Fox News Readies 'Daily Show' Ripoff Starring Laura Ingraham

[donsu]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/06/23/fox-news-readies-daily-show-ripoff-starring-laura-ingraham/

TVNewser is reporting scuttlebutt that the Fox News Channel is prepping a satiric news show to compete with Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart.” According to the TV news blog on the Media Bistro website, the host of the show is radio talk show host and professional Clinton-hater, Laura Ingraham:

An anonymous tipster says Ingraham’s pilot is known as “Watch This Right Now.” The tipster calls it “an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show” including a “music and video montage” and “mouth replacement of known news figures.” (Huh?) “They want to keep it a secret so they hired all freelance tech people,” the tipster adds. “The writers and producers should be embarassed to show this one to Roger.”

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Think about it: The most successful conservative comedian these days is, of course, Rush Limbaugh. But Limbaugh’s humor, such as it is, never makes even his most ardent fans laugh, it makes them smirk.
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[Initech]

1. Wow, and here I thought right-wingers had no sense of humor...

:sarcasm:

[Botany]

2. The Pittsburgh Steelers v Central State Tech.

Good Luck, Fox. The talent is equal on both sides. :rofl:

BTW doesn't O'Rielly (rerun) have the spot vs Jon Stewart?

Damn! Score one for our team.

[ContraBass Black]

3. John Stewart should advertise it.

"Hey guys, take a look at Fox!"

[shadowknows69]

4. “mouth replacement of known news figures.”

Conan Obrien has been doing that for a while. His sketches of Clinton were hilarious.

[johnaries]

25. yep! It's done by Robert Smigel, who also does Triumph

the insult comic "for me to poop on!" and Saturday TV Funhouse on SNL. Speaking of funhouse, did you know that Stephen Colbert does one of the voices of the Ambiguously Gay Duo?

[shadowknows69]

41. Sweet

Comedy was hurting for a while but there are some smart, sharp writers and performers out there now.

[progdonkey]

53. the Zell Miller one is a comedy classic...

Zell: "Swords it is then!!"

Conan: "I'm not going to fight you with swords."

Z: "THEN I WILL BASH YER HEAD IN WITH A TRASH CAN LID!!!!"

C: "What?"

Z: "You leave me no other choice than to fight you BABOON STYLE!!! We shall meet tomorree in the forest canopy, and we will present our red, swollen posteriors! Whosever posterior is most inflamed shall get to plant his seed in the fertile, simian womb of the female baboon!!!!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

61. "Laura Ingraham wastes 30 minutes of your time"

[Warpy]

5. As much as right wingers say they laugh at us,

they don't and hate just isn't funny.

This will be more like Lamebawl than TDS and we all know what happened to Lamebawl's show.

Ingraham has even less charm than Lamebawl, so this one's really going to stink.

[Mist]

9. Yeah, rage gets in the way of genuine humor. Plus, TDS contains

truth, which plainly FAUX doesn't. This'll crash and burn, but I'd tune in, if they actually air it, to see just how bad it'll be.

[rocktivity]

23. DING DING DING! Lulu, you're our grand prize winner!

TDS contains truth, which plainly FAUX doesn't.

They think TDS and Colbert are successes is because it makes fun of the right? Dennis Miller's show tried making fun of the left, and he ended up having to pay for audience members!

:headbang:
rocknation

[xchrom]

6. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! --

not.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. This show's gonna be GREAT! Just can't WAIT! LOL (snort)

[seabeyond]

8. they already have fox news channel. this is redundant n/t

[Momgonepostal]

56. No joke! How much more fake, conservative news...

do we need?

[madrchsod]

10. what a joke!

like she is going to say anything funny about the rethugs she screws...at least jon has enough sense to poke fun of the democrats when they do or say something stupid...

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. Greatest Idea Since Saturday Night Live!

not the NBC show. ABC's short lived "Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell"

I can hardly wait to see what "Talent" they manage to book.

[Blue-Jay]

12. Ingraham's about as funny as testicle cancer.

It'll either tank or not get off the ground at all.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. No, testicle cancer is funnier.

[AlGore-08.com]

13. I can't wait to hear Colbert's take on their first episode... ROTFLMTO

[applegrove]

14. When neocons in Canada got ahold of a funny talk show host for

their network (funny as in Canadian funny ..in a local way) they had him insult the Liberal Prime Minister. Then they cancelled when ratings tanked.

Turns out.. neocons are not funny. Neither is anyone acting out of childishness. That isn't humour. That isn't even tolerable to listen to. It just tanks.

The whole point of humour with an adult audience is to push through to truths. Doubt Fox can do that.

[MrPrax]

27. Who?

I am thinking Mike Bullard, but you imply he was 'funny'...was Bullard 'Brent Butt' funny or 'Dave Broadfoot' funny :evilgrin:

I could never tell

Funny people run away from Canada unfortunately... :-(

[applegrove]

34. Bullard. And yes he was funny. Not Jon Stewart funny. But it was a

treat to hear someone make fun of different regionalities of Canada and the like. After he gotten kidnapped to global..they made him play off of an actor in a funny Jean Chretien voice. That ended his show.

