Fox "Conservative Daily Show" fails. Why can't conservatives understand humor and be funny? (POLL)

Watch and feel the douche-chills over Fox's lame new show. Conservatives can't be funny, and there must be a reason. What is it?


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

The Daily Show is funny because they point out when people are full of shit.

Fox News can't be funny because they are full of shit.

Really, really pathetic.

To be funny, they'd have to be willing to poke fun at themselves like Jon and company do.

They can't. They're conservatives, and they're Fox.

there's truth in jest. As long as the thugs rely on lies and obfuscation of the truth, they will never be funny.

They give off the impression that anyone who disagrees with them must be destroyed.

Have any numbers come in?

PS - I'm not disputing that the show isn't funny. I'm just wondering if anyone is watching. It still amazes me that there is an audience for Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck.

to be funny.

No, really. I almost broke into a full smile at one point. But what drove me nuts was the fact that they had to use canned laughter, because an audience of nearly-smiling people doesn't exactly make for exciting television!

Other than that, though...okay, it was perfectly awful.

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I watched two clips and almost found part of something funny.

Humor at liberals' expense can be funny. This show, however, isn't.

With and open mind I found it mildly humorous. The effort to disparage Obama over pure belly laugh comedic material was apparent to me. I was open and awaiting a laugh but only mustered a brief smile mostly not at the material. To me it's "Think Tank Tested Comedy" putting together a cascade of imaginative (imaginary too) ways to sleight Obama's name, character and history as thoroughly as possible. Is that funny? Freeps looking for any chance of distracting themselves were fully amused and aroused, I'm sure.

When liberals or progressives make humor, it's funny, because it stems from an "everyman/everywoman basis. We're just like everyone else, so we are funny. Right-wingers are mean-spirited and, well, look what happened to Dennis Miller. He used to be funny and then just became weird and ugly...

/oops

afraid of their own shadow). Missing another one - greedy (though tight ass is good enough).

They're stupid, they're mean, and they're egotistical.

an almost comical "anal retentive" disposition ?
Sorta funny in itself... but not in the way these clowns hope to be.
If anything the world is laughing at them, not with them.
Did anyone see that Horner guy on the Daily Show?
talk about pathetic.

Humor has to have an honesty to work. A bitter attack can be funny if it is sincere--Bill Hicks, for instance. The Daily Show--John Stewart and Steve Colbert, especially--aren't pushing a message, they are being bitterly satirical. Satire can't push a message, it has to point out irony in something in order to be funny.

The clip started out funny, because it was mocking Obama for legitimate reasons (not significant, but legitimate). But it quickly turned into a thinly veiled bitter attack while pretending to be satire. Republicans are mean and self-centered. They don't get satire. Plus, they are too insecure. A comedian has to be able to laugh at himself or herself to be satirical. They have to be able to laugh at everything. Republicans can't do that. They can't admit they are wrong or inconsistent.

Plus they are bad actors. The two in that clip were horrible.

My thoughts. Probably wrong, as always.

For the most part they don't look for funny stuff and go with it. Conservative, especially the likes of unfunny fat ass Limbaugh, pick a target and try to morph their agenda into satire. When you are as stilted, narrow-viewed and provincial as Cons then super-impose morphing of agenda into humor the result is mostly unfunny mouthings with hints of clumsy childishness ranging to bitter obsessing.

I voted two though. I know more than a few smart conservatives. Part of our problem is we underestimate them. They do however tend to be tight assed and very mean spirited as a whole.

The Daily show has aimed it's fire at the conservatives and Bush because they have been in power and are largely responsible for the issues we are currently dealing with. The Daily show has taken many hits against Democrats.

This conservative show fails because it starts with the premise that the Daily Show is liberal and conservatives need a conservative Daily show. Just that mindset makes the show impossible.
Maybe they just need to do a "fake" news show with Dennis Miller as host. At least he knows what's funny and would take shots at Republicans, and give conservatives what they want, a conservative perspective.

But really, I hope they spent millions trying to develop this stupid concept of a show. That's millions that Fox news won't be able to use for their "fake news"

Also, satire is the tool of the underdog. It's how the powerless mock the powerful. Conservatives are the establishment in every way, and when they try to use satire, it's like beating up an old woman.

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What "The Daily Show" does best is highlight the irony contained within reality. When, like Fox News, your view of reality is 180 degrees out of phase from reality, finding the irony therein is an exercise in futility. I saw it described somewhere recently like this:

The Che Guevara T-Shirt Sketch:

Fox News Version:
You take the guy who sells Che T-shirts and also have him sell Osama Bin Laden and Hitler T-shirts because, well, if you like Che you must like Hitler and Bin Laden, and you must also hate America. Ha, ha. That's the joke!

Daily Show Version:
Points out the irony of making a buck (Capitalism) off the image of a well-know Communist revolutionary. Has the guy also selling Gandhi brand handguns and Pope John Paul condoms.

Both sketches poke fun at the vendor, although only the second one is actually funny.

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The hosts are worse actors than anything you'll see in a poorly produced middle school play, and the intro camera pan was such an obvious ripoff of TDS. :puke:

horrible

anything that has some form of nuance is too much for them to handle. Creativity and intellect make for good humor. Conservatives lack those particular traits.

We're talking about people that think Mallard Fillmore is the best comic strip ever.

You can't be funny when you have to lie.

... isn't funny.

OK, i'll admit this, Stephen colbert's feigned hatred of bears is hysterical. (i think the important element in this example is that it is feigned)

No matter what Fox thinks.

Pointing out that folks are full of shit regardless of what side of the fence they are on is hardly 'liberal'. A left wing slant perhaps, but considering just how off most Americans' political compasses are it's no shock.

If someone made a TRULY far left-wing comedy show in the same spirit of Fox then it very well might not be all that funny as well.

That and laugh tracks are obnoxious.

That the RW is far often more full of shit than our side as well, as I've seen The Daily Show mock & satirize Democrats as well.

I mean, has any prominent Democrat been as seriously out of touch with reality as Bush and Dick "last throes" Cheney in recent memory?

That is how they usually come out when they are trying to be funny.

Their humor doesn't go towards life and human foibles, but towards some essence of superiority of some over others.

What a god-awful clip.

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That's why. All they care about is everyone fawning over how much smarter, richer, better they are than everyone else. The only real thing they care about is being sucked up to. How do you be funny with that?

They don't get The Daily Show because it's about the comedy first, and not getting people to suck up to them.

I'm not joking.

Because we get upset at jokes that are not "politically correct" (their words) - which really means we don't like jokes that are racist/sexist/anti-gay.

Or, because we don't like kicking people when they're down.

the only smile out of a group of conservative co-workers and not even a giggle at that. They found the whole thing pretty pathetic.