It’s a practically glowing review:

All that aside, ” 1/2 Hour” definitely has its moments. Anchors “Jennifer Lange” and “Kent McNally” (Jenn Robertson and Kurt Long — why didn’t they just use their real names?) sit at a simple desk and deliver the facetious items without any of the dreadful, overboard mugging and mincing of “Daily Show’s” obnoxious Jon Stewart.[…]But those on the left anticipating, and probably hoping for, some kind of ghastly disaster will be disappointed — and may even feel like joining in the (apparently canned) laughter more times than they’d expect. In a nutshell: It isn’t terrible.

He thought Rush was mechanical, which I did as well. I couldn’t even finish watching the video because it was so dull. Judge for yourself: