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The Onion
Satire Is Hard: Why Most ‘Onion’ Ripoffs Don’t Work Working as an editor for my college’s satirical newspaper, I learned one unassailable fact: we would never be as funny as The Onion. As proud […]
By Matt Crowley
‘The Onion’ Is Ending Its Print Publication Entirely The Onion will stop publishing its last few print publications this December. Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the newspaper version of […]
By Elise Czajkowski
ink-stained wretches
Nov. 8, 2013
The Onion Is Just Another Blog NowThe satirical weekly is ending its remaining print editions.
By Joe Coscarelli
washington redskins
Oct. 22, 2013
By Adam Martin
Pearl & Ash Now Open Sundays; Corkbuzz Launches Brunch Plus: Butter rebrands, and more, in today’s Leftovers.
‘The Onion’ Has a Great Piece Mocking Billboards for ‘Seinfeld’ Reruns It’s strange that there are so many billboards for Seinfeld syndicated airings in big cities in 2013, and The Onion has a great article about […]
By Bradford Evans
‘The Onion’ Turns 25 This Week Fake news juggernaut The Onion turned 25 yesterday. It was 1988 when two college students started the publication as a print newspaper. Now, […]
By Bradford Evans
‘The Onion’ Nails ‘The Internship,’ ‘The Biggest Comedy of 2005’
Here’s a spot-on video from The Onion about this weekend’s Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson tech industry buddy comedy The Internship, which despite […]
By Bradford Evans
The Onion: ‘You Haven’t Seen ‘Frances Ha’ Until You’ve Seen It In IMAX’ “Movies like Frances Ha are why IMAX was invented in the first place.”
-A piece from The Onion , in which filmmaker Noah Baumbach makes a plea […]
By Bradford Evans
‘The Onion’ Covers a Web Series Reaching the Unprecedented 100 Views Mark
Here’s a new video from The Onion about a couple of friends whose web series has the rare distinction of having 100 people watch it – the […]
By Bradford Evans
The Onion: Woman Thinks All Her Friends Should Be Comedians
The Onion put out this video yesterday, which really sticks it to that one annoying friend of a friend you have.
By Bradford Evans
Watch a Nice, Long Interview with the ‘Onion News Network’ Writers
Here’s a never-before-scene, hour-long interview with the Onion News Network team, recorded at the Paley Center in 2011. Representing ONN are […]
By Bradford Evans
‘The Onion’ Is Going on Tour
Over the years, The Onion has branched out into TV, film, web video, and books, and now the franchise is taking on another piece of new […]
By Bradford Evans
controversies
Mar. 4, 2013
Here’s The Onion ’s Report On the Quvenzhané Wallis Incident “The trusted news outlet has never been more popular, more admired, or more respected among Americans.”
By Zach Dionne
‘The Onion’ Draws Criticism for a Tweet About Quvenzhané Wallis
During last night’s Oscars ceremony, The Onion fired off a controversial tweet about one of the nominees before quickly deleting it an hour […]
By Bradford Evans
all apologies
Feb. 25, 2013
The Onion Apologizes to Quvenzhané Wallis“No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire.”
By Margaret Lyons
Jeffrey Tambor to Star in a New Amazon Pilot for The Onion Last year, online retailer Amazon began developing six comedy pilots to be released streaming a la Netflix’s recent push to produce its own […]
By Bradford Evans
Quote of the Day
Jan. 23, 2013
Today in Sad Cow News Notes from slaughterhouse 5.
