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CNN Launches A Comedy News Show

You know the Colbert Report, and how it's really successful? And how other forms of news are less popular and some are dying? CNN noticed that too! So their Headline News channel will soon be airing Not Just Another Cable News Show, a weekly program with a light take on hard news using memorable gaffes from the past week. Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox, of Wonkette fame, and noted Canadian/Huffington Post contributor Rachel Sklar will be commenters. The show, whose concept is stolen from the first segment of the Daily Show and whose title is stolen from the Wayans brothers, begins April 5. [AP]

2:51 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By rebecca
1,729 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: The best bits on the Daily Show & Colbert are when they're making fun of CNN. Sklar & Cox are going to have a court jester problem with that: they can make fun, but not too much fun. more »