OK. The Faux "Daily Show" ripoff officially sucks *Video*

[Goat or Panic]

mediabistro.com/tvnewser

It's worse than we thought.
"Obama announced that he has tried cocaine in the past. This just in: Obama's approval among Democrats is 99.9 percent."

And the delivery is about as swift as a lava flow.


The "Half Hour News Hour" is where funny goes to die.

[NMDemDist2]

1. link is incomplete n/t

[CatWoman]

5. here

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[Goat or Panic]

15. Thanx

Kinda new to the posting links thing :)

[Judi Lynn]

53. That's just sad! Almost feel sorry for these Nazis. Thanks for the link, CatWoman. n/t

[Monk06]

61. The Laff track is nice. Brings back memories of the Brady Bunch.

[CatWoman]

73. when you're reduced to body function jokes

you've already lost the battle.

someone show clue Fox in on that.

[rebel with a cause]

85. Same thing I was thinking.

So fake, so Faux. :7

[corkhead]

107. Thanks for sparing me the gory details, the comments here are funnier than expect the show to be

[rocktivity]

83. Always use the permalink when linking to a blog entry

link

At TVnewser, you should click on the time stamp.

:headbang:
rocknation

[PA Democrat]

6. Here's a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU&eurl=

[maggiegault]

18. I Lasted Less Than Ten Seconds.

It was just stupid.

I can handle "unfunny." "Insult to my intelligence," not so much.

And the kicker: you can get this shit on YouTube. Viacom pulled all of the Colbert and TDS clips.

[Cabcere]

34. I know, right?

There's got to be some screwed-up "supply and demand" explanation for this, but I never did particularly well in economics. :shrug: But yeah, it was pretty bad.

[CatWoman]

72. Pathetic came to my mind

still, the wingnuts will probably lap it up.

[Ignacio Upton]

119. That's weird

Isn't Murdoch known for being a hard ass on enforcing copy"right"?

[calimary]

20. I'm whelmed. YAAWWWNNN...

That laugh track is gonna get quite a workout, though.

[CatholicEdHead]

47. Not even remotely funny

I also picked up on the laugh track and forced laughter. There was nothing funny at all about it, it was really forced. Colbert and Stewart use material that practically write themselves.

[rebel with a cause]

87. And they attack both sides.

True the republicans may get hit more than the democrats, but I think that is because they deserve it. I bet this thing will only hit the democrats, and like this thing on Barack, it will be low class humor and dirty politics. Just sad and unfunny to boot.

[Kutjara]

2. Christ, the right wing trying to be funny.

There's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Leaden humor from leaden thinkers. Just another of the million reasons never to watch Fux.

[rusty charly]

9. and where/when did they start with the

"we're funny and the left has no sense of humor"? just, from whence did that crap spring? my theory: when they get called on their outrageous bigotry or calls for murder: "it was a joke! where's your sense of humor??!!!"

[AlCzervik]

3. they also ripped off the graphics for the opening from the daily show.

really unfunny.

[aein]

4. is that a laugh track?

[PA Democrat]

10. It has to be. The laughter starts before they even get the full joke out

of their mouths. That was the most UN-funny thing I've ever seen.

[Kingshakabobo]

11. Definitely some "forced" laughter. It doesn't sound like a track but.....

.....there are some paid cacklers in that crowd.

[Bucky]

48. Listen again. At least in the BO Magazine skit, it was the same laughter over and over

The live sequence before it may have a few cacklers in the studio, but even then they seemed accompanied by the basic laugh track "burst."

BTW, did you notice the footage of dancing blacks at the start of the BO Mag clip? From their looks, they were Africans or Haitians, not Americans. Gee, I wonder what the comedic point there was?

[Richard Steele]

65. Definitely. That was a laugh track there. Didn't help.

That was the most painfully UNFUNNY thing I've seen in quite some time.

[rebel with a cause]

88. It was canned laughter. Remember it well.

And yes I noticed the dancers. Racism at its most blatant, if you ask me.

[Goat or Panic]

12. Sounds like it...

They may have also just gotten professional "laughers." Yes there is such a thing.
Really forced and annoying.

[Liberal In Texas]

13. Yep, and it didn't help any, did it?

What drek, not funny or even passable satire.

[Desert Liberal]

28. Definitely a laugh track! Gods, could they be any more

transparent and ignorant?

Welcome to DU!!

:grouphug:

[Liberal In Texas]

31. If they didn't have the laugh track (not a real audience) the Freeps wouldn't know when they're

supposed to laugh.

