“I did give this a good deal of thought a few weeks back, but it is a time consumming undertaking^^”

That’s right. And not only is it time-consuming, but also money-consuming and “staff-consuming” and everything. To do it in a professional way you would need technical equipment which is super expensive, not to mention that you should build a studio for it! And you need an armada of qualified employees.
I’m still wondering how The Daily Show staffers accomplish it to always get the right footage – footage dating back a decade or more! They must have huge archives… or using the internet! ;)
But even then – someone in the team must get the idea to look for something in the archives in the first place. Like: “Oh, Glenn Beck said this on his show yesterday? But in a show three years ago he said something completely different! Let’s look for it in the archives!”
So they must have a good memory. And all this work is done on a daily basis!
I’d really like to have an inside look in how a Daily Show is made. Or even better: I’d like to intern there! ^^

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You said:
(I hope someone reads this, begins assembling a group of Europeans who work all together to do such a show! ;) )
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A dream like no other to me. To make such a thing online is not out of reach… Unfortunately one would need to gather a small number of people from a few european countries to gather info from their native language news, and then coordinate the thing between the countries…
I did give this a good deal of thought a few weeks back, but it is a time consumming undertaking^^

Maybe someone like me had a better rush of enthousiasm when he/she came to this conclusion and is already on the move…

F.W.

You’re right when you’re saying that there are people who think the “heute show” is funny, or that at least some jokes are enjoyable. It was my opinion when I said “The heute-show is bad” and I probably dramatized it by generalizing it.

“Unfortunately, this implies among other issues linguistic complications which would ultimately reduce the number of potential viewers. This argument alone is not valid to me, since many people in europe speak english, and they number in tens of millions.”
Not only that! There are TV-Networks which work pan-european (RTL Group, ProSiebenSat.1 Media, since they (had to) acquire the SBS Broadcasting Group). And some of their productions are simply translated and dubbed into other languages to broadcast them in several countries. Or the format itself is produced in different countries. I guess you could do that with such a show either.
And if that was not possible, you’re right with the idea that you could do such a show in English: As “The Daily Show” a European equivalent is likely to address a young audience. And at least since the rise of the Internet, young people can speak or at least understand English very well. So doing such a show in English would probably work.
I watch “The Daily Show” online (as well as the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” yesterday) and I’ve heard of many others who are watching it online, too. So, using the Internet as the medium for broadcasting this show would also probably work. This provides the opportunities of having an international audience and being independent of TV-Networks to produce this show. This way, actually anybody could start creating such a show.

(I hope someone reads this, begins assembling a group of Europeans who work all together to do such a show! ;) )

You say:
“Unfortunately the copy wasn’t really successful: They forgot to copy the “Daily Show“‘s quality!”
or
“Anyway. The “heute-show” is bad. ”

I don’t think both shows are very comparable, and precisely for those reasons you gave. America has a different spirit, much more emotional when it comes to… well, anything! This spirit brought us people like Palin, Kennedy, Obama, Steward, Bush (deeply emotional, that one) and others.. And at times, although some heute show jokes are not funny at all, some are very enjoyable. To me, at least. And some others, since it got an award..

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“Yet I fancy the idea to create a European “Daily Show” ”
I wish for the existence of such a show like you wouldn’t believe… Unfortunately, this implies among other issues linguistic complications which would ultimately reduce the number of potential viewers. This argument alone is not valid to me, since many people in europe speak english, and they number in tens of millions. But never mind, that, unless one day you get into television!

So, as a conclusion: daily show may be bad, but it’s better than nothing^^ And +1 for a european show on the first european channel – a real one, not about news.

With those words, good noght, from bordeaux – it is 2:44 …

F.W