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- SPARTACVS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55Isn't CollegeHumor pretty much just funny street signs and boobies with "College" and "Humor" written on them?
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27"The satirical newspaper and Web site The Onion has been in talks to be acquired by Viacom, which could use them to complement its Comedy Central brand..."
Boo, independent comedy and big corporations don't mix. Too many politics, and everyone knows politics aren't funny. - Hexxagonal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22who cares about collegehumor, i guarantee 95% of the diggers like myself only dugg this for the onion
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Viacom buys The Onion for 27.2Billion in Monopoly money. Story on page 8C
- Suchmann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Don't sell out Onion!!! I count on you to make me laugh!!!
Next thing we know there will be Mind of Mencia opinion columns, and South Park horoscopes. *sigh*
Is there anything that big media won't gobble up? - wizalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Fark could bought with a sack of pennies and some pocket lint.
- RPharazon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I don't care much for Collegehumor.com. It's just empty space, considered by retards to be funny, kind of like funnyjunk.
But The Onion? Oh dear God no. Don't sell out! - dssstrkl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I believe that everyone has already voiced my feelings, but let me add anyway
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NOOOOOOO!"
Thank you - orlyyarly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I still think the Onion is super funny- it's not as good as it used to be, but it is still very good and a corporation would just ruin it.
- zeptobyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yes, that's exactly what College Humor is. Which is why the Internet is so inspirational. $20 million for a site about beer and boobies..
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Personally I find Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report pretty hilarious whenever I watch them... not necessarily the death knell.
in fact, politically incorrect with bill maher was actually good on comedy central, and went to crap after going to ABC in 1997... - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The end of the web as we know it is coming.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Only provided the sack was suspended between a large squirrel's rear legs.
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The Onion was approached by the Tonight Show years ago to use their fake headlines as part of the segment. The Onion declined, not wanting to ruin their brand image. In any event, The Onion had many oppurtunities to "sell out" over the years; Comedy Central must be offering them a good deal if the editors are seriously considering it.
Here is a CNN article about The Onion's history:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/08/28/bus2.feat.onion.site/index.html - seaqueue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Interestingly, Ben Karlin, the executive producer for the Daily Show and Colbert Report, got his start as an editor at the Onion when it was still based in Madison, WI.
- ZMorek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Boo, independent comedy and big corporations don't mix. Too many politics, and everyone knows politics aren't funny."
MMMM Chappelle's Show which I believe has officially died now that it's being hosted by Charlie Murphy and Donnel Rawlings. It just isn't the same... like when Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla left the Man Show. :'-( - succubuskiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here comes the dotCom... BOOM. Though probably it won't be the same as before, but with the purchase of CollegeHumor for $20 million, signals that anything really is up for sale.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Thats a pretty good summary of collegehumor. Nonetheless, it has a huge amount of viewers.
- bloodmoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And then everything good was bought up by corporations and made sucky
- Niffer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I agree the Onion's site recently became a pain to read. I usually wait until the year in review book comes out and read that. But still, it would suck so bad to see the Onion go corporate. They ruthlessly make fun of everyone, and thats what makes them so enjoyable. Think of what happened to South Park this past year with the Bloody Mary, Trapt in the Closet, and Cartoon Wars episodes. I don't want the Onion to be influenced by their owners, that would be a tragedy.
- metsfansam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Maybe Viacom will bring the unfiltered, quality content of MTV to the Onion!!
- ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Boo is right.....selling their souls
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or a golden oportunity if they mess up the onion for someone to make a site to fill that void
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I doubt the Onion would change the way people are fretting about - what good would it do Viacom to dilute such a valuable brand? It's pretty safe and tame as it is, at least for the modern media environment. Ten or fifteen years ago, it was edgy. It's still hilarious, I'm just saying that mass culture has caught up with it, more or less.
There's a reason no one has tried to buy Vice magazine - that's still too much for someone like Viacom.
Whatever happens, I'll still enjoy The Onion (best free paper in New York) and still never look at collegehumor.com. - bigtedshred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's an old (jan 2005) new yorker article on collegehumor.com and the guys that started it. Gives a few figures on the amount of cash the site pulls in... pretty impressive for beer and boobs!
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact2 - bs175, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I could care less about collegehumor.com , but please The Onion...N O !!!!!!!!!
- Fritz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nonsense, the Onion is still excellent satire. i've been reading it for 10 years now and still find great stuff regularly. bummed to hear that they might be eaten by a big corporation.
- creoscopegreg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You have to remember that collegehumor is owned by connected ventures which also has an ecommerce site bustedtees.com which generates quiet a bit of revenue from sources other than advertising.
- robertlang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Is Huffington this guy's only source? The Onion editors refuted that story the other day with a choice headline: "Factual Error Found on Internet" :-)
See this: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=104981 - ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If Viacom ever got their hands on the Onion, it would bring so many changes. It would change from a genuinely funny newspaper to a "lifestyle marketing" outlet the same as other Viacom properties. It would shift from raw satire to trying to be "cute" so as not to offend the new fluffy audience. Also, the target demographic would shift in median age to about 14.
- ytrabbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree with mikesherov.
Onion has gone to crap since they left Madison, WI. Not too mention losing all those people to the Daily Show.
Now It's like Saturday Night Live. I keep checking back every few months, hoping for another Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, or Dana Carvey, but all I get is Chris Kattan.
So sad. - fatbloke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well personally I don't care for either site, but somebody must be finding them funny.
I doubt that they will still be so in 12 months though, because as soon as big business gets hold of anything remotely amusing, they apply all of those "corporate values" and they'll end up as funny as "cot death".
Ah well! ***** happens.
ttfn. - motang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Great first it was Rotten Tomato (By NEWS Corp.) now The Onion.
- SteveDallas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1And we know that you should believe everything The Onion has to say, right? :)
- clander, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3It will be interesting to see what happens to college humor when a big money IP copyright protecting, lawsuit loving, corporation takes over...submit a picture and give all copyright to Diller? Maybe the blogs that college humor gets its content from will start suing when their videos show up because they know they can get more than the usual "take it down" reward...
- LilyFoxglove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0In other news, themushroom (parody (ripoff?) of theonion) is still collapsed firmly into non-existence.
Only slightly relevant because about six years ago themushroom guys proclaimed they would be "beat" theonion. They were serious. Oh well
"I couldn't believe it, he just walked in there, grabbed a laptop, and bought it. Like it was a bag of chips. It's been a week, and he hasn't even opened the box." - I still love you, Onion. - Kyderdog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I for one... never like the onion... just too stupid
- tonygarcia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2well.. if collegehumor.com does sell out there's always sites like http://13gb.com to keep us entertained
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2BTW, the above is funnier (aka, actually makes sense) if you have read the print version of the Onion.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Next up to be bought: the GNU project
- Spew120, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I like College humor. It's a good source of dumb videos.
- SteveDallas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Fark.com?
- mikesherov, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3The onion has been on the decline for a long time, and their "new" website layout makes me sick. IMHO, It was MUCH better when it was just a web version of the paper version, if that makes any sense.
You don't see such hilarious headlines as "Pope shocked to find heaven less opulent than the Vatican". - jpwhitmore, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Noooooooooooo
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Nooooooo! College Humor was always one of my favorite websites. Now other websites have kind of taken its place, since the Hotlinks only appear every few days and we have webpages like digg that update instantly. But now where will I go for boobies and beer (aside from real life)??
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3"Personally I find Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report pretty hilarious whenever I watch them... not necessarily the death knell."
I'm pretty sure TDS and TCR are funny because stewart and colbert are funny guys. Ever try reading the book they put out? Jon Stewart's America? It was pretty bad.
But, as is, the onion has, uh, room for improvement.
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