The clip is funny. period. pointing out that the laughter maybe canned is side stepping the question, is it funny. Everyone I know who has seen the clip smiled and thought it was funny. that is what really matters - nothing else. all the press and criticism just makes it clearer why this show maybe... important... yesy i said important.

Wow, that laughter couldn't sound more authentic!

an animated version of the steaming crap pile known as "Mallard Fillmore". It'd be almost as funny as this thing.

"B.O." magazine! Ha ha! How clever!

"Liberals can't do comedy, Conservatives can't do drama"

I think we have a data point showing conservatives can't do comedy either.

I want to be fair to this show. The segment presented was not horrid like Dennis Miller's show was. Oy, Dennis Miller's Daily Show rip-off was rank, which is particularly sad 'cause the dude used to be funny.

It felt too scripted, but pilots tend to be stiff. I think Stewart has done a better job of making fun of Obama. So, we're on retread ground. Though the BO idea is lame from the painfully obvious angle, but is somewhat saved by reminding me of Oprah's magazine.

If it's just bitter insults against liberal figures like a review I read suggests, then it'll be nothing but second rate. If they can get beyond that, then maybe they'll have a chance.

That isn't up to Daily show standards, I think that's not even SNL. You see (putting on expert hat) good comedy doesn't have a political bias, it you just attack stupidy where ever it shows up. The Daily Show is never hesitant to spoof Democrats as well as Repubicans. All this shows is that the righties don't have much of a sense of humor.

And really, they have a live audience, do they really have to sweeten the tracks that much? If I had a writing staff that needed that much help from the sound guy to get a laugh, I'd fire the lot of them.

My first impression of this clip is that some of these jokes would be perfectly at home on "The Daily Show". Which is to say, while latter certainly leans to the left as a whole, it certainly has no hesitation poking fun wherever it can be found. Can we count the number of jokes they've done on Bill Clinton's peccadilloes? Hillary’s political triangulations? Or general Democratic spinelessness?

This show will have the same problem as Mallard Fillmore, or any number of conservative political cartoonists. They will only make fun of the other side. They make that clear in the promos. Not only does this rob them of an abundance of material, it also makes them appear increasingly out-of touch, mean-spirited, and shrill.

I suspect there are enough Fox viewers hungary for a show like this that they will get their numbers. But it will increasingly look like what it is: A poor, inauthantic attempt at retrobution. They will get some laughs but overall it won't be that good.

I don't think that they can be really funny. Every incidence of right wing humor I've seen was tinged with hatred. They don't seem to be able to see the humor in life and laugh at themselves. If you look at "liberal" comedy, it generally includes a significant amount of self-flagellation along with attacks on the right. We laugh at everybody, because "funny" isn't really partisan. The most popular humor has an "I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you" quality. Heck, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report spend a lot of time making fun of liberals. I'm betting that whatever Fox comes up with, it will appeal only to the most extreme right wingers and won't draw the kind of broad support they are probably hoping for.

First, none of the hacks at Fox are really conservative. They are just political opportunists. So this is not an example of "conservative" humor.

Secondly, as was stated earlier, this is just retribution. This is about getting back at Stewart and Colbert and the rest for hating on Bush. This is not truly an attempt at comedy. Because a true attempt at comedy would make fun of everyone, not just political enemies.

My guess is that this will stay on the air for a while, because Murdoch and Ailes and the gang want it to exist. An unfortunately large minority of the country will enjoy it for its mean-spiritedness. Probably not enough people to really justify keeping it on the air, but Just having it exist is more important than the quality of the product.

Wouldn't it be funny if they were making mean-spirited jokes about President Obama two years from now?

Watching conservatives do comedy is about as awkward and uncomfortable as watching white people dance.

The humor on Saturday Night Live is non-ideological? I've been watching this show

intermittently for over 30 years. Which show has the writer been watching?

The humor is 90% to the left and has been for ages.

The humor on Saturday Night Live is non-ideological? I've been watching this show intermittently for over 30 years. Which show has the writer been watching?

The humor is 90% to the right and has been for ages.

-- POV Rightson

Fox really will show anything.

The audience sound. The sound of people laughing at someone. The sound of people with no sense of irony. The sound of people laughing because they are supposed to. The sound of people who are always right. Not a nice sounding community laugh.

Wait a minute, aren't these guys running at least a pseudo-news channel? Not just the vendetta channel. The Daily Show isn't on a news channel; it's on a comedy channel. Hello?

Is English your first language? Just asking. I have no agenda.

Just say it: "This show sucks cock."

See how easy that was...and how FREEING !!

The funniest thing about the Fox comedy show effort is them even trying it; it's all downhill after that. A key part of humor is laughing at yourself, and they don't do that well at all. Reactionaries do humor as well as liberals do talk radio. I mean, what're they going to show?