• Network: FOX News
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 18, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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2.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 372 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 372

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  1. TimM.
    Feb 16, 2007
    6
    No, it's not great. But why in the world would TV critics - the most liberal group of writers in the industry - like right wing humor?? The fact that TV critics would fawn over The Daily Show and hate guys like P.J. O'Rourke is predictable. I was amused by the Coulter stuff, but the moment you put her on TV, the left jumps out of its skin. Bottom Line: Reviewing right wing fare is Mission: Impossible for the Critical left. Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  2. KevinK
    Feb 16, 2007
    0
    This show sucks!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Sara
    Feb 17, 2007
    0
    The president skit looked more like a parody of conservative thought processes. "Well, after two years of a democratic congress, the economy is in ruins and we're internationally hated, but luckily, the conservatives are back in charge." Unlike, you know, how things are after six years of a Republican one. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. LennyT
    Feb 17, 2007
    0
    So bad it makes you feel sorry for FNC. Trite.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. KurtA
    Feb 17, 2007
    0
    The only thing that is missing is real laughs from a live audience... check that TV audience.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. DanielM
    Feb 17, 2007
    0
    oh-my-god that this show is discraceful
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. JasonS
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    Completely fails to be either original or funny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. Dave
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    Fox is doing fake news? This is news??
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. ChrisA
    Feb 18, 2007
    1
    This just sucks.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. IanS
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    So painful to watch, its comparable to an awful high school production
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. RuffyR
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    I loved it!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  12. DavidO
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    It is about time that the "right" has its own program. The fact that all the liberal reviewers came in against the show is a strong prediction of potential success! As usual, they (liberals) can dish it out, but they can't take it!!! Keep going 1/2 Hour News Hour!!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  13. JohnStewart
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    very, very, very poorly done
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. TracyH
    Feb 18, 2007
    9
    I find it hard to believe all of your critics have negative comments. Can you say "liberal bias?"
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  15. MikeH
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    OK Libs...it's all fun and games until the joke's on you. I'll laugh really hard the first time this gets better ratings than your liberal counterpart...and it will happen. I thought it was hilarious! - A God Fearing, All American Conservative
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  16. jr
    Feb 18, 2007
    9
    Odd intro, but very funny obama segment and t-shirt parody. Ill watch it again.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  17. Chelsea
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    Actually worse than expected. Political bias aside, this was just plain horrible.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  18. NealW
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    Great show....silly and fun.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  19. [Anonymous]
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    Sick.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  20. PaulM
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    Middle schoolers could write better parody.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  21. DavidH
    Feb 18, 2007
    1
    Be you liberal or conservative, I think we can all put aside our partisan differences and agree that this show is awful
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  22. HankC
    Feb 18, 2007
    0
    terrible and offensive
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  23. alh
    Feb 18, 2007
    6
    What's funny is watching all the KommieLib media critics pan this show. It's as automatic and reflexive as their love or hate of any other issue/politician/celebrity. Liberal/Democrat/AnybodyButFox - good ....... Conservative/Republican/Fox baaaaad. The show's not great, but it will (probably get better). If not, it deserves to go. We don't want it stinking up the place. Big Al Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  24. Sean
    Feb 18, 2007
    2
    Pathetic attempt! I was going to give it a chance being a moderate voter ... a daily show rip off that doesn't even give the daily show any street cred.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  25. CiaraT
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    I thought the show was hilarious and I hope to see it become a regular series. Take that liberals hypocrite's!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  26. EZ
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Small focus, silliness, and poor delivery plague this show. It's so bad the hosts even try to explain their jokes sometimes (which makes them even worse).
