Japing capitalism's chronicle
"We are pleased to announce a change in management," intones a somber-looking display advertisement. But behind the familiar type and layout style is not the characteristically purposeful lineup of executives in a boardroom. Instead, a body in a business suit crashes out through a skyscraper window.
Welcome to Off the Wall Street Journal, a wickedly effective parody of the U.S.'s leading business newspaper. Modeled after a 1980 send-up of the New York Times, (called Not the New York Times) and put together by former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra, along with...