19 thoughts on “Another Prediction”

  2. “It’s Dennis Miller meets Mallard Fillmore.” So that was the pitch; who the hell signed off on that? You’re right about rightie humor — all that needs to be said about it — other than invoking Dennis and Mallard (maybe they’ll call it the “Dennis and Mallard show”), is that George Allen’s comments about “macaca” and “welcome to America” to a lifelong resident of the state of Virginia was the quintessential example of rightwing “humor”.

  3. They will have to have a laugh track or no one will know when they are suppose to laugh….will they have an anchor come on after and explain the jokes?.

    I bet Stewart and Colbert are packing up their offices in fear..Perhaps rummy and the other bush rejects can get jobs as writers for the show..wouldn’t that be a riot?

    The right thinks jokes like bush looking up his own ass for WMD are funny.They are amused by tee shirts that poke fun at hanging their political foes….When coulter suggests we should covert Iraqi people to christians at gun point I bet half the right wet their pants laughing so hard…..What will it take to amuse that crowd? Perhaps a off the cuff comedy about water boarding?Perhaps some on air killing of brown people to really give the righties a chuckle?….oh I know, perhaps a “If I did do it” book by georgie and we can all have a laugh about the mass murdering antics of a wacky president!

  4. “Saturday Night Live” did some funny stuff last week on Nancy P. Now, if you accept that SNL is generally not right-wing, you can see where a Right wing comedy will fail. They won’t do Cheny hunting trip skits. They will fail to entertain.

  5. Dennis Miller meets Mallard Filmore? Wow, that is evern stranger than British humor. You wanna see twilight zone type funny, check out Fox’n friends, they’re about as funny as Terrance and Phillip on South Park. JEESH!!
    Dennis Miller was funny on SNL, but crashed and burned on his own.

  6. “Saturday Night Live” did some funny stuff last week on Nancy P.

    Yeah, I saw part of that and it was funny. I bet Nancy thought it was funny, too.

  9. Anybody ever try to read “Prickly City”? I gave it a chance — I really did, but it just wasn’t funny. I would even give it the benefit of the doubt, thinking that maybe it was just my point of view that kept me from getting the jokes … but that wasn’t it. Many times the joke just boiled down to a character saying “Libs just don’t understand …” and that was it … that was the whole joke. No incongruity, no subtle wordplay, no clever reversals, no … humor.

    So maybe maha’s right about righties not getting humor. But that doesn’t mean they won’t watch the program …

  10. A funny conservative is an oxymoron. I’m sure a psychologist would have a field day with this subject.

  11. I thought Rush Limbaugh was an oxymoron….
    I love it when Olbermann refers to him as a funny man.
    Rush walks into a bar with a cockatoo on his shoulder. The bartender points at the bird and asks” where’d you get that”
    The bird replies” it started out as a cist on my butt….”

  12. I’m convinced righties think mean IS funny. I’m sure we have all had all the examples of this that we need.
    The schoolyard bullies all turned out to be Republicans…

  14. Fox news is worried because their audience is more and more getting to be older people. They put this loud-mouth Mancow thing on last weekend and now their version of Daily Show in order to attract younger viewers. It may work. At least they are showing some dynamism. I keep waiting for some rich liberals to pull their heads out of their asses and realize the affect Fox news has on shaping the political debate and start a liberal counter channel.

  16. I HAD to laugh when I saw mancows name.I recall hearing him say when Clinton was president that bin laden didn’t exist and was a made up person.

    Respectfully, I hope we never get our own faux.I find the faux network to be whitehouse propaganda, and I don’t want to hear that shit from either party.

    I would rather see the un- dumbing down of America.I would rather see the America people “just say no” to entertainment news and return to just getting the news without any political slant.Remember the days when the anchor just read the story without trying to spin it for one party or the other?

    However I must say I do enjoy watching the right struggling to free themselves from the fly paper they seem to be stuck to.This show idea is just another attempt to get free, but it will only make them get more stuck….

  17. What I fear from this is that the right will come up with some sort of humor show, but it will be a very mean kind of humor, a new depth of depravity. The kind of humor only nazis would find funny.

    When Rush first hit the airwaves way-back-when, I listened to him for awhile, because parts of his show (the fake commercials) were kind of funny. But afterwhile I caught on to what he was really about and kicked him off my dial. For good.

    I fear that Fox will try to launch a “humor” show that is an order of magnitude nastier than what the culture currently tolerates, in much the way that Rush was something bigger and bolder than the former radio demagogues.

    I think of the OJ book that thankfully was killed. It was a test of what the culture will tolerate. I also think of how the right got beaten earlier this month, and how they’re only going to intensify their efforts. A meaner, nastier kind of broadcast humor would abet this intensification.

  18. Another prediction: Dick Cheney steps down shortly after Jan 1 2007.Yep, it was in the tea leaves this afternoon…..

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