TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio talks to 1/2 Hour News Hour creator Joel Surnow:
| TVGuide.com: But what struck me when I watched the show was that the bits that were funny weren’t necessarily political. There’s a fake commercial for a magazine about Barack Obama that wasn’t making fun of him — but the hype surrounding him. Surnow: It’s not a mean-spirited show — I think the one thing we target more than anything else is hysteria. The hysteria over global warming. The hysteria over Barack Obama. College kids’ hysteria over Che Guevera T-shirts. This is funny. This is irrational behavior that has lodged itself in our culture, and no one stops to go, ‘Wait a minute this is kind of absurd.’ |
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