[Bucky]

55. Actually, there was a real audience there in the studio. They simply didn't laugh.

In the opening pan shot (also stolen from TDS) you see two bleachers apparently filled with motionless people. I suspect that during the jokes they remained motionless.

[Liberal In Texas]

59. Then they used "sweetening" adding a laugh track because the audience didn't laugh or

wasn't big enough for the desired sound.

As someone else said, the laughter starts before the punch-line is even out, a dead givaway.

[high density]

58. Sounds like a couple of people in the control room

acting like drunk college girls. Then it went to a very obvious laugh track.

Reminds me of this from Family Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcURfwxTdI

[Goat or Panic]

66. Great minds think alike

I KNEW I was getting a sense of deja vu. "Cheeky Bastard" from Family Guy.

[Cabcere]

7. Yes, because

Democrats love cokeheads...as evidenced by the fact that SO MANY of us voted for Bush. :eyes: That's a real winner, guys. Good one. ( :sarcasm: )

[maggiegault]

21. Touche. Beautiful. Well done. *AWESOME* Rejoinder.

Send it to TDS.

[Cabcere]

26. Thanks...I think...lol

Are you being sarcastic? :shrug:

[maggiegault]

97. Oh, no, kudos, my friend.

That was a beautiful rejoinder and I am being *totally* on the level with you.

I was worried that I sounded sarcastic. No, please, be confident in your wit, because that was a very witty thing to say.

:toast:

[Cabcere]

122. Oh, okay

Thanks! :D I just wanted to make sure...it's hard to tell on the internets, sometimes (I guess the tone of the message sometimes gets lost in those pesky tubes, eh? ;)). :hi: Peace!

[blogslut]

8. As they say in show business...

Get the hook.

Man, that was awful.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[w13rd0]

14. Yes...

...it's a laugh track in the "special" segment, and the audience laughter is rather weak when it does occur. And it's decidedly unfunny, only right wingnuts that agree with the agenda they are advancing will watch it, just so they can think they have comedy of "their own" that doesn't involve the true life stories of reps and pages or delay and bribes or bush and wars or...you know, tragic comedies.

[madrchsod]

16. that`s ju...nah that`s worse than rush`s tv show

[rusty charly]

17. "should we even bother to hold the 2008 elections?"

isn't that a recycled chimpy joke?

[MannyGoldstein]

19. That Wasn't Very Good, Was It?

Ugh.

[Beausoleil]

126. Exquisitely awful!

[C_U_L8R]

22. If Faux is the opposite of news

then it only makes sense that this show would be the opposite of funny.

do they have sponsors? I can't imagine what idiot fool of a marketing director would advertise on this poop?

[rpannier]

23. The frunniest thing about that clip was the laugh track

It is such a rip-off of the Daily Show.
The Graphics, the studio set-up, the lead in.

on edit: The only thing they didn't steal from the Daily Show was Humor. It is not even bad enough to be funny.
It's just lame.

[subterranean]

24. "He was endorsed by Marion Barry"

Ho, ho, that's a real kneeslapper.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

25. Tying Barack Obama in with Marion Barry because of why???

Scary shit, they're trying to make racism "hilarious". MKJ

[kysrsoze]

93. Of course they didn't go for the endorsement from Chimpy McCokespoon, did they?

Dumb fucks.

[Mojambo]

27. Worse than I had imagined it could be

And that's saying something.

[brettdale]

29. Worse Than I thought

Oh dear that is pathetic, from the false laughing by the audience to the timing of the hosts.

Its like some cheap high school production. The jokes also seem to be a bit on the nasty side and it doesn't have anywhere near the brilliance of the daily show.

I think Faux News should learn how to do satire properly.

This is of course just a way for them to Bash Democrats without getting into trouble. This is the sole reason for this show, they are going to get to say things that they know even they wouldnt get away with during a broadcast.

[Goat or Panic]

32. And it won't get any better

It's funny how The Daily Show and Cobert Report can find enough material to come up with four satirical shows a week and Fox Noise has been working on this thing since last November. This show has too many sacred cows unlike TDS and Cobert who satirize everyone and everything.

[Desert Liberal]

44. You know, the thing about TDS is

it's funny as hell, but it's also TRUE! The viewers of TDS are better informed than most who watch MSM news. This drivel is just...well, it's just...AWFUL.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

39. It's just a matter of time before CNN and MSNBC have their version of this crap.

Any arena of intelligent discourse could be a real money maker, :eyes: MKJ

[rebel with a cause]

90. I think the host were trying to do a mix

of TDS and the news segment on Saturday Night Live. The timing seemed to be based on SNL and the jokes are about as bad/worse as theirs are on their off nights. Don't mean to insult SNL, but this last week their news segment sucked.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

109. What the hell is wrong with the female host?

I just don't get it. They must have spent their entire deadpan budget on the (unseen) announcer.

