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.
Jack Hughes, you beat me to the comment that Fox will need a laugh track. The humor from Jon Stewart matches mine but after being a Republican for so many years and only just disovering they have no funny bone, I can’t imagine Laura or anyone doing a comedy show.
Our political scene is so tragic that unless we can laugh at something we may all go flaming mad.
Coffee Talk with Leni Riefenstahl.
Looks like a winner to me.
-GSD
One of the funniest things I ever saw on television was back when “Politically Incorrect” was still on Comedy Central–it was during the one of the (presidential) conventions in ’96. Chris Rock was a ‘correspondent’. Ingraham was a guest back in the studio. She went on some hate-filled rant about Dems, Clinton, Liberals, etc. She was her usual vile self. Shortly after she finished, Bill Maher goes to Chris Rock–on location at whatever convention he was covering. First words out of his mouth? “Damn, she’s (Ingraham) a mean bitch!”
Now, that is HILARIOUS.
Thank God I taped it…truly one of the greatest and most honest moments in television history!
One other thought:
Comedy from a network that promises to “report and [let] you decide” and that they are “fair and balanced”.
Based on those two examples, we can all be assured that their ‘comedy’ will not be funny either.
It’s an Orwell world over there, folks!
Laura Ingraham-cracker had breast cancer? And survived? Now THAT’s a glass that’s 1/2 EMPTY!
Laura can have Annie on as a roving reporter in a regular feature that follows and makes fun of 9/22 widows. That’d be funny, huh?
The show, if it does come to fruition, will only provide more fodder for the show it seeks to make fun of.
Laura Ingraham has one of the funniest, most insightful, most entertaining talk shows in America. And I see one of the previous posters has insinuated that Laura should have died from her bout with cancer. Must have been the same thug who posted on Democratic Blunderground how Laura should have died on the operating table. It really is amazing how full of hate the radical left is.
So this is how Fox News thinks it will save its sagging-ass ratings?
Isn’t she the same woman who was ridiculed on the West Wing, and was so bad that her TV show was cancelled after 3 appearances?
I can’t wait to see it. It will be a spectacular disaster.
Right, Damail. Why don’t you wander back under the bridge to Freeperville and check out the vile and nasty things your fellow Bush lovers have said about folks like Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan.
Gimme a break.
Hey; Damail nice tongue & cheek comment. Looks like you could be the first person that this wannabe interviewer. This show will be like the Hindenberg going up in flames. People like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have become the true hero`s`of the game generation.
It`s sad that some will find this fauxnews bull real.
Long live free speach.
I accidentally spun by her radio show and she played a clip of Brokaw talking about the NYT leak and he was just saying how the Times seems to think they’re right and the white house seems to think they’re right but that’s one of the great things about a democratic republic – you hash it all out and settle it. It was a very reasonable comment.
Soooo…she comes back with some rant about OOOOOH, there goes another member of the elite, left-wing media BOYS club! And, I was all WTF? Where did that come from?
So much hate. She and Coulter and the like are so far detached. Raw hate isn’t funny.
Maybe the show will be a remake of M*A*S*H.
The fake laugh tracks will be there but they’ll use real wounded.
Leo – Fox News sagging ratings – you must be talking about messnbc or cnn – there you can find sagging ratings pal
Damail – right on brother – these lefties are in for a big suprise.
Madison: Cindy and Mike deserve what they get.
The funniest thing about this article and the comments is the fact that you buy into the notion that such a show will be made… proving further how ready you are to believe anything you’d like to believe.
I enjoyed reading the leftie propagandists above. These left-wing Hugo Chavez lovers (significant others) should listen to Michael Savage for help. Just a bunch of hate-mongers. The Democrat Bolshevists Party does not have any plans or ideas. Ask them what they would do if elected…
What’s your plan for Iraq? Strategic withdrawal to America and hate Bush.
What’s your plan for the economy? Raise taxes and hate Bush.
Illegal immigration? Hate Bush.
Voter identification (to prevent Democratics from stealing elections)? You’re a racist and hate Bush…..
