Here's a clip from the pilot of the Fox News Channel's new "right-wing comedy series." The format of The 1/2 Hour News Hour is a lot like Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update (except the comics playing the newsreaders don't seem to think they're so damn cute), and the presentation's derivative of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show-- but that's the idea, isn't it? All in all, it's funnier than SNL, got more laughs than MAD TV, is wa-a-ay more comedic than that show-within-a-show on Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip-- and if not for the laugh track, you might think you're watching the real Fox News.

Only distraction are the paid laughers in the audience who chortle a little too hard (we think we hear Sean Hannity in the mix there).

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There are those who'd argue that the Fox News Channel is already in the comically fake news business-- we can't keep a straight face watching that loofah-fantasizing sex harasser Bill O'Reilly call for yet another boycott-- but now the fair-and-balanced news network will try a real fake news comedy show-- to correct the unfair balance in the world created by the liberal Daily Show.

The network is planning to air two episodes of a right-wing comedy news show on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility of a regular weekly spot. Possibly to help viewers identify the show as entertainment and not another biased Fox News show, it will be taped before a studio audience in Los Angeles, with two "anchors": actors Kurt Long (Cuts, Games Across America) and Susan Yeagley (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911!). Except for the politics and two hosts, the show should look pretty familiar, with street interviews and correspondent reports.

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