Staffs of The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole Have Unionized at WGA East

The 4th Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival Announces Line-Up

Clickhole Ups Their Clickbait Game with Pregnancy Announcement with Conan O’Brien Pouring Out Milk Video

Buzzfeed Hires Daniel Kibblesmith from Clickhole, The Professional Parody of Sites Like Buzzfeed

The Onion’s Clickhole Launched Today

The Onion Launching Clickhole.com To Stick It to BuzzFeed and Upworthy

March 29, 2018

Staffs of The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole Have Unionized at WGA East

Some of the cleverest writers around should be part of the Writers Guild of America, no?

In a way, you can see this as comedy on the Internet “growing up” and becoming more of a viable and sustainable endeavor. Onion Inc., the umbrella that operates The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole under the bigger umbrella of Fusion Media Group, still has yet to hammer out a specific agreement with WGA East, but it seems that they’re ready to come to the bargaining table.

So, in the not so distant future, comedy writers can tell their parents that writing satirical headlines can get them guaranteed pay and benefits.

Chicago’s 26th Annual Festival, put together by the minds behind The Onion, The AV Club, Clickhole, and TruTV, will be in its 4th year at the end of May/beginning of June and has a pretty fantastic line-up that includes a sneak peek of Nathan For You, Patton Oswalt, 35mm screening of Idiocracy with Mike Judge, Aparna Nancherla, and more.

Individual tickets are on sale now or, if you’d prefer, you can buy a festival pass for $310 here.

September 12, 2016

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clickbait, clickhole, conan o'brien, lisa laureta, pregnancy announcement, rob o'reilly

Clickhole has stepped up their game, just like the content aggregators that they parody have done, by making videos that are just as clickbait worthy as those videos you can’t help but watch on Upworthy.

Just see what they did the literal juxtaposition of late night talk show host and comedian Conan O’Brien pour out milk next to a pregnancy being announced in this video.

December 2, 2014

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buzzfeed, clickhole, daniel kibblesmith, the onion

(via Poynter)

Clickhole was founded by The Onion to satirize all the clickbait sites that have risen to prominence online over the last couple of years. One of their biggest targets was Buzzfeed and they made sure to make Buzzfeed style quizzes and listlcles, but with their own absurd twist. The folks at Clickhole were so good at parodying Buzzfeed that, sometimes, the only way to differentiate between the two was the font, graphics, and URL.

Now, “the snake has eaten its own tail” or “life imitates art” or “if you can’t beat’em, join’em” all applies as Buzzfeed has just hired Daniel Kibblesmith, a Clickhole associate editor to be part of their staff. They were impressed with his work and thought his quizzes would work as regular non-parody on Buzzfeed.

What this all means in the long run has yet to be seen, but we do know that this is one way where the Internet has reinforced itself from attempts by others to “break it”.

June 12, 2014

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The Onion’s Clickhole Launched Today

The clickbait parody site by The Onion known as Clickhole officially launched today and it’s as perfectly satirical as you would hope it to be. Listicles, nostalgia, personal quizzes abound there in a way with headlines that The Onion pulls off the best.

Interestingly enough, the parody of clickbait still makes us want to click, which kind of makes it clickbait, but the kind that we feel less guilted into checking out.

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April 30, 2014

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The Onion Launching Clickhole.com To Stick It to BuzzFeed and Upworthy

Well, The Onion is laying down a new gauntlet by launching Clickhole.com to make fun of the listicles and aspirational, dramatic headlines that both Buzzfeed and Upworthy have made themselves famous for on the Internet.

Already, there’s a pretty great primer for Clickhole.com right now before it’s launch in June. We’re really curious how or if Buzzfeed and Upworthy will go toe-to-toe with them.