Sorry - but local humour is local. And worthwhile. Teaches us who we are. As any good humour does. When they went anti-Liberal with him.. he just became a vessle. And my point is.. neocons are not funny. Cause they are cold. Look at ANN COULTER. All she does is put people down. That isn't enligtening teaching adults about themselves and their world.. that is teaching people to be mean and hate.

[tridim]

15. What is Laura Ingram's appeal?

I mean besides her good looks? She has no discernible talent and she's certainly not funny.

[Marr]

22. The the most appealing of the "acceptable candidates".

Glenn Beck falls into the same category. The "acceptable" thing really limits the choices.

Seriously- imagine a group of people in which Glenn Beck is considered the most entertaining. Quite a hiring filter, eh?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

64. as i always say, take away the rightwing politics...

and he's just another bad morning zoo radio guy.

but since he'll shill for bush, he gets a show as the 'hip, young and funny' fascist.

[blogslut]

16. The Daily Show is funny

...because it is written and performed by professional comedians. Laura Ingraham is not a comedian. She's a clown.

[aquart]

17. Yeah. That'll be competitive. Sure this wasn't in the Onion?

[peacetalksforall]

19. They have nerve, arrogance, vileness, but they

just don't have creativity - even in coming up with an agenda. Going backwards is not creative. All their thefts of rights are only going backwards - a stripping away of what mostly Dems brought to the people which has been humane. Take away social secutrity, build prisons, disallow legal representation, - it's all just going backwards. They have come up with nothing creative.

If you don't have creativity, you don't can't have humor. Do they have any witty politicians? Are there comedians on the same level as Stewart?

Maybe they will sign Ann Coulter. She seems to think shs'e funny.

[BuyingThyme]

20. Redundant.

[Marr]

21. I'll tell ya- rabid neocons have the easiest time getting their own shows.

Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller... the list is long and extremely undistinguished. Meanwhile, there are lots of talented, insightful, and entertaining people who will *never* be given their own show- because their politics aren't as corporate friendly.

Any no-talent hack can have their own show, so long as they have the "right" ideology.

[Fleshdancer]

24. CNN & MSNBC copies Fox and Fox tries to copy Comedy Channel?

and they think there's nothing WRONG with this picture??? :WTF:

Television news is dead.

[Goat or Panic]

31. Bingo.

"CNN & MSNBC copies Fox and Fox tries to copy Comedy Channel?"

I think you just hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't be suprised if Stewart himself doesn't end up making that observation.

[Fleshdancer]

35. I would LOVE it if Stewart makes that observation....

If he does, I'll be gloating about it for weeks. :D

[gkhouston]

59. LOL, I can see him rubbing his eyes now! n/t

[opihimoimoi]

26. The show will die a miserable death...snowflake in a HOT VOLCANO?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

28. let's rename her show

"watch this now? right." (sarcastic emphasis on right)

or

tw3 "that was the whore that was."

[NWHarkness]

29. “mouth replacement of known news figures.”

I think they mean like Conan does it, with Robert Schimmel imitating the public figure while their mouths move like Clutch Cargo.

Of course, they have no original ideas.

[jmorris724]

30. I dare them

It would be a total flop. The Daily Show is satire. You can't have satire if you don't have the truth.

[wryter2000]

44. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[newyawker99]

67. Hi jmorris724!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MADem]

32. mouth replacement of known news figures--can we say

CONAN O'BRIEN RIPOFF?????????

Hope he sues!

[karnac]

33. the problem is

Ingraham is actually intelligent. unlike that cretin coulter, who is only looking for a quick buck.

The bright side is that most conservatives/republicans ARE cretins. so it won't resonate with them.

Ergo, Ingraham's show will die a quick death. I predict 3 months at most.

And we dont WANT an intelligent opposition to show it's colors.

[sidwill]

37. No, the real problem is

Conservatives just aren't funny. They are good at grousing and complaining and being mean but they are most definitely not funny.

I will watch just to see Ingraham (she's funny?) fall smack dab on her face.

[Goat or Panic]

39. Not sure I agree with you on Ingraham

I think she's a player like the rest. Very sour persona. Her "comedy" on her radio show is usually based on desperate, invented right-wing stereotypes of liberals. This being Fox, the humor is going to be right-leaning and considering the direction the country is going in with these clowns in charge, it'll be like doing a stand-up act on the Titanic.

[karnac]

54. my point

A case in point. I heard when she interviewed coulter about her book. she SKEWERED her royally. mind you, it was a gentle skewer, well calculated to appeal to the sensible, while still appealing to the rightwing wingnuts. Now if that isn't smart, i don't know what is.

In this sense, you are right. appearing mildly righwing to appeal to the centrists.

meanwhile HERE we know what she really is BUT not being able to do much about it.

And that is the real threat.

