TVNewser is reporting scuttlebutt that the Fox News Channel is prepping a satiric news show to compete with Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart.” According to the TV news blog on the Media Bistro website, the host of the show is radio talk show host and professional Clinton-hater, Laura Ingraham:
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.”
If I were compelled to come up with a one-word description of Ingraham, the word would be “humorless.” In all the years she has been in the public eye, I can’t think of a single funny thing she has said. Does she think she’s funny? Maybe. Here is how Ingraham describes an exchange from her radio show that she remembers as being “hysterical,” in which she punked an anti-war activist who hadn’t read up on Ingraham’s pro-Bush, pro-war stance:
One of the most hysterical exchanges I’ve had is with Maya Jones, who represents an anti-war group called Not In Our Name. I tried to debate her, and she said, “You really should tell people who are coming on if you’re not going to agree with them. I came on to promote the anti-war march, and I only have a few more minutes left.” She finally hung up on us.
OMG! LOL! Can you stand it?? Those liberals, huh? Can’t live with ’em, can’t shoot ’em.
But seriously, to be a conservative means being born missing a funny bone, a handicap that renders them unable to perceive irony. Besides, as defenders of the status quo, it is the role of the rightwing to be the targets of satire. When they try to turn it around and take aim at the liberal establishment, they invevitably start taking potshots at minority groups or women, opening them up to charges of racism, homophobia and paternalism. As comedy goes, they might get away with potshots at the unfortunate — if only it were funny.
Think about it: The most successful conservative comedian these days is, of course, Rush Limbaugh. But Limbaugh’s humor, such as it is, never makes even his most ardent fans laugh, it makes them smirk.
Apparently someone at Fox News believes Laura Ingraham is funnier than Limbaugh — as funny, in fact, as Jon Stewart and his team of Emmy Award-winning writers. I have my doubts. On her current radio show, she once ladled on sound effects from “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective” to provide a humorous edge. Hilarous! If only Jim Carrey were popular in France, he would be the Jerry Lewis of our day.
Time will only tell whether Laura Ingraham is our next Jon Stewart — or just another Tucker Carlson flaming out in slo-mo on cable news.
You know, I can’t believe even the low IQ neanderthal Fox viewers would find this entertaining. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong
Sorry, Marty, I must respectfully disagree-I believe there are PLENTY of Faux News viewers with IQs sufficiently low to find Laura Ingrahm to be hysterically funny-even if they just judge her by her appearance.
Marty, you are obviously not living in the “American Heartland”.
So the Daily Show makes one laugh and gape by showing real news clips of conservative idiots, and these people will make us laugh at ‘liberals’ by replacing their mouths and dialog with lies?
That’s funny?
Besides the fact that the people involved with “The Daily Show” are extremely talented comedians, one other significant reason the show works so well is because it exposes the deceptions and inanity of all political sides, liberal and conservative. If viewers recall, when Clinton was in office, the show did a great job of making fun of the administration’s political blunders. The reason the show has thrived tremendously during the Bush administration’s run is, of course, because there is so much more deceptive and inane material with which to work. I mean, how many times has Jon Stewart given his well-known smirk, the one that says the news he is about to reveal is too easy and almost too dumb to be true, before going into another story about Bush or someone else on the right?
But as anyone who has been in the entertainment world understands, comedy is by far the most difficult field in which to succeed. And I can’t imagine anyone at the Fox Network having anything close to the talent needed for a successful political comedy show. So I hope the network will try, for it will only expose more inanity from people who claim to be “fair and balanced.” We’ve all seen a comic die on stage – it is very tough and painful to watch. However, watching the Fox Network die on stage will be very rewarding and, ironically, funny.
Laura had better get the banana peels and Punch and Judy puppet theatre ready, because that is the only things repukes have the cognitive capacity to laugh at…unless you include the Nick Berg beheading video
I agree LI is not funny. Jon Ponder, now he’s funny! That was rich, good job…
Jon Stewart makes fun of both liberals and conservatives – and that’s what makes him so fun to watch. He doesn’t have to make most of his stuff up, because the painful truth about the Bush administration is often funny enough. It writes itself.
I sincerely doubt Laura Ingraham will provide a balanced perspective – especially if “fair and balanced” Faux News has any say in what gets on the air.
Laura is another Ann Coulter-wannabe. She thinks she’s funny because, in her tiny little mind, she thinks there’s something to laugh at when you look at all the people who’ve been hurt by this administration’s policies.
Jon Stewart takes what makes you wanna cry and turns it around so you can laugh at the irony in what’s going on. You can’t do that when you’re making the bad guys look like the hero, and the victims look like fools. That’s not funny – that’s just plain cruel.
SHE IS A CLONE OF COULTER. SHE SURE DOES LOOK LIKE HER. OMG ANOTHER ONE.
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The funniest “conservative” show on television is Southpark and even it is invariably unfunny when it takes potshots at liberals.
It’s going to be fun watching them make royal fools of themselves.
I wanna see Laura go into the tent with Coulter, and come out wearing the eyepatch.
