The Half Hour News Hour debuts this weekend. It may or may not keep that title. The guy behind the show is Joel Surnow, the torture-happy creator of “24”, and buddy to Rush Limbaugh(who’ll cameo in an early ep) and Cyrus Nowrasteh who did “Path to 9/11”.
from a Forbes bit back in November where the dude has some serious projection going on:
“The way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,” Surnow said. “The other side hasn’t been skewered in a fair and balanced way.”
Here’s a freeper review from an early taping: The Half Hour News Hour is actually nothing like The Daily Show because The Half Hour News Hour is actually funny. Enjoy the rest of the comments.
Anybody in LA want to go to another taping?
Only if I can lock them inside.
ned, i will fax you $1 if you attend one of these meetings.
Feel free to sign up for their email list, too.
the few dud jokes will hopefully be edited out
Daily Show for conservatives = talk radio for liberals, no?
few dud jokes
jokes
From the comments:
It took me a couple of episodes to figure out that the Colbert Report is a show about a liberal pretending to be a conservative and ultimately the goal was to make conservatives looks like idiots.
...thus proving his own point.
awesome.
i gave up before finding that one.
Daily Show for conservatives = talk radio for liberals, no?
uh, sure, that’s exactly it
I mean in terms of its assured success.
Enh, some of the leftie talk shows are pretty successful.
This show will be harmless. Not in its sentiments, maybe, but in its effect on political media/satire. TDS will still be funnier.
if this is stuck on fox news, who cares? only the assclowns who watch fox news will see it.
this show will last about a month, even on FN
Exactly. You might see young republican types watching, but that’s about it.
xp
Just wait for all the breathless youtube posts/forwards
They’ve already got this...
Painful.
Was that on public access or something? wtf
One of the main problems with this concept is that conservative shows have been using actual Colbert-style tactics for years and years, which is part of where the satire shows got their ideas in the first place — finding bumbling, comical extremists and setting them up for pseudo-serious interviews is a pretty classic conservative sensationalist move. (It’s not so long ago that when O’Reilly was tackling, say, a black issue, he’d welcome some normal Republican congressperson and then be all like “to see how the mainstream black community feels about this, we turn to Rasheed-Ali ‘Pookie’ Akbar of the Greater Baltimore Kill Whitie Liberation Front.”)
The GBKWLF is a pretty respectble organization.
“There are too many traitorous Freepers who watch ‘the daily show’ and ‘colbert report’ and then falsely state they attacks liberals, too.”
You know, it’s funny you say that because I will not watch those shows. Not because I probably wouldn’t find parts of the shows funny but because I know what they think about conservatives even when they are poking fun at liberals. They hold us in disdain and I can’t get passed that.
35 posted on 01/28/2007 4:16:37 PM PST by coffee260 (
apparently they don’t have any right wing graphic designers either?
is april winchell related to walter winchell?
I’m more interested to see if Colbert will acknowledge them as being “legit” or not than in the actual content.
it would be funny if he treated them as a parody of conservative news shows
is april winchell related to walter winchell?
I am pretty sure he is her father.
Nevermind, I am smoking crack today. I meant Paul Winchell.
xpost, otm!!!!!!!!
Whoa, one of the featured performers (Susan Yeagley) is Kevin Nealon’s wife.
apparently they don’t have any right wing graphic designers either?
uh... no. these do not exist.
everybody knows that walter winchell’s son is matt drudge. he must be, why else would he always wear that hat?
Whoa, one of the featured performers (Susan Yeagley) is Kevin Nealon’s wife.
this is not in the least bit surprising to me
Is this somehow related to “The Half Hour Comedy Hour” from the 80s? Is the “My name is Ramon” guy hosting, with his big-ass pompadour?
Nope. The original title was “This Just In”, but they changed it.
this is not in the least bit surprising to me
Really? I guess I’d have assumed that Nealon was a liberal, but that’s mostly based on the fact that he’s vegan.
he’s definitely tall. i was 6 feet away from him once. totally tall.
that youtube video is so unbelievably unfunny.
