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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

ON TV TONIGHT (columns for 8:00, 9:00, 10:00)

ABC: Attack On America
America Attacked
America In Crisis
America Still In Crisis

NBC:
A Nation Looks Around For Someone To Hit
America On The Verge Of Flying Off The Handle
America's Time Of Trial: Who Fucking Wants Some? You? Do You? How 'Bout You?

CBS
Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air
Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit
Medicating Dan Rather

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Wartime At The Apollo
Tavis Smiley Presents: Terrorists Strike America-The
White Man Finds Somebody Else To Fear And Demonize For A Change

MTV
The 100 Greatest, But, In Light Of Recent Events, Not As Important As Being Good To Our Loved Ones, Videos Of All Time
Yo! MTV Extends Its Condolences
Talking To Blink 182 About The Tragedy
Carson Daly In Way Over His Head

Lifetime
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls

History
Last Tuesday In History
Two Weeks Ago, As Told By Those Who Lived It
Last Tuesday In History (rerun)
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Huge miss not having The Real World: Trade Center on MTV.

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We joke about this but I distinctly recall that MTV did nothing but actually at music videos that night and I think it was the last time that happened.

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Cackling helplessly.

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Rugrats Rising is so good

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The first edition of the Onion after 9/11 is one of the greatest pieces of American humor ever produced. When other humorists went sentimental, The Onion folks got angry - and found the funny in places others wouldn’t dare look.

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Maybe it's just because I'm a hip-hop scholar, but "Yo! MTV Extends its Condolences" is making me lose it.

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That wink and nod to Austin with the Peace Park bit is 🧑‍🍳💋

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"SpongeJohn SquareAshcroft" 🤣

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SpongeJohn SquareAshcroft should be taken as proof that mind reading exists

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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
38k followers2.3k following36.4k posts