Fox (har har) "news" tries imitating The Daily Show...

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And falls flat on their ass.

Conservative Comedy Show: So bad it's hilarious

By: SilentPatriot @ 7:08 PM - PST

Well, a clip of Joel Surnow and FOX News' conservative response to The Daily Show, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, has hit the tubes and needless to say, the only thing funny is how bad it is. They just don't get it and they never will.

John Amato: Surnow, stick to torture. We won't mention that there was a show called "The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour," back in '83. (h/t Justin)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14418/1/HHNS-Obama.wmv
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14418/2/HHNS-Obama.mov

Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel reviews the travesty:

Jon Stewart knows how to do slashing comical commentary. He weighs in on what's happening, such as the media's bizarre coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death.

Fox News Channel does not know how to do slashing comical commentary. This show was meant to be a conservative version of "The Daily Show." It is a botch.

"The 1/2 Hour News Hour" does not comment on what is happening; it simply takes swipes at people. These people include Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Ed Begley Jr. Other joke topics are the ACLU, Time magazine, children's books and global warming.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/14/conservative-comedy-show-so-bad-its-hilarious/

Here's the real thing:

Daily Show: Douglas Feith Has Huge Balls

By: SilentPatriot @ 5:08 PM - PST

After reviewing the recent report that exposed Feith's personal role in distorting the CIA's pre-war intelligence (and his subsequent inistent denial of that involvement), Jon Stewart can only conclude that he has some huge cojones.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14398/1/TDS-Feith.wmv
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14398/2/TDS-Feith.mov

Along with Col. Wilkerson's warm words, Bob Woodward gave us this great little nugget in Plan of Attack when he quoted General Tommy Franks saying this about Feith:

pg. 281 FRANKS: "I have to deal with the f*&king stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day."

I don't know about you, but that's the kind of guy I want handling the super-secret sensitive intelligence that brings us to war. How is this not a crime again?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/14/daily-show-douglas-feith-has-huge-balls/

[Blue-Jay]

1. Here's the difference:

OK, several differences....

a) The Daily Show doesn't make shit up. They write funny commentary about actual stuff.

b) The Daily Show doesn't use a lame assed laugh-track. They get real laughs from a real audience.

c) The Daily Show has writers who are real comedy writers. Not partisan douchebags.

d) The Daily Show is funny. See option c.

e) John Stewart is a comedian. A real comedian, not a "commentator". Not a partisan blowhard.

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. They stole the title from Canadians.

http://www.cbc.ca/22minutes/

And the Fox rip off (of TDS and 22 minutes) is exactly as I predicted. It's so-called humor is simply mean-spirited insults about people.

Their theme song should be "Your Racist Friend" by They Might be Giants.