WAL-MART HAS FOUND THOUSANDS OF MISSING CHILDREN.
wait so Kevin Nealon is a vegan, pot-smoking (well, Weeds co-star anyway, whatever that association means), conspiracy theory enthusiast CONSERVATIVE?
maybe he’s just the James Carville to her Mary Matalin
^^ what happened when fox attempted a daily show type program in the 80s
his character on weeds is conservative, but they play him really dumb (politically)
For the final show, The Guys were rehearsing a piece written by Greg Daniels and Philip Walsh.
HA. this is the same greg daniels from King of the Hill and The Office, right?
Still, some of these ideas are pretty good, and i’d watch ’em:
- Rodney Dangerfield and Margaret Thatcher
- Jimmy Carter would analyze major issues while fly fishing
Quick youtube bit (*warning: clip reportedly contains Marion Barry jokes*)
A “Daily Show” for non-liberals
Um, wouldn’t that be the Daily Show?
Don’t Tell Mama I’m for Obama
Hmmmmm...
I heard a brief interview with Surnow on Dennis Praeger this morning. It was kind of funny to hear him try to describe the show for a few sentances without using the phrases “daily show,” “weekend update” or “for conservatives” until finally giving in.
He promised a lot of attacking of “sacred cows” that “never get attacked on television” like “global warming and barack obama.”
“You know who has gotten a complete pass so far? The poor! We’ll be going after them, along with widows and orphans! They’ll all get their just due!”
I’m more interested to see if Colbert will acknowledge them as being “legit” or not than in the actual content.
— jw (jo...), Monday 10:01 PM. (ex machina) (later)
soooooo OTM.
like “global warming
Yeah, this is gonna be HILARIOUS.
Praeger: So, what’s it called?
Surnow: The Half Hour News Hour
Praeger: (Pause) Ah... (Laughs) Even that’s great!
And so... (pause) “original”.
Yeah I was going to mention that...
laughter sounded like it was mostly coming from one guy
Then we reply by putting together
a video of a couple of *thousand*
derogarory and slanderous attacks
made on republicans over the years
on every different type of program
coming out of Hollypuke, Buttstank
& the NY and DC News and talk shows...
plz to decode Buttstank?
Oh god the delivery of that first Obama joke. Just, no. Stop.
I never thought I would see comedians making worse deliveries than on Weekend Update, but here we are
that wilton north article is depressing. i vaguely remember that show (it wasn’t funny). conan o’brien was a producer on it! he seems to be the only person involved with that show whose career didn’t die as a result.
hahaha, the show apparently sucks so badly that a few folks are trashing Tina Fey while blaming the writers
The show is basically a bad version of the worst of Tina Fey’s Weekend Update writing. I got really annoyed by Fey, who seemed to think Weekend Update was primarily about “informing” the audience (with heavy liberal bias), and only secondarily about joke-writing. Unfunny jokes were her stock in trade, but not for lack of talent, really — just because she was choosing her material not according to the comedy value, but according to the educational value.
Result? Liberals went ga-ga over her for her relentless didacticism — like her, they wanted not gags but “teachable moments” — whereas Jimmy Fallon got all the laughs. You know— laughs. The thing Weekend Update was supposed to be delivering.
Note that Greg Daniels was also involved on the Wilton North report, and his career turned out just fine
i liked tina fey on snl news. she told a lot of jokes, they make it sound like she lectured everybody on iraq or something...wierd.
My GOD, does this show blow. The guy doing the newscast shouldn’t be allowed on studio property for fear whatever he has might be transmitted to other actors. The writing...well, it’s like something you would expect from writers who have never done humor. Which makes me wonder if the second-tier talent from 24 is involved. Earth to Joel Surnow: comedy is a SPECIALTY. It’s not enough to be able to fill a page and make a deadline. You have to have a special talent.
wow that clip is awful.
Part of the thing about these guys is they don’t seem to get how the Daily Show & Weekend Update actually work. I think that they’re projecting their own mindsets towards everybody else like usual, where they figure that Jon Stewart & Tina Fey are avowed liberals, so it’s just them spreading their dumb liberal jokes to their liberal audiences. I.e. the shows function as some sort political channel or propaganda arm, rather than satire. So they figure all they have to do is make a conservative show that takes swipes at liberals and they’re good as gold, right?
While Jon & the TDS crew do have a left-leaning point, is it really that hard to see that the show goes after those in power and pompous politicians doing stupid things? They constantly laughed or grimaced at Kerry’s plunders two years ago, much less the Clinton Admin. Altho, that Admin was less stockd with braying jackasses, so the jokes weren’t as easy.
