R.I.P: FOX's "Half Hour News Hour" Canceled
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 11:10am
FOX Opinion Channels dreadful "Half Hour News Hour," billed as the "right-wing answer to 'The Daily Show;" has been canceled. It was really only a matter of time, wasn't it?
Let's take a look back at the show's awful and short-lived life:
The Half Hour News Hour: Still Not Funny
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It's canceled? Already? :)
Now that's funny :)
Gosh, I never got a chance to see the whole show. Only saw bits and pieces here...and it looked like it had the potential of being the lamest, stupidest, unfunniest show ever to appear on TV. A shame, really.
My day is getting better and better!! Finally something FUNNY about that show!! Hehehehe
Never saw it. There was a show?
When?
i thought it was canceled along time ago.
I hope the shows will be available on DVD. Maybe then they'll include funny stuff.
I hope that SNL is next.
I guess shit don't float after all.
First Rove, now this.
if only the shit coming out of the white house was supposed to be funny.
I have watched a few bits on youtube and I didn't find the show funny at all. Maybe it's because I am an America hating, terrorist loving defeatist liberal.
Michael @ 7:
Talk about off-topic...but completely true. :-)
Boy, Grandpa is gonna be pissed....
Now they should cancel Dennis Miller.
the show wasnt funny or anything like TDS because all they did was hate monger and call people names. Its that right wing humour. They dont understand true satire. Just like not getting anything else. Really kind of pathetic.
i think it was canceled because Fox viewers couldn't tell the difference between it and its other shows.
Schadenfreude, anyone?
*teehee*
This is SO funny! It's just further proof that the brain of the average Fox News viewer is underdeveloped, especially the areas of the brain responsible for humor and critical thinking.
Maybe they'll replace it with with that washed-up, has-been, not-funny Dennis Miller.
He could spend a half hour torturing puppies in front of a cheering crowd of young republicans.
Well, you can't really blame the writers or the actors. The problem was that the "comedy" show took the exact same positions on politics as did the other Fox "News" shows so:
a. It was redundant
b. And the average Fox News watcher is of such low intelligence, he thought it was another "news" show but was annoyed/confused at the presence of the laugh track so didn't watch it.
But Rush said yesterday that he just finished another laugh out loud skit for the show and he is never wrong. Unless of course he is hopped up on hillbilly heroin. What a bunch of losers.
oh, stupid obnoxious and self serving right wing comedy show that didn't know parody or satire if they could pull it out of a hat...we hardly knew ye. :)
Relying on market forces is a bitch, ain't it?
Lol, what a waste of time that production was.
It's finally been proven ... HUMOR HAS A LIBERAL BIAS!
Now will Dennis Miller just check himself into a rest home for former comedians?
Never watched it. Dennis Miller is about as funny as an anal cyst.
About time. As somebody said earlier, it's embarrassing how plainly the writers did not grasp WHY The Daily Show is funny.
You've got to go to the first link which takes you to Metacritic. The actual reviews in the MSM are hilarious.
The right wing lunatics are just that...lunatics! When will they figure out the simple truth that there has to be truth in the joke for it to be funny! What a bunch of ignorant bastards! So lost in their horseshit that they cannot see anything other than Romney's "good looks"!
Art Snob @ 24:
This statement infers that Miller was funny at one time.
The problem is that it isn't nearly as funny as The O'Reilly Factor. He's the comedy gift that keeps on giving.
HahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahaha
Hatred isn't funny.
Irony can be funny. Putting a "fake news" program on a fake news channel is ironic.
What the Faux News crowd doesn't understand is that Jon Stewart isn't really that funny. He plays the straight man and runs clips of GOPers being themselves.
Look on the bright side. the staff of this failed right wing comedy show will now get a lot of autobiographical material for jokes about lazy, unemployed people sponging off the state.
Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd could do Trading Places III on this plot.
And the punch line is... "No, YOU'RE a drag on society."
Now if Fox would just get rid of its other news show parodies ...
Tim @ 30:
Not nearly as funny as that duo hannity and what's his name.
Just goes to show, something can only be truly funny if it is true.
The right wing can't do comedy because lies are not funny. Just look at their reaction to Colbert's roast of bush. He confuses the shit out of the mainstream cheerleaders like Falafal-man and Hannity because it's like looking in a mirror for them. To attack him would be like attacking themselves. The daily show is entertaining because it is an unbiased look at the truth in an attempt to make funnies. The 1/2 hour news hour was fox's attempt to cash in on what they see as a lucrative format and also to further the narative that they are a 'normal' news network. In 20 years, once the key demo that Fox markets to starts dying off and retiring, Fox will probably die off too.
