Comedian Jon Stewart may soon have a platform to make us laugh — or cry — at the news once again.
At the Television Critics Association tour in Los Angeles on Saturday, HBO President Casey Bloys announced that the former “Daily Show” host plans to launch an animated parody of cable news this fall. The project will include what Bloys called an online “Onion-like portal” where animated videos about breaking news stories are posted daily, possibly several times throughout the day. The videos will probably be repackaged later into a half-hour show on the cable channel. “It allows him to comment, real time, on what’s happening during the day’s news events,” Bloys said.