Karnac

[Mojambo]

36. Right on the cutting edge, aren't they? n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

38. Ingraham's voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Plus she has nothing at all to say, no insights into anything, no clue other than whatever the RNC memo has directed her towards.

[geomon666]

40. I thought Dennis Miller's show was already canceled.

Rethuglicans just aren't funny. There's nothing funny about cheering death and destruction. It's just fucking creepy.

[butterfly77]

42. All I can say is...

that is one ugly longheaded b----!

[wryter2000]

43. OMG

So, that's what that stench was. :evilgrin: I can't wait for Stewart and Colbert to rip into this one.

Let me just get some :popcorn: and :beer:

[Rex]

45. On tha' ropes! Jon and Steven KOd the M$M!!!

and like good little media-whores, Fox is now set to make a lot more money lampooning a fake news show. We can all see the train wreck waiting to happen. To bad Repukes don't live in a 20/20 world. :eyes:

[gatorboy]

51. What's ironic about this is

Fox is already a fake news show.

[Rex]

55. True!

A fake news show is going to lampoon another fake news show. Only Foxnews would be that stupid.

[onager]

46. Laura INGRAHAM?

:rofl:

She can't possibly do anything funnier than the billboards hawking her yak-show on KFI-AM in Los Angeles.

IIRC, one billboard had her lounging in a black leather outfit with an expression clearly meant to be sultry and sexy. But since she's a right-winger, she just looked constipated. And about as sexy as Barbara Bush would look in the same outfit.

One Ingraham problem: she wants to be Ann Coulter, but she's too stupid to even do mindless invective right.

[onager]

47. Ingraham on O'Reilly; yeah, she's REAL funny...

INGRAHAM: I think it's a very small percentage of the people. But I think it is this angry core of the Democratic Party that's raising a lot of money and, frankly, has a pretty powerful presence on the Internet, the Daily Kos, The Nation web site. People like Eric Alterman, David Corn, Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

I mean, they -- to listen to them, Bill, you really think that they believe that if America kind of went away tomorrow, the world would be safe. Terrorism would pretty much end, and things would be better.

http://69.73.163.60/oreillysucks/viewtopic.php?p=15273&sid=40a4d3221c487dd9799e04f9e757fc79

Too bad she didn't mention DU. I guess we'll just have to get angrier.

[Initech]

58. Like I said - conservatives have no sense of humor.

[Rob H.]

48. So in other words, it'll be both truth- and humor-free

...which makes it identical to every other show on Fox News.

[gatorboy]

49. “Mouth replacement of known news figures.” So they ripped off Conan, too?

Should be a hit with the mouth breathers!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

60. We'll know for sure if the co-host is Cactus Chef.

[dogday]

50. I just don't see her delivering the one-liners

like Stewart... She is funny looking, I will give her that :rofl:

[lpbk2713]

52. I'll be surprised if it lasts a month.

When has any rethug/conservative been known for having a sense of humor?


Faux will probably get a shitload of mail from angry viewers demanding that it be canceled because they just don't get the concept of humor or satire. This ought to be hilarious in itself.

[Generic Other]

57. The only time they right is even funny is when they are being serious

They embarass themselves and we laugh at them.
Scottie McClellan was funny.

I guess they plan to spend the whole time making Clinton penis jokes.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

65. and the funniest GOP show is the 700 club

cracks me the fuck up all the time

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

62. Canceling in ... 3... 2 ... 1

Stewart's thinking that these guys are going to be good for some easy material

[KharmaTrain]

68. The Writing Is Key Here

Little credit is given the TDS writers who really make that show go. Stewart is very good himself, but he has a braintrust of some of the best comedy writer in the biz today. That's how the show makes it point and still make you laugh at the same time. Ya think Ingraham will have the same type of writers? She'll hire Hindrocket and Glenn Reynolds and other hate mongers and, as you say, the cancel countdown clock will start.

Wanna see how comedy writing can go bad? Just watch Saturday Night Live.

While a show like this will make it on Faux as it won't be dependent on ratings...it sure wouldn't stand the light of day on a real network or in syndication. Look at the "valiant" TV attempts by other hate mongers...Rushbo, Michael Savage, Dennis Miller.

I'd get a kick out of seeing how bad this thing is. Ingraham used to host a show on MessyNBC during the Clinton inquisition...Don Imus pushed for it and it was so horrendous that even Imus trashed it. I could use some good bad TV...put her next to the Ollie North Show and John Gibson.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

63. conservatives get multiple chances to fail on TV

laura was canned for piss-poor ratings on msnbc 6 years ago. dennis miller has been fired 4 times.

but donahue doesn't explode in the ratings overnight and liberals are supposedly proven failures and not worth giving shows to.

[CatholicEdHead]

66. Two weeks tops

Forced comedy does not work.

[spanone]

69. Good luck, not much sense of humor in a party that loves war.

[burythehatchet]

70. Yeah, let's make a list of all the hilarious right wing

comedians out there....