This morning I am commemorating the 9/11 attacks by re-reading The Onion’s coverage of the attacks.
After those planes hit those buildings, we all seemed to be holding our collective breath and we were unsure when it was ok to laugh again. Mayor Rudy famously came out before the first new SNL after the attacks and told Lorne Michaels that it was “Ok to laugh again.” I remember Letterman finally breaking that tension as well (Letterman may have been the first national person to start making jokes again.)
Anyway, here is a link to The Onion’s 9/11 issue. I’m sure this has been posted before but I think it’s a good way to lighten things up on this sad anniversary.
I remember the huge headline on the front page that just said “HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!” I think that summed up how most of us reacted on that morning.
Oh, I forgot about that! Still very funny to me, if only because it’s still an afterthought (to everybody but the conspiracy theorists, who don’t get that if you wanted to fake something even the stupidest people would get you would have made a Bugs Bunny-style plane cutout in the wall.)