Another review from Radar
WTF: Brian Unger is on this thing?!
I hope FOX realizes this won’t divert negative attention away from their other 23 1/2 hours of fake news.
laughter is totally canned.
They seem to be trying to portray Obama as black.
How they do it shall forever remain a mystery.
kingfish exactly right, btw. Stewart maintains a sort of “outsider” stance, appearing to have laughs at whatever strikes him as absurd, while these guys obviously sat down and said “Ok, how can we nail Obama?”
Why do young republicans think they’re the majority within their generation?
“I bet this show will do great! Everyone who actually WATCHES TV is A conservative! It’s the liberal media that ruins things!”
And somehow old guys who write the cheques believe whatever their old by a guy with a title that should be given to someone who knows what they’re doing...Wait, that’s what all republicans do.
Not that democrats are much better.
Libertarian here. Not the party, the political philosophy(which ironically borders on a distaste for parties in general).
I know a surprising number of young Libertarians. Their parents are probably Republicans.
The two young libertarians I knew in college were both brilliant people who nonetheless seemed to not have thought things through very thoroughly.
Libertarians are just Republicans in denial.
Libertarians are what republicans used to pretend to be.
members of the libertarian party is probably just angry white men.
Well, that mentality seems to be prevalent among those whom I think would join.
And what do you man by not have thought things through thoroughly“ shadowcat?
I find when people say things like that they mean ”accept political parties, if you don’t you’re wasting your time!“ or ”The government needs to interfere on behalf of (insert X whiney group who has no right to complain) because they’re too lazy to get off their ass and do something other than whine!“
I had this LOONG discussion wih a very leftist woman. it was about the smoking bans.
”but what about the people who don’t smoke?“
Who’s making them go there?
”Where else will they go?“
A non=smoking restaraunt.
”Those didn’t exist.“
Hahahaa! Yeah they did. they were all over.
”You probably don’t remember, but ost places were either smoking all over or the smoking section was poorly divided.“
Yeah, I remember, and whle some places were poorly set up, newer restaraunts were very different.
”circular argument!“
No.
”Why should I have do deal with the smoke?“
You don’t. Go somewhere else.
”Why should I have to?“
Because the owner of a private establishment has chosen not to abolish a certain legal activity.
”Where else should I go?“
That loop continued for about 10 minutes.
Eventually I suggested the alternative of getting together and starting a business that didn’t have smoking.
”Well that’s really hard!“(more or less)
Name a business that’s easy and guaranteed, and I’ll punch you for being stupid(isn’t what I said, but it’s what I meant).
”But a non smoking restaraunt would fail!“
Well first, that would show a lack of interest by the public for that kind of restaraunt, and second we’re sitting in a restaraunt that’s been non-smoking from day one and it’s doing just fine.
”but what about the health risks for employees?“
at that point I gave up and didn’t say ”Who forced them to work there? NO ONE likes to work in food service, so they’ve probably got jack for skills and shouldn’t be picky!“
I did however touch on the idea of PRECEDENT.
SO. if you’re calling me an idealist, thank you.
If you just think that the government should be like an overprotective christian parent and watch and guide our every move, try making choices for yourself for a whole month. No book can tell you what to do, you cannot ask for advice. You will make every decision for yourself.
I suggest you do this on vacation.
My guess is you’ll either be addicted to freedom or be frightened by choice. In case one, I’ll congradulate you, in case two, I pity you.
ok can someone walk me through this killfile/ignore user thing?
u do not need cigs, u need herb
gzeus’s libertarianism has freed him from the restraints of intelligible speech. and proper line breaks.
so i’m guessing none of you are regular ILG participants
In ancient rome there was a poem
About a dog who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead
How well reasoned and thought out you are.
I’m not writing a book and don’t feel the need to carefully write out a short story to tell the tale of a 15 minute conversation with a nice jackass. What’s the simples way of seperating two different things? Physically. Thus:
Enter Key.
Quickest sign that you have no argument: “lolz your punctuation sucks,” which, while not a direct quote is fairly humouous in it’s irony.