[BleedingHeartRN]

30. Totally copying TDS

I thought I saw something on the breakroom TV at work that appeared to be a pitiful, copycat, wingnut version of TDS. I have the misfortune of working with several ppl who put the TV on Faux every chance they get, and I bet this big steamin' pile of poo was it.

It would be just like the morans over at Faux to take, what - like 8-9 years to come up with their own humorous, non-news broadcast. Up to the minute indeed!

:puke:

[Nitrogenica]

33. So, The Daily Show uses acual clips and facts and

provides humorous commentary. The half hour show is completely made up bullshit and broad brushed stereotypes.

hmmmmm....

Sounds like the half hour show represents the right very accurately.

[onehandle]

35. Racist. Racist. Racist.

It'll be a hit with the morons who watch Fox "News."

Any fake shows on CNN, or other news networks? No? How telling.

[BleedingHeartRN]

42. Good points about CNN, etc.

TDS is on Comedy As Jon Stewart himself said to Tucker "the total tool" Carlson, "My lead in show is puppets who make crank calls!"

I also concur about the sledgehammer-like subtlety of the racist vibe in the clip. I was thinking the exact same thing the whole time I was watching that piece of dung. I'm sure it makes Rupert Murdoch and his flying monkeys scared shitless that a (gasp!) person of color might actually have a shot at the White House.

[Desert Liberal]

49. Welcome to DU!!

:hi:

[immoderate]

36. Unfunny, but I'd wear the T-shirt.

--IMM

[Cabcere]

56. Yeah, the T-shirt was about the only thing

in that whole video that even made me remotely crack a smile. The rest of it...sucked.

[xxqqqzme]

37. I should not have watched that

I can't even think of a word to describe how bad that was - It was beyond lame - maybe crippled? gangrenous?

[xfundy]

38. To recognize real comedy,

...one has to have a soul.

[Desert Liberal]

40. K & R I think EVERYBODY on DU needs to take a look

at this unholy C - R - A - P!!!!!!! Good job Goat or Panic!

[Goat or Panic]

43. Thanks

At least we're not giving any hits to the Faux website.

The video is kinda sad in a way.
It shows us that Republicans can't even laugh honestly.

[skipos]

41. The "18 month journey" was kind of funny.

Maybe it was the canned laughter though. :shrug:

[Bucky]

52. The other joke that worked was the Marion Barry endorsement

Of course the whole point was so strident and so transparent that even those two technically funny jokes fell flat. Since they actually did have a studio audience, you have to wonder why they even needed the laugh track. There are two possibilities. Either the audience sensed the same stidency and couldn't muster a good laugh... or the audience was made up of people so conservative that they have no laughter in them.

[Hippo_Tron]

54. Yea but it wasn't well set up and it was poorly delivered

If Jon Stewart had been delivering the Obama jokes they might've been funny.

[skipos]

57. Yep. Bad delivery. nt

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

71. It was infactual

Obama has been in politics for over 10 years.

[originalpckelly]

78. No, it wasn't not for those who know he's been a politician for 7 or 8 years.

:eyes:

[rebel with a cause]

94. I agree wholeheartedly.

And neither was the Marion Barry joke, because it was, if nothing else, racially biased. They could have said that he had now been endorsed by bush, and that would have been funnier. (other party - known drug user)

[tabasco]

45. My God that is pathetic.

The racism isn't even hidden anymore. It looked like something the Klan would put together. FAR from funny. More sickening than anything else.

[soup]

46. I have gone about 26 rounds with HP tech support,

not to mention about 1/2 a gazillion troubleshooters, in the last couple of weeks because, of a sudden, I had no audio when online.

The problem has not been resolved.

You've given me reason to be thankful...

[tanyev]

50. Oh, my. It's so lame it didn't even make me angry.

Just incredulous.

[Desert Liberal]

51. I know, right?

I wasn't even pissed about the claims, cuz it was just so bad! :rofl:

[d_b]

60. Awful.

I got as far as 'nickname was gassy'. I felt..embarassed for the guy up there, and THAT'S bad.

This is the right's answer to TDS?

[Desert Liberal]

62. KICK for Faux News Laff Riot

:kick:

2 more recs and we're on the greatest page!

