It's good to know that George Bush has fucked up badly enough that conservatives are allowed to pretend they're an oppressed minority again. After all, there's nothing more ridiculous than than feigned martyrdom. For further evidence of this I turn to Joel Surnow, the producer of action-drama-turned-right-wing-manifesto 24, who has apparently taken it upon himself to produce a conservative answer to The Daily Show for Fox News. Whereas The Daily Show and The Colbert Report get their laughs by lampooning the hypocrisy and sensationalism of mainstream cable news, The 1/2 Hour News Hour will try to get laughs by mocking. . . The Daily Show and The Colbert Report?
Hahahaha. . . see, it's funny because Barack Obama is popular. . . Wait, did he just make a Marion Barry joke? Also, is it just me or does the laughter in this clip sound suspiciously like the laugh track from an 80s sitcom (apparently the sound of forced laughter is timeless). Doesn't Fox News understand that angry white men watch their network precisely because they don't have a sense of humor. I guess that's what they're counting on.
If you're interested in seeing something that's actually funny, check out this clip from last week's Family Guy. I almost gave myself a hernia watching this.
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