Comments on: Fox News to Launch Conservative ‘Daily Show’ Clone

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:45:19 +0000

HI-LARIOUS!!! Conservatives are inherently stupid and unfunny. Perhaps the show will be unintentionally funny...the Horatio Cane of late night satire?

It would be awesome if people tuned in just to make fun of it. The Fox folks wouldn't know the diff...or wouldn't care.

By: bear

bear — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:25:35 +0000

Wow.....more "Michael Moore is fat" jokes. Yeah, have fun with that, Fox News.

By: legion

legion — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:11:30 +0000

Tom and Crow vs. Bush? I would totally watch every episode of that.

By: ATS

ATS — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:29:43 +0000

Just play tapes of the three Bush White House press secretaries and let the Mystery Science Theater robots comment from the margins. You'd have enough laughs for a lifetime.

Failing that, give me 24 hours of Ken Adelman worming his way out responsibility for anything.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:09:25 +0000

It'd be pretty hard to parody the puerile childishness of the left. Maybe Larry the Liberal could try TV?

By: legion

legion — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:03:36 +0000

And that is the root problem with this idea. People who *are* smart enough to pull it off will automatically turn off the political Rights’ core constituency. If by some miracle it turns out to be funny, nobody will watch because the people who “get it” will disagree with the bias!

Indeed, Tony. Perhaps they should just hire Larry the Cable Guy or Michael Richards [/snark].

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:38:46 +0000

The biggest problem I see with this idea is that one has to be very clever and witty to pull off this brand of comedy.

Ann Coulter's stuff comes close here, but her approach just comes off mean and insulting - not cleverly sarcastic. She just isn't smart enough.

And that is the root problem with this idea. People who *are* smart enough to pull it off will automatically turn off the political Rights' core constituency. If by some miracle it turns out to be funny, nobody will watch because the people who "get it" will disagree with the bias!

By: Pug

Pug — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:23:37 +0000

Fox's best bet might be Dennis Miller who used to do the fake news on Saturday Night Live and already works for Fox.

Not exactly a fresh face, though, and not likely to threaten the Daily Show's dominance of the fake news market.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:10:15 +0000

Brilliant, Tano!

Seconded.

What they should do, really, is pay The Daily Show to come over to Fox. It's not like Murdoch's principles have ever gotten in the way of a buck before.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:06:12 +0000

"Ba-da-bum"
Brilliant, Tano!

By: Tano

Tano — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:00:30 +0000

A fake news show on Fox? This is a new idea?

By: The Political Pit Bull

The Political Pit Bull — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:44:27 +0000

FOX News To Do 'Daily Show' For Conservatives... It'll be produced by "24's" Joel Surnow and begin airing weekly on Saturday nights starting in late January. I think Joyner's observations that (1) a 'Daily Show' format probably won't work on a weekly basis and (2) the host is......

By: madmatt

madmatt — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:50:33 +0000

also hatred and oppression and greed which are the mainstay of republican actions are just not funny when sold in a pr format.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:31:14 +0000

I'm skeptical that this will work. Clone's tend to have problems when their original is still alive. If they passed the magic wand of program selection to me, I would say go for a "point-counter point" short segment that could be filled into other shows. For those of you who don't remember what I am talking about, does the phrase "Jane you ignorant slut" ring any bells. The two sides would provide caricatures of the right and left bringing up their arguments on any given issue. If you just had to have a 30 minute show, make it a send off on the Sunday morning talk shows, rather than another satirical news broadcast.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:30:56 +0000

Fox News Imitating Comedy Central::Comedy Central as Air America::Fox News.

Doomed to failure before preproduction starts.

BTW: What sacred cows of the left do Stewart/Colbert et al fail to go after? Colbert was unsatirically hostile to Amy Goodman when she appeared on his show...