[WCGreen]

63. Well, they will get great ratings from the RW...

But the beautiful thing about The Daily Show is they go after Authority, not just Republicans...

WE shall see if the show goes after any republicans...

[The Backlash Cometh]

64. It sounds stupid. It has a racist tinge to it, if hating Democrats was

the same as hating minorities, that is.

[ProgressiveFool]

67. OMG, that was horrible...

And that one raucous laughing guy on the laugh-track sounded like he was being tortured. Not surprising, really, when you think about it.

I think this show will make a useful litmus test for finding people who ought to be locked up to enhance the public safety.

[alittlelark]

68. That was rather sad and pathetic to watch.

I actually felt sorry for the anchors.

[Colobo]

69. Check out the promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3DA5lN1iwI

[Goat or Panic]

75. Gay Penguins

ROCK!!!!!

Democrats....people who vote for Democrats....

redundant much?

[fishwax]

100. then, at the end: "an equal opportunity offender"

kind of like they're fair and balanced. (Of course, we all know that's a joke, too :rofl:)

[Guaranteed]

102. "Fair and balanced" would have been funnier.

Definitely.

[originalpckelly]

77. Now that's fucking awful...

see that's what's going to do them in. Unlike the Daily Show, they'll be ripping on only one side by the name of their political orientation.

[rebel with a cause]

95. Just like faux news

Fair and Balanced. :sarcasm:

[enigmatic]

70. Ugh

Boy, that was was severely unfunny.

[Seen the light]

74. Such a horrible premise: Comedy isn't conservative nt

[originalpckelly]

76. Some of it was funny, but they have a very awkward SNL Weekend update delivery...

that totally sucks compared to the real Daily Show.

The whole, 99.9% of Democrats supporting him for cocaine use bit is stupid, the Marion Barry endorsement bit was funny, the nickname in college bit was stupid, BO mag was funny, but some of the bits about Hussein were obviously stupid, "A Life in Politics: My 18-Month Journey" is not funny nor is it accurate. The bit about "Barrack Versus Tiger Woods: Who's More Diverse?" was a bigoted joke. The T-shirt bit was actually pretty funny.

The graphics and studio set-up were direct rip offs of the Daily Show.

[Colobo]

80. The shirt thing was cool

I will admit I would wear one. :)

[Guaranteed]

101. That's exactly what it reminds me of. And the jokes are...

I think they're just dumb.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

110. This is the point I was making downthread.

The idea of an Obama fan magazine *is* funny because you *know* people would buy it. But the rest of the ideas were just fluff. It's like they came up with the idea "Barack Obama fan magazine" and then turned the writing over to the interns.

[Buzz Clik]

79. Lame.

Totally lame.

[Cabcere]

84. To borrow a phrase from my friend Erik:

"That's so lame, if it was a horse, I'd shoot it." (Bad taste? Maybe...but not nearly as bad as whoever thought this rubbish would be funny, IMO. :eyes: )

[salinen]

81. OFMG

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I've never laughed so hard. This show is destined. What comedic genius. Ruppert, you've done it again Pal.

[Goat or Panic]

82. Some more info

from "Variety"



"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."

Get it???? Cuz Che is just like Hitler!!!!!!!

I also read that there's a "skit" with Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter as the Prez and vice prez.
I remember reading that Laura Ingraham was originally the host when they first shot the pilot. Makes you wonder just how much she had to suck to get replaced by these two.

If you are a DUer and a Nielson family DO NOT watch this show. :)
No matter how much of a train wreck it promises to be.

It'll end up on Youtube.

[Exultant Democracy]

86. Oh wow, the thought of the faux viewership forcing themselves to

watch this out of loyalty brings me a smile. I don't know which is worse the flat jokes or the seriously over used laugh track.

[gatorboy]

89. The "Half Hour News Hour" is where funny goes to die.

HA! You should send them that! :P

[ThoughtCriminal]

91. It's for people who think "Mallard Fillmore" is hilarious

(parody from "America, the Book")

[BlueStorm]

92. Even the title is dumb and redundant

"The Half Hour News Hour?" :wtf: How can you call a show that is suppose to run for a half an hour and call it a "News Hour?" anyone want to explain this. :shrug:

Blue

[Frank Cannon]

106. It's supposed to be funny

You know, calling it a news hour when it's only a half hour long. It's comically absurd, kind of.

Yuk yuk.

