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Point-Counterpoint: Laughing At Tragedy
POINT: "This is tacky even for the Onion, not too funny," a tipster emails us. The story in question? "NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace's Death." Sample: "At least for the moment, drivers found it hard to think about the Sprint Cup. 'All race long on Sunday, I was dealing with the unreality presented me by his absence,' said #16 3M Ford Fusion driver Greg Biffle...'I first read Infinite Jest in 1998 when my gas-can man gave me a copy when I was a rookie in the Craftsman Truck Series.'" COUNTERPOINT: No, it's funny. [The Onion]

5:33 PM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Obama's Wacky Half-Brother Will Not Have a Beer Named For Him
Barack Obama has a half-brother who lives in a shack and hasn't spoken to the candidate in years. Just like in The Onion the other day! Ha ha ha! Except this one lives in Kenya and lives on less than a dollar a month and is too embarrassed to admit to people that he's related to the American presidential candidate. Plus side for Obama: George is too far away to embarrass him like Roger Clinton or Billy Carter. Downside: His brother lives in a shanty town on Kenya. Barry Hussein met young George Hussein Obama back in 2006 for the first time since they were children. They haven't spoken since. "I am good with my fists," George Obama reports. All in all, we liked the wacky Onion story better! [Daily Telegraph]

5:55 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Pareene
5,320 views, 24 comments

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Prison Food Stunt Always Amusing
Lawyer Arin Greenwood ate some Nutraloaf for Slate. What is Nutraloaf? A delicious taste sensation served to prisoners who are being punished. It provides a whole day's nutrients in, uh, loaf form. Apparently there is a case before the Vermont Supreme Court over whether or not serving Nutraloaf counts as cruel and unusual. This is the peg for the Slate piece. (Though prisoners have been suing over the loaf for years, apparently.) So Greenwood makes a batch and eats it. And it's really gross. But a bunch of lawyers decided it's not bad enough to sue over. BUT at the arts and culture writers at The Onion's A.V. Club did this same stunt last April! More »

5:18 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Pareene
3,643 views, 30 comments

Latest by City_Dater: Probably just needs a little salt to be yummy. Unless one is a hardened criminal and a carnivore. more »
From The Onion I am laughing very much at this: High School Tony Awards.

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Virginia Heffernan Finally Right, Onion News Network Loud and Shrill
Brave Virginia Heffernan launched a brazen attack against The Onion in yesterday's New York Times Magazine, slamming the faux-news organization's year-old Onion News Network. Chagrined, one of the Network's biggest supporters fired back with the following volley: More »

4:38 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Alex Carnevale
2,973 views, 17 comments
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The Trailer For The Three-Year-Delayed Onion Movie
I know I'm the only person on earth tired of the Onion, so here's the trailer for The Onion Movie. While the film was supposed to come out in 2005, the trailer that was just released on the Darjeeling Limited DVD says the movie will go straight to DVD this year. Good call. Not only is the thing outdated, but I doubt most theater audiences could sit still for ninety minutes of the same deadpan news schtick. Even Monty Python knew they had to have a plot if they wanted to make a feature-length film. Trailer's below. More »

8:24 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Nick Douglas
8,958 views, 36 comments

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Funny! A delightful Onion piece: "Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies". Reading it gives me bees in my breadbasket. [The Onion]

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The Onion A.V. Club Hates Your Stupid Popular Video
Everyone knows that the most popular web videos are almost always crap. Did the Onion A.V. Club not check this before launching Videocracy, a daily list of "the most-talked-about online video content," or did they not care? