A few years ago, The Onion put out a book called Our Dumb Century. It was comprised of a series of newspaper front pages, one from each year. It was an interesting book, in part because of the events they chose to represent each year and also because The Onion writers are hilarious. The most brilliant entry in the book was from the 1969 edition of the paper:
Utterly brilliant. You can’t read it on that small copy, but there’s a whole profanity-laden exchange between Houston and Tranquility Base that’s also hysterically funny. As it turns out, The Onion folks went ahead and made a video, complete with archival footage and authentic sounding voices, beeps, static, etc… Incredibly funny.
Update: Weird, I tried to embed the video in this post, but when you click play it says it’s no longer available… but if you go directly to youtube, you can get the video. I’m taking out the embedded video and putting in the link for now.
The Onion video stuff is really good most of the time. I’m loving their “War for the Whitehouse” coverage on Onion TV. Great stuff!
Yeah, I’ve seen some of their other videos; it was just hilarious seeing them reproduce something I’d read and loved…