The 1/2 Hour News Hour

The 1/2 Hour News Hour

2007
The 1/2 Hour News Hour
The 1/2 Hour News Hour

The 1/2 Hour News Hour

2.3 | en | Comedy

The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show that aired on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show. The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007. Cast and crew of the show included Kurt Long, Jennifer Robertson, Manny Coto, and Ned Rice. Longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller was a regular contributor to the program with his "The Buck Starts Here" segment.

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Feb. 18,2007
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Released: 2007-02-18 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.foxnews.com/halfhournewshour/index.html
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The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show that aired on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show. The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007. Cast and crew of the show included Kurt Long, Jennifer Robertson, Manny Coto, and Ned Rice. Longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller was a regular contributor to the program with his "The Buck Starts Here" segment.

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kapop69 This show is so awfully amateurish it is agonizingly uncomfortable to watch. What's worse is the overzealous audience who hoot and holler at jokes that are more ideologically pointed than funny. The director compounds this forced laughter and applause during the shows credits when the audience tries applaud and cheer for 2-3 minutes. I feel sorry for the "actors." I know I have seen a couple in other shows on Comedy Central and in TV commercials. They are really hitting rock bottom with this turkey. The worst example of this is Dennnis Miller, whose rapid-fire, arcane references are so beyond the ken of the audience that the timing of their laughter is not in sync with his not-so-funny and very bitter punch lines. What is it with conservativism and comedy? Miller used to be a hoot when his observations weren't such blatant attempts to attack one side of the political spectrum. Like Miller, the conservatives who write for this show are so consumed with trying to score political points against the left that they miss being funny by a long shot. One skit had "God" smiting secular humanist authors (to quote O'Reilly) and the audience not only laughed but cheered as each met their fate. Now who wouldn't find that funny? Good Christian humor, huh? I suppose the kool-aid drinking Fox News die-hards will force themselves to laugh and keep watching but it won't last long. I've watched three episodes and even on a good night this show is worse than a high school comedy routine. As Lewis Black observed, "If this is supposed to be a 'fake' news show on Fox News, shouldn't it be a real news show?" To those faithful acolytes of all things Fox, keep trying to laugh while you cringe inside.
SirAndrew I must say, this show is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time.While the pilots were good, the series so far has just been getting better and better.They've featured skits on the ACLU (some of my favorite), sexual harassment, feminism, and even cameos by Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham.Now, I will admit that the show does contain conservative humor and satire. Liberals may not get the humor and be offended by its sometimes off-the-wall and politically incorrect humor.But we should be able to laugh at ourselves one in a while, shouldn't we?
YeeeHaw83 Whether you think this show is funny or not right now is not important. It's not important simply because no matter what our political differences are with each other and this show it's going to have an audience. The simple reason for that is that there is nothing like it out there and it's on Fox News. Fox News could seriously make a TV show about a turd and it would receive good ratings. They're just that strong because everyone that identifies themselves as either Conservative or Traditional feels as if they're not getting a fair shake everywhere else. Doesn't matter if that's the case because thats what they feel and that is why they're die hard Fox News supporters.The concept of a Conservative Satire Show is a new one and one that will work with time. From the message boards you can see people saying every bad thing they can about this show, most of them from the left. Even with being a Conservative I'll admit that the show isn't up to par with The Daily Show. However, the two episodes aired are simply pilots with very little financial and talent backing. Now that the show has been picked up for the season we should expect an increasingly better product. If we don't, guess what... The Fox News audience will watch anyways, therefore the concept is one that WILL WORK!!!
kingdomemariner Everything in this show is done on the cheap; the casting of two people who between them have no noticeable success in entertainment, the horrible writing, the campy laugh track, and the guest appearances. Regardless of if you are from the right, middle or left, funny is funny, and this is NOT FUNNY. A right wing comedy could work if the writers could write and the actors act, this show can do neither. BO Magazine? Ed Bagley Jr (has he been in anything in the last 10 years? he is the biggest liberal they could mock?) Condoms in New York (I gotcha condom right her pal?) It is a show of Right-Wing talking points masked with a laugh track. This does not make it funny. If you find this show funny, you may like other "greats" like Two and a Half Men, Yes Dear, and According to Jim. All of these are train wrecks, but none rise to the level of the 1/2 Hour News Hour.