Entire Joke of Satirical Article Made in its Headline, Rendering Article Itself Fairly Tedious.
Today in satire news, in what many people are now claiming ‘could have been a tweet’, a joke was written utilising the oft-used News Article Literary Device in order to make light of a fairly run-of-the-mill relatable situation.
After having enjoyed the headline, many readers were then left red-faced as they proceeded to read out the article to their hastily assembled family, who all quickly realised the article had peaked halfway through the headline and no amount of ‘yadda yadda yadda’ing’ through rehashings of the same joke would save the entire tedious exercise.
One father was heard to have cut off a reading of the article with a barely interested ‘Yes, very good…’ while simultaneously moving to another room and turning up the TV volume.
In a more desperate attempt to lengthen the already tired bit of satire, one eyewitness to the article was able to draw this sketch, outlining just how it all went down.
With increasing cases of the Entire Joke of Satirical Article Being Made in its Headline Rendering the Article Itself Fairly Tedious and Repetitive, many are asking how this came to happen in the first place and just what might be done to stop it.
Satirist and humourist Genghis Khan, an expert in the field, blames Instagram; “So many of these articles are written in order to screenshot the headline and put it on an Instagram story” the bloodthirsty warlord complained. “Then because we chose this particular literary device, we’re forced to actually write the article, which adds nothing to the joke and is a massive waste of time — especially when you’re trying to run one of the largest land empires in history”
Sadly, no pointless insertion of out-of-context historical figures was able to save the article, which continued to beat a dead horse like a mixed metaphor that peaked in high school.
Those with the attention span and/or lack of anything better to do who actually read the entire article were disappointed when they arrived at the final paragraph, having predictably failed to find any jokes that even came close to the initial headline, which by all accounts wasn’t even that funny to begin with.