The half-hour news hour

[wiffleball 4,790]

News Hour," which premiered last night and will air again on March 4th, borrows from both "the Daily Show" and the "Weekend Update" segment from "Saturday Night Live." The two co-anchors, Kurt McNally (actor Kurt Long) and Jennifer Lange (actress Jenn Robertson) trade limp barbs as news-anchor caricatures; he's composed to the point of being wooden, she's vapid and chirpy. Their interactions are weirdly stilted, as if both are performing alone against a green screen, not actually playing off each other. The boisterous laughter comes not from a live audience, but from a laugh track that sounds like its most recent use was on "One Day at a Time," and is applied far too liberally (ha!).

 

I haven't even watched the show, but when I heard a promo for it, I couldn't help but

 

 

Is it just me, or does Faux seem like the paranoid kid in school who just never really 'got' it? They're never gonna be cool, they're never going to be funny - and the harder they try, the lamer they look.

 

FOX seems to just forget TDS having a ball with Clinton's F-ups. They seem to just gloss over TDS skewering the Dem party's ineptness ("Race From the WhiteHouse '08"). But they hear a criticism of themselves or any of the radical right-wing philosophies of that nutjob Rupert Murdoch and they get all defensive and start swinging blindly. What they don't get is TDS skewers everybody - ESPECIALLY the guy in power.

 

This is Fox's equivalent of "Oh yeah? Well, you're a doody-head too!"

 

..and apparently, about as funny and intelligent as that too.

[FranksTanks 0]

I just found this video on YouTube:

It starts with Rush Limbaugh (as the president) making fun of Howard Dean saying he "finally got the medical attention he so desperately needed for so long..."

If the irony in that statement isn't gold, I don't know what is!

[What is the deal? 1]

I actually found the show pretty entertaining for the bits and pieces that I watched

[Boz/BoFan 0]

If they didnt do this at some point you would accuse them of being too one dimensional. Are you aware at all of you own personality? It would make things so much easier rather than having to post to yourself on these boards.

[wiffleball 4,790]

Just watched a clip on YouTube. Other than it being unfunny, I still wouldn't watch it - because of the focking laff track. I thought those things went away after "Full House" went off the air. I focking hate laugh tracks. If you're any good, I pretty much KNOW when to laugh or not. Hell, the fact that they couldn't even round up enough mouth-breathers who would actually laugh at this live should tell us everything we need to know about the show.

 

 

And Bo - Again, WTF are you babbling about? Do you just have some sort of hard-on for me following me around and swingingly mindllessly and blindly making 'points' that no one but you seems to get??