0:21 The entire Arabic conversation was very accurately translated in English. It's that awkward moment when a satire channel is more well-researched than some documentaries out there lol
That's the thing with Onion stuff, it's actually very well researched. scripted and acted. I first used to think it is a less well done version of say The Day Today but its actually probably better. I see people posting this stuff thinking its real all the time.
Since when did Hollywood give a sh!t about reality? I missed that meeting ;-) They even overdub knife-sharpening sounds when someone(non-metallic) gets stabbed FFS.
To be fair, it's easier to cast someone that could speak the langauge a whole lot more than someone attractive and could speak the language at the same time
The Arabic translation is really accurate as others have said. Unlike Hollywood movies which have huge budgets and can't get Arabic right. I am not sure about other languages but they always butcher Arabic I was watching the movie "Contact" and they show the reaction of different countries to the aliens and they showed Arabic written backward which is completely unreadable. The irony was that the movie is about deciphering Alien language but they failed to decipher a human language.
@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 Yes, arabic isn't a single language, and it can differ between deifferent countries. For expamle, in Egypt they yse the sound g instead of j, which doesn't accur in other countries.
@@anuragneelam8527 to be honest Allah huAkbar kinda means God Is Great (Akbar = great). It can be used to praise God but the term is usually said to reinforce that God is One hence the greatest. Alhamdulillah is usually said when you want to thank Allah if a thing goes your way or you are glad about a blessing, so you are praising Allah but the context is different from Allah huAkbar. Alhamdulillah is like saying "thanks to Allah (God)", so basically, "Thank God".
@@faisalpaalijo7127 I was 16 when I posted that comment so no. I made this account when I was like 12 and couldn't think of a username, I was going for "geez, Louise!" and picked a random number and misspelled Louise and here we are 14 years later
@@Jimrlst I am yet to see an actual expensive Hollywood piece with actual Arabic. They all pass gibberish as Arabic. Yet the onion got a fluent Arabic dialogue. 🤯
@@SerTempleton In Malaysia a guy explained to me that Arabic can have a lot of meanings for words but the way it is said is just onlynso slightly different. Like if you are talking to a friend or a CEO etc
@@bellathewolf-13 Firstly they still exist albeit very much diminished. Also, I meant that terror groups have actually claimed responsibility for failed attacks, which is kind of funny.
@@mrstorch5068 I suppose since their intent is to spread fear and cause alarm, even if the attack failed, it could still make people fearful that it could have been successful and/or the next one might be.
Me comment 5 years later: ONN had now proved to me that they comment factually on what will happen 5 years into the future. As from here, I will only follow ONN.
"Thats, thats... wow, I dont believe the filth that is streaming from your lips you curr" might be something i start saying to my friends when we disagree on stuff
@@milascave2 I think the mullahs are coming to the conclusion that the texts expertly show failings of the western decadency and thus can be considered an essential study material for any devout muslim, especially those who have enough room in their harems for a sex dungeon.
@@NJ-wb1cz Actually, I lost track of what thread I was answering. I had answered as a joke and so did you but I had recently been dealing with a for-real Islamophobe. The post was a year old, but hey, I answer old posts too. Peace out. (And yea, I used to have a harem, but not anymore.)
The best part is, this is actually a sequel to the bit in the conspiracy theory segement where Omar threatened an attack on DC to prove the 9/11 conspiracy theorist wrong.
the funniest part is al qaeda technically caused twilight the 9/11 attacks caused gerard way to start my chemical romance, and the author of twilight says MCR was a big inspiration for twilight
I think they're trying to mimic Iraqi Arabic since they're from Al-Qaeda. Irsael doesnt even bother to make their "intercepted Hamas messages" believable 😭😭😭
😂 the recreation was perfect! ONN was at the peak of media and content at the golden age. All the characters were hilarious. Omar Al faroque character and the actor's performance were just on different level!
