Comments on: Fox's 1/2HNH Airs, America Yawns

By: sxtk cvrzk

sxtk cvrzk — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:15:22 +0000

hiaxzypjl lsvmrpn rtwxy xdrgcnsl mkgxfvye vregnx tcumvnro [URL]http://www.ozag.hxzcy.com[/URL] rnqlihwg vhyts

By: irjcokv xzvjpwon

irjcokv xzvjpwon — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:14:40 +0000

ncvelatm rsnxq ondjs mtlwgku sebpqlcnd zjnl onibcd [URL=http://www.ojsed.pzyjunqk.com]axruy bxdenul[/URL]

By: iuhdtkoep kuvoa

iuhdtkoep kuvoa — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:13:26 +0000

iyeksomlh hjsqcnwkm yusvfaq rwntei vyjdpx wocf lnuih http://www.kmotu.hjzltwbau.com

By: dxji ogndxz

dxji ogndxz — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:10:56 +0000

buercqg ijqh bmsfay itwyx fcjmnu wvekanqy stlhb

By: lopez

lopez — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:59:20 +0000

i just need to know the name of the short, white guy with thick eyebrows and black hair that started his show with "quit making that noise with your hands" and ended with "finished"

i laughed a lot, but what's his name???

By: Je-an Tuazon

Je-an Tuazon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:28:19 +0000

no coments

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:40:47 +0000

Leaving your liberaIism at the door, I watched the show and I did laugh a few times. The overall qulity was poor, but I remember watching the first Daily Show episodes and guess what? They were pretty bad/hacky as well.

The Daily show was not what it is today. If this show gets time to devlope it could become something.

By: Barton Fink

Barton Fink — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:04:55 +0000

kim: LMFAO

By: kim

kim — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:45:20 +0000

Backstage at Fox's "half hour news hour" writers' room:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARY9ka2o2J4

By: Jim Polk

Jim Polk — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:38:09 +0000

This is a great idea and this show will be a great success. Please keep them coming!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:37:36 +0000

The links came out screwy on those, so:

Turkish Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqnlR_3jHU

Mac and Me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9UrQVvKHEI

Unkie Dunkie:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/10/unkie_dunkie_th.html

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:36:03 +0000

Now, you have to understand, I'm a connoisseur of the impressively bad.

I love Turkish Star Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqnlR_3jHU), i'm the proud owner of McDonald's-funded E.T. ripoff Mac and Me, in which an alien must consume Coca-Cola and Skittles to stay alive (see McDonald's birthday party dance sequence here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9UrQVvKHEI), and I listened the whole way through to the comedy album by New Jersey butcher Unkie Dunkie (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/10/unkie_dunkie_th.html), who very well may be the worst stand-up comedian of all time.

By those standards, I do believe that this show is indeed a luminary of bad comedy. It manages to perfectly emulate how unfunny SNL's Weekend Update has been for the last several seasons (with my apologies to the otherwise very funny Amy Poehler). It seemed like a half-assed pastiche of the worst bits of SNL and Jay Leno combined with a crib of the sweeping opening camera shot from Colbert Report thrown in for kicks. The show just couldn't possibly have seemed more forced or unnatural – they're clearly trying too hard, but just can't pull it off. Comedy just isn't funny when it's this calculated to an end, and the jokes? I was sitting there in disbelief that it all would continue like this for half an hour. I never laughed once. There was one part where the female newscaster was just kind of looking at the global warming guy with this "what??" expression on her face. That's how I felt about this whole show.

This isn't a matter of a liberal being pissy about the right getting revenge for the Daily Show or whatever it is that they think that they're doing, I was just watching, and as someone once involved with a humor newspaper, saw a bunch of obvious, unoriginal jokes (wow, a labored running joke leading to someone getting molested in prison) haphazardly attached to partisan bashing. I'd invite any and all to compare this show with the above link to Unkie Dunkie. I think you'll find it a similarly tedious exercise in substandard comedy, also complete with another obvious laugh track. Much like 1/2 News Hour, you'll find that the most amusing parts are where something just feels off about the whole thing, or something startlingly offensive slips in out of nowhere. But in general, much like with Turkish Star Wars, I find myself suffering from badness fatigue — sure, it's interesting to see comedy/sci-fi/etc. fail spectacularly, but after awhile, you start to yearn for something that's good in the way that it's supposed to be. As everyone's said, there have to be funnier conservatives out there. If Fox can compromise on the social end of politics, there are an awful lot of funny libertarians out there.

Suffice it to say, I felt pretty bad for Dom Irrera.

By: Ricky Bones

Ricky Bones — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:33:03 +0000

When is the show going to point out the absurdity of something instead of pointing to what they believe are stereotypes of those on the left. The show lacks humor, it reminds me of the kinds of things you would here in a hometown barber shop, except much more polished.

The show really is not funny, but I am sure Murdoch will continue to fund it no matter what the ratings are, so he can rile up the base and continue that divide.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:09:06 +0000

Fox News is more hilarious than 1/2HNH

By: Malissa

Malissa — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:38:06 +0000

It was genius!!! Finally they created a show that turned me 180 degrees and converted me from the self-hating, unpatriotic, heathen Democrat to a self-righteous, all-knowing, God-fearing/loving Publican. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I only caught about ten minutes of it and it was very sad. At least Jon and Stephen point out actual facts hidden under the laughs and skits and EVEN make fun of themselves. Fox refuses to even look inward so of course this show, like all the others, was nothing but a beat-down on the Democratic Party. Nothing constructive, nothing fair, and certainly nothing funny. And if Rush becomes President? Canada will have a huge immigrant problem for sure. Save your half hour (or 22 minutes, ha ha) and watch reruns of the Anna Nicole Show.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:56:27 +0000

Oh, I'm so happy I missed Rush and Ann.

A WASP comedy festival for male racist gasbags and female misogynists? Laughing at gas-saving cars, civil liberties, those with mental retardation? It's like a comedy festival starring Scrooge, the Grinch, and the Wicked Witch of the West.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:56:24 +0000

Oh, I'm so happy I missed Rush and Ann.

By: meg

meg — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:47:38 +0000

This is a show, IMO, for people who find things like the film Epic Movie to be the height of satire. One or two clever bits/lines, but the rest was just bad/boring.

This decades Chevey Chase Show IMO.

By: Jessy Scholl

Jessy Scholl — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:29:58 +0000

I seen the Half-Hour News Hour and I just can't believe that this played out on TV. This show was about as funny as Rush Limbaugh as President. His policies would allow for our country's comedians to bask in pre-prepared material for four or more years of "Commander-in-Chief" Excellence. The only thing that was remotely funny, the BO magazine. It is disappointing that both Jon and Stephen are off this week, because they would have fun with this sick show.

By: Sean O.

Sean O. — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:55:23 +0000

I caught Fox's Daily Show parody last night, (don't remember its name, thats how forgettable it was…) the best way i can liken it too is a really bad hang nail that just won't go away.

I literally winced multiple times as this travesty played out on television. It was more of a cross between a Mad-TV skit and an 8th grader doing stand up than it was Daily Show meets Weekend Update.

The humor was so predictable and flat that even the producers couldn't seem to figure out the best place for the laugh tracks. Ugh…

Fox needs to stick with their number one humorous talking head, Sean Hannity… that guys is really funny…in a sort of sad way….