I left The Onion for a few years. After a bit, it’s brand of fake news, while always amusing, generally seemed re-hashed. How many times can one read an article about “Local Man” and think it’s hilarious? Then they started Onion Network News and the variety of shows from morning news, to cable talk to a CSPAN spoof completely blew me away. High production values combined with smart jokes drew me back in. Now, they’ve added reality TV in the form of a clip on their morning news show. It doesn’t get much better than this

Autoworkers Compete to Keep Jobs, Livelihoods on New Reality Show

There’s something deeply disturbing about this as, well, it just doesn’t seem too far off the truth considering the day’s headlines. But man it’s funny, and smart.