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This show is really disappointing.


The Onion is hilarious, but this show is not very funny. Yeah, there's an occasional laugh, but overall it's just under mediocre. The host is incredibly annoying, and her horrible comedic timing, along with her condescending tone, gets obnoxious.


It's just not funny, and it doesn't even get close to the bar set by The Daily Show and Colbert Report.

















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For me, the show got off to a strong start but then became rather tiresome. I can't stand the current promos for it because they keeping running the same jokes into the ground, so I can't even think of watching an entire episode at this point. The stupid and probably out of context quote they use from The New York Times where they compare the show to Jon Stewart is absurd. They are two different types of shows. TDS makes fun of things that actually happen in politics. TONN is making fun of Fox, CNN, and MSNBC and the way they present the news but they do it through fake stories.

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It's called satire.

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I understand that but to me, it is still beating a dead horse.

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Yeah, it's lack of relevance in current events is what's keeping me disinterested. I feel like it doesn't make me laugh enough to watch it, but if it covered more current events like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher, I'd be more inclined to watch. Even with it's lack of laughs.





















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To me ONN is on a whole other level. TDS is ok and it is topical but the satire in it doesn't really cut that deep for me. Pointing out the irony and shouting at the camera in a "you can't make this up!" way or with that world-weary attitude kind of way bores me after a while.

ONN's satire on how the type of news that TDS might cover is presneted to us in the actual news is absoultely spot on.

In fact I'm glad that they don't do topical satire on ONN as they'd quite likely be covering the same material as TDS. Plus it means I can watch it 6 months later, when it's aired here in the UK, and still get it. And it's more suitable for rewatching. Topical satire usually only gets a big laugh from me first time around.

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My thoughts exactly. Hilarious show, seems The Onion can do no wrong.

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I've only seen clips, but every clip I see seems very liberal to me. Republicans and Fox News are always the butt of their jokes. I'm not pleased.

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