Fox Gets Satiric
"One of the things that's definitely not out there is a satirical voice that skews to the right as opposed to the left," says Surnow. "You can turn on any comedy satire show on TV and you're going to hear 10 Bush jokes, 10 Cheney jokes, but you'll never hear a Hillary Clinton joke or a global-warming send-up."
Hal Boedeker calls the show a "bomb." He writes: "Laughter, of an awfully canned variety, greets all the gags. Nothing happening on screen justifies these outbursts." The Onion, panning the clip, offers this: "If you're the least-talented member of your second-rate college sketch comedy group, don't worry. One day you could host a Daily Show ripoff on the Fox News Channel!" A Lost Remote commenter, meanwhile, has this dry observation: "I hear subtlety kicks in sometime during the second episode."
Don't take their word for it, however: Watch the clip for yourself. I think it looks more like a conservative "Weekend Update" than a "Daily Show" clone.