"Fox May Launch "Colbert Report"-style satire of Liberal Pundits"

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From the Hollywood Reporter:

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.

The show was pitched as "This Just In" when it first got life as a 20-minute pilot presentation for Fox Broadcasting Co.'s late-night division.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

if this happens a black hole will open under bill oreilly's desk and we are all doomed and i claim my five dollars.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

What's the over/under? Three weeks?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, this makes it even.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ned "Rice".

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

TONIGHT ON THIS JUST IN: FALL SIDEBURN HATE REPORT.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

hahahah
this should be great

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

argh I can already picture exactly how frustrated and angry this will make me

― Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Monday, 20 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

TONIGHT ON THIS JUST IN: FALL SIDEBURN HATE REPORT.

First they came for the hirsute...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

can you make a 20 minute show based entirely on calling people pussies and hippies?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kinda strange, actually, someone called me a stinking hippie the other day. Very bizarre.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I HEAR MICHAEL RICHARDS IS LOOKING FOR WORK

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

no republican has ever said anything funny

― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fortliberty.org/hollywood/comedians.shtml

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

can you make a 20 minute show based entirely on calling people pussies and hippies?

Actually, if they do this it might make it past three weeks.

The real problem materialwise is that there are no liberal O'Reilly or Hannity or Limbaugh analogs to lampoon. Air America is floundering because the smart, reasonable people who might otherwise listen are just as turned off by vaguely lefty BS ranting as by the Fox news Reality Distortion Engine.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Lampooning NPR would be a lot easier than pulling a reverse on the Daily Show.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Air America vs. NPR... for unfunny chucklehead "comedy" business, Al Franken is even worse than the Car Talk guys.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

this will make nobody mad. it'll be like that conservative political cartoons thread: not funny, only good for a couple chuckles at, but never with. it won't last long. regular fox news viewers won't find it funny either.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

can you make a 20 minute show based entirely on calling people pussies and hippies?

Well, political cheap shots aren't what makes the Colbert Report funny. TCR is (obv.) just as much a satire of liberal perceptions of neocons as a satire of the neocons themselves. On one hand I can see FOX pulling this off (and also Colbert's pseudo'reilly ego fisting would also work for a satire of lib puns like Franken & Moore) but on the other hand it's not nearly as funny because (a) FOX is just one big masturbatory conservative wasteland already and (b) at least from my experience conservative political jabs tend to be more openly "calling people pussies and hippies" (i.e. what is already FOX News programming) whereas the Daily Show/Colbert Report are more in tune with the liberal mode of political emasculation (passive-aggressive).

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 20 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ all the Republican comedians being Libertarians

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

This show : Colbert :: Prickly City : Doonesbury

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 20 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

republican comedy's only hope is ron silver (jews are funny by default)

― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Lampooning NPR would be a lot easier than pulling a reverse on the Daily Show.
-- milo z (wooderso...), November 20th, 2006.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Lampooning NPR would be a lot easier than pulling a reverse on the Daily Show.
-- milo z (wooderso...), November 20th, 2006.

http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~tlarson1/npr.gif

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

(jews are funny by default)

Technically: jews, sex (incl. naughty body parts), and "k" sounds.

I really hope your familiar with John Stewart on the funniest joke ever written.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

FETCH ME DENNIS MILLER

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mallard Filmore proves that this won't work.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org/images/MallardFillmorePeopleAreTooStupid.gif

I'm not exactly shaking in fear over this.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh mallard, your wry expressions of disdain make my workday all that more enjoyable

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Those wry expressions of disdain make me want to break that bill over my knee.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Magret de canard!! Mmmmmm.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, someone fetch Dennis Miller from nadir of his career.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT20060911.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

RIBS, HURTING. KNEES, SLAPPED.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

TINSLEY=DOOUUUCHE

FROM THE DOUCHE PLANET!
THE STATE OF DOUCHELAND!
IT'S CAPITAL DOUCHETOWN!

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I'll check it out once or twice, as I did the Reactionary Dennis Miller Follies. I'd estimate the chances it'll be funny at less than one percent, though.

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think people who watch FOX News have the political savvy (or intelligence in general) to appreciate a Daily Show-style send up of punditry and politics. If they did, they wouldn't be watching FOX News; it's almost self-parody already.

I can see this failing miserably.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, isn't the announcement of a non-liberal "answer" to the Daily Show basically an admittance that not even FOX considers itself fair and balanced anymore?

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

i get enough liberal jokes on the war at home, family guy, american dad, and the simpsons, but i would probably watch it anyway.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm no Fox hound, but calling FN viewers stupid is a little insipid.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah thats what led to nazi germany.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm no Fox hound, but calling FN viewers stupid is a little insipid.

-- Hoosteen (merlindude0...), November 20th, 2006.

Yeah, it was kind of a cheap shot. But personally, I've yet to meet a faithful Fox watcher who has a really great grasp on current events. That might not be entirely their fault; this is the network that has reported more than once that WMD were found in Iraq and labeled Mark Foley as a Democrat several times, always without a retraction or correction. Most intelligent viewers probably watch other stations or divide their time between Fox and a different source. People who watch solely Fox, I think, would have to lack some basic intellectual curiosity to avoid looking for another news source. Limiting your information intake to only the views with which you agree is the mark of a small mind.

This is all coming from someone whose extended family has Fox on all day long. It's nauseating to watch it for more than a few minutes.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

calling FN viewers stupid is a little insipid

But closer to the mark than calling Fox News "News". Dan Rather OTM.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

So, are these guys going to have on some sorta Krugman-replicant to spout the strawman bullshit that Mallard Fillmore usually indulges in, or what?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

msnbc should really just bring Michael Savage back.

Seriously. his two-to-three week run was some of the greatest television ive ever seen.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

that SNL skit really got the verbal mannerisms of NPR host down pat...

