Friday, 23 Jun 2006
Oh. My. This could get interesting. Fox News is rumored to be putting together a Daily Show-style pilot. It’s also rumored that Laura Ingraham would be hosting, who’s idea of humor in college was to attend a gay students’ club meeting in order to publish the names of the attendees.
Yeah, I’m having a hard time seeing this, considering what Ingraham’s class of pundit considers humor. (Then again, I suppose the show will be delightful to those who find “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.” or “Club Gitmo” t-shirts hil-larious.)
OTOH, I suppose it’ll make for Daily Show fodder.









November 22nd, 2006 at 8:40 am
[...] It’s been about five months since I first heard of Fox News attempting to create a Daily Show-style pilot and now it sounds like that project is moving forward: Joel Surnow, co-creator of “24,” is shooting two half-hour pilots of a skein he described as ” ‘The Daily Show’ for conservatives,” due to air in primetime on Saturdays in January. [...]