but i still find them very funny
to be honest i cant really think of many sources of comedy which dont use tired old formulas, or rather come up with totally new and hilarious joke formats every time....
― ambrose, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:11 (6 years ago) Permalink
roffle
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:29 (6 years ago) Permalink
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― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:44 (6 years ago) Permalink
In the same edition, the TV guide spoof made me totally lose my shit (in the slightly unhinged mood of the time, obv)
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38450
Especially CBS: "Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air / Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit / Medicating Dan Rather"
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 04:06 (6 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/95_96_prayers_finally
I was laughing at this until the very end. That last joke seems unusually mean-spirited for the Onion.
― Nathan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
um, the christopher reeve snipe was hardly cricket.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
True. I guess that somehow escaped me when I first read it.
― Nathan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i liked this one because is not jello a foods
[a hrarf = this is my internets link] http://www.theonion.com/content/news/conceptual_terrorists_encase_sears[/a hraf linkthing]
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have to say, for having webbed toes you are impressively skilled at typing.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
a hrarf!
― G00blar, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't get why everybody's blaming the puppy for not being Socialist Realism or somethink.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't even know what that means and I am a hu-man.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
who blames a puppy i am lerning better, promise the psyientests are teaching me
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
I didn't express myself very clearly.
Anyway, if y'all thought the "95-96 Prayers Backlog" was cold, look what I stumbled across:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29919
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
okay that is awesome
― HI DERE, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
the onion's had a hardon for superman for awhile - http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30382
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
whose balls are you, i am lookinf for mine
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
i kinda forgot abt the onion but this was posted on the quantum mechanic thread and it is funnee http://www.theonion.com/content/news/scientists_ask_congress_to_fund_50
― rrrobyn, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
They've really been on a roll with the cartoons - they're probably my favorite thing in the Onion now.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
One of my more flattering caricatures.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ha.
I also really love that every so often there will be an editorial cartoon about the cartoonist's ex-wife.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
lol
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
I read the last word wrong and thought this was gonna be about
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 2 November 2007 09:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
who's that on the right? Jabba the Hutt?
― Heave Ho, Friday, 2 November 2007 10:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/mel_brooks_starts_nonprofit
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
o shi i hadn't seen these cartoons before -- awesome.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
"After my baby didn't babble or gesture after 12 months, I hoped the cause was autism. I've since learned he's dead."
― That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha OMG:
First Indian-American Governor ElectedWith his swearing in as governor of Louisiana on Monday, Republican Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to head a U.S. state. What do you think?Dave Piedmont, Systems Analyst "His parents must be so close to being proud."
With his swearing in as governor of Louisiana on Monday, Republican Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to head a U.S. state. What do you think?
Dave Piedmont, Systems Analyst "His parents must be so close to being proud."
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 January 2008 01:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Steven Seagal is...
― Kerm, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/act_now_to_take_advantage_of_my
story of my life
― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
lol "Skeepers"
― Jordan, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha deja vu
me: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/act_now_to_take_advantage_of_my Sent at 4:31 PM on Wednesday Jordan: haha lol "skeepers"
― deej, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
: /
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
that's totally the lowered-standards look
... anonymous sex with me that I'll begin to regret it as it's happening? oh double-edged zing
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/75350
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/article-about-one-world-trade-center-building-incl,32262/
Yes
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 23:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Writing anything beyond the headline was unnecessary (they used to leave things that way more often) but this is still funny:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/rescue-chip-sent-in-to-save-broken-tostito-submerg,32292/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/secretary-of-interior-takes-presidential-oath-of-o,32264/
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/onion-mocks-syrian-electronic-army-after-twitter-hack
― balls, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
damn they are the coldest
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 6 May 2013 23:03 (1 week ago) Permalink
as noted on the other thread, pretty brutal
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 May 2013 23:38 (1 week ago) Permalink
Wow.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 01:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
which other thread xp?