Yes, they translated "Hurry, hurry!" into "Let's get over there." But even so, it's funnier in Arabic, even in the couple words I understood because I understand them from experience rather than from a dry translation.
0:20 the text was actually correct and well acted DAMN that's impressive. Even big films and series with insane budget cant seem to get that right. Im so impresed by the onions quality
This is brilliant. What makes them even cooler is that they actually used Arabic speakers who speak Arabic with an Iraqi dialect to make this skit. So anyone who says this is racist, Arabs were in on it, acted in it, and helped write it.
Technically 9/11 did cause twilight... Let me explain: Gerard Way, lead singer of my chemical romance, witnessed 9/11 and was moved to write the song "Skylines and Turnstiles," thus starting MCR. MCR inspired Stephenie Meyer to a degree to write twilight. (Fun fact: MCR was asked to make the soundtrack for Twilight, but refused. A few years later they were instead featured on the kids TV show: Yo Gaba Gaba) If you want to take this further, 50 shades of gray started as fan fiction of twilight.
Th Onion news network is just pure gold how do they come up with this stuff and then have actors actually pull off the skits so seriously surely they had to film this over like 20 times because the actors broke character laughing their asses off.
I was just wondering (after 10+ years) if there were anymore of these videos after watching the original 911 ones. Are there anymore with this guy? He is hilarious
"Why? Why? But WHY? The themes are universal."
I love how offended he is while saying that.
Best part of the video
1:50
That..that is...wow..
🤣🤣 He can't even.
That's by far the best part: detecting just the smallest hint of contempt and immediately getting defensive.
The brilliant acting!!!
"the books are for kids thats what ur thinking, yes? THAT IS THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE" lmfaoooo
"The themes are universal"
666 likes
that was cute
You will be hooked or my mother is a Jew
He sounded so offended 😂
“Why does Al Qaeda care if Mrs Meyers is alive?”
“That is… wow.”
YOU CURR!
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧
A very offended fan
his taking offense just cracks me up
You know she could always resume her work on midnight sun- or write another book on renesmes point of view…
She actually finished Midnight Sun this year. Al Queda had to wait ten years but it paid off in the end!
Well, I hope she keeps working!
It's technically news from 2137 so you never know
*All'ham'dolah!*
Really 2020? U right ?
How did they even predict the title of the book?
0:21 The entire Arabic conversation was very accurately translated in English.
It's that awkward moment when a satire channel is more well-researched than some documentaries out there lol
It does sound well done.
Probably also to make it believable to Arabic speakers if they see this cause if not they'd realise the joke if they didn't already
and the twilight references are all accurate as well, simply incredible
That's the thing with Onion stuff, it's actually very well researched. scripted and acted. I first used to think it is a less well done version of say The Day Today but its actually probably better. I see people posting this stuff thinking its real all the time.
even google understand them well
Bin Laden is on team Jacob, wow all respect lost
😂
Now we know the real cause of his assassination
@@CT--gs1wj yeah, Obama was cleary an Edward guy
911 likes perfect
Excuse me Bin Laden, he slapped her, he's obviously not right for her
The Mr Al- Farouq actor is an awesome comedic actor. I hope he gets more work.
actor? what are you smoking everyone knows mr omar al-farouq is one of al-queda's best members and a pr director.
@@gundamator4709 was*
He must have moved on now to new opportunities
His name is Miles Grose
@@sundhaug92Whats his ethnicity? Cant find it online
@@gundamator4709 Oh. Is he real Al-Farouq?
It's amazing how a satire show is doing a better job at speaking different languages than some of the best Hollywood movies out there.
Since when did Hollywood give a sh!t about reality?
I missed that meeting ;-)
They even overdub knife-sharpening sounds when someone(non-metallic) gets stabbed FFS.
@@chippysteve4524 I love the vppt vppt of silencers on guns. Where are these silencers?
