January 15, 201115 yr Ok, who else watched this? It just...was not funny. Unlike the The Daily Show...they make up too much to be funny.
January 15, 201115 yr I thought it was OK, but thought it would get old. The whole person who needs to die section or whatever was waay overdone. I wasn't offended (though I could see some who would be), it just seemed over the top and not funny. Not sure it'll make it past 1 season, but it was worth a shot. I just don't know if Onion stuff really translates to live production well.
January 15, 201115 yr I echo those sentiments...also, I thought a lot of things the Onion tries to joke about won't get picked up on by the more casual sports fan.
January 15, 201115 yr i thought it was pretty decent, not great but definately something to watch to pass the time
January 15, 201115 yr Author It needs to cover things like this: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-29-2010/snowball Let the comedy write itself.
January 16, 201115 yr I thought it was pretty awesome. Obviously not going to be as "smart" as Daily Show and Colbert Report, but I really enjoyed it. Only thing I found not funny was the retired NFL stars escaping. That was a little overdone, but the NBA rule changes, Shaq having heart attack, Meth olympics, Pujols keys to city, and everything else was really funny in my opinion. Maybe I'm the only one, but I've been a huge fan of The Onion and their website for years now. Their most recent "strong side/weak side" on Cam Newton was amazing. http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/cam-newton,18754/
January 16, 201115 yr QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 16, 2011 -> 03:37 AM) I thought it was pretty awesome. Obviously not going to be as "smart" as Daily Show and Colbert Report, but I really enjoyed it. Only thing I found not funny was the retired NFL stars escaping. That was a little overdone, but the NBA rule changes, Shaq having heart attack, Meth olympics, Pujols keys to city, and everything else was really funny in my opinion. Maybe I'm the only one, but I've been a huge fan of The Onion and their website for years now. Their most recent "strong side/weak side" on Cam Newton was amazing. http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/cam-newton,18754/ Haha, you're definitely not.
January 16, 201115 yr Author QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 16, 2011 -> 02:37 AM) I thought it was pretty awesome. Obviously not going to be as "smart" as Daily Show and Colbert Report, but I really enjoyed it. Only thing I found not funny was the retired NFL stars escaping. That was a little overdone, but the NBA rule changes, Shaq having heart attack, Meth olympics, Pujols keys to city, and everything else was really funny in my opinion. Maybe I'm the only one, but I've been a huge fan of The Onion and their website for years now. Their most recent "strong side/weak side" on Cam Newton was amazing. http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/cam-newton,18754/ Oh, I love the Onion itself. But I'm just not sure it works in a TV format. Shaq heart attack was funny, NBA rule change to, but after that it was 'meh'. Maybe be like the SportsPickle/Page2. Highlight hilarious athlete tweets and just ludicrous stories in general.
January 19, 201115 yr QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 10:54 PM) The segment about the girl with cancer is probably going to offend many. Yeah, that was hilarious. The Road to 32 to great too. The Toad segment was really awful though.
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