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...view from our office window of the Pentagon was (IS) unsettling and unspeakably sad...That said, the humor is slowing returning to our workplace (and I work in a government agency, so believe me, there’s a lot here to inspire laughter!), and we need Modern Humorist to help get us back to some version of our normal, disfunctional [sic] selves. I applaud your decision to place political leaders off limits for now, and hope that when the time feels right, you’ll once again exercise that very American right to speak your mind, no matter...
...Modern Humorist team responded with topical, yet tangential humor. Like Jerry Falwell’s history of America. “Jerry Falwell was a comedy savior in September,” Colton says. “It was topical, on the periphery, didn’t really strike at what was going...
...figured our fans would wonder what we were going to do, but the amount of hits we got was pretty amazing,” says Maria Schneider, a 10-year veteran of the writing staff of the popular humor newspaper, The Onion. “People just wanted to see some humorous content. We’ll maybe try to point out things that the mainstream media hasn’t pointed...
...This humor and emotional honesty worked, most people agree. Purdy, who admits he doesn’t read The Onion as often as he’d like, perused the paper’s special edition covering the attacks and was quite impressed...
Although Schneider worries a little that she and her colleagues will start taking themselves too seriously if they let the critical acclaim get to their collective head, she is happy that the fans are happy. Fellow humor writer and commentator Borowitz also appreciates the response...