Bat Boy: The Musical premiered off-Broadway in 1997. Rightsholder for amateur performances is Dramitists Play Service.
That wouldn’t surprise me. I didn’t know a lot of people who liked the Weekly World News but I did know a lot who loved the Onion and they’re basically the same thing.
My goodness. It must have been a warped publication indeed to condone such a practice.
My favorite headline sums up everything that the WWN was in one sentence:
GIANT STATUE OF ELVIS FOUND ON MARS
Classic!
I bet this makes Ed Anger as mad as a . . . very . . . mad person, being provoked by . . . something very . . . anger-inducing.
Word. In the last couple of years, they seem to have changed into sort of a lowbrow attempt at the Onion, with stories based on bad puns and figures of speech come to life that no amount of suspension of disbelief could overcome.
I miss the good old days, when they wouldn’t hesitate to print something just because it might be true, and the humor was unintentional, or at least less self-consciously transparent.
WWN was the only rag that paid regular attention to the doings of the Yeti – the core demographic of the Church of the SubGenius. Now it is silenced. Triumph of the Conspiracy – or triumph of “Bob,” who engineered this so we can continue the heroic struggle in secrecy?
:eek:
This means the demise of my favorite party game – charades, where you have to act out headlines cut from the WWN.
Oh yes indeedy.
"Television Networks Ate My Brain !! "
My all-time favorite WWN headline:
**
Woman’s amazing true story
I WAS BIGFOOT’S SEX SLAVE!**
Wait, what’s wrong with that? I buy books in the “fiction” section. I know the stories in those are fake, but I’m entertained, anyway. How is this any different?
When I worked at a grocery store, my trainer was quick to tell me that the Weekly World News was not sales-taxable, as it was a news publication. But bottled water was. That pissed me off. I quickly made the decision to charge it as a taxable item every time someone bought an issue. No one complained. I called it the Necessary Idiot Tax.
According to this article, the web site is shutting down, too.
By the way, those who enjoyed the WWN would probably enjoy William Kotzwinkle’s book The Midnight Examiner. It’s a comic novel set in the offices of a tabloid newspaper; ten years after reading it, there are passages I still laugh about sometimes.
Kotzwinkle, incidentally, is the guy who wrote E.T. The only similarity I see between the two books is that both feature aliens, though; in The Midnight Examiner they’re being written into the paper, and in E.T. they’re phoning home and stuff.
Wikipedia? Sadly not it would seem.
Damn. That sucks.
I was out of line- see post 16 for my apology 
Brainiac –
Was that a follow-up to “Bigfoot Stole my Wife – and made her PREGNANT!” around 1980?
Let’s see, it’s all starting to add up, now. We’ve got alien spacecraft in our skies, strange beasts from the deeps menacing our coasts, and the Reader get’s sold, and WWN get’s shut down. Someone’s close to figuring out the truth and the Illuminati are putting a stop to it!
Pretty much. Their target demographic is actually 20-something males who read it for the kitsch value.
One of my part-time editors is a copy editor for American Media Inc., the company that publishes WWN and The Star. Surprisingly, this is the first I’ve heard about this, I wonder if he just found out, too.