FOX News Preps Conservative Version of Daily Show
Thursday November 23, 2006
Fox News Channel is joining forces with the co-creator of the television show 24 to create a right-wing version of The Daily Show. The half-hour pilot is slated to air in late January, and could turn into a weekly show, Forbes reports.
Combining elements of The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," the show will seek to mock the sacred cows of the left.
"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," creator Joel Surnow told Forbes. "The other side hasn't been skewered in a fair and balanced way." Read more…
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Combining elements of The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," the show will seek to mock the sacred cows of the left.
"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," creator Joel Surnow told Forbes. "The other side hasn't been skewered in a fair and balanced way." Read more…
• Related: Daily Show Clips | Late-Night TV Comedy | Funny News
Comments
The right are so pathetic, when it comes to humor they can’t even come up with something origional, but have to steal other people’s ideas.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that the Daily Show invented political satire. They aren’t copying other’s ideas, they are merely doing a satire of their own.
However, I do think that Fox News is making it harder and harder to have themselves be considered “fair and balanced.”
I appreciate their use of “Fair and Balanced.”