― caek, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 08:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
rolling middle east 2013 thread I guess
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 09:08 (1 week ago) Permalink
ty
― caek, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 09:15 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/heartbroken-chris-brown-always-thought-rihanna-was,32340
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
Love the Lindsay Lohan one linked to that page
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
man, onion going dark with some of these
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:37 (1 week ago) Permalink
my feminist/anti-racist radical outlier friends are very very very pissed about that Chris Brown story
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:17 (1 week ago) Permalink
they would though
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
true
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:19 (1 week ago) Permalink
i don't like that chris brown story. in addition to the possible offensiveness it is just uninspired and lame.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:21 (1 week ago) Permalink
the incessant focus on chris brown and relative lack of attention given to olde worlde wite culture heroes with similar domestic violence proclicvities is racially dubious as has been said elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the onion should refrain from clowning him
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
lol the onion
― surm, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
i mean... ugh the onion :(
― surm, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:23 (1 week ago) Permalink
i don't understand the point of that joke except "lol this awful thing happened."
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:26 (1 week ago) Permalink
yeah not funny at all imo, reads like something any hack could come up with
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:26 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Treeship, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 12:26 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the joke is that the media reports on the status of chris brown and rihanna's relationship like it's any other celebrity couple instead of a sad and terrifying thing, so the Onion wrote a satirical article with that same tone
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:36 (1 week ago) Permalink
It's also a take on the old "this is the woman I knew I'd spend the rest of my life with" thing.
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
umm... duh. but to matt, i don't think the media treated their relationship like any other relationship so that satire is sort of irrelevant. like, if anything i was uncomfortable with the critiques of rihanna's decision to get back with brown because they seemed to come more from a place of victim blaming rather than concern ("can you believe it??" etc). in general i just wish that celebrity gossip wasn't a thing
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:51 (1 week ago) Permalink
although i get that this situation was an important instance to talk about the problem of domestic violence and so in that sense it was worth talking about. so yeah, i get what you are saying: their relationship shouldn't have just been another source of gossip. i still don't like the onion article though.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:53 (1 week ago) Permalink
Niche Online Message Board Takes Issue With The Onion The Internet
― surm, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
I LOL'd at this
http://www.theonion.com/articles/snooze-button-time-traveler-sets-coordinates-for-5,32339/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
i don't quite get why ppl would be pissed about the chris brown story? i guess its one of those 'dark humor trivializes bad things' sort of reactions? sigh
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah liked that one, but again an example of the whole joke being in the headline, no further text needed
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:02 (1 week ago) Permalink
Nah I enjoyed the breakdown of the space-age time travel gear and traveler set against a mundane slacker groaning at what feels to him like instant time jumps. I enjoyed the body but yeah it would have worked as headline only too.
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 03:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
lol hurting's point reminds of this mad magazine parody of the onion roughly 12 years ago, odds are the last time mad magazine will make me laff -
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
that reminds me, anyone know the story behind the turnover going on at av club?
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 05:49 (1 week ago) Permalink
i think a bunch of them are leaving together to start a new site, or something.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
interesting, i knew the longtime av club editor either quit or was fired (it felt like fired) months ago and then hyden split for grantland then i noticed scott tobias left (that guy along w/ noah murray and donna bowman had a weirdly large influence on my film taste and education when i was in high school and they were in college), then rabin who fbow is their defining voice or whatever and i thought 'ok something is definitely going on'. wondered if it was just high visibility and new eic prompting mass consideration of other pastures or if there was something more organized going on.
― balls, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
the chris brown thing belongs in the daily mash
― caek, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 07:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
A friend in the know tells me that Phipps was let go and that the others then jumped ship to join him, in solidarity, on a new site he's starting.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 12:53 (1 week ago) Permalink
I like that mad parody. It reminds me of my college weekly paper days, when we (the pretentious/artsy weekly) did a parody issue of the daily, and then the other weekly (sort of a ziney/gross-out thing) did a great parody of us, nailing in particular our jargon-laden reviews of obscure indie music.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:34 (1 week ago) Permalink
That was like the only thing the Medium did that was funny
― los blue jeans, Friday, 10 May 2013 19:37 (1 week ago) Permalink