Ace is unimpressed with what he’s seen from the forthcoming FOXNews take on “The Daily Show,” ostensibly aimed at a more conservative audience than its Comedy Central counterpart. Allah, too, is unimpressed—as are other blogosphere “humorists” I’ve heard from.
On the other hand, from the little bit I’ve seen of it, I happen to think the show is GENIUS! So, if any of those responsible for putting this thing on happen to read this post and are looking for a good, clean, wholesome comedy writer, please—know that I’m available.
Not that I could even hope to improve on what it is you all do, of course. Just that, you know—maybe I can add some of that Jewish flavor to the whole thing. People seem to like that.
Plus, even if I’m not “on,” I’m told I give one heckuva foot rub. So there’s always that.
Anyway. Call me!
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Steve, on the other hand? Doesn’t quite get it. But hey—no accounting for taste, right?
Seriously, guys. Digits! We’ll do lunch!
Here’s the clip I’ve seen everywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU
It’s VERY much a Daily Show/Weekend Update rip-off, to the point of identical camera work and comedic delivery.
Unlike the Daily Show, it’s not all that funny, but neither was the Daily Show when it started however many years ago. They need time to find their groove, but I don’t think they’ll be in a non-cancelled state long enough to find it. Pity.
Will Work for Talisker and Herring.
(TW: like16 I wouldn’t….)
I agree with mgroves (and everyone else, I guess). Very disappointing.
Its failure will only feed the stereotype that conservatives aren’t smart and don’t have a sense of humor. Thanks Fox News!
I’ve never considered Fox news, much less the entire network, as particularly conservative anyway. More of a marketing ploy aimed at those not served by the standard line of the left leaning networks.
It’s really bad form to have an announcer read text that’s already on the screen. That’s bad generally, but fatal for comedy. The peeps in charge of corralling an audience definitely earned their money. Still, it’s a cheap show and they have time to tweak. What with this new internet video thing that all the kids are into – they only need a couple solid clips to go viral and the game can change for them pretty fast, but that does raise the question of whether they shouldn’t have tried incubating the show online first…
I’d say it’s not horrible (except for the laughtrack), but it’s clearly in “Meh Country.” Pull that canned laughter, and it’s watchable. They could use your (TW) help79.
Why don’t they just play colbert? Or their regular lineup? Or even wait till the dems have some power and the daily show covers it?
Individually, liberals are funnier than conservatives.
However, as soon as you put two or more liberals together you get ‘earnest’. And not the funny one who laughed and cried and saw turtles fall from the sky.
Earnest isn’t funny.
see: any Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Whoopie Goldberg group event.
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I was about to make some predictable crack about conservatives not being funny, but I am proven wrong! You are joking, right?
If anyone is looking for a real joke, check out stevie’s performance on the last thread. I saw him knock over an old lady (or was that Pablo?) running away.
BREAKING: TROOP PULLOUT ANNOUNCED!
For the end of March. Circle your calendars now!
The problem might be it is just too hard to satire the left. How can you make up something funnier than the Marcotte episode? Real life is always going to be funnier.
Now that’s comedy!
Or a “peace” march, complete with anti-semitic rants, totalitarians of different stripes, vandalism, and the occasional spittle-flecked rage.
Just finished watching the second season of Animaniacs on DVD. God, that’s a great way to watch them. You can skip over the ChickenBoo cartoons and the damned hippos.
There you go Steve, confirming every possible preconcieved notion anyone could ever have about a tiresome broken record of a bore like you. Nuance man, can you dig it?
Good wholesome clean comedy means you have to ignore entirely too much of the Left to have any bite…
Thomas,
Thanks for that “nuance” lesson.
TomB,
I admit it wasn’t one of my better efforts, but I can’t win them all, baby. You guys need your self-esteem.
You can’t win any of them, because you’re flat-out wrong.
That’s not even close to funny. You are going to reinforce that stereotype about conservatives.
Now we need to work on irony.
And not falling behind the curve.
Thomas,
This is really some strikingly funny stuff about irony and nuance. Have you put in an application for that conservative comedy show on Fox? From what I hear, Jeff excepted, you can’t do any worse than what they’ve got going now.
You can always tell the lefty who has never actually watched Fox News, they can’t wait to complain about how right-wing and biased it is.
