Reliable Sources recaps The 1/2 Hour News Hour

[rlandcaster74]

The problem with the distorted news is that they all work for the Buildaburgers and the Zionist Jews who run this world. We need to abolish all the rulling families in the Federal Reserve Bank and all the major Banks, Get Rid of All of them.

[Gunman610]

i have to say that i would have hit the floor if he'd said 'And Larry David? He's a JEW!'

[jking222222]

If they really don't use a laugh track, then the people in the audience are crazy.

[GotIt123]

laugh track??? I have been in the audience and they dont use one.

[mousepotato64]

best line, "get it, marion berry was busted for smokin crack!"

Yeah dude we get it.

[jrc99us]

Holy Crap that was a pathetic, paranoid and useless response. You libs hate being poked fun at fine here's the remote and change the channel. Of course a lot of you don't think it's funny you are l i b e r a l s. Just like I find The Daily Show and The Colbert Report as funny as a dying cancer patient. Grow up!

[donaldpan]

so you're saying you find a dying cancer patient funny, am i correct?

[donaldpan]

so you're saying you find a dying cancer patient funny, am i correct?

[bolsodecano1899]

the thing about the daily show and the colbert report is that you dont have to be a democrat to like it because they are funny, i dont favor any party and i find both to be hilarious, and theres a reason these shows have been on for years and the other got cancelled.....

[evilsqurrel420]

yeah the ½hour news hour is shit, its no suprise comming from fox but my god its so shitty its hard to believe they saw it AND put it on the air, poor bastards can't even hire good writers. But i guess to write for fox you need to pawn your concious first.

[kdx200r]

HAHAHA CNN has like 1/4 the viewers of FOX News,  No wonder why they have to try and create some drama between the networks. Typical way to try and make a headline to get exposure, CNN should be ashamed

[red5llaw]

Ummm let me get this right, CNN is Lampooning the Fox "Half Hour News Hour"? Which Lampoons The Liberal Media? oooookay. Mmmm Ann Coulter - Give her a whip, put her in a Leather Catsuit and I'd be her Intern ANYDAY! "YES Mistress Vice President Coulter!"

[eatadick1]

he seems really angry.

[adpr08]

The 1/2 Hour News Hour is hilarious!!!!

[Yodude1017]

I HOPE you're kidding

[adpr08]

nope

[Yodude1017]

Okay lol sorry

[Scothodgins]

The 1/2 Hour News Hour must be written by an accountant or a lawyer. It's just that bad.

[Kinghoran]

"Hilarious, and what a great laugh track." Even the guy supporting it can't stomach to laugh at the most useless 1/2 hour on TV.

[Toncapone]

finally a political comedy show that's not funny

[samrayiii]

they forgot to show the skin heads he was talking about in the aclu skit. wow, reliable sources my ass

[Estoye]

HILARIOUS!!! It's better than the Daily Show, and you don't have to pay for cable to watch it!

[EnriquePong]

this is soooo unfunny, i wish they do not cancel it! It's a pain to watch, it's almost funny...

[MBslick]

Is this stupid show cancelled yet? The sky is blue, birds fly and the right wing is not funny.

[SputnikMedia]

Finally a humor perspective that does not decieve and brainwash like the daily show

[lkmetal1977]

..and how's mom/auntie Betty Lou treating you that trailor you both share in the Ozarks.

[Xing500]

That show is the joke.

[savagesteve13]

The failure of rightwing attempts at humor is the inability to criticize itself.

[suhnami]

want some good right wing humor? Foxworthy has put out some good stuff. Larry the CG's first album is great, although the follow-ups are sub par. Some of Engval's stuff is good. Ron White is hilarious. 1/2 hour comedy hour suffers one problem. It simply isn't funny. Hell, make fun of liberals all you want, as long as it's got some .. ummm... delivery. Jon Stewart does his show every day, this show has one episode a week and it still can't even hang. Canned, dated humor.

[PartyWithChumpsky]

The 1/2 Hour News Hour is by far funnier than the ever lame jokes about 'dumb Bush' on the Daily Show.

[Yodude1017]

I HOPE You're Kidding

[ExtraGarlicNow]

YAY! Ann Coulter is great!

[bits010101]

I love how they need cnn to tell you why it is supposed to be funny, expecially when it's not. I think he's almost trying to lampoon on the lampoon.

And those who think this is high brow humor that requires a deep understanding of social circumstance, you give yourself more credit than you deserve.

