Everyone knows Conservative Republicans are not funny (on purpose). This show will be really bad, and will die quickly. Hopefully the Daily Show will get some mileage out of it first.

The reason the Democrats don't have much to make fun of right now is...well...they haven't been doing much. There should be plenty material on both sides over the next two years.

Yeah, that seems to work real well for Carlos Mencia. Those jokes have been done to death by now. Hell, I was watching the Kids in the Hall art model sketch where they made fun of that kind of thing just the other day. That was over a decade ago. Filling half an hour with tired stereotypes will get an audience, I'm sure. So did Blue Collar TV and Mind of Mencia. Doesn't mean it won't suck.

"What exactly are the "sacred cows of the left"? Part of the left's problem is that it doesn't really have any. "

Oh please. Are you actually serious with this nonsense? The entire concept of political correctness is a liberal canard. Start with that alone and you have a whole season of shows.

"19. You can't really make jokes on abortion, gun control and universal health care."

Family Guy and American Dad do it all the time, from both political angles, and it's almost always funny.

I know for a fact you can write these jokes. I did it, and no, I won't say where. The trick is not to be mean and angry, but to be like Stewart and Colbert - self-deprecating and point out hypocrisy. EVERYONE in politics is a hypocrite, so it should be pretty easy.

You can't really make jokes on abortion, gun control and universal health care.

Admit it, Fox News sucks big time, and this show will bomb. They won't make fun of the current administration. The Daily Show makes fun of just about everything.

I dunno Vito, every night on Comedy Central there seems to be plenty that's funny about needless war, officially sanctioned pedophilia, and corporate scandals that deprive thousands of their hard-earned retirements.

I think you just proved all by yourself that the items on my list are "sacred cows." Pick an issue, and I can tell whether you'll think it's funny based on which side of the fence you're on.

Mind you, I don't think this show's going to work either. The format's wrong (just as a book every couple of years, a la P.J. O'Rourke, is right). Just don't tell me the left doesn't have any totems to satirize.

More power to them if they think it will work. Personally, I think Fox News is most successful when it uses scare tactics. It might be difficult to spend the day telling people who and what they should fear, and then turn around and make fun of those same people and issues in a comedy show.

Even assuming that those issues are sacred cows (though I don't really think they are), that only proves the point that there's not much to make fun of. This kind of thing has been TRIED before. PJ O'Rourke has been around for decades, Dennis Miller has been conservative for a few years. But there's nothing funny about abortion, poor people unable to pay for medical treatment, or kids from a Colorado high school buying an entire arsenal of guns without raising eyebrows.

A right wing version of the Daily Show? I thought that was the entire idea behind Fox News in the first place.