriously needed now are some hard hitting, 24/7 days conservative channels that separately cover the news, entertainment, sports, and a variety of other subjects without all of the political liberal bias and without all of the political correctness that continues to exist at the worldwide level for several decades now! There still is a major demand for this to really happen, and many people-especially conservatives all over the world-continue to be very disappointed that this hasn't happened as of yet.


17 posted on 11/20/2006 1:56:52 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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People also want 24/7 news channels that truly are always "all neutral, all of the time", and even the Fox News Channel doesn't really go as far as that. In fact, the Fox News Channel continues to slowly trend more to the left politically every year.


18 posted on 11/20/2006 2:02:01 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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I use to get extremely frustrated during the years of the Bill Clinton administration. That entire bunch was just ripe for a weekly comedy satire TV show, yet no one stepped up to the plate. Thank goodness Rush was at least doing something on the radio to parody that bunch of clowns!


19 posted on 11/20/2006 2:14:37 AM PST by LRS
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Wow, I would watch FOX again for this.

I've actually been watching CNN more for Glenn Beck. It was my wife who got me hooked.

20 posted on 11/20/2006 2:15:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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