Let them keep on punching sick kittens if they want, it works for their Ann Coulter-loving audience.

If it had aired on Comedy Central with The Daily Show as a lead-in, it STILL would’ve been panned. Because it’s bush-league (no pun intended) writing and part of the genius of The Daily Show is poking fun at anyone who needs poking…not one side over another, just whoever’s acting like an idiot that day.

I don’t care if FNC wants its own Daily Show, though. A large part of the country (with whom I want absolutely nothing to do and, personally, wish would suceed) knows about the right-win bias of that channel and would happily have ALL of its information AND entertainment carefully cherry-picked and sent to them right from FNC. That and NASCAR. There’d have to be another channel for that. For them.

Let them eat cake. Just remember…making a truly good cake isn’t as easy at it looks. I think those giving the show backlash because of a conservative bias (I didn’t watch more than the first 2 minutes, so I really can’t comment on the half-hour hour as a whole) are wrong to do so.

Not funny is a valid argument. Not funny because it’s biased is another, and I think the former is what people really need to be hitting on.

Steve, you are absolutely correct. The week we wrote the pilot, we had an extremely windy couple of days that knocked out power around town and all of the stations were acting like it was freaking armegeddon. Hilarious coverage. Hilarious MOS interviews. Our competitors were even worse. The script writes itself but there’s no way we could have done that and presented it to management. I’m all for taking risks but sometimes you have to admit REALITY and joking about your main product is out of the question. So, we ended up mocking general stories; which when most of your coverage is murder and crime, you really have nothing to joke about.

The hard work we’re doing is paying off; however, because it’s led us to this new web model we’re working on now. Plus, we discovered that we have a very likable, young personality on our hands and we’re developing a new web pilot around him. I’ll e-mail you the concept when we’re further along with it.

Comedy has never, ever united us. Comedy offends. When comedy has universal appeal it is both rare and Bill Cosby pudding.

As I said, I am cool with Comedy from different points of view. I don’t care for Jeff Foxworthy. But I imagine there are those on whom Stephen Wright has little effect. Ditto Lewis Black. And certainly George Carlin was a hippie freak and proud of it in his youth who proudly divided the establishment from the youth. Good comedy can isolate and make people downright nervous.

Hating Ann Coulter is easy. Why bother? She’s an example of bad comedy. Anyone can be successful by being deliberately outrageous. That will not change.

So what’s wrong with comedy being divisive? Gary Trudeau got pulled from newspapers. He is generally considered a liberal.

I stand by my position. Be political. Be divisive if you want. Just be funny.

If I had to guess what gets in the way of “Local Daily Shows,” it would be that local stations would raise a stink (your own included) if you take clips from their newscasts and mock them. Which is a shame. Because A. Fair Use. B. There’s so much fertile material and C. That’s how you do these shows.

Comedy Central, though owned by a mothership, is unencumbered by having a news show on its own channel.

Once the initial fuss dies down, will it still have its ratings punch? That’s the real question.

I don’t have cable or satellite, but I do want to get to see at least some clips from this show (more than just the two that were shown before the pilot aired), does anyone know where I could find such clips?