Thank God! Best news all week (save Rove)
It occured to me that while it is laughable that Fox News considers itself a real news station they shouldn't have a "fake news" program mixed in, Daily Show and Colbert run on a "comedy channel" not a "news channel".
Frankly, with the level of emotional retardation prevalent in their existing audience, I thought FuxNoose had a huge hit on their hands.
:)
i told them; more dennis prager, MORE DENNIS PRAGER!
guy's a fucking scream.
but they wouldn't listen.
I'm sure the show wasn't funny but why did they cancel it? The ratings seemed to be fairly decent.
PaulB @ 37:
HAW! That is a nice point! In yet another installment of Fascists Inadvertantly Telling The Truth, FuxNoose was saying, "Hey, we aren't a real news network, so our 1/2 stab at comedy fits right in!"
Even a blind dog finds a bone every once in a while and so FN will give us a bit of truth every so often, even if they don't mean too (especially if they don't mean to).
was it ever on tv? i never saw it.
They'll probably use the air-time for a new game show for Ann Coulter
"Guess My Gender."
hey now I thought the Oxy-Clinton scetch was funny. HAHAHAHAHAHA yea....she did put set back the idea of a female presidnet 20 years! HAHAHAHAHA
That bitch :)
Those other ones were dumb as hell.
Now if we could just be rid of Mallard Fallmore.
As Leonard Pynth Garnell used to say:
"Unspeakably Bad."
Well, for once FOX has shown some amount of common sense. I wish other right-wingers would follow suit and stop artificially supporting their losers. Buh-bye Washington Times, WEekly Standard, conservapedia...
ysbaddaden @ 43:
Zing!
Nice......
Payback for a bunch of mendacious tools.....
Fox News announced that the "half hour news hour" will be replaced by reruns of Hee Haw and Mama's Family.
ysbaddaden @ 45:
One could only wish.
Bush Bites @ 48:
That's who'll sponsor "Guess My Gender," Sarah Lee's Zingers.
Olberman said they were pulling it to revamp it for a later date. Honestly I think if they get rid of the laugh track that would be a big improvment.
Comedy has a well known liberal bias.
You can't make a "fake news show" on a "fake news network". The REAL FOX News is the comedy show. They should have a laugh track on the REGULAR FOX "news", and it would then be the "half hour comedy show". It already is, it's just missing the laugh track.
Point #2: This proves the self-proclaimed "conservatives" have no sense of comedy. Dennis Miller. You have to have INTELLIGENCE to be funny.
Conservatives are good at scaring people, not making them laugh.
... not intentionally, anyway.
When my retinas first had the misfortune to fall upon a segment of this bile, I thought I was just watching Fox News.
Then I noticed it had a laughter track.
trixr4kids @ 53:
And the writers, and the "talent," and the production. The only thing that could help that show is the personalities just sitting there blinking. As soon as they open their mouths, the funny is guaranteed to jump out the window.
soothsayer @ 29:
He DID make me laugh once upon a time ... I remember breaking up the time that Rob Lowe did that dance with "Snow White" at the Oscars, and Miller reported on the SNL news that "it was the most awkward choreography since the Lee Harvey Oswald prison transfer."
Bit tough to gain an audience looking for comic relief based on Gaschamber humor & twisted conflicted sexuality.
These people attempting humor is like watching someone eat with their mouth open.
Why pay for a laugh track and an extra staff of "comedy" writers?
Just do the best of Bill O'Reilly...or maybe 30 minutes of commercials for old folks.
Gary @ 35:
Gary @ 35:
That's Hannity and Surrender
the problem for this show is that most talented comedy writers are to the left... actually i feel comfortable saying, most artists are.
Now we know why Rove quit. He's in line to host the replacement show.
Obviously the show used "comedy" as a front to make infantile, asinine, untrue and ridiculous claims against anyone who oppose the Bush regime. But just because Ann Coulter can tap into the minds of the American imbecile does not mean that this formula will work for everyone.
Oh great, now where am supposed to get cutting edge politcal satire?
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nitehawk @ 64:
Nah, Rove is busy writing the Petraeus Report.
