The Half Hour News Hour

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NOT the Daily Show

REAL NEWZ

Faux News

The 1/2 Hour News Hour is a canceloled, racist, homophobic humorless half-hour television news propaganda show that was set to air Sunday evenings on Fox News starting February 18, 2007. Creator and future war criminal, Joel Surnow describes the show as " ..the anti-semetic Daily Show". Two pilot episodes have been taped, with the unlikely possibility of new shows being aired weekly. Cast and crew of the pilots include Kurt Long, Susan Yeagley, Manny Coto and Ned Rice. During the first show broadcast the hosts primarily mocked Barack Obama, through jokes about his admitted teenaged drug-use, and parody of the Oprah Winfrey magazine, O, entitled "BO", a totally edgy double entendre for body odor!

On February 12th, The Half Hour News Hour aired a promo commercial on the Fox News channel, which ended up being autofreshed on YouTube.com. Shown as a spoof "Public Service Announcement", the show warned that it may offend "The Left, The Far Left, Anyone Standing to the Left, Gay Penguins, Lawyers, The ACLU, Anyone With ACLU in Their Name, Democrats, People Who Voted for Democrats, People Who Know Democrats, Gay Penguins, Illegal Aliens, Space Aliens, and Tom Cruise." It is unclear why the fuck "gay penguins" was listed twice by Fox News.

Not only are they trying to rip off the Daily Show, but they failed to understand the "sense of humor" factor in such political satire shows. To the untrained person, these shows are not biased to the left or to the right. The show usually just plays on how stupid politics are. They don't just make fun of people because they are on the "right" politically. It's usually most people right wing are just complete and utter douches. Ironically, 1/2 Hour News Hour proved that. lawl.

They also ripped the name off of the Canadian Political Comedy show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", which is how long a half-hour show usually runs. At least the Canadian show had enough sense not to spell out that the "Hour" is a News Hour.