Is the Fox News Channel thinking about doing a "conservative" counterpart to Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Read more here.
Here's why I don't think it'll work:
* The Daily Show makes fun of both parties. (Even today, you can still expect Bill and Hillary Clinton jokes and, more recently, Al Gore jokes.) It just happens that the people in power now (and hence the people doing the most absurd things) are Republicans, so they're the target of a good amount of the jokes. This is to be expected.
* The Daily Show (and The Colbert Report) are funny because they're a satire of the media: the self-important news correspondents, the screaming-head pundits, the gross over-simplification of complex issues, ect ect. Will this be funny if Fox did it? Or will they even do it? Why would Fox make fun of the media when they are the media?
Question of the day: Watch below, and can't you just see Samantha Bee TOTALLY fitting in as a Dateline NBC correspondent?
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