[chronofox12]

Wow, make fun of the right and no one cares, make fun of the left and the army of You-Tube pseudo-liberals have PMS. Come on guys, can't take a joke?

[snoobeagle]

That's the ways of the left.  "We can do this, but you guys can't." And "if we don't like your laws, we'll re-vote on it and claim ballot fraud until it's overturned. If you don't like our laws, tough." About the only time you'll see "tough" and "liberal" in the same sentence. :)

[snoobeagle]

Wahhh.. liberals getting angry and conservatives having fun.. save me, they may come up with some more emotionally unstable legislation!

[Jenaro1234]

HAHAHAHH! The half hour news hour is your idea of having fun! hahahhaha! Thats just sad.

[snoobeagle]

"Half hour news hour"??? First..come off the dope, then try again to roasty-toasty me. k-thx.

[Jenaro1234]

Looks like snoobeagle is a little emotionally unstable himself. Are all republicans as tasteless and reactionary as you are? Watching this show sure makes you think so.

[xxxafterglow]

Wahhh, the liberals have a satire show, I want one too, wahhhhh....

Stewart and Colbert don't need to rely on a laugh track for chuckles because they're actually funny. They take pot shots at Dems, Reps, and the media and if they appear to lean towards the left, it's only cuz they're too smart to put on blinders and completely ignore the crap state the current administration has put us in.

And they're not ashamed to use their real names.

[peterphilip]

heres a joke for the 1/2 hour news hour... "what do you get when you cross a liberal with a fag and gay and a weed head loser with dreads?" a liberal! get it ... whoa... the right has arrived!

[xxxafterglow]

That was so bad it would fit right in the HHNH. Bet you'd get a lotta canned laughs from it, too (after you explain it of course).

"Get it?"

[poop4charity]

"pathetic liberals" yeah he's objective

the funny thing is now all those people that eat up fox's news' hate mongering are gonna rally up and watch 1/2HNH and laugh at its unfunny, unfair, stereotyping, and just plain old hate-filled humor. but i gaurentee, not a single fan of the daily show will watch that show

[crd721]

Furthermore, in today's society no one could get elected on a racist agenda. Look at the guy who made the "macaca" remark, and how the media tore him apart. Do you really think someone like George Wallace senior (who was a democrat) could get elected today? What have I said that is incorrect, what did i say that caused you to "snicker" at me being a history major, not answering that will seriously show me that talking to you is a waste of time, and that you are full of it.

[rubino83]

The fact that you're somewhat dimwitted comes into play in your attempts to tell anybody that the fact that "teh republxcns were formed to end slabery lol" has any bearing on their positions today, being filled with the people who fled the Democratic party after the darkies got the right to vote. (I'm sure that ones scares you as well)

If you're going to be the cliche angry internet tough guy, just stop talking altogether because it's getting boring.

[sunsaint707]

Hey rubino83; I see you're a 22 year old democrat! Good for you! I registered as a Democrat in 1982. My father,grandfather, even greatgrand father were Democrats. My great great father would have been but the party wasn't around then.

[sunsaint707]

I have become disillusioned with the Democrats as well as party politics in general. It reminds me more of sports than politics. The Democrats can't support what the Republicans do because "that's not my team." The Republicans do the same. It's not a damn game.  Stop fighting each other and fight the damn terrorists!!!!

[bamatommy]

Amen.

[coryandmark]

Reliable Sources? I don't think so.

[random0815]

too funny, and maybe they should think about WHY the comedy world is dominated by rather open minded people, its not like there was ever any ban on neo-con, libertarian or whatever they call themselves-comedy, what to think of people who can only muster some (copycat-)humor for the sake of some weird kind of (onesided) vendetta

[grant12007]

Is this guy high? 1/2HNH sucks.

[GLG42]

This is what makes it funny is that there is a shred of truth in many of those "skits".

[jamzz94549]

Oh ya...the 1/2 hr "news" hour is NOT funny in any sense of the word...

[jamzz94549]

Faux snooze! For mindless idiots everywhere!

[pjthurm]

Fox news rocks!

[BryanNC08]

Thank God for fox news, the world would be blind without it.

[cattthemuban]

go fox news, hitler is king, virginia tech had it coming.

sox suck, dodgers suck, yankees suck.

[manny4life]

i laugh at myself all the time...

[manny4life]

nice...finally cnn bitch slaps fox....never thought i'd actually see sarcasm...

[tbrown52]

Anne Coulter is, to quote Ari Gold, a 'cunt muscle'

[philipmontag]

At least Fox News has stopped pretending to be fair and balanced. What business does a comedy show have doing on a News network? Especially since it might fix well in the normal Fox primetime lineup.

