Perhaps we should have used the Bill Maher scale.

Now you're hitting below the belt. That's just cruel...

Can't use the Michael Moore scale. It's been crushed to death.

Obesity study, 20 people on starvation diet, 6 of them are missing. This doesn't even make sense.

Because 14 of them ate the other six.

They actually had one funny routine on there a few weeks ago. It was the opening skit. I'll see if I can find it on youtube instead of ruining it by trying to explain it...

"Funny" might be strong. Clever.

Oh okay! Now I get the obesity joke. Kind of sad that it has to be explained. The way it was delivered, it came across as 6 of them starved to death, which again makes no sense.

The thing is, some of their ideas are clever, it's the execution and writing that fall short.

Hard to understand why they don't hire good conservative comedy writers. I know quite a few here in LA, where it is filmed. Then again, those people would never be hired on other shows once they "came out" as conservative. Just look at Manny Coto.

Here's the one I liked.

I record it on the off-chance that it'll get better, and I don't think it's as bad as it was the first few weeks. But it's still pretty bad. That 'Guy White' thing needs to die violently.

I agree, there are enough funny conservatives to make it a good show, if they'd just look for them. Maybe the current staff had minimum term limits in their contracts?

OK, agreed. That is clever. It's still sad that we can point to one thing, among the hundreds of jokes and say -- wait -- there was one funny thing!

I have to agree with Steve, that the reason the writing is so bad is that Joel Surnow is only hiring his out-of-work-for-a-reason buddies.

A little bird told me Ned Rice "helps" Ann Coulter with her jokes and was responsible for the faggot/ John Edwards joke. No idea if that is true, if it is -- that explains a lot in terms of the 1/2 Hour News Hour.

I didn't even smile once. THem's some stinkers.

"Oh People people!"

One of the funniest shows ever was Dick Dietrich's Night Stand with Timothy Stack.

Dick sings a song to his ex-wife..."She's a lesbian, now she's out there chasin' skirts. She's a lesbian, wearin' boots and flannel shirts....when we made hot dogs, she'd only eat the bun, she's a lesbian...."

He coined the words "Lezbianese" and "Vagitarian" .

Had episodes with the likes of black militant film director Tupac Zemeckis facing off against a beautiful blonde KKK member recruiter who was secretly trying to recruit black members.

Dietrich saying innocently to the blonde: "So you're trying to get black members into you?" (audience laughs)
Dietrich: "Oh people! No! No!"

One episode was about politicians sexually harassing their female employees. The guest was a woman who ran a sort of watchdog group trying to stop this. The guest said, "We feel that these politicians are one more example of how men in positions of power have a casual, dismissing attitude towards women".
Dietrich said, "Yeah, yeah, whatever." and of course he said it in a completely innocent-sounding way.

Episodes like.
The Arizona Trailer Park Murders!

Richard Simmons; JM J. Bullock and Harvey Fierstein in a Salute to Queens!

Blowup in a Brothel, where a sleezy massage parlor owner is being scrutinized by a local woman wanting to expose it as a house of prostitution. So Dick has one of the young oriental "employees" demonstrate on him her massage skills. She begins by starting to get onto the table with Dick and asks 'You not a cop, are you?'.

Infomercials like, "Are you a eunich that sings like Barry White? Give us a call!!"

The BEST comedy ever. Un-PC and completely over the top which is why it got cancelled and there are no plans the release it on DVD.

If you want PC Comedy keep watching Comedy Central or read a Physics book. Both are equally funny.
For good comedy you have to look elsewhere.

"With all the recent government hearings on talk show sleaze, tonight here on Night Stand we are going to talk about a thought provoking issue....
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