OMFG! The Half Hour News on Fox!!!???

[amicus]

I have mentioned that I am a news junkie...always have it on.

Pecking away at the keyboard on my latest smut story...in the back ground...President Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Ann Coulter?

Ears perked up...got my attention...I glanced over...expecting a Saturday Night Live kinda thing, with actors.

Shit! It really is Limbaugh and Coulter!

OMFG! It was hilarious. I could barely contain myself; and smiled, ear to ear, conservatives are finally striking back in comedy form!

I love it!

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http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/02/half-hour-news-hour-fox-news-channel.html

Debuting tonight at 10pm on the FOX News Channel, 1/2 hopes to provide an unfair and unbalanced look at the day's headlines.

Kicking off the first show with a splash, the opening segment fast- forwards to 2009, with President Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Ann Coulter bringing us up to date on recent events.

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I doubt anyone here would have seen the debut program...there was no promotion, that I noticed, saw it totally by accident.

amicus...

 

[amicus]

bumpity bump...no one saw it?

oh, my...

amicus...

 

[matriarch]

Would love to have seen it Ami, but using the link you provided I got the message that the video is no longer available.

 

[S-Des]

I have mentioned that I am a news junkie...always have it on.

Pecking away at the keyboard on my latest smut story...in the back ground...President Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Ann Coulter?

Ears perked up...got my attention...I glanced over...expecting a Saturday Night Live kinda thing, with actors.

Shit! It really is Limbaugh and Coulter!

OMFG! It was hilarious. I could barely contain myself; and smiled, ear to ear, conservatives are finally striking back in comedy form!

I love it!

Well, at least they'd finally find a VP that pisses off liberals more than Cheney.

 

[amicus]

Finally found the video clip with Limbaugh and Coulter, ah jus knows y'all gonna luv it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRxFjf40xbI


amicus...

 

[Misty_Morning]

I saw the show. Thought it was great. I only saw the pilot. Haven't got anything else. I'm gonna try to catch it tonight, I think it airs on Sundays...correct?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Finally found the video clip with Limbaugh and Coulter, ah jus knows y'all gonna luv it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRxFjf40xbI

amicus...

Ami,

IMHO, it's great. Limbaugh is such a ham and Coulter, with her deadpan expression, works well as his "straight-man". Do you know who'll be the writers? I sounds like something Chris Buckley would enjoy.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[mckai777]

OMFG! I heart boys in eyeliner!!! OMFGWTFSTFU, it's Stephen Colbert!!!

 

[Huckleman2000]

Mining comedy gold from Muslim-sounding names

hmmmm....
Here's the HHNH version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMB6pFy10u0&NR
Funny? They report, you decide.

contrast that with this gem from SNL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QlAUpRg74

 

[amicus]

Thanks for the links, Huck...saw the two pilots, not sure when and if the regular program schedule will begin, perhaps someone has heard...


amicusa

 

[Liar]

Been browsing Youtube for it and found a handful of clips. A pretty uneven show, mixing embarrasing bigotry with occacionall flashes of effective laughs. What they miss mostly is that good comedy must contsantly take the piss out of itself. It's the safety vent that keeps it from getting too full of itself and just cheap.

But eh, they're new. Give it time and we'll see if they work out the kinks and get comfortable in their chairs.

This Obama bit was pretty funny though. Mainly because they poke fun at something that IS funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU

 

[Liar]

contrast that with this gem from SNL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QlAUpRg74

Heh. Haven't seen that one. A little below the belt humor always works.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Heh. Haven't seen that one. A little below the belt humor always works.

Yeah, lol.
I didn't quite get the Fox one - it seems to be predicated on some idea that there is a taboo against acknowledging that radical Islamic terrorists have Muslim names. Even if such a taboo exists somewhere, it certainly doesn't within the right-wing media, which seems to constantly promote the latest combination of 'islam-o-whatevers'. The premise only makes sense if you're only aware of non-Right media through the descriptions of it made on Right-wing media.

I think unless they get outside the echo-chamber and lose the self-referential basis for the comedy, they're going to run out of jokes awfully fast.

[edit to add] Unless they're trying to legitimize using Obama's middle name somehow, or reinforce the idea that anyone with the name Hussein is a terrorist... I really don't understand the code words.

 

[amicus]

Huck...the left's inane rejection of racial profiling in order to remain politically correct, there is real humor there.


amcus...

 

[JamesSD]

hmmmm....
Here's the HHNH version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMB6pFy10u0&NR
Funny? They report, you decide.

contrast that with this gem from SNL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QlAUpRg74

Ok, humor is subjective, but I didn't even chuckle at the HHNH version.

The SNL? Had me ROLLING with laughter. Probably because of what was being made fun of... college students undermining the FBI with muslim sounding "potty" names? Hilarious. "All Muslims are Terrorists"? How is this a joke?

The HHNH is a new show, and maybe it will grow like The Daily Show did, but right now, it's just painfully terrible.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Huck...the left's inane rejection of racial profiling in order to remain politically correct, there is real humor there.
amcus...

