Fox Noise Channel's "Daily Show" Ripoff Airs Two Test Episodes —

[NYCGirl]

be sure to miss them!

Excerpt:

FNC is testing the concept on Sunday nights. The first episode will air at 10 p.m. Sunday and repeat the following Sunday. The second episode will air at the same time March 4.

The show, which stars comedians Kurt Long and Jenn Robertson, owes quite a bit to "Saturday Night Live" segment "Weekend Update" in both format and spirit. The "newscasters" will take a story of the day and then spin it to a comedic extreme.

"We're calling it news with a sense of humor," said Surnow, producer of Fox's "24." "It's a show that satirizes the targets that have been missed by the mainstream satirists on TV."

One seg discusses the timeless popularity on campus of T-shirts bearing the iconic image of Che Guevara. "We spin it into a campus T-shirt salesman who also sells T-shirts of Mao and Hitler," said co-producer Manny Coto.


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959328.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

[Tekla West]

1. Breathtakingly original

wow, a comic take on the news, who would have ever thought of that?

[MUAD_DIB]

12. GOPigs don't understand satire. What they think is satire winds up to be

laughing at other people's misfortune.


So what else are they going to do besides comparing Che' to Hitler?

Maybe they will compare the Democrats to terrorists! That's always good for a laugh in the nitwit circles.

[ThomCat]

16. You're psychic.

I think I am too, because that's exactly what I think will happen. Everything will turn into ridicule of democrats, poor people, and minorities of all kinds.

[nebenaube]

23. wow there's a meme...

I don't mean to hijack the thread but it just hit me... It's the perfect name for them: "Geo-Pigs"...

[rurallib]

24. I LIKE IT! GEO-PIGS!

[MUAD_DIB]

38. Spread the love baby!

[underpants]

40. You are right they don't

satire irony both just whizz right by then. No idea why it just is.

[samsingh]

47. the show's target audience is too stupid to understand intelligent

humor.

they need o'reilly and idiots like him to tell them what to think and how to think it.

[NashVegas]

2. "The Mainstream Satirists"?

You mean, people who are more focused on entertainment than politics?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. I believe they meant satyrists.

no?

[Horse with no Name]

7. Actually it will be a liberal bashing

disguised as comedy.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. You must consider this,

that their humor section will contain more news than the rest of the programming has for an entire week.

[Jacobin]

5. Since RWers don't have an irony gene, this should be fun to watch

Not

[Buzz Clik]

6. College kids will be the target of their "humor"?

Perfect.

Fox News once throws more bones their favorite demographic -- the 65-and-over set. 10 pm might be a little late in the evening for them...

[FVZA_Colonel]

46. I imagine there will be a lot of ripping on college kids.

'Oh, those close-minded, self-isolated socialists!'

[Akoto]

8. Main reason this won't work ...

While the Daily Show does occasionally pick on specific people, I've never felt that it was particularly cruel. They tell some jokes and move on to the next subject.

I can only imagine a lot of mean-spirited snipes with the Faux News version.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. you mean humorlesss assholes reading unfunny script poorly?

What was that movie, Ishtar, that was so bad that you had to watch, mainly out of horror and disbelief?

There was one worse movie, called, What ever Happened to Jack and Jill. Never before has an entire theater stayed to the bitter end in the faint hope of seeing every actor and actress, along with the director, producer and screenwriter die in the end.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. The comedy equivalent of "christian rock"

And twice as lame, if that's possible.

[Buzz Clik]

29. That's a bit harsh. What about "Faith+1"? Dude, that went myrrh!

[Wetzelbill]

10. it's a bad idea because it's reactionary and ideological

they base it on the premise that "The Daily Show" is obscenely Liberal so that they need a funny Conservative view out there. Except Conservatives aren't funny, except when they are trying to be serious, like O'Reilly, who is such a jackass you have to laugh at him. Nothing that is such a blatant ideological reaction works. Like take Colbert, he isn't a reactionary, he's a parody. These guys freaked out over Jon Stewart hitting the big time, so they created their own GOP style show in a similar mold. They just think Stewart attacks the GOP and makes them look silly, well, in truth that is all they see, because as a true comedian, he goes after everybody. Sure, he is pretty Liberal, and he hits his GOP guests hard in interviews, but his show is based on pure comedy not ideology. That's why it works. Guys like Stewart and Colbert make everybody look stupid, and that is what is so brilliant about them. Fox just wants to rip on Dems, so it will do pretty well with the knuckle-dragging base, but those people are humorless and would rather watch O'Reilly and Hannity anyway.

It just won't be that funny, and will get universally panned, without a doubt.

[AzDar]

25. That's the quote of the day..." conservatives aren't funny, except when they are

trying to be serious".

True dat.

[Ian David]

13. Where as on The Daily Show...

they would have spun it into a segment where they sell Guns by Ghandi and Pope John Paul II Condoms.

Because crassly commercializing a communist's image for profit is ironic.

