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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 07:38 AM Dec 2013

Fox News to Add Laugh Track ..Breaking news

NEW YORK CITY, NY – The Fox News Network has announced plans to include a laughter track in its daily broadcasts in an effort to aid viewers, who have reportedly struggled to decipher between the show’s serious and humorous segments.


Fox News, a key endeavor of the Rupert Murdoch media enterprise, has aired daily since 1996, and is famous for presenting its “surreal and often hilarious” news agenda in a stylized deadpan manner.

However, at a press conference Thursday, Fox program coordinator Devlin B. Tucker confirmed that the company’s flagship show, as well as its regional counterparts, would be incorporating pre-recorded laughter into news segments, business updates and political commentary programs.


“We just want to add an additional layer to our news coverage,” said Tucker. “We don’t want our viewers thinking that Bill O’Reilly is being serious when he accuses the president of driving a communist agenda in America or that Fox And Friends presenter Steve Doocy actually believes that intellectuals are the primary cause of the nation’s decline. Some people have found it difficult to know when and when not to laugh.”



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Fox News to Add Laugh Track ..Breaking news (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Dec 2013 OP
This is from "The Onion", right? Right? Arkansas Granny Dec 2013 #1
Not the Onion but satire Ichingcarpenter Dec 2013 #2
Why all the concern? Their ratings have dropped? Jefferson23 Dec 2013 #3
Fox has tried this already ready Gothmog Dec 2013 #4
A laugh track make sense. JimboBillyBubbaBob Dec 2013 #5

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
2. Not the Onion but satire
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 08:49 AM
Dec 2013

If they had a live audience it wouldn't work considering the age group of their viewing audience.

Gothmog

(145,176 posts)
4. Fox has tried this already ready
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:14 AM
Dec 2013

Several years ago Fox attempted to compete with Jon Stewart and the Daily Show with a program called the Half Hour News Hour. Conservatives are too stupid to understand satire and so this show was a essentially a Fox News broadcast with a laugh track

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