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Does the right wing even appreciate humor?


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Well, if they get a camera to follow John Kerry around, they ought to have 30 minutes of comedy a day. Of course, the jokes will be rather repetitive.

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Seriously, can Fox bring the funny intentionally?

No. This is just a misguided attempt to try to get people to see a network that rapidly losing viewers and companies. How the mighty have fallen.

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Fox is forgetting the fact that conservatives aren't funny. Humor definitely has a liberal-bias.

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Wow. I can hear the punchline to every joke now... "It's Clinton's fault"

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I guess that's why all the liberal political books (Michael Moore, Al Franken, etc) are all in the Humor section, right?

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Fox News is funny.

But never intentionally.

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What exactly are the "sacred cows of the left"? Part of the left's problem is that it doesn't really have any. I'm sure Ann Coulter will come up with a few. She'd be perfect for this new show, if she weren't so damn scary.

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Conservative attempts as humor such as the comic strips Mallard Filmore and Prickly City don't bode well for this show. I think the problem is that they come at the news with partisan spin first, humor second if at all. To succeed you need to focus just on humor and your inherent perspective on things will come out.

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Yeah, Eligio, Sure they've fallen. You wish.

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Will never work. Daily Show doesn't have a liberal bias, it has a progressive bias. It champions honesty and straightforwardness above all else. They were a big fan of John McCain until he started selling out his values.

But FOX News has a strong conservative bias. And so does Ned Rice, the guy credited as the creator. There's a reason Air America never took off. People don't want to hear satire with a particular spin, they want to be told the truth. It just happens to be that if you look at the world and politics objectively, the truth falls considerably to the left of the right.

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"Scared cows of the left"? Hhhmmm, who lost control of Congress a couple weeks ago? It wasn't the "scared cows of the left." By the way, it's Manny Coto, not Coata. Exactly how are two people known for writing over-the-top drama going to create a satirical news program? I can't see this working, especially if their intent is to be utterly anti-Liberal in the humor. What makes the likes of Jon Stewart funny, in his own way, is that he doesn't care what party the person is in before he decides to slice into them. More than a few liberals have been on the receiving end of his biting humor.

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Wow. What a bad idea and yes, conservatives have a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at ourselves. We have to. With that said having a "conservative Daily Show" on a (whether you like it or not) legitimate news outlet is in itself a joke.

Wasn't there an animated show on Spike called "This Just In" that was about a conservative blogger?

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Sounds like Fox News is getting their first openly bias show.

Who here wants to bet that it has just as journalistic qaulity than any other Fox News program?

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i can see this show as being made fun of on Snl for the two weeks it is on

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"What exactly are the "sacred cows of the left"? Part of the left's problem is that it doesn't really have any."

You're joking, right? Let me take a stab...

Abortion
Gun control
Abortion
Universal health care
Abortion
Redistribution of private wealth
And maybe something about reproductive rights

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A right wing version of the Daily Show? I thought that was the entire idea behind Fox News in the first place.

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Even assuming that those issues are sacred cows (though I don't really think they are), that only proves the point that there's not much to make fun of. This kind of thing has been TRIED before. PJ O'Rourke has been around for decades, Dennis Miller has been conservative for a few years. But there's nothing funny about abortion, poor people unable to pay for medical treatment, or kids from a Colorado high school buying an entire arsenal of guns without raising eyebrows.

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More power to them if they think it will work. Personally, I think Fox News is most successful when it uses scare tactics. It might be difficult to spend the day telling people who and what they should fear, and then turn around and make fun of those same people and issues in a comedy show.

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I dunno Vito, every night on Comedy Central there seems to be plenty that's funny about needless war, officially sanctioned pedophilia, and corporate scandals that deprive thousands of their hard-earned retirements.

I think you just proved all by yourself that the items on my list are "sacred cows." Pick an issue, and I can tell whether you'll think it's funny based on which side of the fence you're on.

Mind you, I don't think this show's going to work either. The format's wrong (just as a book every couple of years, a la P.J. O'Rourke, is right). Just don't tell me the left doesn't have any totems to satirize.

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