Give Jeff Greenfield a half hour, I tell youโฆ give Greenfield another chance.
Seriously thoughโฆour friend Ned Rice, who is a conservative alum of Bill Maherโs HBO is part of another show in the works (heโs exec producer); Variety wrote it up in November:
Comedy Central has made a good living out of skewering the political right. Now Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of โ24โณ to try its hand at a news satire show for conservatives to love. Joel Surnow, co-creator of โ24,โ is shooting two half-hour pilots of a skein he described as โ โThe Daily Showโ for conservatives,โ due to air in primetime on Saturdays in January. If successful, the show could take its place on the regular schedule, adding satire to FNCโs formula of news and opinion. โThe way I look at it, almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,โ Surnow said. โThe other side hasnโt been skewered in a fair and balanced way.โ The working title of the show has been โThis Just In,โ but that will change because AOL just launched a broadband comedy channel by that name. The pilot segs will be co-anchored by comedians Kurt Long and Susan Yeagley and feature a family of correspondents. โThere will be some elements of โThe Daily Showโ and some of โWeekend Update,โ โ Surnow said.





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