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The right-wing answer to "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," the Fox News-produced spoof "1/2 Hour News Hour" gets a brief tryout on the Fox News Channel. (Yes, this time FNC is attempting to be funny intentionally.)

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What The Critics Said

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Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

If none of this quite rises to the level of Jon Stewart's intellectual hopscotch or Amy Poehler's inspired lunacy, it's nonetheless agreeably funny.

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The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody.

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Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

A look at the first episode suggests that, just as A.M. radio is the unassailable province of the right, TV might better be left to the left.

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Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

The 1/2 Hour News Hour is slow torture all by itself.

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VarietyBrian Lowry

As for Surnow, in a sense, he's added a program to his resume that neatly dovetails with "24" -- demonstrating that stiff, uninspired comedy isn't exactly torture; it's just not much fun.

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Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss

In truth, there's nothing wrong with partisan humor, as long as it's actually funny. But here, even the less-political jokes are hopelessly obvious or old.

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Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

The humor is so predictable and so stale that it fails to produce any laughs.

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Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

"Weekend Update" on its worst night isn't this bad.

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SlateTroy Patterson

You couldn't skewer a cube of tofu with material this dull.

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The Onion A.V. ClubAmelie Gillette

It's even worse than anyone imagined.

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The New RepublicSacha Zimmerman

It's hard not to keep staring perplexed, squinting a little, and uttering, "I don't get it" every few seconds.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 2.8 (out of 10) based on 368 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Mark L. gave it a0:
The ACLU joke was actually really funny, because guess what right-wingers? THE KKK is a right-wing group, and we lefties defended your right to march! Whoohoo! That was irony, which Faux is really good at presenting...sometimes as actual news sadly.

r C. gave it a10:
Loved the show...sorry it's off the air. The fact that the Libs don't get it, even makes it better. They don't get the Bible either.

Drew M gave it a10:
I am really pissed that they took it off the hour. My Sundays were actually lived waiting for this show. It was a great answer for us conservatives. Finally the left is getting bashed in a funny -- It was a great show and I will REALLY miss it..

Kevin K gave it a0:
Ideology without humor.

Jim gave it a0:
This show is about as funny as invading a country based on fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction. No matter how hard they try, they'll never match the comedy in using the exact same fabrications to invade another country, 5 years later. The creators of this show shouldn't be too upset that they lack humor, however. their reptilian single-minded approach to life and politics has allowed what was a marginal faction of ignorant, backwards country bumpkins to virtually dominate America's political process. Instead of trying to out lib the libs, the cons on Fox "News" should embrace their lack of culture and sophistication, perhaps with 30 minutes, every Sunday night, of dead air or perhaps paint drying.

James D gave it a10:
Some of the bits weren't funny, but overall the show was good. They had some good segments poking fun at the left, which of course the left hated.

Dan gave it a10:
Finally, someone makes fun of the left. The left probably doesn't get any of the jokes or is offended by the show.

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