The 1/2 Hour News Hour: Season 1
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Metascore
12 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 11 Critics What's this?

User Score
2.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 372 Ratings

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  • Starring: Dennis Miller, Jenn Robertson, Kurt Long
  • Summary: 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.)
  • Genre(s): Comedy, News/Documentary

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 10 out of 11
  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    60
    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.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    30
    Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    20
    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.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    10
    The humor is so predictable and so stale that it fails to produce any laughs.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 283
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 283
  3. Negative: 202 out of 283
  1. ChrisF.
    10
    I found the show to be entertaining and very appealing. The jokes were tasteful and smart, not lewd or the crude that you find on most SNL type shows.… Expand
  2. ChristopherC.
    8
    it was good to have a conservative answer to the daily show, or snl or so many other left-wing programs. and despite the poor user reviews, the show had good ratings all till the end. some jokes may be hard to get if you don't agree with the viewpoint. overall i found it quite funny.… Expand
  3. HughJass
    7
    This is a little funnier than the critics say. Not extremely funny, but still funny.
  4. MikeM
    4
    The only reason people are giving this show a 10 is for their political stance on the issues...not because of the quality of the humor. The reason why it's so mediocre is because the outlandish characterizations of the left are actually said on real news shows by talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. It's just awkward to think the people who write this show think they are writing comedy, when they are really writing a mockumentary of the rediculousness that is Fox News.… Expand

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