Why doesn't FOX start their own version of SNL to please Trump?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

They have great comedians and comediennes like Kennedy, Greg Gutfeld, and Geraldo.

[Generic Brad]

1. Sounds like mustn't see tv

[LyndaG]

2. A few years ago, there were rumors about a show like that

Guess nothing came of it.

[jberryhill]

8. It ran for something like three episodes

It was called something like the Half Hour News Hour and it sucked more than an Electrolux.

[PSPS]

18. Normal people don't see the comedy in making fun of the afflicted and downtrodden.

[Trumpocalypse]

3. And former SNL cast members

Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson and Colin Quinn.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

12. Colin Quinn? Really?

Figures. I liked his angry Irish uncle schtick, though.

[Trumpocalypse]

21. Yes

He a right winger. Always has been.

[oasis]

4. Dennis Miller revival.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I believe they tried...

RW humor doesn't work, because they like to punch down, not up.

Ratings sucked and they couldn't get sponsors.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I remember hearing about that. RW humor is an oxymoron.

[thewhollytoast]

6. They tried that with a program called Redeye.

It failed. They found you can't be funny if it's not based in truth. Conservatives have a hard time with truth.

Toast

[Maru Kitteh]

22. I saw a little bit of that - it was awful. Like, next-dimension awful.

They had a talking newspaper as a "correspondent"/guest.

[Initech]

7. Remember their half assed attempt to outdo the Daily Show?

And how hard that crashed and burned? Yeah conservatives just don't get humor.

[jberryhill]

9. It was cringeworthy

I was disappointed they canceled it though. It was so outstandingly lame that I was surprised anyone thought it was funny.

[Initech]

13. Conservatives should just start owning their lameness.

They'll never be funny or good at music and the arts, they should just own it. They're lame! They need to accept it! The sooner they do, the better.

[Mr. Frost]

11. Fox network wise there was MAD TV

[samnsara]

14. oh cute! and they can use finger puppets!

[kwolf68]

15. SImple

Because humor/comedy relies on a certain degree of fact for things to be funny. The Baldwin thing is hilarious because while it's satire, over the top, and oftentimes silly, the vestiges of fact is actually what makes the thing funny.

Conservatives couldn't do this, because the right doesn't deal in facts. So a "skit" of Pelosi kneeling at a statue of Karl Marx just wouldn't be funny.

[thewhollytoast]

16. Well put, good examples.

Thanks,
Toast

[C_U_L8R]

17. He already has a mirror

Lots of them in fact. With big overadorned fake gold frames.

[Thekaspervote]

19. They have no sense of humor... it wouldn't occur to them to try and be funny

[a kennedy]

20. They can't, they've got no one, not even Dennis Miller, *gag*