Fox News tried hard to come up with something similar to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Part of that strategy was "Red Eye" airing at 11pm at night, but they wanted something more. So every Sunday night they have a 30-minute show called "1/2-hour Newshour", perhaps taking a shot at PBS' Newshour. Needless to say, PBS's Newshour contains more news in one hour than Fox News in a whole week. But that's a different story!

The 1/2-hour newshour is really more of an SNL Newsdesk than the Daily Show. They even have a Tina Fey-type woman sitting at the desk. The special correspondant they have are more like the Daily Show though... No attempts (yet) to come up with a Colbert-style personality.

To give the show some credibility, they even have a short segment with born-again conservative and Monday Night Football and MSNBC outcast Dennis Miller, a self-proclaimed libertarian (not conservative).

As usual with repressed sexuality Fox News types, the first two episodes had gay issues. The first one included a lesbian make-out session (almost) on the stage showing "inappropriate behavior at the office" with the Tina Fey clone getting "touched" by the in-studio guest... The 2nd episode had an in-studio male guest who had a crush on John Edwards and especially his $400 hairstyle.

But it's not all bad. They do have their funny moments, but they are nowhere near as good/funny as the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.

Needless to say they found a way to mention the French surrendering (to themselves this time).

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