@@mikearchibald744In the minds of Hollywood executives lol
To be fair, it's easier to cast someone that could speak the langauge a whole lot more than someone attractive and could speak the language at the same time
I think the funniest joke in this video is just that the Onion has a correspondent who's just a member of Al Qaeda.
"embedded"
And he's introduced as their terrorism expert
@@Mickeysternum245I mean he‘s definitely more of an expert on the matter than most tv „experts“.
Best part is he’s a recurring character
Exactly 😂
The Arabic was actually true
Ikr I died of laughter I understood it all
The NSA is now monitoring your IP address and all of your social media
XKeyscore much ?
@@gxashxg299 what did they say?
@@otter4206 Exactly what the translations on screen say
i would watch the full length al qaeda twilight remake
The Arabic translation is really accurate as others have said. Unlike Hollywood movies which have huge budgets and can't get Arabic right. I am not sure about other languages but they always butcher Arabic I was watching the movie "Contact" and they show the reaction of different countries to the aliens and they showed Arabic written backward which is completely unreadable. The irony was that the movie is about deciphering Alien language but they failed to decipher a human language.
as its part of a script theres no excuse....
This made me chuckle.
The onion is all about details like that.
😤 so frustrating to hear! I love Contact, too, what a shame
Same with Turkish. Half of the time they butcher it.
The Arabic was spot-on and they even made it in Iraqi Arabic! The onion is amazing
Is Iraqi Arabic like a separate dialect?
@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 Yes, arabic isn't a single language, and it can differ between deifferent countries.
For expamle, in Egypt they yse the sound g instead of j, which doesn't accur in other countries.
@@mshaqed2538 Oh wow. That's interesting. Thanks for explaining!
Felt a little lebnani to me
@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 oh man, Arabic much like hindi, has so many dialects. The words and sounds change slightly every 30 miles lol
just the pure joy he had when he said Alhamdulillah (praise Allah) for Robert and Kristen, I died. 😂😂😂
Oh wait I thought it was “allahu ahkbar” that meant praise allah, I didn’t know there were two ways to say it! Neat!
@@anuragneelam8527 to be honest Allah huAkbar kinda means God Is Great (Akbar = great). It can be used to praise God but the term is usually said to reinforce that God is One hence the greatest.
Alhamdulillah is usually said when you want to thank Allah if a thing goes your way or you are glad about a blessing, so you are praising Allah but the context is different from Allah huAkbar. Alhamdulillah is like saying "thanks to Allah (God)", so basically, "Thank God".
@@onlyhousestarklivesmatter oh neat, ty for the info :)
@@anuragneelam8527 Allahu akbar is the phrase Islamic terrorists shout when they commit acts of jihad.
@@onlyhousestarklivesmatter That's also the notification you get in Hearts of Iron 4 if you're cursed enough to reform the Ottoman Sultanate in 1940.
you will be hooked or my mother is a jew . ahahaha splendid
Vlad Carson I fucking miss this type of content
Who doesn’t
Lmao I gave the video a like as soon as I heard that line.
IM YOUR 2K LIKE MADE MY DAY
What's the joke?
"Why? The themes are universal."
I love the Onion. So much.
Are you an old man named Louis?...
@@faisalpaalijo7127 I was 16 when I posted that comment so no. I made this account when I was like 12 and couldn't think of a username, I was going for "geez, Louise!" and picked a random number and misspelled Louise and here we are 14 years later
@@geegeezlouis86 responding to a comment you left 10 years ago, feeling old yet?
@@SInkiHui1997 not really come back in 10 more years
@Dexter clarence Fongkot Is that an Attack on Titan reference?
I love how they introduce him with the words "terrorism expert." Just... the subtlety.
Pretty sure they say "terrorist and expert"
OR MY MOTHER IS A JEW
😭😭😭😭
My mother is one
@@gtabibi7069 *_disgusting_*
@@gtabibi7069 Yikes...
