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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 shows 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 companys 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 dont want our viewers thinking that Bill OReilly 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 nations decline. Some people have found it difficult to know when and when not to laugh.
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Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)If they had a live audience it wouldn't work considering the age group of their viewing audience.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)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
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Their humor is fake, why not the response!