[BleedingHeartRN]

117. If I'm not mistaken, that's a plagerized concept as well....

I'm pretty sure there used to be a show on Comedy Central called "The Half-Hour Comedy Hour" and it was just stand-up for half an hour. In the late 80s early 90s maybe?

Another example of the "thinktank" of below average IQs that construct the Faux News. At least they're on par with the majority of their audience.

[Frank Cannon]

123. Yep, you're right; the "Half Hour Comedy Hour" was on MTV

And the title is just as "funny" now as it was then. But at least it was original at the time.

Watching right-wingers try to be funny is like watching George W. Bush try to act sober. It's so pathetic, you almost feel sorry for them.

[Marr]

96. They certainly are afraid of Obama, aren't they?

[yurbud]

105. even more than Hillary. Think of jokes this bad that are 15 years old. What else can they say?

after accusing her of being a castrating lesbian witch murderer?

[deadcenter]

98. ya know

it may just be me, but I can't see wasting any of my time watching a "comedy" show on a "news" channel.

[fishwax]

99. wow. that's so bad I've almost got to think it's an impostor

something put together by some anonymous person on the internets, trying to pass it off as a preview of the fox show. It's remarkably laugh-free.

[Swamp Rat]

103. It is no different than regular Fux Nooz.

Not. Funny. At. All.

[yurbud]

104. the anchor looked like HE didn't want to be there

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

108. That show is thoroughly weird.

I just watched the clip. Intentionally or not, they seem to have ignored the difference between "snarky" and "vitriolic." The idea of an Obama fan magazine *could* be really funny, but the execution and the writing were just... terrible. It was like watching a joke being beaten to death with a sledgehammer.

[Doondoo]

111. glad i've missed this turkey

[deutsey]

112. The phrase "that giant sucking sound" comes to mind

:eyes:

[DIKB]

113. Sweet David Koresh !!!!

That SUCKED !!!

Gotta go to The Daily Show to see comedy about Democratic party members done correctly.

One of my favorites: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2820650?ns=1

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

128. BWWAHAHAHA!

Vote Chris Dodd! HE WILL UNITE KOREA!

Classic...

[derby378]

114. Okay, the BO Magazine bit made me chuckle. Once.

If Democrats cannot keep their sense of humor, they're doomed.

But I don't think Comedy Central has anything to worry about from this show. What a waste of airtime.

[Frank Cannon]

124. That was sort of funny. I chuckled a little.

The laugh track ruined it, though. It's like it's been lifted straight from an episode of "Hee Haw".

[Cerridwen]

115. They, did get one thing right...

Towards the end of the magazine schtick, they mentioned it was a 'no brainer'. I'd have to agree. No brain involved in that train wreck.

[gravity]

116. That was painful to watch

Especially the forced laughter

The only funny thing is that Fox News doesn't know why the Daily Show is funny.

[rocktivity]

121. DING DING DING! Gravity, you're our grand prize winner!

The only funny thing is that Fox News doesn't know why The Daily Show is funny.

I myself didn't figure out why The Daily Show is funny until a few months ago. I've come to realize that when Stewart and Colbert claim to be in the fake news business, they're faking: the method in their madness is that they simply point out how fake the REAL news is.

Last night's TDS is a textbook example: A segment about how CNN turned the contents of Anna Nicole Smith's hotel refrigerator ("Fridge of Death") into an investigation of the contents of the CNN break room's refrigerator, followed by a segment on a group who likes to swim in the northern Atlantic Ocean this time of year without wet suits. The story that's supposed to be "real" news feels fake; the story that sounds like it must be fake is real. THAT'S why we laugh--even when it's the Dems who get skewered.

Fox News seems to think that TDS is popular because it says derogatory things about the opposition. There is no hope for their new show because as quintessential purveyors of fake news, they can't see that they're part of the problem!

:headbang:
rocknation

[walldude]

130. Actually it's you who wins the Grand Prize!

This quote says it all: "THAT'S why we laugh--even when it's the Dems who get skewered."

To have any kind of sense of humor at all, you first have to be able to laugh at yourself. Republicans wonder why liberals have an iron grip on the arts, well, one reason is greed, when money rules your world there is no time to develop any talents. But the real reason is a lack of self deprecation. :toast:

[lectrobyte]

127. Exactly.

[rocktivity]

118. Dupe, please delete n/t

.

[donco6]

120. Almost as funny as Mallard Fillmore.

That is, not at all funny. And not even annoying. It was like watching . . . nothing.

[sakabatou]

125. I feel....

:puke:

[Downtown Hound]

129. Well, speaking for myself, I found this hilarious.

Only I was laughing at it, not with it.