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The ½ Hour News Hour (2007)
Oh Jesus this is bad, I just threw up in my mouth.
I'm assuming that this is the debut episode of The Half Hour News hour, airing at 10 PM on Sunday, February 18th and it is awful. The "comedians" hosting it are to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert what Colt 45 is to Dom Perignon. The jokes, if you want to call them that, are all followed by a terrible laugh track that would embarrass the worst of the 1980s sitcoms. It really isn't an issue for me that its slanted so far right, but it also seems to be slanted towards idiots who laugh at anything, or those who are partially lobotomized. The jokes are terribly unfunny, and if they put this up against Colbert or Stewart, I don't see it lasting that long. Comedy Central's newsy-ish shows may be tilted slightly to the left, but they do make fun of everyone, not just liberals, Democrats, the ACLU, and revolutionary historical figures. Avoid this show if you can, but I don't think you'll have to worry for long anyway. You might like this show if you meet two out of three of the following: 1. You dislike homosexuals. 2. You believe that global warming is hoax made up by liberal elitist "so-called" scientist. 3. You're still holding out for those WMDs in Iraq.
The Office (2005)
Started out great, now bordering on unbearable.
The first season was trying too hard to copy the original BBC series, but then in the second it came into its own. Constantly hilarious, with the occasional cringe moment, the second season and the beginning of the third were great, but then as the show rose to popularity it had to appeal to the lowest common denominator more and more, resorting to sillier gags. Still smarter than any laugh track sitcom, "The Office" is becoming harder to stomach. Michael's continually over the top antics that are becoming ridiculously unrealistic. After all, the show is supposed to have a documentary feel, right? Watching the wedding episode was more uncomfortable than the scene in "Swingers" where Mike(Jon Favreau) repeatedly calls the girl he just met at the bar. I really hope they can turn it around.