Really?!?!?!? I thought this piece of shit had been cancelled months ago! I have a couple of conservative friends who actually like Jon Stewart and said they tried watching the Fox show, but thought it sucked and were happy to go back to Stewart and Colbert.
Thank God for Jon Stewart...he may have been the only thing standing between us and a new generation of young Republicans who thought Dennis Miller was actually funny!
jkb @ 65:
There's only so many imbeciles to go around?
You can't say they didn't try. They would play clips of that gawd awful program during 'the funnies' segment on The Week. It's obvious they were trying to pass that show off as hip n' funny.
In closing, I'd just like to say: Hawh-Hawh!
Maybe America will never be able to laugh again... :-(
I am sure that Jon Stewart breathed a sigh of relief. No I am really sure that he fell asleep watching this monstrosity. Revamp it. Fox should entomb it.
No shock. It was the worst corporate rip-off since Biker Mice from Mars.
If Fox wanted to make us laugh they should remake the classic 60's horror sitcoms... Brit Hume as Hermann Munster, Sean Hannity as Gomez Adams and Mann Coulter as Morticia. They wouldn't even need writers.. they could just ad-lib their wacked out idiospeak and I think it would work well.
If they really wanted to make this a success, they should have hired Dennis Miller because he's just the funniest comedian ever. He would have got the show to do as well, if not better, than The Dennis Miller show....
:p
When Drew Carey closed the Conservative Comedians Association....
Critics blame the lack of conservative comedians in the US on IQ. "To be a good comic, you have to be pretty intelligent. That's where it all falls down for the CCA"
hmmm....
This is the funniest thing that happened regarding that show. :lol:
Good riddance to right wing garbage.
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
:D
d23 @ 63:
Hey. What about Ted Nugent!! Oh. You meant "most talented artists."
That's funny, if America thinks Chris Tucker's a comedian, seems like everyone could be considered so.
Authoritarians normally lack a sense of humor, and comedy tends to be anarchic and anti-authoritarian, so it's no surprise conservatives just aren't as good at comedy. Add to that the conservativism is inherently unhip and stodgy, and often prudish and scolding. About all they can generate is crude insult comic and bullying frat boy material.
If Fox wanted a comedy show, all they had to do was add a laugh track to O'Reilly.
That thing lasted this long!!??? huh... Well, this is certainly the funniest bit that has
appeared related to this dreck of a show......Moral of the story?... Never send conservative knockle
draggers in to do the job of commedians.... Why that's almost like sending in chimpy to find Osama..
something else that never worked out..............JD
Speaking of frat boy comedy is boosh a fan of Terrance and Phillip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYMF9pwF6k
Wes @ 25:
Not to mention the stats we all know about which show people who watch the Daily Show are more informed about real events and facts than people who rely solely on Fox News for their news. No doubt, FN was aware of this. They wanted to compete with TDS for the news crowd!! Now, that's funny!
Brian Maloney brags about his friend that writes for Craig Ferguson then complains liberals dominate comedy
You liberals have no sense of humor. That show was completely hillarious!
I watched it and was literally rolling on the floor at the jokes.
uhhh.....oh wait...sorry...I was watching the President's news conference...oops
Now that's funny!!!!
The funniest show on air is "The Whitehouse". Stay tuned for the cliff hanger at the end of the season.
It didn't live up to the standards of Franken's comedy show on Air America.
Let's see the reicht wing sucks at comedy, sucks at music, sucks in public restrooms, sucks in church, sucks in intelligence gathering and definently sucks at war. Is there anything they are good at? Oh yeah lambasting. They can spew some bullshit louder and angrier than any liberal person I've ever met. Bullshitting is their crowning glory. Goebbels would have been proud of them.
I've never seen it, but is "li'l Bush" funny? Sounds dumb to me.
ysbaddaden @ 43:
Burn!! Now that's comedy folks. LOL
Nobody wants to see a bunch unfunny, anals, white folks straining to get laughs...
scruzman @ 91:
Franken's show was news with jokes,
FAUX is joke news
1/2 Hour News Hour it's news that it's jokes.
And yet FAUX news goes merrily along, but meanwhile the Weekly World News is being cancelled.
As a struggling comic in Los Angeles, I had other struggling comic friends who were asked to audition or submit to the show and refused (despite the fact that we're usually pretty much up for anything). Then they did stand up about how ridiculous the idea was in the first place.
