Post subject: Fox News working on Daily Show's evil twin?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:26 am
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Friday, Jun 23
FNC Pilot: "Watch This Right Now?"
> Update: 5:07pm: FNC programming VP "Bill Shine is testing several pilots, and this is one of them," an FNC spokesperson says...
Last week, TVNewser asked if Fox was working on a show pilot styled after Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central. Then yesterday, TVNewser asked if conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham was at FNC shooting something over the weekend.
The answers are yes and yes, and they're apparently related. An anonymous tipster says Ingraham's pilot is known as "Watch This Right Now." The tipster calls it "an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show" including a "music and video montage" and "mouth replacement of known news figures." (Huh?) "They want to keep it a secret so they hired all freelance tech people," the tipster adds. "The writers and producers should be embarassed to show this one to Roger."
> Update: 3:40pm: "It wasn't only freelancers working on it," an anonymous tipster responds.
It's notable that Fox News would use a controversial figure like Ingraham for the pilot. But FNC tests show ideas all the time, and some obviously never make it to air...
> Update: 3:45pm: Several e-mailers noted that Ingraham's last cable news venture had a similar name: "Watch It!" aired on MSNBC from 1998 to 2000...
Posted by brian | 10:06 AM | FNC
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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i just saw this, actually. they should let me anchor it.
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also, i've never even heard of laura ingraham.
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She's in the bitchy blonde conservative camp. They're cloning them like sheep these days.
Her radio show is god awful. I see no way she can deliver anything in a remotely comedic manner, even if the writing was witty and insightful. She's way too pundity self-serious.
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punkdavid wrote:
I thought we already established that conservative political comedy isn't funny. Neither is liberal political comedy.
Calling out bullshit is funny, and it's not our fault that there's more on the right than the left to call out.
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If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
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The chance of this working is so small (without Jon Stewart, that is). After all, does anyone remember the Craig Kilbourn days of the Daily Show? Exactly.
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Kevin Costner wrote:
The chance of this working is so small (without Jon Stewart, that is). After all, does anyone remember the Craig Kilbourn days of the Daily Show? Exactly.
Well, I do, but I was a 23 year-old law student, not 12 at the time. The Daily Show with Kilbourne was funny, but Jon Stewart took it to a whole other level that the original staff never imagined.
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Kevin Costner wrote:
The chance of this working is so small (without Jon Stewart, that is). After all, does anyone remember the Craig Kilbourn days of the Daily Show? Exactly.
I thought the Kilbourn Daily Show was very funny back in the day, Stewart just made it a whole lot better. I actually remember thinking when Stewart first came on how the show actually went a bit downhill, but he turned it around nicely.
Post subject: Re: Fox News working on Daily Show's evil twin?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:56 pm
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glorified_version wrote:
The tipster calls it "an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show" including a "music and video montage" and "mouth replacement of known news figures."
Post subject: Re: Fox News working on Daily Show's evil twin?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:29 pm
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flavdave wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
The tipster calls it "an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show" including a "music and video montage" and "mouth replacement of known news figures."
They must watch Conan O'Brien.
They must be extremely unimaginative.
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