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By brian on Feb 20, 2007 12:34 AM

The premiere of FNC's 1/2 Hour News Hour has inspired Countdown with Keith Olbermann to experiment with a new Oddball feature called "Fox News: The 24-Hour Comedy Hour."

Olbermann said: "The reviews are in on the new comedy show on Fox Noise Channel -- you know, the one with the laugh track -- there's so bad, these reviews, we can only say, for heaven's sake, don't cancel it!

"In fact, we'd like to suggest extending the laugh track to some of its funnier shows."

So MSNBC added canned laughter to Brit Hume's FNS comments about John Murtha Here's the video of the segment...

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