Fox News prepping right-leaning satire

[RockaFowler]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i61fccc799efa3cb7cc70027d80722adf

Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel.

The half-hour show is executive produced by "24's" Joel Surnow and Manny Cota and creator Ned Rice, who previously wrote for "Politically Incorrect" and "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" through This Just In Prods. It would take aim at what Surnow calls "the sacred cows of the left" that don't get made as much fun of by other comedy shows.

"It's a satirical news format that would play more to the Fox News audience than the Michael Moore channel," Surnow said. "It would tip more right as 'The Daily Show' tips left."

SNIP

Taped before a studio audience in Los Angeles, the show will feature two co-anchors, actors Kurt Long ("Cuts," "Games Across America") and Susan Yeagley ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Reno 911!"). It also will feature person-on-the-street interviews and correspondent reports like other shows. But Surnow said that it's not going to be strictly conservative but more in the spirit of the old and rebellious "Saturday Night Live."

[Mythsaje]

1. And probably about as funny

as a fork in the eye.

Okay.

[symbolman]

101. I think they should hire

Ruprecht the Monkey Boy from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", THEN I might watch :)

[ruggerson]

2. Fox News IS right leaning satire n/t

[Guaranteed]

24. LOL it is nt

[Ladyhawk]

68. Good one. :) n/t

[here_is_to_hope]

89. *snicker* n/t

[krkaufman]

95. What will be hilarious will be the reviewers commenting ...

... that is was difficult to distinguish the satire/comedy show from their regular programming.

[Shakespeare]

3. It'll never work. The right is inherently authoritarian....

....which renders them unable to speak truth to power. This is gonna suck.

[krkaufman]

100. Well, there's the rub, eh?

Colbert and Stewart are only left-leaning in that they're speaking truth to power, Right or Left, only the Republicans have had total control for 6 years, so both shows seem "Left-leaning." The humor in both shows is not that they're left-leaning or Bush-bashing, it's that they highlight the absurd, typically with the mocked's own words -- typically through earlier video clips.

Exactly how will the Right speak truth to power, when they represent the powerful?

[sendero]

4. Good luck with that..

... the problem is, right wingers are 10 times the fodder for jokes that lefties are, becuase they are so god damned hypocritical :)

[rucky]

5. Isn't that what O'Reilly's been doing this whole time?

:shrug:

[tabasco]

42. OMG you mean O'Reilly's for real?!?

Holy crap this country is more messed up thasn I thought!

[More Than A Feeling]

6. I predict this will suck.

RW humor is frequently based in anger and resentment, and therefore isn't funny.

[acmejack]

13. Exactly.

They are humorless people. There are increasing numbers of overly serious people though, or maybe I am simply becoming increasing hysterical.

[pdxmom]

7. And here I had thought that Faux News couldn't do any more to

destroy their journalist integrity. There evidently is something lower than rock bottom.

[Eric J in MN]

9. Good point. CNN and MSNBC don't air comedy shows.

Even Fox News didn't until this.

[hsher]

30. MSNBC doesn't air comedy shows? What about "Tucker"?

I find myself laughing at that one a lot.
When I'm not crying.

[Eric J in MN]

8. "the Michael Moore channel"

If there actually were such a thing, then maybe there would actually be a need for this right-wing show.

Or maybe not even then.

[krkaufman]

96. Well, certainly not on a channel that purports to be a "news" channel.

I'm very much looking forward to this show. It'll be about as funny as Colin Quinn, Dennis Miller, et al, doing their Right Wing schtick.

[meow2u3]

10. As funny as a bully

and just as tacky

[IWantAChange]

11. It will be like comparing the minors to the majors - Stewart & Colbert will

use this lame excuse of a show for material that will emulate their use of Billo and Faux News actual quotes as the basis for routines.

Like Dubyha said - 'Bring em' on!'

[Guaranteed]

26. BINGO.

It's just more material.

[hsher]

12. It won't be funny, of course

Those people are about as funny as a box of broken T-squares. Jon Stewart need worry not one iota. In fact... :think:

I have a feeling he's going to comment on this charming news item on ye olde Mornin' Leibowitz :)

(Edited to add)

Wouldn't it be complete irony if to host it, they hired Craig Kilborn?

[annabanana]

14. Think Mallard Fillmore. . . . n/t

[pstokely]

50. Or Chuck Asay

[KingOfLostSouls]

80. Notice

in the second one they replaced a picture of george washington with the cross.


kinda a nice subtle slip there of what the party of b*sh wants to do with the rest of our government as well as why they're so into sending children into private indoctrination programs.


replace the constitution with pat robertson's theocracy.

