Comments on: Shock: WaPo’s Shales says Half-Hour News Hour “isn’t terrible”

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:09:09 +0000

I liked it! The show needs to file off some rough edges, but it was definitely worth watching.

By: TugboatPhil

TugboatPhil — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:22:56 +0000

I thought it was good. I couldn’t watch last night, but got it on DVD. The book segment did go a little too long. I had already seen the opening and the Barack segments. But the ACLU clips were tragically funny.

4 out of 5 stars.

(in the interest of full disclosure, I used to like the Daily Show until Jon Stewart took over. He really isn’t that funny, even without the Bushate.)

By: MirCat

MirCat — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:57:42 +0000

eeeeee

- The Cat

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Open thread: “The Half-Hour News Hour”

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:39:59 +0000

[...] Here’s the Times’s review, which bemoans the fact that the show isn’t as even-handed as, um, “The Daily Show.” Quote: “It’s a strange new comic order when the actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. and his hybrid cars loom larger than the Iraq war, the deficit or White House leaks.” And here’s this morning’s post on THHNH. [...]

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:33:15 +0000

jaleach- I agree. Mad TV usually has me in constant stitches, or at least I smile for an hour. SNL seems to have 1 good skit and then it is sort of the same old same old…

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:31:38 +0000

I’ll watch it. I hope those that do the same come back and give honest assessments.

By: jaleach

jaleach — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:46:36 +0000

SNL has been so poor and so blatantly partisan, at least the comedic bar is set low. Heck yeah I’ll watch. Liberalism is a comedic goldmine. Somebody’s going to buck the hollywood rules & tap the motherlode. Why not now?

Watch Mad TV instead on Fox. It’s been on the air for years with lots of politically incorrect humor.

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:12:29 +0000

SNL has been so poor and so blatantly partisan, at least the comedic bar is set low. Heck yeah I’ll watch. Liberalism is a comedic goldmine. Somebody’s going to buck the hollywood rules & tap the motherlode. Why not now?

By: Maxx

Maxx — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:42:33 +0000

[The] segment in which a “game-show host and climatologist” attempts to link all public events, including Britney Spears’s lack of underwear, to global warming…

And now Britney has cut all of her hair off, the most empirical evidence to date of man-made Global Warming. Will the Global Warming deniers try to refute this?

/sarc-off

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:39:10 +0000

Messed up part of that post…

Cue laugh machine (and don’t forget to push the button marked “hysterical”).

Read this with the Sklar brothers voice and its hilarious!

I hope you all read the sarcasm in these reviews. They are making the point that you don’t have to club someone over the head with a hammer to be either funny or negative. I hope the creators get the point and shape up this thing!

By: jummy

jummy — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:38:35 +0000

i’ve seen other clips than the youytubed ones at a liberty film fest screening and they weren’t as bad. not super-original, but there were some laughs. i still think its a little weird for it to be aired on fnc, and that anything promoting itself as “an x version of x” comes out of the barrel missing the mark.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:37:40 +0000

Cue laugh machine (and don’t forget to push the button marked “hysterical”).

By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:27:57 +0000

The Right Stuff: TEASING LIBERALS: '1/2 HOUR' AT A TIME

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:15:52 +0000

Laying to rest the myth that conservatives aren’t funny, “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” with Ron “Death penalty express lane” White, Larry “Politically incorrect fairy tales” the cable guy, Bill “Here’s your sign” Engvall and of course Jeff “You might be a redneck” Foxworthy.

By: jaleach

jaleach — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:00:39 +0000

Come to think of it, I hate Shales. Although I do remember finding his review of Kathy Lee Gifford’s Christmas special a few years back really funny

By: Suitably Flip

Suitably Flip — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:00:33 +0000

FNC’s “Half-Hour News Hour” May Surpass Low Expectations…

This contradicts prior reviews and the general indications given by the sneak previews, so my hopes aren’t particularly re-elevated, but let’s all have a watch, just in case Fox’s new right-leaning fake news show is indeed shy of terrible….

By: SWLiP

SWLiP — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:50:36 +0000

Garvin’s work suggest that he’s one of the only libertarian leaning types at the Herald (the other being Dave Barry).

By: Jones Zemkophill

Jones Zemkophill — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:36:52 +0000

at this point, Hotair.com’s reviews have lowered my expectations so much, I’ll probably like it.

By: frankj

frankj — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:35:56 +0000

Will aquaman be helping? :)

Seriously, I’m funnier than the clips I’ve seen and I’m not funny at all! I’ll watch it once, just to see how bad baby jesus is crying afterwards.

I have scientific equations proving both that the superhero Aquaman and the assertion that something is so bad that baby Jesus will cry are funny – that’s how qualified I am for this analysis. Since there aren’t too many scientists who focus on humor, most of the theorems involved are named after me or my pets.

By: jaleach

jaleach — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:34:22 +0000

I’d rather watch Amanda Marcotte read the Vagina Monologues to a room full of angry lesbians than watch a show with canned laughter, but I’ll give it a shot. I thought some of the humor wasn’t bad. I can’t believe they distributed clips to HotAir and other places ahead of time and didn’t listen to the massive feedback that said, “Get rid of the CANNED LAUGHTER!” Disappointing.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:15:19 +0000

I believe I’m the only one with the science background to do this.

Will aquaman be helping? :)

Seriously, I’m funnier than the clips I’ve seen and I’m not funny at all! I’ll watch it once, just to see how bad baby jesus is crying afterwards.

By: flipflop

flipflop — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:10:51 +0000

I’m not going to decide how bad it sucks until I actually watch the show.

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Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:10:48 +0000

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By: frankj

frankj — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:10:01 +0000

Well, I plan to have a scientific analysis up tomorrow objectively determining whether the show was or was not funny so as to end all arguments. I believe I’m the only one with the science background to do this.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:02:39 +0000

it’s nonetheless agreeably funny

I think they are being a little kind, because the shoe confirms their suspicions that right wingers are humorless dolts who don’t get “funny”