The Onion’s satirical website Clickhole is famous for lists, videos, and articles with titles like “8 Bullshit Cats We Wish Judas Could’ve Betrayed Instead of Christ,” “Inspiring! People Describe the First Time They Drank Gatorade,” and “The Kindest Man Alive: Jon Hamm Makes Crepes For A Beached Whale.” Behind every giggle-inducing page on the site is a staff of writers, editors, and producers who are stepping onstage to show off their chops for The Clickhole Writers Present Amazing: A Live Show.
Fran Hoepfner, digital editor for the Onion and former editorial coordinator for Clickhole, produced the version at Cards Against Humanity but will be performing in the show for the first time at the Hideout. She sees the stage as a testing ground where the staff can explore their oddest interests in a way that they can’t in an online list or article or video. “There’s a cutting-loose feel to all of [the shows], in the safest possible sense,” Hoepfner says. “Everyone is free to be extremely weird and fun, and there’s a lot of joy in how alienating and strange it can be.” v
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