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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy doesn't FOX start their own version of SNL to please Trump?
They have great comedians and comediennes like Kennedy, Greg Gutfeld, and Geraldo.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)LyndaG
(683 posts)Guess nothing came of it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It was called something like the Half Hour News Hour and it sucked more than an Electrolux.
PSPS
(13,595 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson and Colin Quinn.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Figures. I liked his angry Irish uncle schtick, though.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)He a right winger. Always has been.
oasis
(49,383 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)RW humor doesn't work, because they like to punch down, not up.
Ratings sucked and they couldn't get sponsors.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)thewhollytoast
(318 posts)It failed. They found you can't be funny if it's not based in truth. Conservatives have a hard time with truth.
Toast
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)They had a talking newspaper as a "correspondent"/guest.
Initech
(100,075 posts)And how hard that crashed and burned? Yeah conservatives just don't get humor.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I was disappointed they canceled it though. It was so outstandingly lame that I was surprised anyone thought it was funny.
Initech
(100,075 posts)They'll never be funny or good at music and the arts, they should just own it. They're lame! They need to accept it! The sooner they do, the better.
Mr. Frost
(75 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Because humor/comedy relies on a certain degree of fact for things to be funny. The Baldwin thing is hilarious because while it's satire, over the top, and oftentimes silly, the vestiges of fact is actually what makes the thing funny.
Conservatives couldn't do this, because the right doesn't deal in facts. So a "skit" of Pelosi kneeling at a statue of Karl Marx just wouldn't be funny.
thewhollytoast
(318 posts)Thanks,
Toast
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Lots of them in fact. With big overadorned fake gold frames.