Onion article on Lens Dunham

😂 I love The Onion.

We were going to board up our house too but we didn’t want to appear racist and love lemons.

Is the Onion being written by AI or non-English speakers now. Just saw these headlines on their page:

Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy

Yorgos Lanthimos Figures He 3 Films Away From Hanging With Emma Stone Outside Work

The shoutout in Just Like That was ridiculous.

R3 I think they're copying the very weird sentence structure of some gossip blogs. It is weird, for sure. I think all the Onion folks are still in Chicago...?

The onion underwent a giant change roughly 10 years ago. It's mostly topical and political and there's very little pure creative writing. It's occasionally funny, but it really feels like a shell of its former self.

The Onion originated in Milwaukee and was written totally inhouse. I remember when it moved - but I don't remember where! - it retained staff and expanded to freelancers. I haven't read it consistently like I did ten years ago. It's lost its edge. Or maybe real life is incongruous enough.

I was surprised but not unhappy to see that the new Lena Dunham vanity project had not cracked the Netflix Top Ten as of today.

[quote] The Onion originated in Milwaukee

Close.....Madison. It was distributed around campus at UW.

R9 I worked for it in Milwaukee.

They did a headline during the Girls days about an episode featuring her taking a shit while eating a taco during a gyno exam.

R10 I know they had offices in Chicago so they must have had one in Milwaukee, too. But it definitely started in Madison.

I’ll never forget when they called Quvenzhané Wallis a cunt 😂. That’s been a while but I still don’t think they’ve lost their touch.

Here you go, r11.

I've never seen an episode even though I was the same age as the characters. I was turned off by the 90,000 think-pieces about how Girls is the most important show in the world.

Can't believe she got to have sex with Jack Antonoff.

I admire her and was looking forward to her new series.

It's a train wreck. Couldn't agree more with the bad reviews. Stalter acts like she's terrified, Will Sharpe is stranded with a script that could have been written by AI.

If you took a drink for every cliché banter you'd be comatose 10 minutes in. It's such a dog's dinner I had to double check the writing credits. Dunham's husband has co-credit.