Posted on 01/28/2007 3:15:25 PM PST by coffee260
24 creator, Joel Surnow, is producing what he calls "A Daily Show for conservatives.“ Naturally liberals won’t admit The Daily Show is Left-leaning, but they don’t admit anything’s Left-leaning. These are the same people who think CNN’s too pro-American. Anyway, The Hot Little Number I Call Mrs. Harry and I were lucky enough to score some seats to watch the taping and had a terrific time. It was our first ever look at the live taping of a TV show and we found it to be a fascinating experience.
The Half Hour News Hour is actually nothing like The Daily Show because The Half Hour News Hour is actually funny. The two stars, Kurt Long and Susan Yeagley, displayed none of Jon Stewart’s smug self-satisfied mugging or Colbert’s tiresome ironic self-awareness. Instead, they’re both charming performers with a strong chemistry who blend seriousness and absurdity in the same way SNL did in the heyday of it’s Weekend Update series.
I’m not going to review the show here. It was shot out of order and the few dud jokes will hopefully be edited out, and how it will all come together is anyone’s guess. But as a series of sketches, most were laugh-out-loud funny and brutally clever skewering environmentalism, political correctness, the ACLU, and many other liberal sacred cows.
It’s nice to finally have a powerful, outspoken producer on our side. I’m encouraged by what I saw Saturday and think Surnow understands there’s an audience out there largely ignored and ready to become a cash cow with more smart programming. Like I said, I can’t recommend a show before it’s put together, but I strongly recommend you give it a chance. Some of the jokes were timely, so I expect it will air soon.
Apparently Rush Limbaugh is involved with the show. Hope it does well -- it's a necessary counterpoint.
So what time slot do you think this one's going to get?
Excellent. I have long thought that if well done, something like this would be successful.
To be truly funny, one must mix in the Truth - something the Left has in short supply.
Absolutely
The Libs want a "Fairness Doctrine".. They got it! (They will whine about it now, of course)
Anything they can do we can do better.
Of course they won't, it's embarassing.
At a gas/convenience outlet on the Jersey Shore, at the crowded gas pumps, an SUV driver leaves the vehicle to be filled and walks inside. Thakes their time coming out, leaving more than a few people waiting.
Looked and them and said for all to hear, "Exaggerated sense of self-worth, overwhelming sense of entitlement, and a me first attitude when it actually comes down to working with others.....YOU'RE A LIBERAL AREN'T YOU."
And she says, "Take that back!"
Hopefully it will get 11:00 or 11:30 if it is indeed coming on the Fox News channel (I'd rather it not be on a news channel but no big deal) to counter Jon Stewart directly.
I would like to take personal credit for advocating a show like this for the past year or more. I even sent an e-mail to Roger Ailes recommending something like this for conservatives. The problem is where to start. The lib field of lunacy is endless. I am expecting a check from Mr. Surnow commensurate with what the people who come up with these outstanding ideas get. (smirk)
I always thought that any show that looked at liberals woudl be full of laughs. And a big hit $$$. Good comedy makes big $$$.
Good work.
There are too many traitorous Freepers who watch 'the daily show' and 'colbert report' and then falsely state they attacks liberals, too.
If it's only a once-a-week-on-Saturday type thing, that's lame. It's needs to be Daily to be a "Daily Show for conservatives" and to knock at Stewart.
In case anyone is wondering, I think This Just In was the original title before it was changed to The Half-hour News Hour.
Susan Yeagley... Nice looking...
IMDb at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947044/
Bio at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947044/bio
Photos at http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0947044/HH/0947044/1012625_01.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Yeagley,%20Susan
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