I get that, Ami, and I'll grant that it's a legitimate area to satirize. But I got that in the first 30 sec. of the bit. And I'm kinda slow sometimes!

I'll give them some 'growing pains' slack, but I have to admit I'm dubious about their premise that comedy shows have a political angle much beyond skewering whomever's in power. Jon Stewart may be a liberal, but he treats right-wing guests respectfully, if a bit more irreverently than other news shows. His show will ridicule just about anyone - it's just that those in power have been pretty much writing their own jokes.

 

[shereads]

I thought Fox News already had a comedy hour.



Just so I don't embarrass myself by laughing at the wrong moment, is Limbaugh funny on purpose? He made me laugh once, but the punchline came months after the set-up so I wasn't sure it was meant to be a joke. Remember? He made us all believe he was vehemently anti-drug ("Throw away the key!") and then he got himself arrested on a narcotics charge. That alone would have been worthy of a stand-up routine at the Improv. But Rush didn't stop there. He hired William Kennedy Smith's lawyer!



I don't like the man, but I won't deny he made me laugh so hard I nearly cracked a rib. And until now, I wasn't sure Rush was a comedian and not just another frightened right-wing hypocrite with unresolved childhood issues.

Thanks for clearing that up, Smoove A.

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=Huckleman2000]I get that, Ami, and I'll grant that it's a legitimate area to satirize. But I got that in the first 30 sec. of the bit. And I'm kinda slow sometimes!

I'll give them some 'growing pains' slack, but I have to admit I'm dubious about their premise that comedy shows have a political angle much beyond skewering whomever's in power. Jon Stewart may be a liberal, but he treats right-wing guests respectfully, if a bit more irreverently than other news shows. His show will ridicule just about anyone - it's just that those in power have been pretty much writing their own jokes.[/QUOTE]


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Huck...I dunno if I can get this said with any impact...but there are very few examples of conservative humor on television that I can think of offhand...can you?

Secondly, the left has always, and I mean since the 60's, claimed the 'high ground'
in political satire.

All the conservative, 'moral', ethical, religious, positions on all the 'hot button' issues, name them if you wish from ecology, to environmentalism, to abortion to gay marriage, have always been fair game for the left and they have ridiculed the right without remorse.

Ethics and morals to the right, are serious matters...not so for the subjective, humanist moralism of the left, thus...a paradox of sorts exists and I am sure you can see it...one really cares...one doesn't give a shit and can change at a whim.


So...sophomoric though it may have been, although I think it was not, the new program is a welcome one in my eyes...I only wish I were in my prime and could contribute...


amicus...

 

[shereads]

Jon Stewart may be a liberal, but he treats right-wing guests respectfully, if a bit more irreverently than other news shows. His show will ridicule just about anyone - it's just that those in power have been pretty much writing their own jokes.

Stewart and Bill Maher can have fun with every side of an issue - including their own. The secret ingredient is humility; a recognition of human failings as universal. The fact that some failures are more spectacular and have nastier consequences that others, provides them with fodder - but it doesn't tempt them to cling to a single theme, the way Coutler clings to her Evil Liberals joke. Don't expect any self-deprecating humor from this crew on Fox. Their audience would feel betrayed.

 

[amicus]

I thought Fox News already had a comedy hour.



Just so I don't embarrass myself by laughing at the wrong moment, is Limbaugh funny on purpose? He made me laugh once, but the punchline came months after the set-up so I wasn't sure it was meant to be a joke. Remember? He made us all believe he was vehemently anti-drug ("Throw away the key!") and then he got himself arrested on a narcotics charge. That alone would have been worthy of a stand-up routine at the Improv. But Rush didn't stop there. He hired William Kennedy Smith's lawyer!



I don't like the man, but I won't deny he made me laugh so hard I nearly cracked a rib. And until now, I wasn't sure Rush was a comedian and not just another frightened right-wing hypocrite with unresolved childhood issues.

Thanks for clearing that up, Smoove A.

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SHE...we have been long time adversaries on this forum and I don't mind that, you are a worthy opponent when you are not bitchy and such.

And, knowing some things about some members of this forum, I can never be certain as to the actual gender of anyone, yourself included and yes, I know, in your mindset, it shouldn't matter, but I don't bleed for a week out of each month.
\
ahem...


I suppose, should I display a perpetual 'woody' for a week, with the concommitant emotions, and without solace; that might equate, not sure; speculation only.


I propose, for a little public forum cybersex, that we find you in a bondage situation, but not necessarily a reluctant one, that I work my magic on you from head to toe superficially and then get down to serious business.

Y'all can read some of my stories to experience the step by step procedure by which I bring a woman to orgasm, again and again...before penetration, but you prolly get the idea...knowing you folks....


Then, dear SheReads, after I have left you exhausted, satiated, fullfilled and breathless and I rest my head gently upon your breasts...then...perhaps...we can talk?

ahem...


who else

Amicusa....

