How is The Half-Hour News Hour different from other conservative comedy shows on television?
It’s different in the sense that there aren’t any other conservative comedy shows on television. What kind of reaction have you gotten since the premiere? Some of the feedback has been pretty awful: “Your shows sucks! You’re all evil! You should fire all your writers! Conservatives just aren’t funny! This is the worst thing that’s ever been on television!” Those were the notes we got from the network. Everybody else seems to be mildly amused. Will people watch a conservative version of The Daily Show? O.K., full disclosure here: I’m a huge Daily Show fan because that show has been tremendously successful in delivering topical, edgy, laugh-out-loud funny takes on our political and social landscape. Let’s face it, The Daily Show has made a vast, positive contribution to the ongoing political conversation in this country as well as to the cause of civil discourse in general. My hat’s off to them. How influential has Jon Stewart been? Who? Will you make fun of conservatives like President
