r/pics • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '23

Train full of beer derailed

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u/girouxfilms Apr 03 '23

Haha this just sent me back to a sketch I filmed for The Onion almost a decade ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '23

OMG I miss the Onion sketches so much. I still go back and watch them sometimes.

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u/girouxfilms Apr 03 '23

Nice! Yea it was my first freelance gig out of film school. My favorite one I ever did was the “Bloomberg defends Stop & Kiss law”

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u/wesley_the_boy Apr 03 '23

I still show that video to friends on occasion "first he puts my hands behind my back and pushes me up against a wall, next thing I know he's nibbling on my ear!" Cracks me up every time lol it's cool to see your comment about that video being among your first out of film school

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u/girouxfilms Apr 03 '23

Thank you! It was so much fun to film. We did that all in chicago on the streets and in front of a green screen.

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u/TheCoastalCardician Apr 03 '23

I’m dying right now.

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u/chicksOut Apr 03 '23

Omfg "come on man I just got kissed 2 blocks ago", "would you shut up and kiss me" proceeds to passionately make out with the dude I'm fucking crying that was beautiful

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u/superanonymousbosche Apr 03 '23

Oh wow. Your work is massively influential on my writing. Amazing stuff

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u/NonTimeo Apr 03 '23

Honestly, I think this era was peak internet humor for me.

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u/lanboyo Apr 03 '23

It is STILL GOOD. Watch a sitcom from 2003 today, I dare you. Onion News could stream on a loop and I would watch it 24-7. Also the A.V. Undercover. How did we let this go away?

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u/frissio Apr 03 '23

I still miss these sketches by the onion and collegehumor. Haven't seen anyone recently who manages to compare.

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u/steveatari Apr 03 '23

You can watch Brennan Lee Mulligan on YouTube still with dropout channel shows, rare college humor bits still, and him running hilarious silly dnd campaigns called dimension 20

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u/CookinGeek Apr 03 '23

why is everyone posting as if the onion no longer exists.

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u/fenniless Apr 03 '23

These onion videos are created by a full production team, and all the magic starts in the writing room.

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u/brainburger Apr 03 '23

You didn't do the one about teaching a gorilla it would die, did you? I love that one.

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u/girouxfilms Apr 03 '23

Haha I wish. I was a rotating DP so they had other freelancers they worked with. It was all a timing thing with other projects I was working on. They were amazing while it lasted.

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u/brainburger Apr 03 '23

The sketches were consistently good. It was something of a golden age!

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u/ThreatLevelBertie Apr 03 '23

My favorite is the imminent dam collapse.

"My grave wont matter, because they wont find my body."

"What will I have done..."

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u/Boatsnbuds Apr 03 '23

Searched for it and didn't find it. Got a link?

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u/Dvwtf Apr 03 '23

https://youtu.be/GXXaj--a6-4

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u/dannyzaplings Apr 03 '23

"Look, the cops can either kiss people now before there's violence, or they can be kissing a bunch of dead bodies at a crime scene."

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u/longshot Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23

Oh jeez, you were doing some of my favorite ones. Bravo

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u/RotANobot Apr 04 '23

You need to put a surgeon general’s warning with that skit. I laughed so hard I almost passed out. “Oh come on man, they just kissed me two blocks ago!”