It seems many/.ers have failed to remember that the Onion is a satirical newspaper. This is, like all their other interviews, probably made-up.
The front section, or comedy section, of The Onion is all fiction. The back section, the A.V. Club, consists of serious reviews of movies, videos, music, and books, and real interviews. And a few cartoons, and in some editions, the Savage Love sex column. None of our interviews are fabricated.
We tried to get Bill Watterson for The Onion too, but he's basically a hermit. As near as I could tell, he's granted a total of two interviews in his career. One of those was for an obscure magazine, and has been reprinted all over the Web. For the other, he wouldn't actually let the interviewer record anything he said or take notes, he just talked to him for an article. These days, his syndicate just auto-rejects any requests; they've been asked to not pass them on at all.
I'm still hoping to get to Gary Larson one of these days, though. We asked and he was friendly about it, but ultimately turned us down because he's working on something, and asked us to get back to him in about six months. That was about six months ago, so maybe someday soon.
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The front section, or comedy section, of The Onion is all fiction. The back section, the A.V. Club, consists of serious reviews of movies, videos, music, and books, and real interviews. And a few cartoons, and in some editions, the Savage Love sex column. None of our interviews are fabricated.
We tried to get Bill Watterson for The Onion too, but he's basically a hermit. As near as I could tell, he's granted a total of two interviews in his career. One of those was for an obscure magazine, and has been reprinted all over the Web. For the other, he wouldn't actually let the interviewer record anything he said or take notes, he just talked to him for an article. These days, his syndicate just auto-rejects any requests; they've been asked to not pass them on at all.
I'm still hoping to get to Gary Larson one of these days, though. We asked and he was friendly about it, but ultimately turned us down because he's working on something, and asked us to get back to him in about six months. That was about six months ago, so maybe someday soon.