[grokker]

i think its not funny because....its NOT funny.

[mikethrust]

Ann Coulter is a bull dike

[DukeUniversity08]

1/2 Hour News Hour sucks, but CNN's just bitter because it's lost tons of money and viewers to Fox News.

[osalot00]

I honestly think after reading these comments that Americans have no sense of irony or any idea on the mechanics of sarcasm. This is way too funny. And as far as this desperate attempt at humour on Fox, well im sure it will tickle the love spuds of all you Nascar, Jerry Springer and WWF fans hahah ... you can have it .. I hope they never axe it because we need a constant fixture to remind us of Fox's talents hahahaha.

[canucksfan94]

What's with the low rating? This guy's funny.

[cattthemuban]

wow, this guy should not recap anything. is he mocking the show w/ sarcasm or something? he complimented their fucking laugh track.

[thysbes]

Yes, he's mocking their show and without even letting them know it.

[rachem]

CNN wins the sarcasm award. This is great. I didn't think CNN had it in them :)

[pfenno]

No spikebravo, Liberals think it isn't funny for the same reason everyone but super-conservative-everything-­on-faux-news-is-the-best-thing­-since-sliced-bread , think it isn't funny, because it isn't funny. Two words, canned laughter, you've lost everyone argument you could possibly make.

[SwingingJohnsonBros]

This guy was really sarcastic loved it.

[Shamborn]

ha. Howard Kurtz is usually a dink, but I like that he mocks the Fox morons' show. I like the canned laughter at the end.

[sonisisuper]

Hahaha! This guy's actually funny himself. I love the heavy sarcasm and satire - he sounded like someone from Fox at first. I love it!

What was with the Blitzer footage?

[FranticManiac]

lampooning yes, unfortunatly that pretty much wraps up what Fox news sounds like.

[jbfirstdown22]

uh... Im confused here... this is CNN right? Not Fox?

[Ironicfred]

He's being sarcastic.

[jbfirstdown22]

ah, ok

[solve]

What the hell? Those people have to be working for Satan.

[Comradesnowball]

haven't Liberals dominated humour because conservatives basicly aren't funny. i mean this program simply wasn't funny... "halirous and what a great laugh track" paradoxical no?

[Shtaze]

two words: dennis miller

Të hyftë dreqi nga bytha!

[UnrealPictures]

Wow, I've never set eyes on that CNN dude before. What a douche.

"Ha, you get it? Barry was busted for cocaine!"

Thanks, saw that one a mile away. Dick.

[Lexdisya]

I see it now. "Did you see that sly dig at gays as well?" Funny, now that I see he is definitely joking.

[GTelles]

I'm embarassed to admit it took me a couple of minutes to see that this was a joke. Kurtz did a pretty good job walking that fine line between subtle irony and over-the-top obvious. Problem is: it's often difficult to tell the difference between a parody of the wingnuts and the real thing. Kudos to Kurtz though.

[Lexdisya]

Howard Kurtz better be joking in this report. If he's serious, then he's really pathetic.

[megalosaniac]

This is awesome. And "conservative" humor can only be funny if it comes from a libertarian viewpoint. Being obsessed only with hating homos and killing abortionists kind of ruins your credibility.

[scutfargus]

Why didn't the person who posted this video edit out the commercial at the beginning and the stuff at the end?

Agreed, the laugh track should go.

Also agree, not as funny as the Comedy network news shows, but much better than SNL has been.

I'm not sure liberals are able to laugh, unless Bush or some other republican is excorciated.

[PiptheOC]

Was that a joke or what?

[Jadd612]

I can sit through a whole entire episode of Saturday Night Live and not even laugh once. funny how liberals are so against "Stereotypes and Generalizations" -- but you seem to be spewing like an old grumpy KKK Conspiracy nut -- like you have a double standard license.

[Jadd612]

SNL has been doing this stuff for years....Sometimes when you watch Saturday Night Live -- it won't even make you laugh once. Liberals are so against "stereotypes and generalizations" and now you're spewing like an old grumpy KKK conspiracy nut about republicans -- department of double standards

[peterphilip]

Republicans cannot be funny because people with "traditional" belief systems ARE NOT BASED IN REALITY. They live in a fantasy world where Jesus smiles on slave owners and torturing fags is hip.

[crd721]

Peterphillip, im majoring in history, if you believe republicans believe jesus smiles on slave owners, you should know the republican party was actually created to stop the spread of slavery, shut up about stuff you dont know you fucking douche.

