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The Top 5 Times Comedians “Poked Fun” At FOX News

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Dec 21, 2015

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The Top 5 Times Comedians “Poked Fun” At FOX News

There's no denying that FOX News has always been a conservative network. By providing breaking news and commentary using a Republican lens, FOX has developed a considerable opposition from Democrats.

Left-leaning comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the Colbert Report, and 30 Rock have become notorious for their spoofs and jokes concerning FOX News. As we enter into the holiday season, humour can be the best form of medicine when one is frustrated with family gatherings or …the American news media!

1. Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live’s sketch mocking the FOX show, “FOX and Friends” has always been a hilarious representation of the network because of SNL's extreme portrayal of the three co-anchors Steve Doocy, played by Taran Killam, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, played by Vanessa Bayer, and Brian Kilmeade, played by Bobby Moynihan.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/fox-friends-syrian-refugee-crisis-cold-open/2941761 Watch the whole video here!

2. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

During his 16-year run of hosting the extremely successful Daily Show, Jon Stewart always mocked FOX news, usually devoting a considerable amount of time in each of his episodes to joke about a new FOX news mishap. Through intense fact checking and analysis, his commentary always proved extremely entertaining.

3. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

In this clip, the intelligently funny John Oliver slams FOX news’ coverage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. In September, FOX news claimed to have “new” footage of Syrian Refugees overloading a subway car in France when in reality John Oliver’s research team was able to discover the clip was from 2010 before the crisis began. (Watch from, 1:52-3:35).

4. The Colbert Report

Before he was a big time late night talk show host, the Colbert Report followed Jon Stewart’s lead and poked fun at the news. Using satire, Colbert shed a new light on comedy’s capabilities to make fun of the news.

Watch the whole video here! http://www.cc.com/video-clips/29w6fx/the-colbert-report--realhumanpraise-for-fox-news

5. 30 Rock

30 Rock, the show within a show mirroring Saturday Night Live, also went out of its way to mock the network. With just one line, actress Jane Krakowski perfectly spoofs the channel in the same way SNL does. “Welcome to FOX News… I’m blonde. President Obama in your own words, why are you a terrorist who hates America?”

Although these comedians in all five of these shows take intensely liberal sides when joking about FOX news, by expressing their views through humour, we see the value comedy plays in our media culture.

Someone has to ridicule those that ridicule for a living right?

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