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Nackers: There was a lot of care taken with this issue, more than any issue beforehand and any one since, really. We actually had some of the office staff — like our sales reps and office manager and people like that — come in and take a look at the jokes just to make sure we were being careful about what we were doing. It was the riskiest issue we ever did, but we actually were really going tamer than we normally would.
That was a part of my mind for sure. I thought this might not work and that we might be headed back to Wisconsin. If you were involved in comedy at that time, it was a very strange time to be around. My own site at the time was the Fredonian and I just shut it down. We just had nothing to say about it. It was a total shutdown of comedy. All the talk shows at that time had very emotional reactions, and they were very gentle with how they approached the show.
Sacks: Coming back, there was Letterman, who I remember talking straight into the camera, which I remember being very effective. There was also, of course, Jon Stewart, who broke down on camera when he was talking about the Statue of Liberty.
In some ways though, I look at it as The Onion coming back first because they dealt with it comedically first. Karwowski: Everything was so touchy at the time. Bill Maher got fired for saying something about how he found the terrorists to be brave, because they at least put themselves in danger, whereas the American military tends to bomb from afar — and he lost his show! Schneider: I understand it though.
Siegel: It was definitely easier for The Onion to come back because of our format, really. Sacks: The ones who came back with satire were The Onion , which was so necessary at that time.
They could have waited or they could have gone back to Wisconsin because they were all still pretty new to New York, but they faced the issue head-on.
Their format was perfect for this too, because it allowed for multiple voices and this was a news story, so this format was much more conducive to taking a shot at the situation. Comedy fans especially needed a first take on it. It was a real fine line. There really was no margin for error. They really had to stick the landing, and they stuck it. Honestly, being in comedy at that time and being with many who felt a bit lost as to how to approach it, The Onion really showed all of us the way.
Hanson: Everyone came to work that day, terrified of what was going to happen. In my mind, I was thinking that this may be the last issue that The Onion ever publishes. Our audience may turn against us. It really felt like everything was on the line. We got stuff from U. We got stuff from families of people who were involved. It was nuts. We printed them all out and put them in a binder.
The response was overwhelmingly positive. We also got a few emails from people that had hung out with us the night before who told us that, because of The Onion , they were late to work the next day at the World Trade Center. That might go in a museum someday! In this very difficult time, it just felt wonderful that people were actually moved and thankful to have an opportunity to laugh.
So we were quite blown away and quite emotionally humbled by it. We were really touched that anyone would react that way.
It was just deeply, deeply moving. I remember one story I heard later on was especially touching. I met him once and he told me how much The Onion meant to him at that time and how important it was to him and his friends. Towsen: I was a junior in high school in and I went to Stuyvesant, which was down the street from the World Trade Center. I was in school the morning it happened, and my school was evacuated and the students and teachers began marching up the West Side Highway for our parents to pick us up farther uptown.
I lived in Greenwich Village, and once we all reached Houston Street, I told one of the guidance counselors that I lived here. He told me to go and take as many of my friends with me as I could. My grandpa also came down and brought us all pizza, though I had missed him myself because a few of us had left the apartment to bring water to some of the first responders.
So we were following it on the internet from the beginning of high school and then he got a print subscription for Christmas.
It was a very personal thing that happened and it happened locally, and the mainstream media took the narrative away from us very quickly. Later on, when you could find them for free in newsracks in the city, I used to grab a stack of them and distribute them around my high school because I wanted more people in my school to read it, in part because I wanted to talk to people about it, but also because it just seemed like a voice of reason when the official channels were spouting so much hypocrisy.
It was also much more cutting and insightful than the late-night shows my parents were watching. It was just a kind of expression of our collective experience. We just put a voice to what people were feeling and expressed how scary and horrible and fucked up and dark it all was. Krewson: It was a couple of years later that we learned that the rumors were correct and that we had actually been suggested for a Pulitzer.
Schneider: I do remember getting a lot of praise and compliments for the issue, though I do think the legend grew a bit over the years. At the time, it was just appreciated, but we had to go back to work and keep turning out issues.
We got good feedback, but we kept our heads down and got back to it, which was the nature of putting The Onion out weekly. While many found the issue to be cathartic upon its release, as the years have passed, the issue has stood the test of time as a great work of satire.
Its legacy has been felt both at The Onion and elsewhere. After that point too, people were just consuming more news, and from there, you go into the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. There are other factors too, though. Now if something happens, we have a story up about it an hour and a half later. Read the rest of our Apollo 11 moon landing coverage here. Fairly new president Rashida Jones has a lot to figure out in the coming weeks and months.
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