This weekend, Fox News will run a comedy show. No, it is not Billo or Hannity. Or Ollie. Or Gibson. Or Brit. Or the Beltway Boys. Or Cavuto. Or...
On Sunday, Fox will broadcast the premier episode of the "1/2 Hour News Hour," trying to provide a "conservative alternative" to The Dialy Show or The Colbert Report. While The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are reactionary, this show will be conservative. I wonder if they will joke about (and support) torture?
So, the fair and balanced show will air at 10pm Eastern, 9pm Central. It is produced by Joel Surnow, the executive producer of 24. Here is a clip from the show that Fox leaked to YouTube. While I am not sure if the clip is funny, the comments under the clip are very entertaining. It seems unfunny because of the delivery (no timing) and poor interaction between the co-hosts. It is hard to judge the material because there is not enough of it and it seems one-sided, which raises the question as to whether or not it is propaganda for the one sided treatement. Also, it relies on a laugh track at certain points.
Here is the intro to the show. Notice the red meat issues for the red states:
I am happy that the show will air this week. I will be discussig parody in class. I have already showed the SNL clips on the presidential debates. I planned on using The Dialy Show and The Colbert Report. Now I have this "alternative."
1 comment:
Good to see the clips, solon, thank ye.
And yes they will joke about torture. Harrogate predicts skits that posit Gitmo as a fraternity with gentle hazing. For example. But it will probably surpass this by far. Maybe even they'll try to get their audience's rocks off by showing Coulter actually doing the torture.
Yes there has been a semi-bizz about this show, calls from all the usual suspects on the Right to give this show a chance even if at first it isn't very funny; hey, it's just starting out and after all the Daily Show used to be hosted by Craig Killborn and if you keep watching the 1/2 Hour Show one day will be funny.
Let us see what comes of this.
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