The Onion will skewer Vice with its new mockumentary series


Following the success of its BuzzFeed parody site, Clickhole, satirical media organization The Onion has now set its sights on another trendy publisher worthy of mocking — Vice. On Aug. 3, The Onion will debut EDGE, its comedic take on Vice's popular HBO news series.
"Vice is wrought with a distinct self-confidence, which of course gets our writers salivating," The Onion's vice president of production, George Zwierzynski Jr, told The Hollywood Reporter. "The Onion team is highly competitive when it comes to other companies and publishers, so it's only natural we would take a stab at Vice as a whole."
The Onion has previously parodied ESPN's SportsCenter with its own SportsDome, though the show was canceled after only a few months back in 2011. Nevertheless, Zwierzynski told The Hollywood Reporter that The Onion is simultaneously in production with a satire of the urban legend-debunking show Mythbusters, called Learn Attack!
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VICE, meanwhile, won't be catching a break anytime soon: A new IFC series from SNL alums Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Fred Armisen called Documentary Now! will also poke fun at the media giant.
Watch the EDGE series promo, below. Jeva Lange
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