Univision Buys Controlling Stake in the Only News Outlet Worth Reading, The Onion
According to NPR, Univision just acquired a controlling stake in The Onion, the parent site of the only worthwhile website on the entire internet.
Ben Carson: Refugees Can't Come to the U.S. Because Our Racism Could Turn Them Into Terrorists
Last month, The Onion ran an article with the headline “GOP Warns Refugees Likely to Be Driven to Terrorism by Way America Treats Them.” Ha ha!, we said. What a funny and absurd idea—what a farce! Now, two weeks later, that Onion headline has been given the gift of life. And it would like you to call it “Ben Carson.”
All of Your "Favorite" Websites Are For Sale
ITEM: The Onion is for sale!
The Onion's BuzzFeed Spoof Site Is Coming This June
Although BuzzFeed's ubiquitous listicles are already parodies of themselves, and you won't believe how stale the famous Upworthy headline format has gotten, the Onion is preparing to launch a site that intentionally skewers the viral internet. It's called ClickHole.
The Onion's Report on Weed Will Make You Feel Stoned
"New Marijuana Study Says Everyone Knows You're High And You'll Likely Be Stoned Forever" is the title of a new video report from The Onion's video news team, and though it is dryly hilarious in that particularly Onion way, the best part is that the video gets increasingly, uh, psychedelic the more you watch it. Trust…
Onion Video About Anger Over 'Stop and Kiss' Got People Mad For Real
It's a day that ends in "y," so naturally people are kicking up a real stink over an Onion video that's clearly not.
The Onion’s print edition, currently distributed in Milwaukee, Providence, and Chicago, will cease production on December 12. Founded by two University of Wisconsin juniors in 1988, the paper once reached 17 markets across the United States, including Los Angeles and New York City.
Subway Honors The Onion's 'Offensive' 9/11 Coupon
Though many companies sure gave it their best shot, none could surpass the truly outstanding tactlessness of The Onion's fake 9/11 coupon advertising a special "Subtember 11th" deal of 2 Subway footlong subs for $9.11.
This Onion Piece from 2008 Accurately Predicted Miley Cyrus in 2013
The Onion has this ongoing thing where it pretends to be much older than it really is. Though it probably wasn't founded in the 18th century by a German immigrant named Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, there is good reason to believe The Onion may actually be from the future.
Sometimes a slideshow of 10 giant cocks is just a slideshow of 10 giant cocks.
This Two-Year-Old Onion Story Perfectly Predicted CNN's Shocking Steubenville Rape Trial Coverage
CNN earned the ire of thousands over the weekend when it aired coverage of the Steubenville Rape trial that was shockingly sympathetic toward the rapists.
In Search of Self-Deprecation, Boston Is Confronted With the Reality that Boston Sucks
"Boston," a cramped Hollywood crime movie set populated primarily by the lesser Wahlbergs, is engaged in a gleeful back-and-forth exchange of japes with a national media outlet, calling to mind the beaming smile of a developmentally disabled child who has just been allowed to win a game of tag with a grown man.
How to Pick on a Nine-Year-Old Girl Without Offending the World: A Dispatch from the Nybro Action Team
The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed roommates living in Nybro, a small industrial town in southern Sweden. Hjalmar is a chef; Alex takes woodworking courses. We asked them to address the controversy surrounding the Onion's Oscar-night tweet describing…
The Ononeon: Your One Stop Real-Life Onion Stories Shop
Feeling depressed about The Onion becoming a serious news organization that is concerned about offending people and issues sincere apologies when it does? Well, I've got some good news and some bad news.
China Thinks The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive is a Real Thing and that Kim Jong-Un Won It [UPDATE]
China may be leading the US in many areas, but, thankfully, we've still got a clear edge in both satire and snark.
Iran's Top News Agency Duped by Onion Article Claiming 'Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama' [UPDATE]
The Fars News Agency, Iran's leading, "semi-state-run" news agency, might want to spend a little less time bashing America, and little more time acquainting itself with the Great Satan's parody news organizations.
Floridians Want to Know: Is This Onion Article Real?
Does president Obama have a 19-year-old son? Most people would guess, correctly, that no, the most powerful and famous man on the planet does not have an adult son whom you've never seen, and any articles about it are clearly satire. Not Floridians, though. No — Floridians want to know if the Onion article they've…
Goodbye to Sex House, the Best Show of the Summer
Here's the final episode of Sex House, the Onion-produced series of YouTube shorts documenting the adventures of "six sexy singles" who "move into America's hottest mansion meticulously designed for only one thing: sex." (If you haven't watched the rest of the series, you can catch it all on YouTube; start here.)…
ESB Shooting Sparks Rare, Brilliant Update on Onion Story
The Onion is famous for its insanely painstaking joke-making process, where hundreds of proposed headlines are whittled down to just the handful of gems you see on the website or in the paper each week. But what happens when real breaking news collides with the imagined world of the Onion? Like any legit news…
Satirical headline from The Onion yesterday: "Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting." Almost, Onion.