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  27. David
    Feb 19, 2007
    7
    Enjoyed the gags, especially the ACLU bits. It's a fun change of pace from the standard comedy news that i'm used to seeing on SNL or the Daily Show. Refreshing.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  28. jonr
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    It was terrible and unfunny. Larry the cable guy was more insightful!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  29. pata
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    i can't believe this show was actually approved. i felt like i was watching a public access teen news program from a year ago. the jokes were totally outdated and the whole feel was cheap. those two actors/anchors should be ahshamed of themselves for taking this job. i'm sure they will be.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  30. BillW
    Feb 19, 2007
    8
    Finally, a show that exposes the truth about liberals and liberalism in very funny way. Illustrating liberal absurdity through satiric humor.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  31. JenniferD
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Excellent! Finaly TRUTH in journalism!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  32. CarlaW
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Great Fun! Illustrates the absurd by being absurd.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  33. KrisK
    Feb 19, 2007
    2
    relegated to the hellish hours of 3AM and plugged between other boners like Girls Gone Wild and Enzyte, it might do wonderfully. Some of us get punchy enough to laugh at anything, even this, at 3 AM.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  34. GINAR
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    This show is great and alot of us conservatives would like to see this come about, it just shows that the left has no sense of humor and I think this is great comedy!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  35. BobY
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    I expected poor comments from the pathetic left. It's about time some conservative humor poked at them.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  36. JPosa
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Great show. The liberals are all crying foul on this one. The truth hurts, doesn't it. Fox is laughing all the way to the bank. HA,HA,HA!!!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  37. RonR
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Superior humor!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  38. BrianM
    Feb 19, 2007
    1
    Am I missing something here? After the show finished, I thought isn't comedy at it's best when practiced by the anti-establishment. It's just not funny when the Bush administration does one liners and zingers about the ACLU.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  39. dougm
    Feb 19, 2007
    7
    Nice ironic Twist to the typical garbage called political humor. Canned laugh has got to go though, let the satire speak for itself
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  40. JudS.
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Hahaha. Yet another indication this "news" network is just trying to find shows that get ratings, despite the lack of journalism. Fox is just a horrible, terrible, awful channel.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  41. JobB
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Potental to be funny falls flat.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  42. SteveG
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    I loved it. It is about time.... It will be a must see for the people sick and tired of the left bashing the right.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  43. lizh
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    I loved it. At first it was a bit shocking to hear jokes about the left, it's so unusual I felt a little naughty listening to it and enjoying it. It's about time there was another voice on TV. Keep up the good work.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  44. GregS
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    If John Stuart is a 10, then this is at least as good. Pay attention to the Liberal critics rating of this show. All the more proof that the Left is too stupid to ever be trusted with any judgement.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  45. MatthewM
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Satire requires deflating power - hard to do when you are part of that power. Pretty dull stuff.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  46. kevinc
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Nice use of the laugh track over and over again. This shows they couldn't get a live audience to laugh at anything.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  47. MichaelC
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Horrific. Brain-dead monkeys on meth couldn't write worse material. I suppose it makes sense - how can you comment wittily on reality when you're living in the reality-free echo-chamber of Limbaugh and O'Reilly?
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  48. R.Skelly
    Feb 19, 2007
    2
    this is an awkward, desperate and ultumately woeful attempt at political parody.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  49. JordanM
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Well, it must be the best show ever made, cause a lot of liberal drones hate it!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  50. MyraT
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Stale, predictable, about as subtle as a sledgehammer, with nasty intolerant undertones. In other words typical right wing "humor."
