Summary

It’s hard to think of a recent entertainment industry development that generated more goodwill than The Onion’s acquisition of InfoWars and instatement of Tim Heidecker as its creative director. On paper, The Onion ‘s satirical news bona fides and Heidecker’s commitment to genre-bending alternative comedy make them the perfect pairing to take over the hollowed-out shell of Alex Jones’ disgraced conspiracy brand and rebuild it as a comedy institution for the increasingly weird 21st century.

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