[lpbk2713]

14. Isn't this basically what Dennis Miller did?

And we all know how successful he was. :rofl: What is he doing now? Car wash openings? :rofl:

I predict this latest propaganda outlet show will fall flat on its face right away.

Faux will continue to fund it and air it long after it has tanked simply because they can't come up with anyting else that is any better.



Ed to add: Thanks to whoever gave me the Valentine!! :hi:

[candidate]

15. It's already failed

Right wing comedy? Can anyone name a single right winger who's funny?

I can't wait until Stewart and Colbert rip apart this new show.

Unfortunately, right wingers will never admit that both TDS and CR rip into democrats as well as republicans.

[RedStateShame]

17. I owe "Mad TV" an apology. It's not the most pathetic attempt at comedy.

[MsUnderstood]

18. whats with that word mainstreaM

as if fox isn't on every cable/satellite company's channel listing and is not itself one of the more MAINSTREAM news outlet.

why do they get the right to hijack a word and destroy it?

[NYCGirl]

20. I think they like to see themselves as victims — it gives them some twisted

type of permission to be as hateful as possible.

[Richard Steele]

22. Yup. nm

[gatorboy]

21. See this is what's weird about the right wing mentality.

Fox news is no. 1 in cable news. Yet still label themselves as "underdogs". How big must your audience be before you're mainstream? Doesn't O'Reilly get bigger numbers than Colbert? Wouldn't that make Billy mainstream.

Trying to figure out these loons can hurt the noggin!

[mwb970]

41. Right wingers & hyper-Christians love to feel like victims.

It prepares them for the second coming of their Victim-In-Chief.

[TZ]

19. I think you need imagination and creativity to be funny

and not too many fundies or freepers (the target audience) have that. Probably that Steve Douchebag guy will be on there. He seems to think hes really funny (the best part is to watch him horrify even the other faux lapdogs on his show as his idiotic comments fall flat..) Maybe this will fall into the category of so bad and pathetic its funny (Rocky Horrorshow like)

[AndyA]

26. Faux has always liked a good idea they could steal from someone else.

Hey, if they want to be funny, why not just report the TRUTH for a change? Their viewers would think that was comedy, because it's so far removed from what they've been told on the Faux "real" News. :rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

27. I wonder who will slam them first? TDS, Colbert or SNL?

The slaughter will be fun to watch. The fauxnews comedy? Not so much.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

34. Stephanie Miller will probably fire the first shots

Just by dint of her show airing the next morning.

They're already in anticipation mode, and they'll be brutal. I can hardly wait. :D

[Kerrytravelers]

44. Tee-hee. I can hardly wait, either!

[rurallib]

28. Wow that last line about the Che Guevara T-shirts

Now that looks like some knee slapping humor! As creative as the day is long.
Maybe they'll have some water-boarding near drownings too. Those are a hoot. Maybe in the nostalgia section they could do a buddhist monk self immolation from the good old days Vietnam.
Maybe they can have a weekly segment on those rambunctious Bush and Cheney girls ("little Mary Cheney is having a virgin birth."). Those kids are such a chuckle.
They should have a solid audience of Bush bots who know great humor when they see it.

[Wetzelbill]

30. I know, that isn't even a remotely funny idea

Selling Mao and Hitler t-shirts? Wow, hee-fucking-larious.

[zbdent]

31. It was also noted that even the title isn't even close to original

"The half hour news hour" ... MTV in the 80s (and something else earlier) had "The half hour comedy hour" ...

Just noted, it was on ABC (gee, I wonder if they'll sue for copyright infringement ... nah ...)

ABC's Half Hour Comedy Hour: http://www.tv.com/half-hour-comedy-hour/show/35828/summary.html

[KG]

32. because, like, Che' is soooooooo relevant these days.

:eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

33. "satirizes the targets .... missed by the mainstream satirists on TV."

It should be good fodder for mainstream satirists. I can hardly wait to see Stewart & Colbert target these morons.

[originalpckelly]

36. Oh, now that'll be funny as hell...

:rofl:

[originalpckelly]

35. These two might be the people on the show:

[maxrandb]

37. How many SITCOMs does Faux News need?

They've already got:

Hannity and Colmes
The O'Reily Factor
Your World with Neal Cavuto
Fox and Friends
Special Report with Brit Hume
Hannity's America
On the Record with Greta Van Sustern

You'd think they'd have this comedy thing down by now.

[devilgrrl]

39. Meet the hosts...

Kurt Long: http://www.omnipop.com/talent_info.asp?show=1&id=111&page=4

Jenn Robertson: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-05-13/stage_comedyfeature.php


Some harding shit on those resumes. :sarcasm:

[Javaman]

42. "We're calling it news with a sense of humor"...

as opposed to their usual fair, "news with a sense of ignorance".

[Initech]

43. Right-wing humor - yeah right!

Look at who they find funny and then tell me if this concept will work:

[NYCGirl]

45. Afternoon kick.