Ah, The Onion: “Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.†- 8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live. The Onion’s humor is very much like Louis CK’s can be: brutally true in a really depressing way, yet still hilarious. It’s a pretty neat balancing act.
