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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPro-Trump TV Channel OAN Has a Comedy Show So Terrible It Might Actually Be Funny
This week, far-right little-watched cable network One America News, a channel thats positioned itself as an even Trumpier version of Fox News, announced that it will debut a new conservative comedy show next month.
The program, titled Headlines Tonight with Drew Berquist, is an obvious knockoff of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update, in that its focus is satirizing todays headlines in a newscast setting.
That is, however, where the comparisons end.
OANN CEO Robert Herring claimed the show will make fun of someone other than President Trump, which the teaser clips released this week bear out. But none of the released clips show any fun or anything remotely bordering on comedyat least not of the intentional sort.
In the first clip tweeted out by Herring on Tuesday, host Drew Berquista former BlazeTV host and counterterrorism officertook aim at the rights favorite bogeywoman as of late: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The result, of course, is Mike Huckabee-style hokey comedy tailor-made for people who apparently love painfully flat humor.
Riffing on a nearly three-week-old story of Ocasio-Cortez supposedly appropriating a forced black accent during a speech addressing an African-American audience, Berquists punchline is him just imitating AOC, but with an even more stereotypical accent. The shows laugh track loved it though!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-tv-channel-oan-has-a-comedy-show-so-terrible-it-might-actually-be-funny
The program, titled Headlines Tonight with Drew Berquist, is an obvious knockoff of The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update, in that its focus is satirizing todays headlines in a newscast setting.
That is, however, where the comparisons end.
OANN CEO Robert Herring claimed the show will make fun of someone other than President Trump, which the teaser clips released this week bear out. But none of the released clips show any fun or anything remotely bordering on comedyat least not of the intentional sort.
In the first clip tweeted out by Herring on Tuesday, host Drew Berquista former BlazeTV host and counterterrorism officertook aim at the rights favorite bogeywoman as of late: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The result, of course, is Mike Huckabee-style hokey comedy tailor-made for people who apparently love painfully flat humor.
Riffing on a nearly three-week-old story of Ocasio-Cortez supposedly appropriating a forced black accent during a speech addressing an African-American audience, Berquists punchline is him just imitating AOC, but with an even more stereotypical accent. The shows laugh track loved it though!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-tv-channel-oan-has-a-comedy-show-so-terrible-it-might-actually-be-funny
I give it 3 episodes before it gets canned. Conservatives, comedy is an art form, and you're not artists.
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Pro-Trump TV Channel OAN Has a Comedy Show So Terrible It Might Actually Be Funny (Original Post)
Initech
Apr 2019
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badhair77
(4,191 posts)1. Conservatives can't do humor. When they tried in the past it's always failed.
Sorry, Cons, leave it to those who know what theyre doing.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)2. ONAN TV