[tinfoil tiaras]

88. I noticed that too...

I was like :wtf:

I go to a private (christian) school, but it's not the fundie type that * would want to send all the kids in America too. We teach Evolution (*GASP*) and it's a huge liberal haven in a bright red state.

religion+government=disaster. Period. Look at Iran. Iran is our "enemy". Do we want to be like our enemy?

[symbolman]

102. It's always amazing to me

that someone would take the time, actual LIFE ESSENCE wasting away, to DRAW this kind of Drivel..

I bet they're a regular riot at a party.. "Look at me! I have a Lampshade on my head! That means I'm having a good time, and the Life of the party!"

"No, that means you're a retarded dork who lives in Iconland, right next to ClicheVille.."

People like this guy should be found dead on the toilet with a copy of "Catcher in the Rye" stuffed down their throats -- by some crazy liberal of course.. funny how no one ever mentions that "crazy liberals" NEVER KILL PEOPLE, every notice that? Always a NUTTY Right Wing guy, that quiet guy next door, the scout leader who can't dance, etc, etc..

Thanks for the toons, I always find them particularly galling, sorry :)

[Homer Wells]

15. I don't think the people who have the "Fox mindset"

understand the nuances of true satire.
IMHO, I believe that what they will call satire will just be ugly and shrill finger pointing and name calling.
Humor is not a Freepers strong suit!:eyes:

[stanwyck]

81. You nailed it.

There is a difference in sensibilities. It seems that leftwing people are less apt to listen to talk radio all day. But we do tend to watch The Daily Show or Colbert. My sister-in-law and her husband are very educated people who don't like TDS or Colbert. But they did find a woman who showed up at their Halloween party, and this was this year, mind you, wearing a blue dress with a "semen" stain...hilarious. Her date was "Bill Clinton". Yes. Practically a decade later, that's still the funniest joke. Rightwingers just can't get enough of blowjob jokes. So, like you, I'm skeptical about the success of right leaning satire.

[Chimichurri]

82. Exactly. It'll be a total cringe-fest

Whoever signs on to this will put their career in jeopardy IMHO

[roguenkatz]

16. Proving yet again...

they just don't "get it." The right is consistently wrong.

[Wickerman]

17. So Faux News isn't already a RW parody?

Oh, fer fuck sakes - that is REAL??? :yoiks:

[eauclaireliberal]

58. Seeing as to how these people are a big cartoon to being with

its pretty easy to believe.

[lligrd]

18. Already Been Tried

Wasn't it called the Hot Seat with Wally George.

[madrchsod]

36. i remember wally-----

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_George

[Telly Savalas]

19. Next they'll do a right wing version of the Colbert Report

where they have somebody pretend to be a left-wing pundit with a TV show.

In the same way that Colbert is a parody of right-wing personalities with their own shows like O'Reilly, Hannity, Glenn Beck, Brit Hume, Wolf Blitzer, etc., FOX's show would be a parody of....um....er...that one guy on that channel, you know....and don't forget um....this other guy I think I saw once. The Liberal Media Elite won't know what to do!

[hsher]

29. You know...

That subject line alone makes a great punchline. :evilgrin:

As for doing a left-wing Colbert-type satire, methinks you imply these individuals far too much creativity and credit. That would be far too subtle for their ilk. That's like expecting a Tiffany egg to come out of a duck's butt.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Good luck with that then...

:rofl:

[Raine]

21. Stealing

once again from our side. x(

[Guaranteed]

22. With plenty of racism and homophobia.

This show'll probably be nothing but MORE fodder for Jon and Stephen.

[MannyGoldstein]

23. Aren't These The Pinheads That Went To The Dominican Republic with OxyRush?

This could be great, actually - didn't Roger Ailes play Borat's producer in the recent movie? That was a pretty funny movie.

[Minnesota_Lib]

63. Joel Surnow was indeed one of Limbaugh's "viagra buddies"

[boolean]

25. Sounds like a hoot

:rofl:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

27. Didn't TNT try and fail at this?

I never saw it, but I seem to recall that TNT was going to launch such an endevour.

[krkaufman]

98. Not sure about that, but Colin Quinn's panel show on Comedy Central ...

... had a Rightward tilt, for sure, and sucked horribly. Ditto Dennis Miller.

