Area Man Spends Weekend Programming DVR • Comedy Central has ordered a pilot from The Onion. It's about sports, which some of us (could be anyone, really) don't care about, but, you know, The Onion. Sometimes you have to take a little bit of the boo with the yay!
Posted at 10:45 AM in Sports, What America Wants
Tags: Pilots | The Onion
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Why don't they just do their signature fake news show? Worked for colbert.
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Because they've already got Stewart and Colbert. This wouldn't necessarily interest me because I don't watch much sports reporting, but a show mocking ESPN (1 through OCHO) could definitely attract a pretty good audience. If it's funny, obviously.
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Well if it's anything like The Onion Movie, I have high hopes for this show!(If it's anything like The Onion Movie, I do not have high hopes for this show[That movie was terrible!])
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I agree completely with the above comments.
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They should just show funny clips from the sports shows for that week, and call it Onion Soup.
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Smart people can like sports too! It's crazy, I know!
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http://videogun.com/
This just blew my mind.
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Is that how we send secret messages to Gabe?
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(I was saying boo-urns.)
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this story makes me cry.
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The onion sports section is kind of hilarious, though.
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The Onion's Sports section is very hilarious, proving that people that like sports can be both funny and smart. And it's not like Comedy Central has much else going for it these days.
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I completely agree.
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Ditto. The people who write for Onion Sports are amazing, talented comedy people. I am psyched for this, especially given how generally great ONN videos are.
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This is a weird emotion I'm feeling right now. Anticipation? Concern. Cautious excitement, with a little suspicion stirred in. On the one hand, The Onion. On the other, Comedy Central. So.
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Any time the Onion has done anything that doesn't involve printed words it's been a disaster. I doubt this will be much different.
Know yr strengths.
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s'pose i'm going to be in the minority here, but it's not like you need the onion or comedy central or abbott & costello or woody allen or WHATEVER to tell you that people who like sports can be funny and smart, or, perhaps the correct term here is witty.
all you would have had to do, and i know this might have killed you, is have watched one episode of sportscenter in your lifetime. i'm not one of those guys that goes to bed watching it or anything (i don't have cable!), but the anchors write their own stuff to narrate the highlights with, and when i do watch it, i will actually laugh out loud at it. you have to understand the context to think it's funny or witty, but it draws heavily from pop culture, not unlike this blog.
you people should know that contextualization is pretty key - that you have to be one of the gang, conditioned to the (from the outsider's perspective, fairly ho-hum) memes everyone around here takes to. i know when i first got here, and i read "i'll fuck you til you love me faggot," it scared the absolute shit out of me.
i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm pretty fucking excited it's basketball season, but i also like thinking of cow-related movie titles.
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