Oh, and I quit smoking last month, and prefer my brain cells specifically not coated in a waxy, irremovable substance that causes me to be too lazy for the letters Y and O.
and what on earth do you mean by “intelligible speech”?
I’m not DICTATING this so that’s utter nonsense. Please take the time to type what you mean, as this is obviously not that.
try making choices for yourself for a whole month. No book can tell you what to do, you cannot ask for advice. You will make every decision for yourself.
Because clearly a) no-one here has ever had to make decisions for themselves before; and ii) relying on others for advice is a sign of weakness.
Why do libertarians always sound like such pricks?
now now, attack the post not the poster.
“Why not allow people to work for a dollar a day, if they want? Nobody’s forcing them!”
Parts of that clip are really disturbing.
“Because clearly a) no-one here has ever had to make decisions for themselves before; and ii) relying on others for advice is a sign of weakness.”
Not even close to what I said.
I’m saying that if someone thinks the government should be severely involved in our personal lives and the actions of private parties, then they should take their vacation and make nothing but their own decisions and not even act for advice and just see what it’s like. It’s an exercise. Most people never do that, or forgot what it’s like once they turned 17(as all a healthy 16 year old does is whatever they feel like and also has no long-term memory).
“Why do libertarians always sound like such pricks?”
Because we’re sick and tired of the extreme right and left(both the same thing really. fascists and ‘communists,’ oranges and tangelos) telling us what we can/can’t do when it’s generally none of their business.
Also, you disagree, and far too many people take offense at that situation.
“You disagree with me and don’t want to orally compromise! That’s mean!” is something I hear far too often, though it’s mostly from college kids.
Dude, it’s called a PARAGRAPH. Introduce yourself to one before you break your ENTER key.
I’m not writing a term paper.
Get over yourself.
equating writing in paragraphs w/ schoolwork = holy shit
It’s always tough love with the libertarians, isn’t it. “Buck up! You wouldn’t have lasted a day on the Oregon Trail you buncha softies!”
GZ I’m sick and tired of libertarians telling me that defending and promoting enforcement of labor, health and environmental standards is some kind of delusion we should unshackle ourselves from. Stop telling me what to do. And stop pretending that your standard of living and well-being is somehow unconnected from generations of political and human-rights movements that worked, fought and sacrificed so that you could enjoy the fruits of a society that hasn’t yet managed to pollute all its rivers, allow banks and speculators to drive its economy into the ground, and drive all its citizens into an early grave with backbreaking, low-paid work.
And I’m the prick...
“pollute all its rivers, allow banks and speculators to drive its economy into the ground, ” um...all these things have already happened.
“drive all its citizens into an early grave with backbreaking, low-paid work.”
Well, backbreaking is basically less cost efficient than using a machine, and low-paid being the only hoice now and in the future is in part fault of ‘trade’ with china. (“We put you in debt, thenbuy that debt with the money we made doing it.” That doesn’t sound like trade).
I wasn’t talking about health standards. I was talking about being banned from smoking in a private establishment.
It doesn’t make sense for it to be illegal to smoke in a dive bar.
It sets a bad legal precedent.
“Buck up! You wouldn’t have lasted a day on the Oregon Trail you buncha softies!” is not even close to anything I’ve said.
In fact, I have no idea what it could possibly have to do with liitation of personal freedoms.
I’m not 100% against government involvement in things like pollution(dumping, factory emissions, things that affect large areas) or fair labor practices(minimum wage, required to carry workers comp). I have a problem with the erosion of personal freedom.
Telling a business they can’t allow their customers to do certain things is insane.
First it’s smoking, next it’s swearing, then it’s questioning your leaders.
That’s a 20 year journey, but it’s quite possible.
xpost
“equating writing in paragraphs w/ schoolwork = holy shit”
At least I used complete sentences most of the time.
Also, look at the post in question.
I’d be writing a shrt story if I was to make that into complete and perfect grammar.
It’s a post on a message board. Are you going to critique an occasional run-on sentence in oral conversaion?
Is that wal-mart rocks clip actually supposed to be funny?
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I’m not sure of the intent of that...
Didn’t the Turkmenistan guy die?
Yup, couple of months ago.
No way, Tina Fey is not a Republican. It can’t be true. Is Alec Baldwin the one who wrote the “Anne Coulter’s 60th birthday” joke on 30 Rock?