By Hugh Merwin
Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: The Onion’s ‘The President of Vice: The […] If you have a Kindle and enjoy laughing at The Onion’s unique brand of political satire, specifically its depiction of ‘Diamond Joe’ Biden as a […]
By Jenny Nelson
‘The Onion’ Is Publishing a Joe Biden Autobiography Because It Would Be […]
Some of the best stuff The Onion has published in recent years has been their stories about VP Joe Biden, depicting him as a sleazy party […]
By Bradford Evans
Amazon Orders Six Comedy Pilots from The Onion, Kristen Schaal and More
Amazon.com is continuing to develop its slate of original TV series, with a strong emphasis on comedy. The online retailer just announced six […]
By Bradford Evans
dear leader
Nov. 27, 2012
By Joe Coscarelli
‘The Onion’ Has Tips for Avoiding Your Friends’ Political Facebook Posts
Logging onto Facebook this week is like stepping onto a minefield, but instead of mines, this minefield is full of self-satisfied “I Voted” […]
By Bradford Evans
Talking to New Onion News Network Head Writer Andy Miara Last year’s news of the Onion’s relocation from New York to Chicago and the resulting loss of staff brought with it several questions about the […]
By Phil Davidson
‘The Onion’s New Video Series ‘Onion Talks’ Is Full of Important Ideas
Today, The Onion is unveiling this important new web series, “Onion Talks,” a string of lectures from leading experts that will drop via The […]
By Bradford Evans
Ex-Onion Staff and Adult Swim Launch Thing X, “All the Internet You’ll […]
Thing X, the new comedy website from Adult Swim and a bunch of former writers for The Onion went live today, and it’s full of exciting comedy […]
By Bradford Evans
Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: ‘The Onion Book of Known Knowledge’ The Onion has a new book coming out a week from today, and it looks pretty amazing. The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive […]
By Adam Frucci
‘The Onion’ Launching TED Talks Parody ‘Onion Talks’
Highfalutin lecture series TED Talks are ripe for mockery, and who better to do it than the folks at The Onion? America’s finest news source […]
By Bradford Evans
‘The Onion’s Joe Biden Beats Paul Ryan and the Real Biden at the Debate
Beloved Onion character “Vice President Joe Biden” live-tweeted real-life person Joe Biden and real-life Republican Paul Ryan’s big debate […]
By Bradford Evans
onion talks
Oct. 12, 2012
By Zach Dionne
‘The Onion’ Character Joe Biden Will Be Live-Tweeting the VP Debate Tonight Beloved fictional character Joe Biden, made famous via a series of sleazebag news stories on The Onion, will be live-tweeting the Vice […]
By Bradford Evans
Everything We Know About ‘The Onion’ Writers and Adult Swim’s New Website, […]
Earlier this year, we reported that the former Onion writers who stayed in NYC instead of moving back to Chicago are working on a new web […]
By Bradford Evans
iran so far away
Oct. 1, 2012
By Dan Amira
hilarious errors
Sept. 28, 2012
Iranian News Agency Mistakes Onion ’s Ahmadinejad Prank for Real News Iran’s offensive leader is not, in fact, more popular than Obama among rural whites.
By Andre Tartar
The Value in ‘The Onion’s’ Response to the Empire State Building Shooting You can read the full post here. (Before you react, I just want to point out that this was originally a post they had up yesterday. They had to […]
By Jesse David Fox
President Obama Is Totally Starring in the Next Apatow Film
Oddly enough, Barry Obams wasn’t the first choice for the role. Albert Brooks passed. Then Morgan Freeman passed, as to avoid being typecast. […]
By Jesse David Fox
Adult Swim and Former ‘Onion’ Writers Are Teaming Up to Produce Comedy […] With The Onion officially all moved to Chicago from NYC, a bunch of writers who had no interest in moving to the midwest were left without an […]
By Adam Frucci
Olympic Gymnasts Are Weird, Broken People “‘This trip has been incredible, but really I’m already starting to miss home and being a weird kid who doesn’t have any friends,’ said the […]
By Adam Frucci
‘The Onion’ Weighs In on This Daniel Tosh Business The Onion on Tosh: Daniel Tosh Chuckles Through Own Violent Rape.
By Adam Frucci
Let’s All Move Into The Onion’s ‘Sex House’
The Onion has just debuted the first episode of their new “reality” series, Sex House, and it’s amazing. As pitch-perfect a parody of MTV […]
By Adam Frucci
Woman Attacks Husband Over ‘The Onion’ This is real news but it sure reads like fake news. A Wisconsin wife was charged on Monday with one count of disorderly conduct domestic abuse […]
By Jesse David Fox
My Five Favorite Onion News Network Videos of the Hundreds We Made This is my last week as head writer of the Onion News Network. The business side at The Onion, you may have heard, has decided to relocate the […]
By Carol Kolb
Baratunde Thurston Leaves ‘The Onion’; Argues for the Importance of Comedy “…in an increasingly noisy world of information and digital interactions, comedy can still deliver the truth in a way that captures people’s […]
By Jesse David Fox
The Sad Details of The Onion’s Exodus to Chicago Jeez, the Onion’s editorial staff is really leaving New York. Well, uh, five out of the sixteen of them are. This story has the details of […]
By Hallie Cantor
ink-stained wretches
Mar. 22, 2012
Writers at The Onion Refusing to Leave New York for Chicago Only five full-time editorial staffers have agreed to make the move with the company.
By Joe Coscarelli
The Onion News Network Is No More A day full of such IFC joy cannot avoid bringing with it a little IFC sadness. The Onion News Network has made its last broadcast and will not […]
By Hallie Cantor
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