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9/12

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4.1 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

9/11 & Humor: When the staff of the satirical newspaper The Onion woke up on the morning after 9/12, they realized they had to do the impossible: write jokes about the news of the day. Can this group of comedians create something meaningful in the wake of tragedy or will they figure out just how soon is “too soon?”

Original score by Daniel Herskedal. "What a Diff’rence A Day Makes” performed by Dinah Washington, written by Maria Grever & Stanley Adams. Courtesy of Verve Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.

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0:07.0	I'm Carrie Mulligan, the host of I Hear Fear, a new anthology series of terror.
0:13.0	You and I know that the best scary stories are the ones we tell each other in the dark. So turn off your lights and close your eyes.
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0:25.0	Follow 912 on the Wondery app or Amazon Music to binge all seven episodes right now.
0:32.0	Episode 2. Too Soon.
0:36.0	The satirical newspaper The Onion was started in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, right next to Bill's key shop on University Avenue.
0:45.0	We were a bunch of losers who were in and out of college and dropouts and paying our way through.
0:50.0	Back then you could work your way through college and I was doing that.
0:53.0	John Croson was a writer for The Onion for 15 years.
0:57.0	An unlike fancier comedy proving grounds like The Harvard Lampoon, The Onion was pretty working class.
1:03.0	In terms of staff and in terms of point of view.
1:05.0	I was tending bar. We had a dishwasher there. We had a guy working answering medical answering machine messages.
1:11.0	We had a woman working part time in a bank.
1:14.0	I always imagine that where we were a bunch of losers thing is mythology.
1:18.0	Yep. But it wasn't mythology. It really was a bunch of losers.
1:22.0	Yeah, I mean...
1:24.0	Thanks for that. But we were. I mean self-identified.
1:28.0	Losers in the best possible way like the bad news bears or the inglorious bastards.
1:34.0	They were edgy. Anti-establishment comedy dressed up in the Trojan horse of Mick News, a parody of USA Today.
1:41.0	At first the Onion was actually a physical newspaper.
1:44.0	They would drop them off on street corner news boxes and in coffee shops around Madison.
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