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.
Essentially, Fox News is poised to once again be considered the wet blanket comedian whose jokes fall flat, simply because he doesn't get what is funny. The idea that Jon Stewart spares anyone in the media is ludicrous if you have ever watched the show. Want an example? Here's Howard Dean getting skewered by Jon Stewart:
In another clip, Jon described the Democratic takeover of Congress as "the brother who backs slowly out of the room while the other brother gets yelled at for burning down the garage". In short, The Daily Show has both sides of the political spectrum covered and never backs down from taking on a sacred cow, no matter to whom it belongs. Aside from that, the hit spin-off Colbert Report already takes on Democrats in an exact parody of anything a conservative show might say.
In short, consider the Daily Show/Colbert Report to be the equivalent of Robin Williams' character from "Good Morning Vietnam" and anything Fox pulls out of its hat will be this guy:
1 comment:
That's kind of... abrupt.
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