[Berry Cool]

28. You'd think that given the dropping ratings of the Faux Channel

that the world is not exactly crying for a source of right-wing comedy.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. This'll go together like the Amish and electricity.

[TankLV]

51. I wonder if it'll involve black-face and big red lips?

...seems we were just there not too long ago...

psst - somebody tell them this is the beginning of the 21st century, not the 20th...

on second thought, leave them be...

this should be "entertaining" on more than one level...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. I'm eagerly awaiting the RW Hindenburg this thing is going to be.

[hsher]

55. We should have a drinking game and watch it

Every time a joke on that show bombs, down another beer.
Would we survive a season? ... an episode??

[gaspee]

32. Too bad the right isn't funny

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. I'm trying to imagine the 'humor'

"Anybody here from Iraq? DIE!"

"Hey, those 'suicide bombers' — are they stupid or WHAT?"

"I ran over a guy with my car yesterday, but it's okay — he was a homosexual."

"Anybody here from France? SURRENDER!"

"And that Democrat Party — what's up with THAT?"

"Anybody here from Mexico? DIE!"

[hsher]

35. That sounds about right

In more ways than one.

[DireStrike]

92. No no, they're not suicide bombers

They're HOMICIDE bombers. I think they still are, anyway... right?

[tinfoil tiaras]

34. Republicans. Aren't. Funny.

RW. "Humor". Is. Not. Funny.

Its. Just. STUPID.

I find myself scoffing at the pure absurdity of most of it...:eyes:

Isn't the entertainment business for liberals? Whatever happened to those "gosh-darned-outspoken Hollywood liburulz"?

[Mr_Spock]

37. Rolls eyes...

The RWers are going to try to make hate funny - ya never know, the racist homophobic bigots that watch Faux "News" might just like it :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

38. Here's an example of what the freeps found HILARIOUS

They BEGGED the "artist" to send it to ALL the newspapers, and oohed and aahed at the magnificence of his artwork.

I don't think they will be successful in any comedy endeavor..

[tinfoil tiaras]

41. WTF. I don't get it.

It's not funny. Some Freepers also think sending hate mail to people is "funny" (i.e. The DU hate mailbox-though the joke's really on them).

The donkey is cute, though the rest of the drawing positively sucks. If you're going to deamonize the opposition, DON'T make their animal cute. Just a thought...

[FVZA_Colonel]

73. Basically, only right-wing conservatives can get elected.

I do agree that the donkey is kind of cute.

[hsher]

53. And here's what we libs can do :D

Proud to be a liberal Democrat. Good googly moogly, can you *imagine* being conservative???

http://www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com

[brettdale]

39. OMG

A faux news show that tips to the right, who would have thought it?

[tinfoil tiaras]

43. I heard somewhere that Laura Ingram was going to host it

WTF. Since when did she become a comedian? Did I miss something? :wtf:

[itsrobert]

40. Didn't Dennis Miller try this on CNBC

and FAILED?

[walldude]

44. In the spirit of the old and rebellious SNL??

Yeah, those guys were some funny conservatives :eyes:

[0rganism]

45. maybe they can bring in Al Franken as a writer?

:rofl:

[originalpckelly]

46. "Laugh or die, comrades!" (nt)

[Cocoa]

47. if people think RWers can't be funny

they haven't seen "Ham Nation."

She shows they can be HIP too. Check out the music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10rc6tdeR4&eurl=

[NuttyFluffers]

70. sat through all 5 min of that. i think you forgot the sarcasm smilie

though you could see the strain as it tried to push towards funny. oh the multiple napkins and background music... it tries, it tries sooo hard. and yet it still fails. so sad, it makes me wonder if one could teach comedic timing. such earnest effort brings out my sympathetic side.

[krkaufman]

99. No doubt. Sarcasm warning was needed.

I actually watched the bloody thing hoping to see an example of Right Wing humor. That's 5 minutes of my life I'm never getting back..!

What a plodding, painful experience. And the gal wonders why she hasn't been called-back by Fox? Oy.

[Chimichurri]

83. You should put a warning next to the link.

Warning: may cause drowsiness, extreme boredom

[Initech]

48. Right-wing comedy? *Cartman voice* LAME.

[TankLV]

49. You mean it would be full of LIES then!

We could treat it as satire - they STILL don't "get it"...

[daleo]

52. I doubt if it will be funny

Satires that works in favor of the powerful never are.

