The Fox News Channel has ordered another 13 episodes of its satirical news program “The 1/2 – Hour News Hour,” produced by “24” mastermind Joel Surnow, despite middling ratings (though it’s broadcast on Sundays, when against high-powered competition such a show can only really dream about middling ratings) and reviews that might charitably be described as unkind.

Critics – liberals all, no doubt – kvetched, essentially, that the humor simply wasn’t funny and that some sequences – such as one bit about Barack Obama – were offensive.

Not funny? Offensive? Heck, that means I could score a staff-writer’s job on “The 1/2 – Hour Comedy Hour!”

Herewith, my stab at TV immortality, my demo reel for “The 1/2 – Hour Comedy Hour:”

Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards has released a comprehensive national health-care plan that promises to provide health insurance for virtually every American. Analysts say the plan can’t possibly hope to work because liberals are stupid.

Possible GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made a pre-emptive strike before entering the political fray, acknowledging that he was involved in an extra-marital affair while he was leading the charge to get former President Bill Clinton impeached for roughly the same offense. Gingrich explained that the difference was, “I was doing it as a show of my political power, whereas Clinton was doing it because he’s an immoral horndog.”

The war in Iraq is going so well… (studio audience: “How well is it going?”) … it’s going so well that a platoon of soldiers in Baghdad today reported passing a school playground and that none of the children on it had a rocket launcher. And only two kids had automatic weapons.

Meanwhile, birdbrained critics of the war in Iraq complained that billions of dollars tied to the war effort have simply gone missing or have been squandered, and that much of the purportedly wasted cash is due to the actions of Halliburton, the company formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney. A Halliburton spokesperson replied, “Yes, we have flushed a lot of money down the toilet, but look on the bright side – at least it wasn’t wasted on social programs helping the needy!”

Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney has come under fire by the so-called mainstream media, with negative stories about his office coming from both Time and Newsweek this past week. A spokesman for Cheney responded, “Mr. Cheney has made only one mistake in his time in office. Consider all the people he could’ve shot – and he ends up shooting someone he actually likes?”

This weekend at the box office, the movie “300,” about a whole bunch of buff men in short skivvies running around topless and well-oiled up, made a whopping $70 million in three days. Hollywood analysts attributed this wild success to theater owners’ new “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Senator Joe Biden apologized for calling fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama “clean,” explaining that he meant to use the word “fresh.” Women who dated Obama in his days as a coke-quaffing high-school and college student said, “Yes, ‘fresh’ describes Obama better than ‘clean.’”

Hillary Clinton entered the 2008 Presidential campaign with the slogan that she is “in it to win it.” No, that’s it; that’s the joke – if you’re watching Fox News, you’re supposed to find that notion knee-slappingly hilarious.

U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzalez is under fire from lunkheaded liberals who want him to resign who claim he has politicized the position by firing a number of federal prosecutors and overlooking the FBI’s illegal applications of the Patriot Act by illicitly obtaining records of American citizens. President Bush’s response to critics was, “But you’re saying that like it was a bad thing."

“24” star Kiefer Sutherland has been asked by Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan to try to convince Army graduates at West Point that torture methods do not work. Why should soldiers listen to Hollywood stars? Everyone knows Hollywood is filled with liberals – and that liberals are stupid.