It has to be right-wing and biased; it doesn’t sneer at Republicans.
That’s right, steve xx. I’m not funny.
Whereas you? Can make the hobo you’re raping smile by letting slip a quip about how you dig his “urine and two-day-old bacon cheeseburger cologne.”
Of course, it’s all in the delivery.
The joke, I mean. Though if you want to really pleasure a hobo, I’ve found you’re going to have to work a little harder on your delivery there, too.
All that sitting around they do in cold alleyways, and all.
Poking fun at emotionally blunted rigid thinking leftists is not going to earn me a gig on any network TV – no matter how right leaning you may think they are.
They’re pretty much self-selected too.
EricP,
I don’t watch television anymore, at least not at home, but I am occasionally held captive to Fox News at the gym when I use the exercise bike. Even with sound off, so I don’t have to listen to Hannity or O’Reilly, it is downright painful to read the closed captions. To call it conservative is unfair to true conservatives, I suppose. I think it is more Orwellian.
Before the late-March troop pullout, there will be massive deployment of lethal force.
So be warned.
And circle your calendars!
Jeff,
You should send this in for an audition to the show. Your talents are wasted here.
P.S. When I said “Jeff excepted”, I was referring to the fact that you thought it was funny while others didn’t, not that you aren’t funny. You might very well be funny. Occasionally you’ve had some posts that I thought were funny. Most of them, as I’ve stated repeatedly, I just can’t understand. That doesn’t mean they’re not funny.
The fact that you threw some spitballs then ran away, and then lacked the necessary capacity for embarassment to cause you to stay away speaks volumes about you.
Stevie really likes to cut97-and-run.
Do you usually refute yourself within the very same thread?
Like a moth to the flame are you?
TomB,
Gotta defend myself on that note. If you go back to that thread or any of the others in which I receive a lot of special attention, you will notice that there are often 5 or more people commenting on what I post and then I feel the need to comment back. At a certain point, it is not possible to answer the comments unless you get a little sloppy with quick replies, but then you guys jump all over me. At a certain point, it is impossible to keep going. Sometimes, it’s just time for dinner or something, but I suggest you go over to a lefty blog, make a provocative comment and then try to respond to every comment you get in return and you will see my dilemma.
Que?
That would depend on your definition of a “true conservative”. I include Teddy Roosevelt, Republican, conservationist and corporate trust-buster. Fox wouldn’t cater to him.
All I have seen from the show was a ~3 min clip. In that three minutes were 2 really funny jokes, one really bad joke (it was just a stupid, not funny joke), and that BO magazine commercial which was hilarious.
So 2 funny jokes, one bad joke, a priceless commercial = 3.5 out of 4 stars.
Heyooooooh, we got a winner.
As far as it being a “rip-off” of the daily show/snl/etc, so what? I don’t watch that ass-hat Jon Stewart because of the liberal viewpoint on everything. Stewart isn’t an equal oppertunity asshole, he is just an asshole.
I look forward to this new show.
I’ve never considered John Stewart, much less the entire network, as particularly liberal anyway. More of a marketing ploy aimed at those not served by the standard line of the right leaning networks.
That would be all well and good if you had ever made any attempt at good faith debate. But as anyone can see, you just dropped a number of stink bombs (No WMDS!!!) and then left. Spare me your plea for sympathy.
Did Iraq have stink bombs? Good thing we invaded then. I see little point really in debating what I think is pretty obvious at this point. There were no weapons of mass destruction, the intelligence suggesting that, was exaggerated and manipulated and we are not winning or even tying in Iraq. A debate to the contrary is of questionable good faith, in my opinion. In the last thread I made the mistake of adding an offhand comment about making the case against the war in Iraq before it started, when I was trying to make the point that Bush is going into Iran no matter what. I think that if someone is not convinced by now that they were bullshitted into a war based on a flimsy premise and that we are not winning that war, then there is absolutely nothing I can say or do that is going convince you. To refute all of your claims would require me to go do endless google searches and get links from stuff that I used to care about 4 years ago when I was trying to help stop a war. I don’t see the point of doing that, as I don’t see an end to it. There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no nuclear program. There was a decrepit third world country (reduced from second world by our previous invasion). They didn’t even have a viable air force. When I heard the term “Shock and Awe”, I was sickened. So much so, that I logged onto my computer and set myself up with a job in another country for a couple of years. The war to me is an apalling mess. It is an embarrassment to the country. It has ended any sense of patriotism that I had. When I hear people try to continue to claim that it was justified, I think it’s time to just admit you were wrong. It happens sometimes. It isn’t the end of the world to be wrong about something. I often admit when I’m wrong (many times right on this website). In this instance, I was not wrong. You were. Get over it.
