The CNN reboot was supposed to go for serious news. Instead, it’s going to be a joke. Since CNN is already a joke, perhaps the idea is getting the audience to laugh with the failed news network, not at it.
CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host one of its prime time shows.
The “news entertainment” personality could fill the primetime 9 to 11 p.m. hours with a nontraditional version of the news, five people familiar with the planning said. CNN executives have floated names including Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Arsenio Hall, and Jon Stewart, and have looked at other comedic news-focused talk shows for inspiration.
Trevor Noah abandoned the Daily Show. And most of the Daily Show imitators have collapsed apart from John Oliver’s perpetual HBO smirk. For a while there were 5 and now there are hardly any. Jon Stewart all but abandoned the genre in his Apple TV comeback which has been a miserable failure.
Turning lefty agitprop into a bunch of punchlines delivered with a raised eyebrow was an effective counter to post-9/11 patriotism and seriousness. But it’s faded away, along with most comedy, because woke zoomers are particularly incapable of grasping humor more sophisticated than hurling insults at opponents. That’s why SNL has become a pathetic humorless virtue-signaling fest.
Why would Noah or Stewart go back to doing what even they don’t want to do anymore? For CNN? Which couldn’t even begin to pay them enough. Bill Maher has his sweet spot and I’m not sure anyone needs an Arsenio comeback.
CNN president Chris Licht hinted at his desire to sign Stewart in an interview last year with the New York Times, saying he’d love to bring on the former late night host, but Stewart remains under contract with Apple.
Licht claims that he wants to be serious, but he was also working for Stephen Colbert. And Colbert, like Stewart and Noah, got the hell out. That should have been a message. There’s no further market for smirking at your opponent while reading headlines with bad puns. Like goldfish swallowing and patches, it’s done.
But then so is CNN.
I thought that Jim Acosta was filling that role.
Also, I’ve been laughing at CNN for decades.
I thought all the CNN trolls were comedians. We laugh at them every time we see them.
MSM programming is just another “show “on TV with paid actors portraying “journalist” reading from a script so adding comedian’s to the mix is no surprise.
Reading this article, the first comedians I thought of were Soupy Sales or George Carlin. Both their brands of humor would have complimented CNN, Soupy with a pie in their face and Carlin with a hilarious put down.
Then I thought of an old mock news program called “That Was The Week That Was” or TW3 for short, a BBC production back when they were funny.
Soupy Sales. He had a kid’s show on Saturday or Sunday mornings I used to watch when I was a wee lad. It was good and I remember the pies.
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
– Abraham Lincoln
Their funny when t hey tell us their news is the authentic truth and their old the spot reporters are honest
Since the leftist comedian-substitutes aren’t funny, this will take some effort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0G0hP7n-s.
The link doesn’t include the period at the end
Who needs CNN when you have TikTok? TikTok might be a little highbrow after our Covid kiddies graduate. They will not know how to speak, empathise or function but they will know how to emote.
The funniest is watching silver haired CNN propagandist trying not to laugh at his journalistic pretensions while covering the China Covid lockdown measures like they’re something alien and extreme.
I don’t know if you know this but there are more than 6 good reasons why Republicans won’t stand together on principles. Number 1 is Dems called them terrorists.
Sadly, Levin is not far behind this line because Levin swore some kind of blood oath to Trump.