The whole idea of it was really absurd. As a general rule, political humor works when the empowered are taken down a notch by the less so. When you've just got people up top kicking the people below them, it's not funny at all. It's just sad and disappointing.
WHY? WHY!!?? Dear Lord why do terrible things have to happen to great shows?! What about the children? What will happen to them now? Will they have to watch the Islamofascist Comedy News Chanel (contact your cable provider)? Not their fault if the 70% liberal fringe doesn't get truly funny jokes! Mark my words, Jon Stewart, these comics don't run! (sob!) They might get knocked off of the air for not being "sensitive" from time to time, but the don't run! They JOG. They sashay. They strut. They perform tactical retreat maneuvers. But RUN??? NEVER!
Yes it's funny. But it makes you sad as well. It just hits a little too close to the truth.
gee.. I wonder.... (runs to immortalize the imdb.com listings...) don't want them scrubbed.... day players all....
Now THAT'S funny.
FAUX News puts the anal back into being analogous with the news.
It really stank just like the rest of the network.
Chris from Canada @ 11:
HAHAHAHA (canned laughter) HAHAHAHAHA
Actually, The Half Hour News Hour was fascinating in a train-wrecky sort of a way -- with very rare exceptions like Christopher Buckley, American conservatives are simply incapable of any humor above the level of a schoolyard taunt, and this program was a perfect illustration of that fact. I'll actually miss it a little.
RIP??? RIP??? RI Tormoil.
Fox already has a News parody program. It's called "Fox News".
Juveniles don't get the jokes anyway. It was born to lose.
Is this considered cutting and running?
LibertyLover @ 107:
Rest In Pee.
Now what will Eric Cartmen watch while scarfing Cheesy Poofs?
Conservative/Humor = Oil/Water Just a BAD MIX !
"The 1/2 Hour News Hour" was 2 hours too long.
But, but, Neil Cavuto once said the ratings were going through the roof. You mean he was WRONG! Say it aint so! /snark
Souless "humor" for souless zombies. Notice how every bit of "humor" they ever attempted required a victim? Not a brunt of the humor but a victim. IF they weren't belittling somebody they were attempting some other mean-spirited measure to get a laugh. I thought that that was the most telling thing about their target audience, like they knew they were writing for twisted sociopaths. Well, that's FOX.
O-well it's back to Full House reruns. :-)
I got hook on FOX when they showed a lot of T's and A's in their action base shows, and how Ironic that they went right wing and conservatives, when they only reason I watch them was for the raunch factor. It was the one thing they were good at was violence and sex.
I would add however, that I didn't know that they would own sex and violence in reality as well.
It was PAINFUL to watch.
The only clip I've seen of it was posted here on C&L. It was very bad. But I thought the show had yet to air. Not even the fall season and they're off the air. If I were a believer I'd say it was divine intervention. As it stands it just means someone didn't want to waste the money. They probably lost a million on pancake spackle for coulter alone.
Another TV program that the king of comedy Rush Limbaugh has had cancelled. He was just talking about a bit he did as himself and now those liberal
bush haters as Fox have cancelled it.
According to the article, their ratings weren't too bad. You think Ailes and crew realized the own irony of calling themselves a news channel while airing a "comedy" show that targeted Democrats and liberals? What really got me was the way Stephanopolous included clips of the show in his Sunday Funnies segment every week. The clips he ran from other shows were genuinely funny and then he fucks up the segment by including the Half Hour drivel. Even those few seconds were painful to watch.
what was wrong with it? could it be that it was FUCKING BORING!!!!
gee what a surprise that the most boring people on earth can't make people laugh.
go back to "fear" that's all they know, and it's boring.
Good. Was pure Fox Trash.
Lewis Black had it right from the get go:
"You know what a fake news show on FOX should give you? REAL NEWS!"
Michael @ 7:
We can only hope :-)
What ever will we do without the canned laughter? Will it all be put back into storage? :-D
Damn... And there I hadn't had the chance to watch it yet!
They always cancel the ones I don't find the time to watch.
...When are they going to cancel that insipid 24 hour talk show called
FoxFaux News?Question to Dennis Miller:
So when are you going to stop this losing streak? You must have a record for things you are associated with being abysmal failures.
What is it like being such a stupendous loser?
