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Posted Nov 6th 2009 8:04PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, News, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Part of me is surprised that this deal took this long to happen. But when you watch the recent crop of new shows on the Chortle Network (with the exception of
Tosh.0), it really shouldn't surprise anyone.
Comedy Central has ordered a half-hour scripted pilot based on the Onion's Sports Network. The OSN is part of the popular satirical magazine's
online TV news network that launched a little under a year ago.
This isn't the first time the network has tried to do a satirical sports show. Comedy Central also shot a pilot for a
Daily Show-esque sports show called
Sports Central that died in the pilot stage. This incarnation sounds much more promising since it will spoof not only sports figures and stories, but also the tone and style of sports media. Sweet sassy molassey, this is gonna rock!
Posted Apr 22nd 2009 10:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Web, Reality-Free
It's becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between shows like
The Daily Show and
The Situation Room or
The Colbert Report and
The O'Reilly Factor. Oh sure, i can tell the shows apart. I just can't decide which is funnier. Sometimes I wonder why Sean Hannity hasn't won the Thurber Prize.
No one has exploited the news' foibles and follies better than
The Onion. Their newspaper parody crippled news junkies with laughter and probably the newspaper industry, as well, which is a bigger shame for newspaper people since
The Onion is free. Their mockery of the 24-hour cable news network was just as brilliant and parallel.
But the line between news and news humor has now gone from aluminum gray to a dark and smokey charcoal. They have actually hired former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista.
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