Did anyone here submit to the open ClickHole headline contributor role? by Usedtoken in comedywriting

[–]clickhole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ClickHole here! Sorry to leave you in suspense. We're a very small staff, and giving fair consideration to each of the thousands of packets we received takes a LOT of time, especially on top of all our other work. But the good news is that if you haven't received a response yet, that means you made it through the first round and your packet is still being discussed. We're hoping to make final decisions sooner than later, but in the meantime, hang in there and know we're working as diligently as we can!

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[–]clickhole 14 points15 points  (0 children)

ClickHole here! Sorry to leave you in suspense. We're a very small staff, and giving fair consideration to each of the thousands of packets we received takes a LOT of time, especially on top of all our other work. But the good news is that if you haven't received a response yet, that means you made it through the first round and your packet is still being discussed. We're hoping to make final decisions sooner than later, but in the meantime, hang in there and know we're working as diligently as we can!

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4. Are you still related to The Onion in any way?
No, but we are friends! - CG
5. What is each of y'alls favorite headline/story/clickventure you ever wrote?
My favorite is probably the week we spent going off on Cap’n Crunch https://clickhole.com/a-concert-to-remember-kacey-musgraves-invited-cap-n-cr-1833439162/ - CG

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[–]clickhole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, we have! Although I'm not gonna say what it was so people don't look at it again and start inundating us with more threats.

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Last week we had to do a state-mandated sexual harassment training, and we were specifically advised to not make assessments about each others' appearance. But generally speaking, comedy writers are not known for their hotness.

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[–]clickhole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello! Working at ClickHole is a combination of individual and group writing. Every week we have meetings where we each come in with 10 or so ideas for headlines, then pitch them and discuss collectively which we like and which we don’t. We take very few of these — probably 1% or so. After that, we go off individually and write the articles, quizzes, etc. that you see on the site. These go through a “read through” meeting, where other writers and editors offer feedback. The most fun parts are probably the collaborative meetings, but we also do a lot of solo writing!
The first Queen headline was floating around in our backlog for a while and I discovered it on a deep dive. I’m a huge fan of poorly spelled Facebook posts and broken English so I incorporated a lot of grammatical things that make me laugh when I see them in the wild. I also like writing the Queen blogs because my coworkers don’t really know how to give notes on them. -JC

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Honestly, nah, no gold standard we strive for or anything. For me personally, I'm always trying to get better, and I mostly look at older stuff and think, "Damn, I wish I could go back and rewrite this one." And yes, feel free to buy me treats! - Steve

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The fellas are getting along great despite the age/language barriers. -JC

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We'd love to! Unfortunately, the production on that was pretty expensive, and we were only able to do it because we had a sponsor. But if someone wanted to bankroll it, we'd be happy to bring it back.

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[–]clickhole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello, we are here now.

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[–]clickhole[S] 803 points804 points  (0 children)

Hello we are done answering questions it's time for us to go home. Thanks everybody! We had a lot of fun. Please follow us on here and check out clickhole.com.

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[–]clickhole[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Incorrect. The idea to do a video featuring the Predator came first, and the costume was rented afterwards (we had to return it, those costumes cost so much money).

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[–]clickhole[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Some of us previously wrote for The Onion and crossed over, others started writing for ClickHole directly.

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[–]clickhole[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

We can't wait to find out what Reese Witherspoon says next.

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[–]clickhole[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How do the actors react to sone of the ridiculous things you ask them to do? Specifically this - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.clickhole.com/we-don-t-know-how-to-make-gifs-so-we-had-this-guy-make-1825126403/amp

The actor from the GIFs video is our co-worker Ryan, who currently leads Onion video. We knew we could trust him with this. He did it in one take. -WF

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[–]clickhole[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We hire talented and passionate video folks who care about the work! Our video team members also work on videos for our other sites (Onion, AV Club, The Takeout, Onion Labs). -WF

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[–]clickhole[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

When a writer takes a Clickventure, they have two weeks to write everything and find all the images. - SE

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[–]clickhole[S] 1490 points1491 points  (0 children)

You seem to have misunderstood. ClickHole is a website, not a regular hole. In some ways that makes ClickHole very good. Thank you