Now THAT’s funny!
Shecky,
Sorry for the OT
Stevie doesn’t have to right folks, because he cares.
This just in, Stevie, I find you boring to the point of tears and factually incorrect so often that it makes me wonder if you are a planted caricature.
One more America-hater doesn’t bother me, but save your self-righteous B.S. for a forum filled with your brethren; your schtick is not funny, it’s not entertaining, and it’s not nearly as genuine as you pretend.
Wishbone,
Whether my schtick is funny,entertaining or genuine, I will stay on here until I am booted off. So ignore me or get used to me or put in a complaint.
Impressive, did you type that without taking a breath.
I will not dredge up the whole arguement here. If anyone wants to see a point-by-point smackdown of your rant, it’s on the other thread. But I will post this from your hero, Scott Ritter. And this was AFTER the $400,000 (and the trip to Burger King):
That single statement completely destroys your rant.
TomB,
Did you not just read my post? Do you think that going after Scott Ritter is going to make the fact that the war is a travesty and was started for bogus reasons sting less? Get over it already. If Scott Ritter engaged in acts of bestiality and killed children and ate them for breakfast, it wouldn’t create one little tube of mustard gas or a mobile lab or a drone or poison camp or whatever comic book fantasies were foisted on us to justify this war. You are kidding yourself, now.
Your able to do that when you are born without the gene for embarassment.
Shorter stevie:
PLEASE BAN ME, I NEED THE CRED!
Another merit badge aspirant, no shock there.
But kudos for copping my vibe in a humorous manner. There may be hope for you yet. Better be careful though, you may find yourself drifting to the darkside.
So. Two hamsters walk into a Taco Bell…
…
“Because, brother, the more of these soft tacos I eat, the less I need that fucking wheel!”
Seriously, guys. Digits! We’ll do lunch!
Jeff has obviously never heard the one about the Polish actress trying to break into showbiz–by sleeping with the writer.
steve-expat:
Sounds like that “sense of patriotism” was none too robust to begin with.
Is the Bush administration and this war co-terminous with the United States for you? Do you not love America anymore, if you ever did? A patriot loves her, warts and all. Or, in the fine phrase the Irish have, “in all her sins and graces.”
Thomas,
Thanks. I take any compliment I can get here. It wouldn’t be my first merit badge. I’m surprised I lasted this long, actually. Most of them kick you off after about a week.
I realize this may be a bit to complicated a point for you, but you brought him up in the first place as “evidence” for your no WMDs claim.
I was just pointing out that, well, you don’t know what the hell you are talking about.
Sanity Inspector,
I’m not a patriot. I make no bones about it. I’ve mentioned it before here. I’d root for Americans in the Olympics (with the exception of the basketball team, which I like to see lose). I like the Grand Canyon. I like many things in America. I dislike many things as well. I just don’t think patriotism serves much purpose in today’s world. It seems to inevitably lead to war. I am what you might disdainfully refer to as a one-worlder.
TomB,
I hope that my officially letting go of this thread will help give you the closure you need. So consider it done.
You see, he doesn’t need the wheel.
BECAUSE OF THE EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA!
EVERY thread in which you get pinned down, you cut-and-run. In all the threads I’ve read you, you have yet to support any of the claims you’ve made. You just spout your ANSWER talking points, watch as they are shot to hell, and then run. Doesn’t the fact that you don’t have an answer to any of the responses to your twaddle worry you? It should.
You’ll never get your “I wuz banned @PW” t-shirt that way sparky.
Can we please give this pathetic little gollum what he wishes, just leave him alone in the darkness with his precious.
sorry Jeff.
But the thought of that scumbag Ritter scoring with nubile 16 year olds just PISSES ME OFF.
Why not gerbils?
HOMOPHOBE!
Hamsters are funny
Well, if you’d care to open yourself to the possibly of having your mind changed, or nudged a bit, email me. I’ll slip you some thought-provoking quotes addressing your exact mindset, in a civil high-tone way.