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't watch Savage. My exposure to the most vitirolic of his bullshit has forever immunized me from being able to laugh at his idiocy.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

(hoosteen's a hypocrite cause fn watchers aren't stupid but savage is an idiot &c)

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

he was such a n00b at television. he wore sunglasses during the commercial breaks because the studio lights hurt his eyes, and sometimes he'd forget to take them off after returning from a break. he also made all these self-consious smirks and squirms when he'd say something outrageous, as if his body language was saying "holy shit i cant believe i just said that on tv!" i assume he does this often, but obv no way to tell on the radio.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah those huge sunglasses he wears just up the douche factor.

I've totally been overusing the word "douche" lately.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always a little bummed to have my fears confirmed that the EXPs of '24' are horrible right-wing maniacs, even though there's never been much doubt about it.

How can I hate these assholes but love the wildly entertaining vigilante ways of Jack Bauer/Charles Bronson/Dirty Harry/etc. etc. etc.?? Grrrr......

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

NRO attempts a defense, fails.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

I fear it will quickly get pigeonholed as “the conservative comedy show.”

That would be because it IS the "conservative comedy show."

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Let's face it: Larry Miller is way more likely than Dennis Miller.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm yes hello I am Garrison Keillor.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Has the noize board always been in comic sans? wtf?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

god i hate larry miller

― anticon jemima (ooo), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

'islam isnt really a religion. it's made up, like scientology.'

― anticon jemima (ooo), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

But sarcasm wouldn't really work for them, would it?

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Scientologists?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, is the Colbert Report not being filmed or broadcast this week? I hate when the funnies take a week off. I never got to do that for the holidays when I worked at a newspaper.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

the pilot debuted here:

The “This Just In” pilot had its first public screening at the opening night of The Liberty Film Festival last week, and completely blew the audience away with its edgy, non-p.c. humor.

Imagine: a conservative version of the Jon Stewart show, except that it’s actually funny! Joel’s show is basically designed as a Saturday night comedy show tailored to a conservative-leaning audience. Fox will apparently tape two episodes of the show and air them in late January, with the possibility that the show could become a weekly feature.

Newsmax covering this:

"It's not going to hit you over the head with partisan politics. It'll hit anything that deserves to be hit."

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

its edgy, non-p.c. humor

"Special guest interviewee: Michael Richards."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still wondering how the Fox faithful will react to this admission that their news source is not actually fair and balanced. I mean, I don't think most of them care, but it's interesting to me that Fox has decided to end the charade.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, I hope their wardrobe department has plenty of tie-dyed shirts.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Steffanie - hear hear!! The lefties on this site don’t seem to quite understand that shows like ‘This Just In” are not for them - they’re for conservatives like us and we find them hilarious! The show is extremely well made, over 350 conservative fans in the Liberty Film Festival audience on opening night were roaring with laughter and joy at how great the show was! Lefties are just full of sour grapes when conservatives make anything for other conservatives to enjoy! Guess what - I never watch Letterman, Stewart or any other the other late night shows because I find them completely unfunny and stupid. Johnny Carson was great and knew how to make everyone laugh - these guys do not. I guess it’s just a sign of the divide between left and right. The lefties may find the current late-night shows hilarious, but conservatives do not. Conservatives do find conservative-leaning shows like “This Just In” and the conservative comedy shorts we showed at the festival like the Repunklicans hilarious, while lefties do not. Lefties: you just have a different sense of humor from us, so your comments about what is or isn’t funny from conservatives has little relevance or validity when it comes to what the huge number of conservatives in the American public will enjoy. I noticed that when we put up those spots from the Repunklicans, our great little conservative punk rock band, that lefties were baffled and unamused - and yet when we showed them before our conservative festival audience, they were a smash hit and everybody roared with laughter and absolutely loved them.

Whether you like it or not, conservative have always been great at comedy - just look at Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (conservatives), Johnny Carson (conservative), Morrie Ryskind who wrote the Marx Brothers comedies (Ryskind was a conservative), Paddy Chayefsky (conservative when he made “Network” and “The Hospital”), even guys like Adam Sandler and Vince Vaughn today are conservative, and I hear rumors that Sacha Baron Cohen is a conservative as well… Conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage have enormous audiences not just because of their politics, but because they’re also extremely funny and entertaining! So just face it lefties, whether you like it or not, America is a free country and if conservatives want to make conservative comedy shows and movies for other conservatives to enjoy, there’s really nothing you can do about it but whine. It doesn’t matter if you like them or not, because they’re not made for you - they’re made for us! And we find them hilarious!

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

The description makes it sound like sketch comedy??? I was actually figuring this would just consist of interviews with silly 22-year-old environmental activists and PETA members and such.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

such a great extended comment. Paddy Chayefsky was a conservative! Who knew?!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

from Variety:

"The way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney," Surnow said. "The other side hasn't been skewered in a fair and balanced way."

The working title of the show has been "This Just In," but that will change because AOL just launched a broadband comedy channel by that name.

The pilot segs will be co-anchored by comedians Kurt Long and Susan Yeagley and feature a family of correspondents. "There will be some elements of 'The Daily Show' and some of 'Weekend Update,' " Surnow said.

http://sadlyno.com/wordpress/uploads/2006/11/this_just_in_9-26-06-1000px.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Surely the point they always miss is comedians and comedy shows always skewer *whoever* is in government, with gusto. Clinton got tons of shit from SNL for example.

and I hear rumors that Sacha Baron Cohen is a conservative as well

Pity he isnt an american, then isnt it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

hearditonthexico otm -- WHAT liberal pundits?

no republican has ever said anything funny

Bob Dole on a gathering of Ford, Carter and Nixon: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Evil."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

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