Satire sinks at Fox News 'Half Hour News Hour' cancelled

Variety ^ | Aug. 14, 2007 | Michael Learmonth

[exile]

Well it was good while it lasted, now I guess I’ll have to go watch John Stewart fellate Hitlery every stinking night.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Cancelled” (with 2 “ls”) is an accepted spelling of the word. I prefer it (not that that matters).

[GreenLanternCorps]

The best part of NNTN was the ad for “Mitsubishi Apple Pie”.

I still have my Sniglets book somewhere...

[Fledermaus]

Part of the “joke”...comedy on a news channel since people consider “The Daily Show” real “news” and its on a comedy channel.

[GraceCoolidge]

I think I saw one episode of "Ice Truckers." I find their recent promos downright creepy... the whole "one of them isn't going to make it" teaser. Oh, let's tune in to see who dies! Kind of disturbing.

I did catch a little of the "Half Hour News Hour" a couple weeks ago and found it funnier than I anticipated. I agree wholeheartedly, though, that it did not belong on a news channel.

[NucSubs]

It had it’s moments, but too uneven.

[PJ-Comix]

They emphasized “message” over humor. When doing political comedy, the emphasis should ALWAYS be on comedy first, not message. When I do my DUmmie FUnnies I don’t even think about the message part. My main concern is the humor value. Trying to put a message in comedy is like getting slammed on the head by a hammer. Annoying. And NOT funnie.

[highball]

They emphasized “message” over humor. When doing political comedy, the emphasis should ALWAYS be on comedy first, not message. When I do my DUmmie FUnnies I don’t even think about the message part. My main concern is the humor value. Trying to put a message in comedy is like getting slammed on the head by a hammer. Annoying. And NOT funnie.

Exactly. Jon Stewart is willing to take shots at all sides (even though his loyalties remain clear). The Onion makes jokes at everybody's expense.

It's okay to let art carry a political message, but when that political message becomes the sole reason for having the art in the first place, you get really bad art.

[CRBDeuce]

“The only thing it had to recommend it was its political bent.”
Imagine that....AND it was the only election coverage worth watching....Fox couldn’t have done it any better! It should have continued thru next November! The Dennis Kucinich, Obama, and Hillary ‘voters’ were priceless.

[GraniteStateConservative]

TDS and Colbert Report are both funny. This show was horrid.

[highball]

Fox couldn’t have done it any better!

Sure they could have - they could have made it actually, you know, funny.