Joe Randazzo Explained

Joe Randazzo
Birth Name:Joseph Michael Randazzo
Birth Date:1978 3, mf=yes
Hometown:Penacook, NH, U.S.-->
Alma Mater:Emerson College
Medium:The Onion, Twitter, Stand-up
Genre:Satire

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

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

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 , 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 Onions 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff . The Onion . October 15, 2011 . October 15, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160616051520/http://www.theonion.com/contact/ . June 16, 2016 . dead .
  2. Web site: The Joe Randazzo interview. WBEZ . Claire . Zulkey . July 29, 2011 .
  3. News: Twelve things the world should toss out. The Washington Post . Joe . Randazzo .
  4. Web site: 2009 ECNY Awards Nominees Announced. https://web.archive.org/web/20100209065143/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3561334.htm . dead . February 9, 2010 . PRWeb . February 5, 2010 .
  5. Web site: Tough Room. This American Life . Ira . Glass . February 4, 2011 .
  6. Web site: A conversation about The Onion . Charlie . Rose . October 29, 2008 . . October 15, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110802075753/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9328 . August 2, 2011 . dead .
  7. Web site: How The Onion got its name . https://web.archive.org/web/20121129091756/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/43508017#43508017 . dead . November 29, 2012 . June 23, 2011 . Morning Joe.
  8. Web site: So What Do You Do, Joe Randazzo, Editor of The Onion?. Media Bistro . Amanda . Ernst . December 23, 2009 .
  9. Web site: Speakeasy with Joe Randazzo, editor of The Onion. Creative Loafing Atlanta . Curt . Holman . October 12, 2010 .
  10. News: The Onion Editor Joe Randazzo To Leave Ahead Of Chicago Move . The Huffington Post . September 30, 2011 . Carol . Hartsell.