I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT KIND OF TRASH,THAT SHE WOULD PUT OUT! Shes barely funny,JUST VILE
Seems that everyone has made up their minds about Laura and the potential show, all negative. How can you rate something that has not been on?? The commenters seem to be fairly full of hate over something…?
We conservatives do not need Jon Stewart making the same face and mugging for the camera – which is all he does – (TDS was much funnier with Craig Kilborn and you probably weren’t even watching it then,) when we have liberals marching around with homemade signs portraying Bush with little horns or Hitler mustaches, spewing bumper sticker slogans, singing their little folk songs and banging on their little drums – THAT is funny enough. You people are hilarious and you don’t even know it because you take yourselves so seriously and yet you look like clowns! You take puppets seriously for Chrissakes! Puppets!! Maybe conservatives haven’t cultivated that biting humor that you love so much b/c while you were perfecting your snappy acerbic one-liners, we were going to parties and playing sports. When you spend 4 years being rejected and relegated to the drama department area or under some bleachers somewhere where it’s perfectly acceptable to show off your cutter scars or talk about how your parents “suck” because they’ve ignored you (or worse) all of your life- it gives you lots of time to cultivate that anger and resentment and channel it into an angry “wit”. We’re still undaunted by it. Conservatives watch shows like “American Dad” and “The Colbert Report” and we actually think they’re funny because we are able to laugh at ourselves. We get the humor and we don’t take it to heart because our parents loved us. You all can’t take any ribbing (hence the panning of a conservative comedy show before you’ve seen it) because it rings all too true to you. You get angry. It becomes personal because it reminds you that you are still that cutter boy or girl hanging out by the drama dept NOT getting asked out by any good looking classmate. It’s sad. You need to let it go. And btw: the most popular commedian in the world right now is a conservative and a very devout Christian by the name of Larry the Cable Guy.
Freedom Rainbow, based on what you’ve said here we can stipulate your firsthand experience in taking yourself seriously and coming off like a clown.
The fact is, the last successful conservative comic was Bob Hope, whose style has not stood the test of time. Like Hope, Larry the Cable guy is not funny either. The show referred to here, after being retooled several tiems, is out now and is so bad that Rush Limbaugh was caught begging his Dittoheads to watch it so it wouldn’t be canceled.
If conservatives were capable of humor, there would be an audience for it. If there were an audience for it, it would be on television. That’s part of a system we liberals like to call capitalism’s law of supply and demand.
Oh please, you people writr like you really believe the manusia
coming from the left. Calling one of our leading officers a traitor. OH that was soooo cowardly even the N Y Times had to back away.
Bring on ehe Laura’s and the Ann’s
for truth in humor.
power to the people . this is the peoples country. please wake up
laura ingraham is the most beautiful and interesting woman out there. to make jokes about her cancer is plain cruel.the world is a better place being able to listen and look at that special one of a kind amazing woman.
I love Laura’s show, better that the daily show and it gets MORE viewers! hahaha
“If conservatives were capable of humor, there would be an audience for it. If there were an audience for it, it would be on television. That’s part of a system we liberals like to call capitalism’s law of supply and demand.”
–Madison, Feb. 26, 2007, 10:35 am
Oh, really? So I guess that means you’re willing to apply ‘capitalism’s law of supply and demand’ to the arena of talk radio, a medium in which (unlike in television, Internet, and print media) liberals have failed to find an audience, right? I mean, you liberals wouldn’t go and violate the First Amendment with some kind of…”fairness doctrine,” right?…Right?
This is really funny. All of these liberals worrying about Laura telling the truth. She might even say the “J” word(Jesus). Or say something with substance about the “C” word(Christians). Oh No! Another good looking, smart, conservative woman. Can you say Sarah Palin? Give ’em Hell Laura!! All of the Military guys are behind you!
Is this what liberals do is sit around worrying about what conservatives are doing? You better start watching what your chosen one is doing, he is destroying the country right beneath your noses! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE… WELL… ITS NOT COFFEE!
This show will probably beat the ratings of the liberal media…just like all of Fox’s other shows.