With flawless comedy like this clip below demonstrates, it's hard to understand why it's gone?
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Fox's '1/2 Hour News Hour' - Canceled
Posted Aug 15th 2007 3:33PM by Jeff Hoard
Filed under: Ann Coulter, Video
The Fox News "Comedy" program that was designed to take on Comedy Central's "Daily Show," has been canceled. If you ask me news on a Comedy Channel works great (Stewart/Colbert), but comedy on a "news" channel is a recipe for disaster.
With flawless comedy like this clip below demonstrates, it's hard to understand why it's gone?
With flawless comedy like this clip below demonstrates, it's hard to understand why it's gone?
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1. Fox has news? :)
goplies at 5:30PM on Aug 15th 2007
2. The Half Hour News Hour was unintentionally instructive -- it demonstrated that conservative satire is a contradiction in terms, as comedy is inherently anarchic and conservatism inherently authoritarian.
Richter at 7:05PM on Aug 15th 2007
3. Richter @2
I guess that explains why that anarchistic funnyman, Al Franken, is sailing past those authoritarians like Limbaugh on the radio and Coulter in print!
Bill at 3:49AM on Aug 16th 2007
4. That was supposed to be funny? No wonder it was cancelled. What a snore.
Eric Barlow at 3:52AM on Aug 16th 2007
5. Yes Bill it does. It's because he is funny, and they're authoritarian liars. It's not because they're funnier, or even because they're funny (which they're not) but because the trash they spew is eaten up by those who share their distorted views.
Eric Barlow at 3:59AM on Aug 16th 2007
6. "Bill" rambles incomprehensibly: "I guess that explains why that anarchistic funnyman, Al Franken, is sailing past those authoritarians like Limbaugh on the radio and Coulter in print!"
And your point is... what exactly? I fully agree that Limbaugh and Coulter have a large and reliable wingnut following whose approval is as certain as applause at a Nuremberg rally. This is however utterly irrelevant to my basic and pretty much unassailable point that the things which American conservatism reveres -- authority, tradition, etc.-- are the very things comedy ridicules. Hence (with a couple of highly entertaining exceptions like P.J. O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley) right-wing comedy is essentially an oxymoron -- unless of course one considers calling John Edwards a faggot to be the height of wit. I don't.
Richter at 9:43AM on Aug 16th 2007
7. I only saw the previous edition about two weeks ago. It caught me off guard in that I hadn't heard of it. It's a hoot and a welcomed break from the gloom and doom present in all the networks. It's fun to watch folks making fun of their own characters in the light that their opposition sees them. I'm sorry it won't be continuing, but my gut feeling is that it didn't have time to be evaluateed, and my well have come into comflict with producer political bias. Who knows. Without any real advertising how will anything necessarily be discovered. Bud
Bud Barnes at 10:43PM on Aug 19th 2007
8. I even tried getting really stoned before I watched. Conservatism just isn't funny.
James at 10:44AM on Aug 23rd 2007