A Sunday talk show.
I know what you’re thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that.”
Look, The Daily SHow is darn near a newscast now, but it has to be on late each evening to allow time for the program to be written. A Sunday talk show could run (and beat) Face the Nation et. al. by running directly against hem.
I am a programming genius.
Comedy Central Presents Farce the Nation?
Like Colin Quinn’s show, but funny?
I really like The Daily Show and Colbert, but Comedy Central’s track record for original programming is pretty poor. I mean, the Lewis Black thing, Mind of Mencia, Lil’ Bush, that Naked Trucker thing – they’ve fallen on their faces more that the networks over the last 5 year, in my opinion.
Yes. Comedy Central is a terrible and unfunny channel that, apparently through sheer dumb luck, has produced 3 of the best shows of our generation.
(I’m talking of course about Daily Show, South Park, and Chappelle’s Show)
~90% - or however many percent is left once you take away those three shows - is basically The Chocolate News with different faces on screen.
Even the Daily Show was only so-so until Stewart showed up (and Bush entered office), and the Colbert Report would have bombed hard with anyone but Colbert.
I miss the days when Comedy Central was little more than hours on hours of stand-up and MST3K. Throw TDS and TCR in there and you’ve got a solid channel.
If you mean a comedy Face the Nation – what political figure is going to volunteer to get humiliated for a half-hour straight?
Maybe something more like The View --where the panelists can humiliate each other most of the time and have on an occasional brief guest. I guess that it’s like that, because I’ve never actually seen the show, just brief clips of it on other shows.
Don’t forget Politically Incorrect, which was sold to ABC, who canceled it after 9/11.
But, yes, other than those four shows, they are a terrible network.
(I wonder if the could do the MST3K treatment to an existing news program.THat would rock.)
Jon Stewart makes fun of the news programs all the time. Back in the days when Comedy Central was looking for a show that would follow The Daily Show before they hit upon The Colbert Report they had a short-lived show called Crossballs that was basically a spoof of debate shows. And The Colbert Report is basically a spoof of The O’Reilly Factor and other conservative talk shows.
I was leaving out South Park because it seems like something that fell in their lap. Maybe that’s unfair – I have no idea how they or other small networks find and develop their shows. And Chapelle to me was about half genius, half filler, but I’d put that show up there as a success. And CC’s track record otherwise seems pretty spotty.
Any suggestions for an all-political-humor View? I assume having the ghost of Bil Hicks battle Ann Coulter once a week is not going to happen.