Ok, sorry to bring the stupid, but I can’t tell if I’m parsing that Limbaugh/ Coulter gag correctly. In his setup, RL is clearly addressing “[his] fellow Americans,” so AC’s punchline implies that they’d invade the U.S., kill themselves (“your leaders”), and then convert the U.S. to Christianity. Which is hi-larious since she’s satarizing her own image as a vituperative and vindictive harpy AND the lefty notion (or at least their impression of it) that the right wants to set up a theocratic fascist police state or something.
But. That’s a lot of layers of irony/ self-awareness that aren’t evident elsewhere in that sketch; more than one layer anyway, which is as deep as the other jokes go at best. Specifically that RL line about the U.S.‘s international reputation being a shambles after two years of a Democratic congress, cough cough. I almost think that the intent of the AC punchline was nothing more than “tweaking the left again with that great un-pc line about invading others people’s countries,”
without the understanding of what they were actually suggesting. Could be wrong, but she says “invade your countries” instead of “invade your country,” so it kinda looks like the latter case.
it’s that mix of self-perceived persecution, lazy anti-intellectualism/ahistoricism, and formless, undirected bile
Very strange with this book — Slate and the NY Times attack it for being too conservative and go on about how it’s indicative of this and that and Hannity and so forth. But the conservatives who are attacking it seem to have a better point: the guy is not a conservative thinker, he’s a bleedin’ Confederate thinker. Total wack job. Didn’t Slate of the Times read the book? There’s your lead right there.
I almost think that the intent of the AC punchline was nothing more than “tweaking the left again with that great un-pc line about invading others people’s countries,”
That’s right. A lot of conservative humor is based on the idea of offending liberal pc sensibilities, “throwing down the gauntlet.”
“I just raped a bunch of baby seals”
“Har. Har. That’ll really get ’em going.”
All they need is like one disproving review, and it’s “OMG, the liberal MSM went batshit crazy! Har har!”
That is, like, 80% of conservative humor.
he’s a bleedin’ Confederate thinker
To be fair, this distinction has been deliberately blurred for decades, from the segregation folks to the southern strategy to the “red state” thing.
Dude does tip his hand a bit much w/ the johnny reb officer on the cover.
disapproving
The book went too far for mainstream conservative reviewers. Read the reviews of Dinesh D’Souza’s new book for a similar response.
They released “Female Chauvinist Pigs” with a different cover in America, then.
All I know is that’s a great apron.
wtf with that outfit!
WOULD SMASH
I’m realizing that I don’t know as much about what conservatives believe as I thought I did. How many conservatives, apart from Mr. South Will Rise Again, still believe that nullification is a valid political tenet?
We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren’t necessary. Pop culture told us that career—not family—came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet are we happier than our mothers or grandmothers, who grew up before women were “liberated” by the sexual revolution? For many women, the answer is no. In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Women, Sex, and Feminism, Carrie Lukas, a young career woman and new mother, sets the record straight: correcting the lies women have been told and slamming the door on the screaming harpies of NOW, feminist professors, and the rest of the bra-burners who have done so much to wreck women’s lives.
Bet your feminist teacher never told you:
* Women’s lib has “liberated” men from having to commit, “freed” women from marriage, and often “unshackled” women from having a family.
* More than ever, women in their twenties and thirties live alone, are discarded by boyfriends after “living together,” and are watching their biological clocks tick past the point of no return.
* Women still prefer men who are breadwinners and can protect them physically.
TICK TICK TICK.
Silly 21st-Century feminists, burning their expensive bras & all that.
xxpost I never cease to be amused/horrified at how these people seem to think that Feminism is all written out in some Bible that Feminists refer back to, and no further thought or discussion has happened since 1972.
xpost EXACTLY
conservatives railing against straw(wo)man shockah
actually, are there _any_ of those books that aren’t just disingeniousness and bilious railing against strawmen?
. In college we were told that men weren’t necessary.
See what LUGs and vibrators hath wrought?
x-post to Fluffy Bear:
In that case that’s gotta be the most OMGWTF-cosmically-insane thing ever, that Coulter and writers didn’t get that she inadvertantly threatened to invade the U.S., kill U.S. leaders, convert U.S. citizens to Christianity, and so on. Mind blown, etc..