You have to understand: Laura is trading on her handsome, spring-of-her-middle-age near-good looks to bring “gravitas” to her comedic stylings. She is without question the Katie Couric of D-list conservative pundits; the biggest laugh she ever got was helping the thugs at the Dartmouth Review tear down a protest “shantytown” that her fellow students had constructed to protest apartheid (something she apparently liked) in South Africa back in the day. What a card!
Back in college, Laura was quite a prankster. Once she infiltrated a gay rights group in order to out its members in a conservative student newspaper. She went so far as to secretly tape a meeting of the Gay Students Association, then published the transcript, identifying students by name and calling them “sodomites.”
What a card!
And don’t forget the blurb about Ms. Laura years ago in George magazine.
You know, the one where she broke into an ex-boyfriend’s apartment and emptied the contents of a fire exghinguisher all over the place to get back at him after being dumped.
Now THAT’S loads of fun for the whole family.
She needs a boob job. (Have you seen Katherine Harris lately? If I were drunk enough I might do her.)
Way to GO Doctor B! Great comment! Making fun of a breast cancer survivor with a comment about her breast size. Laura just finished chemo treatment only a few months ago….you’re a jerk.
Hoopydoo – I believe you just proved the distinguished Dr. B’s point.
But what explains the fact that she seems to speak through her nose?
Hoopydoo, relax….I’m sure they weren’t intentionally making light of the cancer aspect, in fact they prob never knew….oh and my mom is breast cancer survivor.
Actually, there is a precedent for this scheme. When Joseph Goebbels was made Nazi Gauleiter of Berlin in 1927 he started a weekly newspaper called, “Der Angriff.” (The Assault) Problem was, it was a major snooze that Nazi Party members subscribed to, but didn’t read! Goebbels himself condemned it: “What a miserable provincial sheet!” he admitted. “Baloney in print!” But Goebbels was able to transform it into a going concern by copying the make-up and content of the Communist Party paper.
I think Ingraham’s effort will fail because she can ape Stewart’s format, but not his style. I’ve heard her radio show and it is a royal pain to try to stay interested. It’s all shuck and jive without any intellectual engagement.
More dumbing down of the troglodytes. How low can the 29% go?
Oh the Hitler youth corps will watch it – the young folk who don’t “get” John Stewart. They were raised believing things are only funny if you make fun of others. An elderly woman slipping on ice is hysterical. A joke pointed at them deserves 21 gun salute, directed at the joke teller.
Keith Olbermann & John Stewart will get tons of materialf from this show. Won’t even have to look elsewhere.
Laura is a hottie- until she opens her lying conservative mouth.
I’m reminded of a scene from A Hard Day’s Night where a lady from a talent agency, not knowing who he is, tries to get George to be a model, & they’re talking about some current British model (Tina or something?) & George mentions how he & his mates watch her on the tele & make fun of her!
The mockery potential for LI would be limitless!
ha ha ha theres no way this chick is gonna do better than stewart… so maybe fox will make another reality tv show called Compete with stewart… and well no one will win…
Methinks Laura Ingraham’s TV parody show has been given burial rites way too soon.
Remember, this is coming from FAUX and they are pros at using TV to brainwash millions.
Plus, the show will probably have Frau Ingraham follow the FAUX studio format: She’ll be dressed in a mini-skirt to show off an ample amount of thigh and give off provocative body language during the BROADcast.
And like the FAUX blonde bimbos, Laura and her thighs won’t be hidden by a desk.
To prove part of this assertion, just look at the above photo of Laura.
She’s got that “come hither” look on her face, just daring the brain dead to fantasize about doing her.
If i were a betting man, i’d bet on her show succeeding.
Now, if you’ll pardon me, i’m late for my goose-stepping lesson.
Greg Bacon
Ava, MO
Laura never shuts her mouth. Look at every photo, she does an open mouth smile or has lips parted showing a little teeth when she’s not smiling. Every photo that she knows is being taken has that gods awful posed look.
As to her humor, listen to any segment called “lie to me” or something like that. She plays a clip she disagrees with, but offers no facts to support the statement as a lie. Granted, for Conservatives count as lying, you have to prove they’re not incompetant and knew what they were saying was BS. Such standards are not required for Liberals to be called liars by Laura.
Shame about her chemo. Her hair was nice, and the wig (was it a wig) she wore on the Today Show looked bad. I’d give her credit for being a cancer survivor, but until she disowns the statements of Coulter’s regarding people of tragedy have no standing to speak regarding that tragedy, then Laura gets no respect from me. Granted, her loathsome statements on the Today show did that. Wow, she toured the Green Zone in Iraq for 6 days. Color me bored.
Hopefully, they’ll include a laugh track so the Fox Friends will know when to laugh.
Actually, I’ll find it pretty funny to see Laura attempt conservative humor. Some of the stunts of the Young College Republicans are so infantile, like handing out french fries to protest a speaking engagement by the author of Fast Food Nation or handing out snow cones for “Global Freezing” day. They make such asses of themselves it will be interesting to see them trying to compete in comedy. Laura tells musicians to “Shut up and Sing” and this show will make lefties say “Shut up and Bitch on the Radio.”