The Onion is pivoting to video — no joke — with a former MSNBC anchor

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Comedy news outlet the Onion — reinvigorated by new ownership over this year — is bringing back its once-popular video parodies of cable news. But this time, there’s someone with real news anchor experience in the chair.

The first episodes appeared online Monday; former WAMU and MSNBC host Joshua Johnson is the face of the resurrected “Onion News Network.” Playing an ONN anchor character named Dwight Richmond, Johnson says he’s bringing a real anchor’s sense of clarity — and self-importance — to the job.

“If ONN is anything, it’s a news organization that is so unaware of its own ridiculousness that it has the confidence of a serial killer,” says Johnson, 44.

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