I would attribute it more to good ol’ fashioned sloppy writing than anything else.
You are surprised that Joel Doofusmonger and Anne Coulter and etc, missed a nuance?
i would attribute it to being a joke
They released “Female Chauvinist Pigs” with a different cover in America, then.
Uh, wtf, Dom, that book is nothing like what Ariel Levy is arguing.
lookout, here comes Michael Medved, who opines that the horrible show will be “good for the cause”, and that the problem w/ a particularly bad sketch is that “the humor’s too subtle by half”. He also argues that they should have more “people of color” on there to do the really racial jokes.
But rightwingers on TV have a higher calling, you see, rather just really lazy and half-assed swipes at funnier people. They should get “get another shot at entertaining our own troops via TV and demonstrating that conservatives do, after all, possess a sense of humor.”
Unfortunately, his tips for improving the show don’t actually include “TAKE OUT THE RETARDED LAFFTRACK”.
To go along with that “conservatives attacking science” thing mentioned about, we have this.
Backtracking a bit, googling “Tina Fey Is a Republican” turned up this:
Tina Fey was a Republican.
She admited it in Life in October 15, 2004 — the free Life magazine that is stuck into most Sunday newspapers.
She isn’t a leftist wacko. Maybe she is now. But back then she wasn’t. Guess she is more an Indepedent.
posted by: on 10.17.04 at 07:22 PM [permalink]
And, uh, this...
what’s up with the scar...if Tina is so gosh darn funny why doesn’t she write a skit about that ax wound on her left cheek?
posted by: chris on 04.25.04 at 11:20 PM [permalink]
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Tina Fey is waiting for her Barbara Walter’s special to tell us about her rape scar. This will cement a reverential and protective attitude towards her to the american public, allowing her to bombard us with further mediocrity for years to come.
In her crazy biz, even a knife rape is used for marketing leverage.
Tina, why are you in a business like that? Look what you’ve turned into.
Pimping your own rape scar!
posted by: Caterwall on 06.04.04 at 06:35 PM [permalink]
That’s right. A lot of conservative humor is based on the idea of offending liberal pc sensibilities, “throwing down the gauntlet.”
“I just raped a bunch of baby seals”
“Har. Har. That’ll really get ’em going.”
All they need is like one disproving review, and it’s “OMG, the liberal MSM went batshit crazy! Har har!”
That is, like, 80% of conservative humor.
This mentality always reminded me of the stuff internet trolls say to convince themselves that they’re funny.
Tonight! Sunday night at 10 oclock!
Also, I’m pasting this here, since it fits in with the rest of what we’ve been talking about:
It takes a lot more integrity, character, and courage to be a conservative than it does to be a liberal. That’s because at its most basic level, liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues...
more hype:
JEd Babbin, who hasn’t actually seen anything yet:
But the best part is that Ann Coulter — yes, our Ann, HUMAN EVENTS legislative correspondent — is in it. Is it funny? One gent e-mailed me to say that, “Critics are already calling it ‘the funniest show ever produced by the FOX News Channel, not counting Geraldo.’”
Pop the corn, pour the wine, sit back and watch. Step aside, libs. It’s our turn.
I wish I was a Neilsen household so I could watch two minutes of it and then change the channel. That’s worse than not watching it at all.
Tina Fey is a Republican.
she is?
guys this has been obvious for YEARS
which is why some people always talk about wanting to fuck her
is that a shot at me
Why hasn’t Medved replaced Roger Ebert??
And then what does that audience get? A few laughs, a few telling jabs, a few comments that hit the mark so well that you’ll want to repeat them to your friends. For instance, in the “newscast” segment that dominates the shows, there’s a segment about that little rascal, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying (and I paraphrase from memory here): “And in other news, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about the recent Holocaust Denial Conference in Teheran — and denied that it ever happened. And if it did take place, he said that the number of participants had been greatly exaggerated.”
HAR HAR HAR!
Tonight! Sunday night at 10 oclock!
Oh good, because you know there ain’t shit on TV Sunday night at that time.
hahaha i hadn’t thought of that. “We’ll show that leftist/insurgent-lovin’ sci fi show a thing or two!”
As one poster on The Orlando Sentinel’s blog wrote: “This just shows how comfortable conservatives are with torture”
some real gold in the comments section there.