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  51. BrentH
    Feb 19, 2007
    9
    It's no wonder the "mainstream media" newspaper quotes trash "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" and hurriedly predict the show's demise after one episode. It's about time fair balance included poking fun at liberal sacred cows. Kudos to FOX and Joel Surnow. Keep the laughs coming!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  52. CoryK
    Feb 19, 2007
    1
    Attempt at balancing out liberal-biased satire? Maybe. Funny? No, not at all.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  53. BrianB
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Good lord... if you want to copy Stewart and Colbert, please do it well. Without laugh tracks.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  54. johnf
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    funny, very funny
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  55. MichaelT
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Watched it three times, showed to alot of friends......... I haven't laughed so hard since Sienfeld
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  56. NoneofYourbusiness
    Feb 19, 2007
    10
    Absolutely brilliant. One of the best shows on TV can't wait until it goes beyond promos and gets better production values.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  57. KlarthL
    Feb 19, 2007
    0
    Awful... so awful.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  58. JakeL
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    The worst thing you can imagine -- on a bad day.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  59. HughJass
    Feb 20, 2007
    7
    This is a little funnier than the critics say. Not extremely funny, but still funny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  60. JohnB
    Feb 20, 2007
    10
    At last the answer to those smug arrogant fools on Weekend Update. And this is actually funny!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  61. DavidP
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    Chewing on tinfoil and repeatedly whacking my big toe with a sledgehammer would be more fun than watching this again. Good Lord, was this show horrible.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  62. JeffM
    Feb 20, 2007
    1
    The premise is stupid, the jokes dumb and juvenile, and the performance are so dull, it looks like even the actors hate doing it. Comedy only works if everything is up for grabs, narrowing down to make fun of a select group of people to pander to a "base" is why this will inevitably fail.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  63. JeffK
    Feb 20, 2007
    1
    The only thing I really found funny was how poorly the laugh track was applied.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  64. eclipsgtboy
    Feb 20, 2007
    10
    I love it. Finally a show that gives back a little something to the lefties. Of course they don't find it funny! It touches their golden man, Barack Obama. There is SOOOOO much material out there. Go for it!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  65. PoDawg
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    Awful
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  66. EdwinC
    Feb 20, 2007
    10
    This was a very funny show. Weedend update has been lame for two years now and this is very refreshing. I hope this has a looooooooong run on fox news.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  67. AlmaC
    Feb 20, 2007
    10
    Enjoyed it a lot
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  68. EmmaM
    Feb 20, 2007
    1
    Unbelievably horrible!!! This show is painfully unfunny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  69. AbeI
    Feb 20, 2007
    10
    It was a riot. I would like to see it every night.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  70. andrewO
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    so bad... i mean i would watch, IF IT WERE AT ALL FUNNY
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  71. JC
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    When I was a kid we did fake news shows that even embarassed us then. This show is worse. The critical scorn has nothing to do with its politics, it is just the very worst program possible with no rival in decades. In one case, a line that could have been very funny was delivered as if the person saying it had no idea what the actual humor was. It took me a while to notice that "hey, that was actually funny". One of the problems with this show is that it has to make up stuff about the people it is supposedly making fun of, such as Cindy Sheehan (a completely non-violent person) going on a shooting spree. It doesn't have a clue about reality and therefore has to make up lies to ATTEMPT to be funny. It also tends to be nasty. Contrast that with other shows that are genuinely funny that take reality and real clips and let the absurdity of ALL of us stand out on its own. The "real" world is silly enough and doesn't need help. That the writers have to resort to falsities may be a pretty good example of how people of this persuasion seem to be way out of touch with reality. This could be a window into the distorted, paranoid, and fearful mind of many cons. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  72. AndrewS
    Feb 20, 2007
    0
    No where near as funny as the regular programming on fox news.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  73. JohnM
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Painfully unfunny. The use of a laugh track is pathetic at best. What is a comdey show doing on a news network. It should be on FX channel or some other fox channel.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  74. RossA
    Feb 21, 2007
    1
    A satire doesn't work if you parody a different world altogether (whatever planet Fox lives on, because its not mine rofl). However, that complete lack of cohesion made this show unintentionally funny, so I give it a 1 for mockery purposes. Fox's ultimate paradox is that it has a parody news show on the worst news station on television. Before it gets to make fun of "good" news stations, it might want to consider getting its own. This show will be canceled in 6 episodes, tops. Expand
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  75. DanielA
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    They should probably try to spend more time on being funny and less on trying to be "right wing." I have never seen material is forced and, well, stupid. And this is coming from a regestered Independent. One of the least funny television shows I have ever seen.
