Rejected (+ one accepted) Onion Pitches About the Wildfires From a Hollywood Assistant
Executive Assistant, Scott Dikkers (How to Write Funny)
Satire Writer, The Onion, McSweeney's, Reductress, and more
Rachel is a Contributor for The Onion. This week, they gave her the following prompt for their "American Voices" column:
Historic Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles. At least five fires across the Los Angeles area, including one in Hollywood Hills, scorched more than 45 square miles and put roughly 179,000 people under evacuation orders. What do you think?
This is what she pitched:
Accepted
Rejected
Hopefully there's a studio left to make a movie about this.
Stars losing everything in a fire, they're just like us!
They do say you have to live life to write about it.
James Cameron has really outdone himself this time.
Wicked's Oscar Campaign has gone too far.
