The Fox News Channel has ordered up 13 episodes of its right wing answer to Comedy Central's The Daily Show, after pulling in close to a million and a half viewers on two tryouts. The Half Hour News Hour was most notable for not mentioning President Bush or Iraq in a combined hour of political satire.
But the next rip-off of Comedy Central's take-off on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment may be a bit more critical.
David Alan Grier, one of the alums of In Living Color who'd sign up for a reunion show, is preparing a pilot presentation of another fake news series for Comedy Central.
This one's called Chocolate News.
Yes, Chocolate News would center on African American news of the day.(Back in the 80s,WNEW-TV in New York City-- "It's 10 O'Clock. Do you know where your children are?"-- ran a news show called Black News. It was serious.)
Grier would be executive producer and fake news anchorman. He's now rounding up writers, performers and fake reporters.
Hmm... do we see a Gay News or God News in the future? (Hey, we called them first! )
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This could either be really funny or really bad. There's no middle ground with this one.
I'm talking about the black news show.
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Posted on March 12, 2007 11:40 AM