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  76. StewartL
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    I would have given it a 1 had they had Bush doing fart jokes.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  77. dough
    Feb 21, 2007
    10
    Aww, the poor liberals don't like satire about the truth. They have the daly show, kind of. How about decent review without politics.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  78. Damien
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Bathroom humor just isn't funny. Nice how they added a canned laugh track to it. Awful, just awful.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  79. ChefClark
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    To effectively review this show, you need to observe it with a politically-neutral viewpoint. To review this show on comedic merit, it is absolutely horrible. Its structure of set-up, punchline, set-up, punchline, combined with its poor sketch acting and a LAUGH TRACK creates a dismal production that should never have even made it to a pilot episode.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  80. MarkD
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Wow ... just ... wow. This show is historically bad, not because it's partisan, but because it just isn't funny. There is a fine line between satire and hateful insults, and this show is on the wrong side. But that's what happens when you start a show not to be funny, but to further an ideological agenda. The fact that this is on what is supposed to be a NEWS network doesn't help, either. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  81. DrunkenMaster
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    How funny is the "half hour news hour"? Well, if you find the realization that Barack Obama's initials = BO hilarious, this is right up your alley. Otherwise (ie, if you have an IQ higher than that of a Basset Hound), stikck with The Daily Show. Raving rightwing reactionaries just aren't funny.
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  82. JayW
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    between the obvious canned laughter and the overly kinetic "news anchors", this was a piss poor take-off on the very good Daily Show with John Stewart. Do Conservatives just not have a funny bone because this was a real disappointment.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  83. MelodyC
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Heroically, historically bad. The Plan 9 from Outer Space of TV comedy.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  84. AlyceN
    Feb 21, 2007
    2
    I chuckled once or twice. I like to watch funny people making fun of liberal shibboleths. These are not funny people.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  85. dare-as
    Feb 21, 2007
    2
    (2) for concept, (0) for execution, neither news nor entertainment
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  86. MariaL
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    the humor was mean spirited and juvenile at best . Not at all impressed and I love political humor.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  87. DanS.
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Look, it's not that it's conservative. The Daily Show uses wit and irony to blast its targets. The 1/2 Hr. News Hr. uses the snide bullying of an 8th grader. The difference is huge.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  88. LorenM
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Not nearly as funny as FNC's "fair and balanced" tagline. Now THAT is comedy.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  89. TGuinn
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    This show is just really really bad.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  90. JamesR
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Republicans aren't funny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  91. TeeO
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    There is nothing funny about this show. Even the laugh track isn't groan, grimace or grunt worthy. Truly terrible jokes delivered in an inane, tacky manner by people who must have an iron stake shoved up their ass. Pull the plug - the point has been made - there is nothing funny about "conservatives." . Been a long time since something this bad was on TV - this is a new, record setting low - even for Fox. Expand
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  92. BiancaB
    Feb 21, 2007
    1
    I don't know who to feel more embarrassed for - the people who created this insipid mess or the people giving it "10" ratings.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  93. KyleL
    Feb 21, 2007
    1
    This show is proof that conservatives do not have a sense of humor
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  94. EdMurrow
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Wow - really lame!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  95. IncognitaBullfinch
    Feb 21, 2007
    1
    So lame. The jokes are tired. The set and graphics are stolen from the Daily Show. The laugh track proves that the creators didn't have the confidence to present this "work" in front of a live audience. What an awful, awful show.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  96. StacyW
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Ok, where's the negative number option? -10 would be more accurate. Lame. Lame. Lame.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  97. RichardG
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Gives "this stinks" a whole new level of meaning.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  98. ArneF
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    A program that needs a laugh track to tell everybody when it's supposed to be funny. Well, it's certainly not funny, let alone accurate. Pure dribble.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  99. KMY
    Feb 21, 2007
    0
    Low-life swipes at progressives and at the majority of American opinion. Laugh tracks are pathetic.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  100. JamesA
    Feb 21, 2007
    3
    The show really didn't poke fun at the news, but seemed to be a hitjob for the US Democratic Party. In contrast, what I like about Stewart and Colbert is that they poke fun at both political parties, and use actual news events to bolster thier jokes (thus the Emmys). Granted, some of the jokes were funny, but there is a reason why the show has only been slated to three episodes.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
Metascore

Overwhelming dislike - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Negative: 10 out of 11
  1. 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.
  2. "Weekend Update" on its worst night isn't this bad.
  3. Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    0
    You couldn't skewer a cube of tofu with material this dull.