THEY'LL HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THIS

Joel Surnow, the man who's made torture-in-the-name-of-patriotism chic on Fox's "24," has produced a Fox comedy news show to compete with Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." The Fox show will debut this Sunday evening and will be called "The Half-Hour News Hour" (now THERE'S a knee-slapper!).

Drudge claims this YouTube segment from the new show was leaked, as though it were some stunning bombshell, but it's mainly just a flat (as in no fizz) attempt to make fun of Barak Obama. Yawn.

Generally, you can tell when you're in the presence of a cultural phenomenon, based on the number of physical or psychic gasps one expells while watching. But this doesn't cut it.