[rubino83]

And then in the 50s, the segregationists took it over.

Oh well. Just a small detail for a... *snicker* history major.

[crd721]

I dont worry about punctuation when commenting on a video. Apparently, you dont worry about that either, because if you did you would know not to end a sentence with a preposition.

[crd721]

dont forget about former kkk members, oh wait im thinking of Robert Byrd (DEMOCRAT-West Virginia)

[rubino83]

Hey, looks like Mom and Dad's money isn't going to waste completely. You can recite facts. You just can't understand them.

Unlike you, I understand history, so your attempt at a trump card didn't surprise me. My response: Where did the rest of them go when the Dems started losing the Southern votes?

Remember: Don't try to "nail" me. Try to be correct.

Also: Good thing you're not an English major. Another go-nowhere major for you to pretend you're intelligent for taking.

[crd721]

The south votes republican becuase of Johnson's civil rights bill that, when he signed, was told that he was giving the south to the republicans forever. The south felt betrayed by the dems. Also, You have no idea what i know about history, so if you are just gonna insult me and not say why you think im stupid, im not gonna debate you anymore. I know im good at history and i dont need your condescending piece of shit attitude.

[davemartin7777]

The purpose of this show is not about comedy, it's about bashing anyone not having the Reich-wing viewpoint.

It's GOP propaganda talking points set to a laugh-track.

But if that floats your boat, enjoy.

[prayfertrey]

This is a weird coincidence because I've just been watching the original BBC show, "The Office" and watching reactionaries try to be funny causes that same sense of pain and awkward agony as when the boss on, "The Office" tries to be a, "chilled out en'ertainer". You just don't have the heart to laugh at them.

[benthemanlyman]

1/2 Hour news hour brings fresh perspective to political comedy. If you don't get it then you're probably another dumb liberal who doesn't understand anything that isn't spoon-fed to you through CNN or Comedy Central and doesn't fit your dilusional world view.

[Grebrook]

LoL, what a moron. You got to love idiots like benthemanlyman. The guy is a completely mind-numbed GOP robot. This show is 100% unfunny. They put politics above humor, which is why they FAIL, and that's why most comedians are liberal. Because liberals are more successful because they're more intelligent, and they know that HUMOR comes first, Politics comes SECOND.

[Jenaro1234]

You are funnier than the 1/2 hour news hour. Conservatives as well as fox is inherently funny. They shit sling so much on there "news outlets" that its almost like slapstick. With the 1/2 hour news hour, there just trying to hard.

[AClockworkYellow]

I want active on and a sleep number bed

[weeeeen]

CNN is such a biased network, maybe if they were more balanced like Fox News they wouldn't have such abysmal ratings. And don't post me back saying that Fox News is a conservatively biased news station either...liberals wouldn't be able to recognize actual news reporting, b/c they've never seen it, until now.

[Leones44]

Are you being serious?

[Jenaro1234]

Hes not serious. He cant be that stupid.

[h0peIs]

That guy was a fucking douche bag. This show blows, get over it.

[smokeabowlus]

Now that was actually kinda funny

[mvonneumann]

ohhh noooo

an enviormental activist, kill her kill her,

cuz its every american right to pollute the world and not let our kids grow up to be over 40

[johnso80]

A little pathetic they have to use fake crowd noise. Politics aside, does anyone think this is actually funny?  The right is botching their response to the Daily Show (which by the way doesn't always have a liberal bias) just like the left botched their response to talk radio with Air America.

[hamischlammengamen]

Jon Stewart doesn't use a laugh track because his jokes are actually funny

[binrockin]

but his audience is liberal

big deal

he got a dozen liberals together for a laugh fest caught on tv

oh wow

[hamischlammengamen]

This show is just slander. All they do is bash the liberals. If you haven't noticed, most controversy in the news has been commited by the republicans. Stewart doesn't always go after the republicans, either. He may be a liberal himself, but it is also because recently republicans have done more ridiculous things than the democrats.

[girzwald]

And all liberals do is condecend and bash conservatives and call them hate and war mongerers.

[duplenty]

Yeah. And they call pedophile sex-offenders perverts, mokeys stupid, grass green and they even call rain wet! Bastards!

[rubino83]

capitalization and punctuation

are for

socialists

[Jenaro1234]

His audience is a little more educated than you. They understand the jokes a little easier than you. Its no fun of jon stewart has to explain the jokes to you.