There are t-shirts?
Well-that changes everything. Is there like a Carlin 7-word thing that I can do?
And Jeff, I want a unicorn on mine.
That’s why I usually just scroll on by.
It’s a revolutionary approach to use with trolls, I know—but I think I just might have something!
Sure, until somebody gets their eye put out by one.
SB: area13
the “M” squad
Not true!
The Daily Show used to be hosted by Craig Kilbourn, and was about a zillion times funnier than Stewarts John(son) load.
As far as conservitives not being funny, Rush Limbaugh is also a zillion or two times funnier than the Daily Show.
The Right, with the notable exception of Rush Limbaugh are far to respectful of sacred cows to ever be funny.
His Homeless Updates and Timber Updates are damn funny. I thought Dennis Miller was damn funny…
Me? I go for stuff like “a one minute phd thesis on ‘The Wheel in Precolumbian Meso-America’.”
Or the one sentence book on “Mayan Horsemanship”.
Mad TV had libertarian spirit of humor and I love the skit with Algore forcing his way into a voter’s house yelling “I’ll fight for you!”.
Hippy chicks who want the government ‘out of our bedrooms’ but won’t go down on you are funny too!
The angry old women around Santa Fe NM with the beef jerky complexions and the dog-chewed haircuts are a great target of humor.
Really, if you can’t make fun of the less fortunate, who can you make fun of?!
TW: don’t tell me about sexually repressed Republicans if you won’t give me a hand98job! That’s funny.
Holy great God did that suck. A funnier bit would have tony montanna from scarface endorsing Obama. Or John Edwards claiming to have freebased just to one up him.
But let’s face it. Neocons just aren’t funny. Stick to the things you do best like gay bashing and mocking 9/11 widows. Now that stuff you’re good at. Comedy…not so much.
That’s not funny. That’s just kinda snarky and rabid.
Funny is having a pre-nup in a gay ‘marriage’ that specifies a certain amount of pitching and catching–and setting alimony based on that percentage!
I hereby renounce my citizenship of the FSA! The Fascist States of AmeriKKKa!
Again, not funny: too stereotyped and over the top.
Funny is leaving for New Zealand and denouncing your country so that the locals like you even though you are an American. Hey, some of my best friends are American!
Stevie, you wouldn’t know a fascist if it kicked you repeatedly in the face with a Janet Reno jackboot.
Gay bashing…check.
Mocking 9/11 widows…check.
Profiting from Halliburton holdings…check.
Persecuting John Edwards’ campaign staff on behalf of the patriarchy…check.
Cartooning Mohammed and offending Muslims…check.
Defending Christofascists…check.
Ignoring science about global warming…check.
Embracing returning to the moon and going to Mars…check.
Kicking puppies…check.
Now, I just need a greasy handle-bar mustache and a secret lair. And henchmen. And a nice capucccino machine.
Hitler, stalin hell even our modern day islamic faschists are ‘one-worlders’. So, what happens when your world clashes with theirs? Are you going to just grab your ankles and take it, because you are a one-worlder? Or, are you going to fight for freedom and democracy – the things Amerikkkka stands for?
You are what I disdainfully refer to as a wanker.
And who is this “Dr Know” snotrag?
Some sort of uphill gardener would be my guess.
Ah. A wanna-be tyrant.
Fox does catering? I’ll have a Boar’s Head reuben on rye, steak fries and a Pilsener Urquell.
Who knew Ted Rall was a neocon. Show of hands?
Unless of course those pesky Mexicans, or Peskicans, learn the ancient and mystic art of psychiatrism. That’s where definiteve lines are really needed to separate the Licensed World and the Unlicensed World. So when in comes to matters of the noggin sciences, I am what you might call a two-worlder. But when you consider apprenticeship, maybe three-worlder?
— steve ex-expat
Geez,
PW: Miss an Evening and You Miss A Lot!
Two Republicans walk into a bar… They buy it!
And a top hat and tailcoat.
And to really be a detestable neocon, you need ilk. Lots and lots of ilk. In fact: new ad campaign:
I second that.
In keeping with the spirit of this thread, bad jokes should be ignored, not encouraged.
