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Y'all should look into The Onion. Very funny stuff. Sorta Mad Magazine meets SNL "Weekend Update" meets "The Daily Show" and the "The Colbert Report" .... but even that doesn't truly describe it. I've been reading it off and on for years, but what always sticks in my mind is that they were the first media outlet that actually made me chuckle a bit after 9/11. Don't remember exactly how long after the attacks this was (a few weeks probably), but I'd been glued to the 24/7 television news coverage and a bit of depression was setting in. Then I opened TheOnion.com and they had this "Big Huge New Event" type "coverage" of 9/11 (I won't repeat the tagline they used, as it's not fit for 9-year-olds) and it was just enough to make me chuckle and realize I needed to back away from all the media coverage and get back to regular life. Some friends even said it was "too soon" and disrespectful, but they hit the funny note at just the right time for me to step back into reality and stop sinking deeper into anxiety over all the horrible news.

The Onion's brand of humor can be very dry - they don't often telegraph the punch line. They just go along as if they're a real news outlet and this is a real story. That's part of the humor - that they seem so serious and matter-of-fact about something so completely preposterous.