ReedMan @ 44:
And what's the point of your joke asshole. Because I'm still waiting to find out what's funny about masochistic woman hating jokes. See it's not funny that 100 year old fight of woman to have their voices heard not to mention freedom to vote and be laughed at. And Maybe a woman president is going to be much better to govern this country than man who are naturally war freaks. You know what maybe you and Dennis Leary should volunteer in Iraq since you love this fucknut- of -a- waste President of yours and maybe have yourself blown up there and then that will be so funny.
It was really only a matter of time, wasn’t it?
Not much time. this is so perfect, the show didn't get why the daily show is a success so of course they failed, you would think this would carry over to the ballot boxes but it never does.
Amazing how Limbagh and Coulter are supposed to be entertainers yet look SO uncomfortable on camera. She can' stop squirming and he looks like he's sweating puckets through that suit.
When I first heard about the show, I thought I might have to pretend it wasn't funny, even if it was a little funny. After all, it was supposed to be a comedy show, you'd expect there to be *something* funny about it, even if it was politically wrongheaded. Until I actually saw it, and it was, well we've all seen clips. Truly beyond pathetic and dumb. Really kind of a scary window into the dim minds of Republicans. They're apparently operating on the level of a small child, and not even an intelligent child, one of the slow kids. And these people own houses and cars and walk among us every day, creepy!
Like we ever needed satire to see what a joke the left side of the aisle is...
I have so much hard drive space I download a lot of misc. videos including the daily show, colbert report, and other misc. stuff. After watching these 3 videos.... I coulnd't believe what I was about to do -- deleted them, because I knew I would never ever want to watch them again.
Basically that means this show sucks so bad it was almost torture to watch. Thank God its over.
divided states of usa @ 132:
Didn't you love Coulter's "deer in the headlights" stare into the camera? I thought I was watching a bunch of zombie robots reciting lines.
I watched the show once... for about 2 minutes. It was sickeningly horrible. Between the laugh track and the overly forced joke lines, I thought I was watching amateur comedy night in a run down hotel lounge. Almost everyone does stupid s*** sometimes that can be pointed out without too much effort. Even though Conservatives seem to be leading the stupid s*** category recently, Liberals also have their fair share of comedy worthy events . I would think that a small staff should be able to come up with enough material to fill around 25 minutes of airtime a week with decent comedy - between the Daily Show and Colbert Report they are able to fill 8 times that amount every week. This of course is assumes the staff consists of free thinking Republicans (don't laugh they do exist) that don't feel the need to constantly regurgitate the ideas of Limbaugh, Coulter, and other conservative, right-wing nut-jobs.
the right wing is the Microsoft Windows of politics. Outdated, unimaginative, uninclusive and a huge pain in the ass. No wait, the right wing is the ZUNE.
Hopefully this is the last desparation of provincial thinking people who will fade away the same way witch burners did a few hundred years ago.
I have watched a few bits on youtube and I didn’t find the show funny at all. Maybe it’s because I am an America hating, terrorist loving defeatist liberal.
That show is funny. Too bad...I mean that most of you didnt seem to get it.
"Let’s take a look back at the show’s awful and short-lived life:"
Let's not.
...
[...] with happy news, the Half Hour News Hour has been canceled. It was a horrible idea anyway, but I suppose it had that train wreck quality to [...]
Another one of the robotic zombie acting complete with laugh track fests (the laugh tracks are to clue the wingnuts when to respond):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WCNc7JZ24k&eurl=
Well, Colmes found it humorous.
James @ 140:
I pray for that show to come back. So that I can laugh at it, not with it.
Blue Buddha @ 83:
Keith Olbermann, at one point (I don't know if he's still doing it), did just that, on a feature he had on countdown. A few minutes of clips from Foxymoron News with canned audience reactions.
Maybe FoxyNews owes Keith a royalty payment, because in effect, that's all the 1/2 Hour News Hour was.
Dave @ 134:
...a statement for which I thank you for making, because you have just made our point for us...
...if the LEFT side of the aisle was such a joke, then 1/2 Hour News Hour would be finding all those jokes and airing 'em, and the ratings would be through the roof now, would they not?
The joke is on you, bub.
this is the only thing i've ever heard, read, or seen that is even remotely funny about this show.
[...] Cancels its Version of “The Daily Show” As presented here in Crooks and Liars, this show was really bad. Just watch for yourself if you can stomach [...]
[...] d. 2 bad shows cancelled this ONE and this ONE. [...]
About as funny as a collapsable rubber crutch.
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