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Originally Posted by jeskibuff  I look forward to every Sunday night now. 10pm is when the Fox News channel airs its new show "The 1/2-hour News Hour", a comedy similar to Saturday Night Live's "Weekend News Update" segment. It's downright hilarious and obviously picking up momentum; there are more commercials now than when the show first aired and there has been a new episode every week for the last 4 or 5 weeks. It's great to see blatant ridicule of liberal stupidity. It's what's needed because there is no way to reason with the liberal mindset. But liberals sure do understand when their ideas are so dumb and their actions are so hypocritical that people laugh at them. Maybe that's the only way to get them to "see the light"; reasoning with them certainly isn't possible. |
From ThinkProgress
TVNewser reports today that the HHNH has been canceled. In a memo to senior producers today, Fox News Corp.’s senior vice president Bill Shine announced:
Joel Surnow and I have mutually decided that we will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run. The last show will be presented on September 16th.
Shine claimed the reason for the shelving of the show was that Fox is “considering ways to retool the show for future scheduling needs.” He held out the chance that the show would air again: “There is still a chance you will see the program at some point in the future.”
The reviews for the program were consistently dismal. Its very first review, from the Orlando Sentinel, decried the “[l]aughter, of an awfully canned variety, greets all the gags. Nothing happening on screen justifies these outbursts. … If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear of this dreadful show again.” “Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody,” said the New York Times. “The 1/2 Hour News Hour is slow torture all by itself,” said the Philadelpha Inquirer.
What the right-wing failed to grasp is Jon Stewart is funny not because he spins falsehoods but because he tells the truth.