@@gtabibi7069 oh God I'm so sorry for you, did she try to sell you into slavery or give all your possessions to the bank she works at as collateral?
That was actuall arabic, I love this channel.
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg Yes (acording to alot of other commenters)
@@Jimrlst I am yet to see an actual expensive Hollywood piece with actual Arabic. They all pass gibberish as Arabic.
Yet the onion got a fluent Arabic dialogue. 🤯
@@SerTempleton that's really shitty though. I never knew
@@SerTempleton In Malaysia a guy explained to me that Arabic can have a lot of meanings for words but the way it is said is just onlynso slightly different. Like if you are talking to a friend or a CEO etc
"'September 11th' once again tops list of least popular baby names"
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
wow 10 years old
how've you been man
The entire ticker headlines...
Thats was a norm macdonald joke
"Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the failed attack..." lmfao!
You know they actually do that right?
@@bellathewolf-13 Firstly they still exist albeit very much diminished. Also, I meant that terror groups have actually claimed responsibility for failed attacks, which is kind of funny.
@@mrstorch5068 I suppose since their intent is to spread fear and cause alarm, even if the attack failed, it could still make people fearful that it could have been successful and/or the next one might be.
they are very responsible group.
"Or my mother is a Jew, I'm that certain."
Funniest part. lol!
01:40 :D
10 years ago, the Onion Report was comedy gold.
Now the Onion Report is something to take seriously.
@@thesssradio5008 302*
Wormhole Tech*
You should’ve seen 2020 befor talking the future
@OtakuRajini BurstVersus used to*
It was always satire
i lost it at "Osama Bin Laden himself is a member of Team Jacob"
...
your move, Team Edward.
Seal Team 6 (looking up from their copy): “We got this”.
JACOB AKBAR !
I laughed
Lol I was about to say, it seems Obama was team Edward
Edward is now Batman
#checkmate
“Only one has the ability to play news before it happens.” The Onion dosen’t need wormhole satilites, it just needs a writing team
stalio
Me comment 5 years later: ONN had now proved to me that they comment factually on what will happen 5 years into the future. As from here, I will only follow ONN.
"Why? The themes are universal."
Why why but why 😀
@@kaushalsuvarna5156 why why but why
Lol he called him a cur. I always found it SUPER awesome and derogatory sounding. I think i'll use it.
Actually in Arabic, it means son of a donkey, a foal.
@@GH69107 in other words it means "ass child"
Omar al Farooq was hands down my favorite return character on the onion
I have a hard time choosing between him and Michael Falk. Luckily, I can have both.
"Only one has the power to report the news before it happens"
The Onion predicted their own ability to predict the future
Ever read their article when bush took office? They must be using melange over there no one can get so much so right randomly.
Another piece of information confirming theh knew everything all along.
The al qaeda actor is superb. I want more of him!
First of all, I won't allow anyone to say "Stephanie Meyer" without the title "sheikh"
A MEMRI TV reference? Allah be praised!
That would be insulting since the term sheikh means an old man.
@@user-bs3cj2ky8s the women version of it is sheikah, and sometime it does not refer to older people it can be used to the Arab royal families.
osama team jacob
TheFtjz i knew i didnt like him at all but that makes it worst lol
that is a war crime worse than what they did in 2001
"Thats, thats... wow, I dont believe the filth that is streaming from your lips you curr" might be something i start saying to my friends when we disagree on stuff
Had me laughing!
I can't swallow that Onion works so hard for the videos and only get a few views...
they deserve more!!
well 11 years later Asad, and this is still being watched :)
My dude, I hope you doing well.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.”"
ain't that the truth even today. The amount of work they put can't be compared with today's videos too
@@SARYM911 this almost brought a tear to my eye. I need to go to a BttF Fan Expo and STAT. pay the most
"bin laden himself is team jacob" isn't something i though id hear today
They cancelled it as Twilight itself terrorizes people.
ha
LOL
It's the same with 50 Shades Of Gray.
