# Rejoice! A FoxGnaws "Daily Show"! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205 "2006-11-20T21:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/1 "2006-11-20T21:18:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of “24″ to try its hand at a news satire show for conservatives to love.” “The way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,” “24″ co-creator Joel Surnow said. “The other side hasn’t been skewered in a fair and balanced way.”… From _Think Progress_ > **[ThinkProgress](https://thinkprogress.org/)** Oh, happy day! My little heart goes pitter-pat! Another entry in the happy pantehon of conservative humor! Move over, Mallard Fillmore! Look out, Dennis Miller! Have another cold one, P.J. O’Rourke, and tell us one more time how you used to be a dope-smoking hippy but have seen the light of alcoholism. (Sure has done wonders for Christopher Hitchens, who looks like a corpse scoping for a place to lie down…) I can hardly wait for the scathing, Swiftian wit that is _sure_ to come pouring out like the slime from your video! Clinton cigar jokes! \*More \* Clinton cigar jokes! Some classic Bob Hope lines about hippies, baths and jobs! I might offer myself, but my politics are somewhat…center leftish. But we have many, many budding humorists hereabouts, keening for an opportunity like this! I won’t name names, but you know who you are! Rejoice, breethren and sistren, pals and gals! The day of Jubilee is upon us! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/2 "2006-11-20T21:36:37Z")
Just like Stephen Colbert, except they’ll mean it. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/3 "2006-11-20T21:39:51Z")
You mean O’Reilly isn’t satire?!?!? The thing they’re prone to miss on is that although the Stewart’s politics are certainly left-of-center, it mocks all sides, rather like the Onion. Moreover, the Daily Show does treat the conservative pundits that come on his show with respect, even though he will engage in some debate with them. I’m not holding my breath for similar treatment on this Faux News Channel offering. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/4 "2006-11-20T21:43:22Z")
Why do you hate comedy? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/5 "2006-11-20T21:48:40Z")
[QUOTE=Hey you!] You mean O’Reilly isn’t satire?!?!? [/QUOTE] Hell, the entire channel reads like satire. I predict this will go over like a sleeping pill demonstration at a narcolepsy convention. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/6 "2006-11-20T22:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Hell, the entire channel reads like satire. I predict this will go over like a sleeping pill demonstration at a narcolepsy convention. [/QUOTE] I disagree. I think there is a whole market for this. the same market that finds Rush and Ann inspirational and worth listening to/supporting. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/7 "2006-11-20T22:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I can hardly wait for the scathing, Swiftian wit that is _sure_ to come pouring out like the slime from your video! Clinton cigar jokes! \*More \* Clinton cigar jokes! Some classic Bob Hope lines about hippies, baths and jobs! [/QUOTE] Do you really think there’s no one in this country who wouldn’t still laugh at those things? Not me, and I assume, not you; but they’re out there, and we ignore them at our peril. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/8 "2006-11-20T22:32:11Z")
If it’s funny I’ll watch it. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/9 "2006-11-20T22:37:56Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] If it’s funny I’ll watch it. [/QUOTE] yea, me too. I laugh at the segments on TDS when Stewart lampoons Kerry etc. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/10 "2006-11-20T22:43:16Z")
So, what you’re telling me is that Fox News is finally adding a laugh track? How appropriate. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/11 "2006-11-20T22:46:02Z")
This is GREAT news! Fox has failed at being serious, now it’s going to fail at being funny! It’s the best of both worlds. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/12 "2006-11-20T22:57:34Z")
Rick Reynolds said it better: “Only the Truth Is Funny” On the right the only one I could think was capable of making the untruths from the right to be funny was Rush L. and even he recently admitted it was a thankless job. Sure, you will find people who will laugh, but it is a shrinking demographic… ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/13 "2006-11-20T23:09:01Z")
FoxGnaws?? Yeah, that sucks- stick with “Faux News”. I find it funny that the Fox News division is taking the lead on competing with the Comedy Central. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/14 "2006-11-20T23:24:18Z")
The drinking games write themselves. If a punch line involves… …Clinton’s blowjob? Take a drink. …Chappaquiddick? Two drinks. They might find a smallish audience among the so-called South Park Republicans, but I can’t see this going much of anywhere. In particular, a lot of the humor in TDS (and in any successful comedy that appeals to the younger set) comes from irreverence and an ability to hold nothing sacred. Conservatives, almost by definition, don’t really like that. And you have to remember that Fox News is not so much conservative as it is a Republican house organ. It’s certainly possible to be idealogically conservative and be funny; I mean, there’s P.J. O’Rourke, and…well…OK, so there’s P.J. O’Rourke. But I don’t see how a show trying to get humor out of politics will be able to do so in the next few years while maintaining Fox’s degree of fellatio on the Bush adminstration and the Republican leadership. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/15 "2006-11-20T23:24:35Z")
I really, really hope they do this. The Daily Show will have a field day making fun of them for it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/16 "2006-11-20T23:39:06Z")
You guys don’t think there’s a market for this? Have you not heard of Blue Collar TV? If they can make it funny, people will watch. Even me. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/17 "2006-11-20T23:57:33Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] You guys don’t think there’s a market for this? Have you not heard of Blue Collar TV? If they can make it funny, people will watch. Even me. [/QUOTE] But this isn’t blue collar TV. That’s very lowbrow, and if they’re looking to compete with The Daily Show, they’ll have to do a somewhat more intellectual take on the way Democrats are ruining this country by not being in power. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/18 "2006-11-21T00:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] FoxGnaws?? Yeah, that sucks- stick with “Faux News”… [/QUOTE] I’ll think it over. Mmmmmm, no. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/19 "2006-11-21T00:56:01Z")
Fox Skews? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205/20 "2006-11-21T00:58:47Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I’ll think it over. Mmmmmm, no. [/QUOTE] No, he’s right. FoxGnaws is really stupid. And I say this as one of your bigger fans. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejoice-a-foxgnaws-daily-show/381205.md?page=2)