 

[shereads]

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SHE...we have been long time adversaries on this forum and I don't mind that, you are a worthy opponent when you are not bitchy and such.

And, knowing some things about some members of this forum, I can never be certain as to the actual gender of anyone, yourself included and yes, I know, in your mindset, it shouldn't matter, but I don't bleed for a week out of each month.
\
ahem...


I suppose, should I display a perpetual 'woody' for a week, with the concommitant emotions, and without solace; that might equate, not sure; speculation only.


I propose, for a little public forum cybersex, that we find you in a bondage situation, but not necessarily a reluctant one, that I work my magic on you from head to toe superficially and then get down to serious business.

Y'all can read some of my stories to experience the step by step procedure by which I bring a woman to orgasm, again and again...before penetration, but you prolly get the idea...knowing you folks....


Then, dear SheReads, after I have left you exhausted, satiated, fullfilled and breathless and I rest my head gently upon your breasts...then...perhaps...we can talk?

ahem...


who else

Amicusa....

Amicus, if you ever have sex with me and I find out about it, I'm going to press charges.

Seriously, I'd love to but I'm tied up right now.

 

[amicus]

chuckles....promises, promises...but at least you didn't throw a hissy fit as I think Mckenna did a couple years ago....give me a heads up when you are untied...grins...


ahem animalistic amicus

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=shereads]Stewart and Bill Maher can have fun with every side of an issue - including their own. The secret ingredient is humility; a recognition of human failings as universal. The fact that some failures are more spectacular and have nastier consequences that others, provides them with fodder - but it doesn't tempt them to cling to a single theme, the way Coutler clings to her Evil Liberals joke. Don't expect any self-deprecating humor from this crew on Fox. Their audience would feel betrayed.[/QUOTE]

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Okay...SHE...we had our fling...I guess...but I cannot leave this unchallenged.

The left has no humility and you damned well know it.

You and Stewart and Maher, are supercilliously superiour and all knowing about abortion, you know, beyond a doubt that it is a woman's reproductive right to control her own body...even though others disagree.


You have the same attitude about Gay Rights, and Gay Marriage, and Gay adoptions, you 'know' beyond any shadow of a doubt that you hold the moral high ground on the issue...even though others disagree.

You have the same attitude about such mundane issues as environmentalism, ecology, global warming, socialiazed medicine, national healthcare, fair wages, enforced safety standards in the workplace, educational equality, gender equality in the workplace....a whole host of issues that you have a moral certainty about, even though....others disagree.


Claim what you will about the humility of the left...but you are in open and obvious contradiction with reality...you...and they...have no humility at all...you know you are right and you know that those who oppose you are ignorant and uneducated and just plain stupid....


And...you are totally wrong. I/we, do have humility and are full aware of human failings...it is you...and yours...who have a blind agenda and function and propagandize without mercy or Quarter.

Since you are and always have been beyond the reach of reason and logic; supposed God came down and touched you on the forehead and said to you: "A new human life is created at the moment of conception and you must honor and protect that life!"

Would you thus, then believe or know? Or would your 'Humility" overcome and you remain as you are?

Ponderable, eh?


amicus...

 

[Huckleman2000]

Huck...I dunno if I can get this said with any impact...but there are very few examples of conservative humor on television that I can think of offhand...can you?

Well, not topical humor, anyway. When they're the ones in power, comedy from that viewpoint just seems like gloating, maybe. Humor, by its very nature, is always going to rely to a large extent on making fun of the powers that be.

From a cultural standpoint, there's the so-called "Blue-Collar Comedy Show" on Comedy Central that generally takes a Conservative viewpoint, or at least one that tries to appeal to a broad swath of America that votes Conservative. I'm certainly not above saying that I laugh during that show quite a bit - most of my family is only a generation removed from blue-collar work, thanks to the GI Bill, so I haven't yet expunged the "Hee Haw" memories.

Secondly, the left has always, and I mean since the 60's, claimed the 'high ground' in political satire.

All the conservative, 'moral', ethical, religious, positions on all the 'hot button' issues, name them if you wish from ecology, to environmentalism, to abortion to gay marriage, have always been fair game for the left and they have ridiculed the right without remorse.

Ethics and morals to the right, are serious matters...not so for the subjective, humanist moralism of the left, thus...a paradox of sorts exists and I am sure you can see it...one really cares...one doesn't give a shit and can change at a whim.

So...sophomoric though it may have been, although I think it was not, the new program is a welcome one in my eyes...I only wish I were in my prime and could contribute...
amicus...

I understand what you mean by this, and the only comment that comes to mind is that, when you set yourself up as some type of moral standard, anytime you don't live up to that standard, you open yourself to ridicule. Insofar as 'the Left' is not so moralistic by its own nature, there are fewer opportunities to burst their balloons. The Left just isn't as much of a comedic target. If, as you say, the Left can change at whim, that leaves a shifting bullseye.
Regardless of the merits of the politics involved, I can understand why Conservatism is a larger target for comedy.

 

[amicus]

good and thoughtful comments...thank you...

amicus...