@@nicholsjoshua15 My God.Even worse
Well thank you very much mr jokey mcsplainerson
Seriously - I think this is the FUNNIEST video the Onion ever produced!
UM THE DEATH PENALTY IS TOTALLY BADASS!
@@felixgutierrez993 AND SHOULD BE DONE VIA "HEAD-RIPPING-OFF MACHINE!"
@@elderberrylinux5279 YES
Not even close for me.
So... Will you attack the 50 shades author?
@@milascave2 I think the mullahs are coming to the conclusion that the texts expertly show failings of the western decadency and thus can be considered an essential study material for any devout muslim, especially those who have enough room in their harems for a sex dungeon.
@@milascave2 hm.. your pointless pedantry clearly shows that you're a loser without a harem
I HOPE SO
@@NJ-wb1cz Actually, I lost track of what thread I was answering. I had answered as a joke and so did you but I had recently been dealing with a for-real Islamophobe. The post was a year old, but hey, I answer old posts too. Peace out. (And yea, I used to have a harem, but not anymore.)
Actually, the book sucked.
2010 was an excellent year for The Onion...This is one of my top 5...
I want a full version of that remake of Twilight
Same
I watch this on full volume in public and sometimes people think it's real
You are the hero we need but not the one we deserve
I just held myself from doing it today
You sir are a hero
@@kaushalsuvarna5156 Why TF are you a hero for playing UA-cam videos in public? Even if it's good?
@@JPCPSeto I'm afraid you have to find some answers yourself
God bless you!
1:56 She _did_ resume work on Midnight Sun.
"I do not believe the filth that is streaming out of your mouth" OMG!!!!!!!!!
The best part is, this is actually a sequel to the bit in the conspiracy theory segement where Omar threatened an attack on DC to prove the 9/11 conspiracy theorist wrong.
Lol the onion sets the standard for quality comedy/satire
“If you give them a chance, you will be hooked, or my mother is a Jew” 😂
😂😂
the funniest part is al qaeda technically caused twilight
the 9/11 attacks caused gerard way to start my chemical romance, and the author of twilight says MCR was a big inspiration for twilight
I am so glad these sketches are coming up in the algorithm again lol
Omar's incredulous "wow" was so well-delivered! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All these years later and I still laugh so hard when I watch The Onion. I lost it when he called him a cur
"The themes are universal" Hahahahahaha I love you Onion.
He is genuinely offended 😅
It gets even crazier when you learn that 9/11 was the beginning of a sequence of events that indirectly caused the creation of Twilight.
As a native arabic speaker, i was actually very impressed with the arabic. The accent is almost perfectly on point.
I think they're trying to mimic Iraqi Arabic since they're from Al-Qaeda. Irsael doesnt even bother to make their "intercepted Hamas messages" believable 😭😭😭
The "Praise Allah!" was filled with so much emotion
"...should be stoned to death, for encumbering Jacob Black with so much heartache."
How these actors are able to keep straight faces must take miraculous levels of focus.
Omar Al-Farouq... you never fail to kill me... literally!
😂 the recreation was perfect! ONN was at the peak of media and content at the golden age. All the characters were hilarious. Omar Al faroque character and the actor's performance were just on different level!
2:18 his impression is hilarious here, didn’t really catch that at first lol.
"Or my mother is a Jew"
I cannot 🤣
that aged well
“It seems like the US avoided a major attack here”
“Yes for the moment”
'All military caravans will now contain either real or decoy Taylor Lautner'
MADE MY DAY
so glad i found a new video with Omar.
i just love that they arent only fans, but book purists to boot!! Why has The Onion not been so massive recently?? its so brilliant...
Onion was bought out a few years ago, a lot of it's satirical bite was lost soon after.
@@songbirdsandsandwiches8217 That makes sense....So sad...Perhaps it can make a comeback what with all this PCness being just about over...
