If you’ve been watching the new SuperNews half-hours, you’ve surely noticed that it’s a collection of shorts, and not a linear half-hour. However, the team has cleverly built in some connective tissue, as you can see in this clip below:

This week, SuperNews descends into the dark abyss of Hell, or what locals call Las Vegas. In this lurid, 8-minute tale of high-desert decadance, a thoughtful soul is tempted to Sin City by a knucklehead pal. The resulting storyline plays out in a loose parody of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri’s allegorical poem about the afterlife. I’m sure we all recall his poignant warnings on the temptations of bodyshots and baccarat. Ante up for The Divine Comedy of Vegas.

A new, black and white segment emerged from the latest SuperNews episode – I Don’t Want To Go Bowling.

Episode 7 of the new half-hour format on Current included The IKEA Relationship, which borrows the characters included in the IKEA Assembly Instructions, and imagines what life might be like for a pair of love-struck furniture shoppers.

SuperNews has heretofore done a brilliant job of skewering everything from technology and politics to dating, but in their latest segment, titled Terrorism in 1776, Josh Faure Brac and his team have revealed their most controversial commentary yet. It’s a rather transparent parallel between the independence movement that founded the USA and our current conflicts in throughout the Middle East. It’s touchy territory, as many will surely read this as support for the underdogs of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. However, I suspect that this episode isn’t justifying the “terrorist’s” methods or ideology, but instead poking a hole in our good vs. evil approach to handling these types of conflicts. Or the SuperNews team is a sleeper cell set to ignite a dirty bomb at Sunset and Vine – you decide:

Swine Flu, know by it’s IM handle H1N1, has caused mass hysteria, pig slaughters and a few dozen deaths. Officials are cautious to call the outbreak a flop, but that’s what it’s starting to look like. As I type from my air-tight, subterranean safe room, I can assure you that driving your car is STILL more dangerous that taking a train, or a plane for that matter (thanks VP Biden).

The guys at SuperNews were quick on the jump, and below is their take on Swine Flu Panic: