The Onion’s “Invention of the Handjob”
Last week, the Onion News Network premiered on IFC and artfully accomplished what The Daily Show tries to: mercilessly skewering the 24-7 cable news industry (the subtitle is, after all, “News Without Mercy”). It’s exactly what a fake news show should look like, adopting all the slick, epilepsy-inducing bells and whistles of cable news shows and featuring beautiful, dead-behind-the-eyes presenters. And since this is cable, they take full advantage of their ability to throw a lot of inappropriate sex into the mix: don’t miss their “This Day in History” segment on the invention of the handjob. It’s all online, but you can catch their second TV television episode tomorrow night in their regular Friday-night 10pm/9pmC slot on IFC.