Jeeze, an actual link to Stevie from the Cardinal Richelieu of the PJMafia?
He’ll wet himself.
You’re right, gay bashing and mocking 9/11 widows is rabid.
Hey, if you want to talk to Ann Coulter, you might try her site, Dr Know.
Because as it stands, you’ve wandered into the wrong cartoon here. And you’re beginning to look really quite foolish.
“Beginning”…?
Ohh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that the discussion of a lame wingnut “comedy” show needs to be treated with such seriousness. I’ll get my tweed jacket with leather elbow patches and a pipe. Ahhh there now, *ahem* where were we? Oh yes, umm.. this show suckles like a newborn swine, your thoughts?
I’m here to question Dr. Know’s patriotism:
Thank you – try the veal!
Funny?
Who knew?
Geez, Jeff, this guy’s good. I’ll never be able to wear my tweed jacket with patches – how did he know?!? – ever again.
I’m just stunned by the non-sequitur. Who said the topic had to be treated with seriousness?
I believe what I said was that you wandered into the wrong cartoon.
And how do you respond? By following up that observation with proof that you have indeed done just that—all while betraying a blindspot to the irony of your comment that is evidently so massive, were one so inclined, one could fit an entire truckload of Michael Moores through it width-wise.
Robert Crawford,
Nah, that would take too much effort for Steve. Being a one-worlder for him is a way of pretending to commit to something that doesn’t require him to, y’know, actually do anything.
Wow. You’re easily stunned.
But you do seem a bit touchy on the subject of how unfunny the right seems to be. So maybe they should stick to what they do best which is, once again, gay bashing and mocking 9/11 widows. And if I’ve somehow “wandered into the wrong cartoon” whatever that means you’ll have to forgive me, blogs like this are a dime a dozen and it gets hard to tell them apart.
So.. where’s the funny? Oh wait! Here it is!
Cause he’s fat! Ha! I get it .. Damn you guys are funny.
Well, he is fat, you do realize.
But if you’d like, I can go another route. How about you betray a blindspot to the irony of your comment that is so massive even your own head could fit through it. With a little help from some butter or vaseline. And about 10 of your friends behind you pushing.
Or, you know, one conservative. Woman.
Nobody ever responds when I question their patriotism.
But I will get my answers!
Thank you, Dr. Know, we’ll be in touch with your agent.
Jeffery, really I’m flattered but flirting with me like this is a little innapropriate don’t you think. But yes, thank you for validating my point about neocons not being funny.
Although, points for trying aside, you kids should really stick to gay bashing and mocking 9/11 widows.
It’s still what you do best.
So, I’m still waiting for something funny..or.. is that all there is?
These metaphors are probably a bit too meta-ish for the good doctor to follow. That you try not once, but twice… man, you are a giver.
Did I mention the conservative woman was born without arms?
And that her feet have been bound since she was a little girl as part of a patriarchal scheme to keep her domesticated?
Ah yes, the last best hope for the troll to make a point.
If you ignore his post, you cannot respond to scintillating intellect, and he wins. If you answer his post, he’s obviously “touched a nerve”, and he wins.
The debating tactics of a 3rd grader.
We really do live in 2 Americas.
The one America where the well groomed, sensitive, fruity libs get all the laughs – and the other America where the poor rumpled conservatives must scrape and scrap for even a smile, let alone the occasional titter.
“Go out and be funnier”—easy for you to say. You’re already funny. My neighborhood is not funny. My parents struggled for giggles as did their parents before them. Facial moles don’t help either.
Let’s pull out of eye-rack and use those billions and billions to bribe liberals into laughing more at our jokes. We’re hurting. CAN’T YOU SEE WE’RE HURTING?
Actually it’s more like dozens. And one of those is the neocon one where the show being discussed origionated from. It’s not funny. You can point fingers and howl about the “fruity libs”(?) all you want but the simple truth is, it’s not funny. Neocons aren’t funny. And it’s not like you don’t have easy targets, you just can’t seem to hit them. Like Jefferys impotent michael moore is fat observation, it plays to crickets.
Look, all I’m doing is pointing out the strengths in the shallow bag of neocon tricks. You outta be proud of them; Gay bashing, you guys are great at that! And no one slams 9/11 widows like the wingnuts. So please, stick with what your little crowd does best and let the rest of America handle the funny