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The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (1690+ words) It's Sunday, and I'm onstage at the Soapstone Comedy Club in the metaverse. My VR avatar is clad in a black suit, tie, sunglasses, and an unfortunate fedora I've selected from the pool of free clothes for your virtual dolls…...
Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn't Given Up on Print—or Buying Infowars
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1907+ words) Readers celebrated The Onion's relaunch and the ability to read all of its bitingly funny headlines on a single broadsheet. (An early headline from the relaunched edition: "I Was Honored to Die So the Print Edition of "The Onion' Could…...
Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion 'South Park' Problem
8+ mon, 20+ hour ago (995+ words) In an interview with Vanity Fair in September, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone all but swore off satirizing Donald Trump, with Parker noting, "I don't know what more we could possibly say." "I welcome Skydance's commitment to…...
Jesse Armstrong Finds Sympathy for ‘Rich Assholes’ in Mountainhead
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (330+ words) Jesse Armstrong hadn't planned on making another project about billionaires. "At a certain point I said to Jesse, if you ever want us to say anything extra, do you have a glossary or a dictionary," Schwartzman says. "It's like if…...