A lot people don’t know what quality is, even if it walked up and introduced & described itself.
the conversation is funnier in arabic than the translation
Yes, they translated "Hurry, hurry!" into "Let's get over there." But even so, it's funnier in Arabic, even in the couple words I understood because I understand them from experience rather than from a dry translation.
0:20 the text was actually correct and well acted DAMN that's impressive. Even big films and series with insane budget cant seem to get that right. Im so impresed by the onions quality
LMAO , "You know if you give them a chance, you will be hooked or my mother is a jew" lolol talking about the twilight books hahaha
I only trust the Onion to bring me the very best and factual news each and every day!
Well the midnight sun is coming out soon so I guess they did right by calling off the attack lmao
Letting her live is asymmetrical warfare
I really miss THIS version of The Onion.....they were such a great source of real artistic satire. Bring it back, please.
0:46 “yes, for the moments” I’m dying
"It sounds like the US barely avoided a major attack here, is that right? Yes, for the moment, ..." HAHAHAHAHA
“I can’t believe the words that are streaming from your mouth you cur,” was delivered so perfectly I almost spit out my food😂😂
2:20 trying to pull off the edward stare LMAO
“Osama Bin Laden himself is a member of team Jacob” my god this channel is fucking hilarious
"Osama BinLaden himself was a member of team Jacob!!"
LMAO
Interesting cause 9/11 actually is indirectly responsible for the twilight books.
This is pure gold love it that still in 2020 you guys still as funny
This is brilliant. So many good lines worth remembering.
ngl now i really believe that onion actually have a wormhole time travel thing
Omar Al-Farouq is my favorite recurring Onion character.
This is brilliant. What makes them even cooler is that they actually used Arabic speakers who speak Arabic with an Iraqi dialect to make this skit. So anyone who says this is racist, Arabs were in on it, acted in it, and helped write it.
I can't believe there will be a new version soon.
Technically 9/11 did cause twilight...
Let me explain:
Gerard Way, lead singer of my chemical romance, witnessed 9/11 and was moved to write the song "Skylines and Turnstiles," thus starting MCR.
MCR inspired Stephenie Meyer to a degree to write twilight. (Fun fact: MCR was asked to make the soundtrack for Twilight, but refused. A few years later they were instead featured on the kids TV show: Yo Gaba Gaba)
If you want to take this further, 50 shades of gray started as fan fiction of twilight.
Can we somehow work Muse into this, who also inspired Meyer and later turned into a bunch of 9/11 truthers
Th Onion news network is just pure gold how do they come up with this stuff and then have actors actually pull off the skits so seriously surely they had to film this over like 20 times because the actors broke character laughing their asses off.
I can contain my laugher to... It is a hard skill to lern
I wish they had blooper reels, those would be hilarious to watch.
Commenting after the capital attack on 1/6/21
If Stephanie Meyer had been there, there would have been no attack
"If you give them a chance, you will be hooked" respect to the fan, and I shall not criticise it.
Life and death (a gender swap version she wrote) is actually hooking me
"I do not believe the filth that is streaming from your lips you cur"
This is a masterpiece i can't believe it doesnt have more views.
Midnight sun is coming in august, the onion needs to bring back Al-Farouq!!!!
yeah
The most reliable news source for sure!
“September 11th once again tops list of least popular baby names”
I was just wondering (after 10+ years) if there were anymore of these videos after watching the original 911 ones.
Are there anymore with this guy? He is hilarious
This is my favorite skit ever
UA-cam recommending me after 12 years
this guy should be a movie star. so funny
"The hard drive containing Shakira's voice"
Lol.
It was smart to keep her alive considering Midnight Sun has just come out!
That visual effects... Especially wearwolf transformation.
I am surprise the reporters were able to stay serious doing this lmao
damn onion, you did it again.
Onion is just very early journalism
~someone in yt comment
@@lambgordon490 yup id agree
I miss these Onion reports. Bring them back!