That FOX Noise Channel "Daily Show" knockoff looks really, really terrible (video clip)

[LTR]

Stuff I posted on my blog after seeing a preview clip. Hoo boy, is this thing bad!

A bad sign of things to come is when a network gives away the jokes in advance, in the hopes that some may actually consider it funny and want to check it out. So anyway, in their Sen. Clinton bit, the pseudo-talking head intones that, seeking to dispel myths that she'd appoint a bunch of political cronies if elected, Clinton promised to appoint "a diverse, multiethnic, multigenerational group -- of angry lesbians." Damn, my sides are hurting! Make it stop! Please!

So, if you guessed that the following gags will include topics like global warming, Barack Obama, the ACLU, Cindy Sheehan, hybrid cars, and Al Gore, yes, you are correct! You win a cute stuffed animal!

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Nonetheless, FOX 'News' is so confident in this silly little product that they ordered two episodes and scheduled them in the death slot of Sunday late nights. The show will be surrounded by a few other comedy shows from the likes of Geraldo Rivera, Sean Hannity and Chris Wallace.

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So what are the 'real' critics saying? The Orlando Sentinel, after seeing the whole thing, says of it, "If we're lucky, we'll never hear of this dreadful show again." The Onion's AV Club, blasting the prerelease clip, offered, “If you're the least-talented member of your second-rate college sketch comedy group, don't worry. One day you could host a Daily Show ripoff on the Fox News Channel!" A Lost Remote commenter, meanwhile, has this dry observation: “I hear subtlety kicks in sometime during the second episode.” Reviews drastically differ along ideological lines. Bob Cesco at Huffington Post scalls it a comedy show minus the comedy, claiming that Republicans "can certainly appreciate good comedy. They just can't create it." Of course right-wingers like Human Events's Jed Babbin and Michael Medved liked it.

You can see for yourself, if you have the stomach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/02/foxs-daily-show-knockoff-unleashed-on.html

[CJCRANE]

1. That's bad.

:thumbsdown:

[jobycom]

2. The cocaine joke was cute. Then it nose-dived. nt

[redqueen]

3. Love the canned laughter for the "BO" bit...

Also love how they did a close up for every joke on the magazine. Slow readers, your audience?

:rofl:

It's funny in it's own sad little way. :P

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Brain-dead audience leftovers from Rush's failed TV show.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Did they have sub-titles?

[Cha]

8. They stole that from me..but bo

is bill o'lielly.

[pa28]

5. How embarrassing for them.

I was laughing, just not in the way they intended.

[Frank Cannon]

6. That laugh track is straight out of "Hee-Haw" n/t

[Initech]

9. If anyone finds that funny, they need to remove themselves from the gene pool quick.

[stevedeshazer]

10. The Mallard Fillmore of television.

Lame and racist.

[Raine]

11. VERY amateurish

if they weren't so hateful I'd almost feel sorry or embarrassed for them...but I don't.:nopity: If they want to make fools of themselves more power to em. :evilgrin:

[walldude]

12. Even the Freeps were attacking it yesterday

someone posted a link to the freeps thread on how awful the show is yesterday, I'll see if I can find the thread...

here it is: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x222643