I might be wrong, but I think that foxnews laugh-track thing was made well before the Half-Hour Comedy Hour show came out, which makes this even funnier.
except that it uses the opening titles of the new show
Oh yeah. DURR.
But I do think there was a laugh-tracked O’Reilly clip before. Maybe even this one.
some real gold in the comments section there.
I don’t understand. What do you mean? What are “comments”?
For instance, in the “newscast” segment that dominates the shows, there’s a segment about that little rascal, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying (and I paraphrase from memory here): “And in other news, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about the recent Holocaust Denial Conference in Teheran — and denied that it ever happened. And if it did take place, he said that the number of participants had been greatly exaggerated.”
that joke could be on the daily show easy.
Well, parody of parody leads to redundancy.
haha eth i guess it is!
Among other glaring problems, the graphic design is the lowest of the low. Those t-shirts. Those children’s books. I am offended by the lack of thought that went into the look of these things.
I never thought of it before, but that kind of ugliness must be the result of some special effort. Is good design too egghead? I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of the thinking.
Oh, and Ed Begley Jr? W. T. F. Even ignoring that the whole bit was cruel and dimwitted, they couldn’t pick someone that anyone has thought about in the last ten or 15 years?
I agree on the design thing.
Well thought out imagery=arty=gay. :(
This truly is how these people think.
that was awful
and now, to wash out the taste: Fresh Prince rerun. yay!
I watched Battlestar. :D
The minute or two I saw during commercials was beneath contempt.
I love the way the theme song spends a verse on the cabbie, contends that the cab is rare, and then is like, “Oh, nevermind.” That’s in the theme song. Every show has that.
apparently they don’t have any right wing graphic designers either?
— jw (jo...), February 12th, 2007. (later)
I never thought of it before, but that kind of ugliness must be the result of some special effort. Is good design too egghead? I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of the thinking.
— teasing your poultry (fluxion2...), February 19th, 2007. (later)
The anchors getting all Basil Exposition about who was on the t-shirts and what they did.
Idi Amin: “i got you a political prisoner but i eated it.”
the design thing is really surprising consider how good most far right-wing design is (v. the nazis, fascism in general).
Im never going to justify this show with my eyes.
A couple of funny jokes slipped in by accident, despite the limp delivery of the anchors and the “guests.” In a totally non-partisan view, it was just stiff, over-rehearsed television at its worst, though. Do they actually have comedy writers on staff, or did they just burden the news division with extra tasks?
It’s the same reason Air America has never turned a profit. Revenge humor is rarely humorous.
It’s the same reason Air America has never turned a profit.
Really? their sales staff couldn’t do jack and their stupid mgmt didn’t replace them?
Well, that’s one reason. The other reason is that every time one market picks up AAR, two other markets drop it because of low ratings. “Morning Sedition” was brilliant, but aside from that the talent pool there has been a wash from day one.
The only clip I’ve heard of this show so far was a joke about candidate HRC promising a cabinet of great diversity, but filling roles exclusively with “angry lesbians.” My reaction was “heh,” but is there ANY basis for this, other than conservatives like to imagine that HRC is herself an angry lesbian? If she is, have I missed the great Clinton lesbo-cronyism scandal? And I hope the show didn’t miss the follow up joke w/ appearance by Cheney’s daughter—or is she not “angry”?
I’d be angry at HIM.
but is there ANY basis for this,
oh jesus f’in christ, yes, of COURSE, there’s obvious publicized evidence that HRC is damn near SLATHERING over the prospect of gaining power, JUST to stack the courts, agencies, and various departments with her praetorian legions of lesbo-cronies. Give me a fucking break.
Of course, this give an amusing image is a southern foghorn leghorn-style senator address a senate panel about “the growing threat of lesbo-cronies in our midst, gentlemen!” like something out of Bloom County.
also, the lesbo joke is mentioned up thread. Where’s that image of radical animal rights ecoterrorists that somebody found, with the angry lobster and the unshaven hippie chick w/ a gasoline can?
ah, here we are:
lobster with angry eyebrows! Suicidal bomber owl!
is that a k records tattoo?
close, but i think the tattoo is more of a kitty/wolf thing
ah, kingfish; filling the need to post stuff requested by kingfish in a previous post for what seems like years now
four year anniversary, coming up
The tatoo looks like something out of ‘Maus’ actually.
lol hairy leg
lobsters only turn red when they’re cooked, no wonder bro’s pissed off.
i just noticed that the dude in that picture does shave his legs!
