Limbaugh tapes intro for Fox News' "Daily Show" Ripoff

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It sounds like Rush Limbaugh is making an appearance in FNC's news satire pilot:

"I went out and did some television Saturday in Los Angeles," the radio host said on Monday. "There's a new show that probably will air soon, I'm not sure when, but it's called The Half Hour NewsHour. That's the working title of it now. I guess that's subject to change. Well, actually it's not, because if it changes I gotta go back out there, but nevertheless it's a parody newscast, takeoff on liberal media newscasts, and I play the president of the United States in the opening segments of this program.

I went out and shot three takes. Ann Coulter is the vice president. (laughing) It's hilarious. The whole thing is hilarious..."

Who wants to bother with garbage like that ... except the idiots who already watch Faux?

Neocon humor? There's an oxymoron if ever there was one. The very fact that they are using Limbaugh and Coulter as part of a humorous introduction leads me to think that this will be the poorest excuse for entertainment since the Roman Circuses.

once in a while. Rush is just a gasbag, and I won't say how I feel about Coulter.

on a side note, whenever I read a quote by him, I hear his pig voice in my mind's ear. Ugh.

but not for the reason Rush thinks it will.

this will last as long as Rush on TV.
Remember that?
Yep. Rush actually did his show on TV. For a very brief time.
It was a disaster.
And this will be, too.

It was scheduled at about 3AM in NYC (before TiVos).

are funny, liberals are never funny, only conservatives know humor, understand hypocrisy.
I can't even think of a funny conservative, certainly not O'Rourke.
That being said, I simply cannot imagine what conservatives will serve up as humor? Saddam's hanging? Abu Ghraib photos? Seems like all RW humor involves someone getting killed or maimed.
I can hardly wait. Surely Jon Stewart is scared shitless of the competition.

Now, that IS funny! I have to give credit where credit is due - that's the first funny thing I've ever heard O'Rourke say.

Let me help to explain right-wing humor a little bit here. Humor is based on reality, with a little twist. The difference between the reality and the twist is what you think about and that is what makes it funny.

Right-wingers, basically, just lie all the time, about pretty much everything. It is how they're wired. 'We have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.' - just a small example of willful ignorance that means less than nothing but they believe it because they have to. So what is humor in that context? Without reality, what do you twist? A twist on a lie? That just makes it a different lie, which isn't really funny, unless you're already invested in believing the set-up lie to begin with. Their everyday BS is the humor, with a little sneer at the end.

Here is a Republican joke they'll have on their fake news show: 'Last month's minimum wage hike engineered by Democrats is finally having an impact. This week the Labor Department reported fifty thousand people were layed off.' Probably with a snide 'But they meant well.' to cap off the humor. See how funny that is?

Notice how it's just the same, actual Repub rhetoric you can hear any Republican politician make, right from the Senate floor or on MSNBC? Republican bullshit will BE the humor. Ha-ha-ha!

The fact that people deserve a living wage, which underlies the reality of the unfairness of poverty wages, means nothing to them. Nor does the opposite, which is why a right-winger wouldn't understand the satire of characterizing a CEO who gets a $200 million severance for losing big money 'because he deserves it for his "performance"' as a twist. They don't want to understand why poverty is unfair, and they don't want to understand why these corporate execs don't do anything even remotely defineable as 'earning' their money. So they'll never be able to understand the underlying realities that the sarcasm is built on.

It's why people like PJ O'Rourke and Dennis Miller never sound like anything more than nasty snark that just isn't funny. Poor guys. I think Hell is probably a place where Republicans go to listen to PJ O'Rourke tell 'jokes' for all eternity, and they can't kill themselves to get out of it. They have to believe it, and make themselves laugh. That'll be this show.

I highly recommend 'Thank You for Smoking' and 'Little Green Men'

You know, it will have 'so bad it's good' appeal.

Those asswipes (Rush, Coulter, and the others in Satan's Brigade) make me nauseous when I see them, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that feeling.

And if this is on FoxNews rather than regular Fox, doesn't that just prove the conservative bias they deny they have?

... might be a more descriptive and appropriate title for this show if it's on Faux.

The stars they hired are not actual comedians, they are pundits.

How in gods name do they think this will be funny?

(I do NOT mean that insultingly, I'm being serious.)

it will be more of their same tired pundit schtick, and whenever they offend, it will be written off as satire.

how truly talented, intelligent, and diligent people like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are.
People think what they do is easy.
And, so, they think anyone, even someone as insipid as Ann Coulter, can do a political comedy show.
Stewart and Colbert are well-read. And they work hard.
Plus, they're both extremely good at what they do.
This show will be a disaster. Rush on TV is always a disaster. People don't like to look at him. And Coulter never is able to rise above coming across as mean and ill-informed. I'm sure there will be an audience for the show.
But it will hardly be a desirable demographic. And that is the continuing problem for the right. They do get people watching...they're just not the people advertisers want to reach.

Or are they going to bus in their viewership from the local retirement homes? :sarcasm:

Remember -- the last time Rush tried TV he was smacked down for the entire show. I doubt he has the cajones to face THAT again.