The Onion is one of the things keeping me alive.

[pamelabarroway@mstdn.social]

@heidilifeldman omggggg ... I've been meaning to get a subscription to their print copy. Will do so posthaste!

[quixote@mastodon.nz]

@heidilifeldman This really shouldn't be funny, so why am I ROFLMAOing?

[millardphillmore@mastodon.social]

@PamelaBarroway subscribed tonight. Can't wait for my first print issue. $9 a month. Worth it .

[nm8a@mastodon.radio]

@heidilifeldman
Lately the actual news is so surreal that it seems all The Onion need do is simply state facts.

[thad@brontosin.space]

@heidilifeldman I see stuff like this and I give a low whistle and I think about Certain Comedians who whine about how they can't do edgy comedy anymore and what a bunch of lazy cowards they are.

*This* is edgy comedy. Taking incredibly dark subject matter and turning it to razor-sharp social commentary. The transgression is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@Thad @heidilifeldman Also, I would call this newscasting, in a country - or a world - where that art is largely dead. It may not be factual, but it informs, not misinforms or uninforms, the reader. Meta-factual, if you like.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman

When irony becomes the only truth...

[tayfonay@beige.party]

@mrgtwentythree @PamelaBarroway @heidilifeldman Subscriber here, the ads are next level

[rod2ik@mastodon.social]

@heidilifeldman

Thank you Heidi,
I didn't know this media !
It gives me hope for america

[jonchevreau@mstdn.ca]

@heidilifeldman along with Kimmel and Colbert