Half Hour News Hour Axed by FOX News
Posted by Matt Ortega · August 14, 2007 ·
The conservative knockoff version of the incredibly popular The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was canceled by the FOX News Channel with the final episode to appear on September 16.
Think Progress’ Satyam Khanna summed up the embarrassingly poor reviews the show, The Half Hour News Hour, received since it first aired.
The reviews for the program were consistently dismal. Its very first review, from the Orlando Sentinel, decried the “[l]aughter, of an awfully canned variety, greets all the gags. Nothing happening on screen justifies these outbursts. … If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear of this dreadful show again.” “Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody,” said the New York Times. “The 1/2 Hour News Hour is slow torture all by itself,” said the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Conservatives failed to emulate the humor of Jon Stewart and team. Stewart and company skewer the traditional press and politicians of both parties in ways that was not only humorous but also made a serious, truthful point. There is nothing funny for Bush administration’s enablers to go on and defend their failed policies.
Maybe conservatives will figure out the same, old and tired gags just aren’t funny? … I doubt it. It is hard for a political movement so determined to live decades in the past to learn anything new.
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