Are the overnight ratings for this thing in yet?
I like this one: A neat little bit of commentary on the jokes of the show, from an actual joke-writer.
from that New Yorker article:
Surnow and his friend Ann Coulter—the conservative pundit, and author of the pro-McCarthy book “Treason”—talked about creating a conservative response to George Clooney’s recent film “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Surnow said, “I thought it would really provoke people to do a movie that depicted Joe McCarthy as an American hero or, maybe, someone with a good cause who maybe went too far.”
I feel like the way this idea is framed is very revealing, and kind of ties in with what that review linked above says about the show actively trying to wring humor from things rather than looking for naturally-occurring humor. Notice that he doesn’t say that he, specifically, sees Joe McCarthy as a tragic figure deserving of sympathy, or would like to reform the public perception of him; he simply thinks it would “provoke people” (see also: Barack Obama race jokes, reheated Ann Coulter foot-in-mouthisms, etc). I realize that this basically just confirms what everyone else has already said, but it’s still kind of amazing (to me) to see just how straightforward his thought process is.
he simply thinks it would “provoke people”
Not only that, but as a direct response to Clooney’s out-there liberalism. HE’S MAD AS HELL AND HE’S NOT GOING TO USE REASON ANYMORE.
I think that the entire point to a lot of these guys is the “provoke” bit, which is why half of the rightwing blog posts about the show always included the “and it will drive those liberals NUTS.” A.C.‘s raison d’etre is to expend a large amount of effort into being “outrageous”, just to get airtime and sell more books.
But, as said earlier on this thread and elsewhere, modern conservatism is pretty much boiled down to “we’ll get those dirty hippies” and little else.
all this horseshit is intended not to amuse conservatives but to inflame liberals and so far it seems to be working like a charm
no one’s really getting ‘enraged’ though are they?
Not really. It’s like the reactions are more a mild irritation to a mild bemusement.
Of course, there are those who call for the hanging of all traitors, then start talking about people who disagree with Dear Leader...
actually Id like to hang that smug fuck from “24” interviewed in the New Yorker
More on hangin’ the traitors, and that stupid Lincoln quote that some guy at the Moonie Times made up
don young calls for the execution of the people who represent 60%+ of US opinion... not newsworthy.
search: the last 2 of montreal albums, “in the aeroplane etc” (shut up it’s pretty good)
destroy everything else
d’oh
Frum says ‘Watch Rome instead.’ Which sounds like good advice.
clearly ur preference for nu-barnes makes that post even more of a whoopsie doodle (xpost)
If the Lincoln non-quote dustup is your thing, or if you just like hearing a jerk prevaricate, here’s Greenwald vs Gaffney, regarding Gaffney’s repetition of the non-quote. Gaffney’s explanation is roughly I didn’t mean we should literally hang Congress members, but those Congress members need to understand that their words have consequences, just as acts of treasonous dissent have consequences, and treasonous dissenters should be hanged. And, schoolmarmy lectures from Colmes.
all this horseshit is intended not to amuse conservatives but to inflame liberals and so far it seems to be working like a charm
— m coleman (writeco...), February 19th, 2007. (lovebug )
really? i think the liberals are chuckling as they read the conservatives talking about piss poor the whole thing is. schadenfreude, etc. i have yet to see any ‘inflamed’ liberals.
Jeez, upon actually listening to the full Gaffney clip, this guy is a straight douche, and then starts nattering on about how Saddam actually had WMDs, supported terrorism against the U.S., wanted to ship these WMDs over in aerosol cans, etc. And more funnies when the guy busts out an FCC violation when actually challenged.
It’s really scary that these assholes hold policy positions and get listened to at the highest levels.
^- this thing’s s’posed to be like a rightwing Onion, right?
next ep is coming on March 4th
Meanwhile, more comedy, courtesy of them hiring Michelle Malkin. I’m hoping that they give an hour-long show to each TownHall poster, just for full entertainment value.
Did anybody ever see the 2nd ep of this? Apparently more are on the way...