[IncredibleGoliath]

What's lovely about this clip is it shows how even CNN now feels safe ironising Fox's "liberal media" selling point - without even having signal that they're joking. Fox's tactics have eaten themselves at last.

[HostmasterJasun]

The funniest thing about this clip is that the commentator has to explain why the show is funny. ("did you notice the sly dig at gays?")

And he even acknowledges that it's a laugh track on the show (you can't get an audience to laugh at a joke that isnt' funny)

So lame it hurts.

[binrockin]

well snl uses a laugh track and other sitcoms so don't even go there

[mikeynike81]

yea and they suck too not as much as that show though, if you conservitives want a show you should use dennis miller hes the only funny one

[binrockin]

dennis owns

[wntoply6]

did you mean dennis bites?

[tmo7759]

Fox is too funny! (not) I can't wait to see Dennis Miller back on TV or Chevy Chase's new movie. Middle age fat white conservatives are so weak. . . that is why everything is so messed up everywhere! Yes it is your fault, own it.

[bayardo]

lol its funny how a new channel has a commedy show? FTW

[adiggityam]

Heh heh. Fox got out-funnied by CNN--with unsurprising ease.

Fox can't have its cake and eat it, too. No matter how mad-as-hell they get.

[walawee]

im slow this morning it took me like 2 minutes to realize he was being ironic

[grazon]

This just in your party doesn't give a rats ass about child molesters if they're a Republican Congressman.

[persian1367]

lammmmmmmmmmmmmme

[write357]

Lame.

[RjrJwjR324]

heh heh,er uh,i was reading'my pet goat'and er um,planes hit the buildings,er ah,heh heh,it's alkida by god,er um,heh,mission accomplished,heh heh,er,terrist in their last throes,heh heh,bin laden you ask??hell i don't know where he is,er um,i just don't pay any attention to him,er ah,cause it's the suurrrge you see.heh heh"

[dentalomental]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude..

DOW CRASHED: 416pt

haha, them damn there liberal spending by CONSERVATIVE GOP of OUR money, OUR family retirement funds..

oooooooh, them funny funny funny.. Rich REPUBLICANS mishandling OUR HARD EARNED MONEY.

FOX, do explain the joke to US DUMB DUMB "liberal" 300,000,000 americans.

[dixiechop1]

if there are so many liberals, why was a republican president elected by the MAJORITY????

[dentalomental]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude..

(Question back): whom made bush a LAMEass ducky?

a) liberal democrats?

b) conservative republicans

c) Florida & Ohio chads?

d) democrats & republicans PISSEDOFF at a criminal

league few pulling down The America Democracy?

btw, American MAJORITY Voted for Gore in 2000.

There never should have been a 2004 or War.

meanwhile, bush's economy is crashing, duuude.

[tmo7759]

which (s)election?  2000 or 2004

[villduhaentjugatill]

has HE been smokin crack? haha

[adamfruitcake]

haha funny clip, thanks :)

[LadyLomea]

I've heard of Keith Olbermann talking about this show too, but I haven't watched it yet. It looks like a jealous strike from those biased producers at Fox News, and CNN has never been much of a good network either. Comedians make fun of EVERYTHING. A comedian will strike at whatever makes people laugh, whether it's liberal or conservative or biased or whatever. Only Conservative Right people will get offended, because they have NO sense of humor.

[RjrJwjR324]

buck fush!!!that fucking awol ass daddy's boy,crack smoking,big eared freak.he and his anti-christ vp(cheney)with his 5 times military deferral dicksucking ass have the nerve to send soldiers off to die for thier private little war for daddy dearest and oil.

[mgarthoff]

It's hard to say which was less funny, the FOX stuff or the CNN take on it. I can only pray that the show is real and FOX airs it constantly. It's sure to alienate anyone or anything under the age of 62. Rush, don't change your format. It's very funny the way it is.

[bigjstokes]

pretty good, light-hearted report. What's great is that conservatives might see this as promotion. That's the joke. They say a sense of humor and political persuasion aren't linked, but I don't.

[SotallyTober]

It's satire. Look it up.

[scumbauggio]

Howard Kurtz is being sarcastic people.

[riphotpotatomash]

holy crap people are really dumb. the guy could not have laid it on any thicker if his life depended on it. guess it's true that some people just don't get sarcasm no matter what. sad.

[franzesulse]

why the fuck is CNN promoting Fox News??

[boo1312]

Who is this idiot? He oviously has know idea what funny is. First of all TDS is on comedy central, not on any serious news channel.

[cms33]

The end of Kurtz' career.