A right-leaning news satire show. Granted, they need to refine this a bit to make it worth watching, but it's nice to see something from the other side on the entertainment front.

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Fox News Channel is airing two pilots of Joel Surnow's "The ½ Hour News Hour" to test the market for a right-leaning satire show. FNC is testing the concept on Sunday nights. The first episode will air at 10 p.m. Sunday and repeat the following Sunday. The second episode will air at the same time March 4. The show, which stars comedians Kurt Long and Jenn Robertson, owes quite a bit to "Saturday Night Live" segment "Weekend Update" in both format and spirit. The "newscasters" will take a story of the day and then spin it to a comedic extreme. "We're calling it news with a sense of humor," said Surnow, producer of Fox's "24." "It's a show that satirizes the targets that have been missed by the mainstream satirists on TV." One seg discusses the timeless popularity on campus of T-shirts bearing the iconic image of Che Guevara. "We spin it into a campus T-shirt salesman who also sells T-shirts of Mao and Hitler," said co-producer Manny Coto. FNC will promote the show over the next few weeks and see what kind of ratings it produces in a typically sleepy timeslot for cable news. Ratings will determine whether the show is picked up. Surnow, a personal friend of Rush Limbaugh, said he hopes to get some promotion for the skein on conservative talkradio over the next few weeks. Surnow initially pitched the concept as a latenight skein for the Fox television network, which passed. He took it to FNC topper Roger Ailes, who liked the idea and committed late last year to a trial on Fox News Channel. "You can turn on any show and see Bush being bashed," Surnow said. "There really is nothing out there for those who want satire that tilts right."

I thought Bill O'reilly's factor was a satire show. You can't tell me he's being serious!

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Originally posted by Sunsnail I thought Bill O'reilly's factor was a satire show. You can't tell me he's being serious!

Lol. He may be trying to be serious, but I certainly don't take him very seriously!

But normal right leaning news is already satire!

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Orbax At that point you kind of crossed the rubicon and you might as well lay siege to Rome

Are they using a laugh track?

It's a big stereotypical, but I don't think right-leaning individuals are really up for a satirical news show. That one sure sucks anyway.

I see South Park as a "right-leaning" satire. It seems to be doing alright.

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Originally posted by Shakka South Park is an equal opportunity offender. The best kind. Trey and Matt can't stand either side--and it makes for great TV.

They especially don't like us beady-eyed Canucks...

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r They especially don't like us beady-eyed Canucks...

That's because you guys' mouths come unhinged like the Reach flip-top head, eh!

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"There really is nothing out there for those who want satire that tilts right."

Sure there is, there's at least over 80 years worth of archived slapstick pie throwing.

Bwah, good clip, funny. Does actually remind me of the Bill O'Reilly's outrageous moments in history , especially his "O'Reilly Factor"

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I don't think they quite "get" it. Good satire involves tactfully illuminating out the absurdity of the powers-that-be. This show (and conservative "humour" in general actually) tends to manifest itself more as mean-spirited vitriol with a not-so-subtle ideological agenda (Obama smells and does cocaine! lol!). I fail to see how you can do satire properly when you are inherently enamoured not only with the idea of authoritarianism (hey you! support the president!) but a specifically partisan kind of authoritarianism (...unless he's a Democrat!).

Also, the fact that the Daily Show is show on a comedy channel that exists to parody news channels seems (like everything else here) to be completely lost on them.

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