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Joe Randazzo
Birth nameJoseph Michael Randazzo
Born (1978-03-28) March 28, 1978 (age 46)
MediumThe Onion, Twitter, Stand-up
Alma materEmerson College
GenresSatire

Joe Randazzo (born March 28, 1978) is an American comedy writer, stand-up comedian, and improvisational comedian. He is a former editor of the satirical newspaper, The Onion.[1] In addition to performing stand-up, Randazzo has been a guest host of the improv comedy show ASSSSCAT 3000 at New York City's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. An avid user of Twitter [2] and a critic of Internet memes,[3] Randazzo was nominated for a 2009 ECNY Award for Outstanding Performance in the Field of Tweeting.[4] Randazzo has appeared on NPR's This American Life,[5] PBS's Charlie Rose,[6] and MSNBC's Morning Joe.[7] Randazzo was awarded the Burke Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse through the Arts by the College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin in 2012.

Early life and education

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Randazzo is from Penacook, New Hampshire. He earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College, and worked for NPR in Boston shortly thereafter.

Career

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After moving to New York, Randazzo met Carol Kolb of The Onion while performing improv comedy at the Magnet Theater.[8]

In 2016, He helped write Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie, which was a parody of Donald Trump's autobiographical novel of the same name.

Randazzo left his job at Manhattan Fruitier, a fruit basket company, in March 2006 to join the editorial staff of The Onion.[8] He was a writer and section editor of The Onion's 2007 book Our Dumb World, a parody of the standard desk atlas, and was promoted to editor in 2008.[9] In Randazzo's tenure, The Onion published the compilation Our Front Pages, was fictitiously sold to a Chinese conglomerate,[2] and openly campaigned for a Pulitzer Prize.[7] Randazzo, who lives in Brooklyn, will have reportedly left The Onion when they moved their editorial offices to Chicago.[10]

Books

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  • Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude from America's Finest News Source (Onion Presents). The Onion, Scribner, 2009. ISBN 1-4391-5692-1
  • Our Dumb World. The Onion, Little, Brown and Company, 2008. ISBN 0-316-01843-0

References

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  1. ^ "Staff". The Onion. October 15, 2011. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Zulkey, Claire (July 29, 2011). "The Joe Randazzo interview". WBEZ.
  3. ^ Randazzo, Joe. "Twelve things the world should toss out". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ "2009 ECNY Awards Nominees Announced". PRWeb. February 5, 2010. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010.
  5. ^ Glass, Ira (February 4, 2011). "Tough Room". This American Life.
  6. ^ Rose, Charlie (October 29, 2008). "A conversation about The Onion". Charlie Rose. Archived from the original on August 2, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  7. ^ a b "How The Onion got its name". Morning Joe. June 23, 2011. Archived from the original on November 29, 2012.
  8. ^ a b Ernst, Amanda (December 23, 2009). "So What Do You Do, Joe Randazzo, Editor of The Onion?". Media Bistro.
  9. ^ Holman, Curt (October 12, 2010). "Speakeasy with Joe Randazzo, editor of The Onion". Creative Loafing Atlanta.
  10. ^ Hartsell, Carol (September 30, 2011). "The Onion Editor Joe Randazzo To Leave Ahead Of Chicago Move". The Huffington Post.
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