[Maiden England]

56. Wait, you mean Faux News isn't already a laughing stock? (NT)

[eauclaireliberal]

57. Yeah, here's the star of their show!

"Hi kids, know what time it is? Time to kill brown people!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

59. I'm sure it will be as side-splittingly hilarious as "Mallard Fillmore."

[eauclaireliberal]

60. Or Drew Carey

Another loser.

[Supply Side Jesus]

94. how does that even get syndication?!

painfully unfunny.

[eauclaireliberal]

61. Actually RockaFowler, freepers are hillarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7899CfQNTVI

[tinfoil tiaras]

62. Holy Crap

:rofl:

Poor guy...but still...:rofl:

[rickrok66]

66. A lack of creativity

It is always difficult to be creative when you are defending the status quo. The great works of art and literature were often published in spite of the existing governments and religious oligarchies rather from the support of them.

Specifically, I feel that many conservatives have a literal approach to life. Look at their interpretations of the Bible and the Constitution. There is often a lack of appreciation of symbolism, irony, or satire among my conservative peers at work.

For example, many of them hate Jon Stewart, but watch the Colbert Report. I think they take him seriously. The link to his show was also on former Representative Delay's website.

Battle Star Galactica is popular among conservatives, but many of them didn't get the obvious message in the episodes on using suicide bombers, forcing religion on others, fair trials, arresting people without charging them, and torturing prisoners. They claim that the evil cylons have these policies, but yet they support the same real ones that are in effect.

The closest thing I see to a conservative comedy show on TV besides Fox News is the Blur Collar Comedy and that is just redneck jokes, slapstick, and jokes about bodily functions.

We'll see, it may be so bad that it is good.

[FVZA_Colonel]

75. Well, I'm sure BSG isn't as popular with them now as before given the turn the story has taken.

Perhaps I haven't paid as much attention to it as they have, but I never saw any sort of tilt to the extreme that people like Jonah Goldberg (who, I believe, has written about the show in National Review).

[tinfoil tiaras]

87. Yeah, I might watch the first show just for the hell of it

To see how stupid Right-Wing Satire (an oxymoron) is.

This is what I'm expecting: "HAHAHAHAH LIBURULZ R DUMMM!!!! BILL CLINTON GOT A BLOW JOB!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

And I think I may be right. :rofl:

[LostInAnomie]

64. What will they do whenever they run out of Leno's old Clinton blow job jokes...

... and jokes about Teddy Kennedy being drunk?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

65. Dennis Miller, check your phone messages! (n/t)

[K8-EEE]

72. Oh God NOOOOOOO!

ANYTHING BUT DENNIS MILLER!

[Lilith Velkor]

67. This article must be satire

Brilliant!

[Hosnon]

69. This will fail for the same reason Air America/liberal talk radio did/will:

Conservatives are drawn to talk radio. Why? Who knows...it's one of those realities. Thinking you can just do change the "tilt" and create a success is naive.

Same with comedy. Comedy is anti-authority and tends to be more liberal.

It won't work.

[w4rma]

85. Big buisness advertisers will boycott this "comedy" show?

Considering how offensive it will have to be to make this work, they just might have to boycott this show.

[K-W]

90. Conservatives dominate talk radio because they own the stations. eom

[K8-EEE]

71. RWers are notoriously irony & humor impaired

OMG this will be a bomb of nuclear proportions.

[ComerPerro]

74. look at that biased wording, "non-liberal bent"

I am sure it will not only be "non-liberal", but fanatically conservative, like everything else on Faux News

[hsher]

76. OK, I dood it

[SeveneightyWhoa]

77. Remember Dennis MIller's show?

I predict this will be as "funny" as that was.

[hsher]

78. I try not to

He of the fetal hands.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

79. I think you all are being had....

Take a look at the source of this "news". Hollywood Reporter thrives on baiting people into believing wildly false claims. And "Fox News" is to air this show? Even that stretches the imagination -- how would they then be perceived as "fair and balanced" by the Faux minions? I know, this argument doesn't make any sense to me either, but I have no faith in "hollywoodreporter" as a legitimate source.

[w4rma]

84. It's going to be racist, sexist, and personally offensive to many people. It will flop. (nt)

[kiki]

86. Satire is based on truth. Conservatism is based on lies.

Good luck with that, you fuckin' losers.

[morgan2]

91. its going to be making fun of

codling children, government programs, and obscure blog conspiracy theorists.

[Swede]

93. Dennis Miller needs a job.

His show was hilarious. Just not the way he intended.

[Imagevision]

97. Could FOX be that stupid? to use Dennis Miller? - I truly hope so!