Kal Penn to Parody Fox News on ABC

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Harold & Kumar star Kal Penn is reuniting with the writers of the hit feature franchise, Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz, for Fair And Balanced, a single-camera comedy, which has been set up at ABC.

Written by Schlossberg and HurPremiere Of Universal Pictures' "American Reunion" - After Partywitz, Fair And Balanced, from Lionsgate TV, revolves around an aspiring NPR reporter who is swayed to work at a Fox News-type channel.

http://deadline.com/2015/11/fair-and-balanced-comedy-kal-penn-start-harold-kumar-writers-abc-1201605901/

What took so long? This has been a target rich area for comedy for years. I kept waiting for Tina Fey and Amy Pohler to do this. Call the network Wolfe News. Plenty of female actors could just chew the scenery lampooning the the "talent" they have over there. The scripts practically write themselves. Actually you could just transcribe what they broadcast like this:

[think]

1. Very cool.Looking forward to seeing this.

[Initech]

2. Shut up and take my money now!

[hifiguy]

3. How do you parody something

that is already a parody of sanity?

[MFrohike]

4. Why?

It's nothing but preaching to the converted, for a fee. It'd be more useful to find ways to wean its audience away, rather than attack something they hold dear and make them more attached to it.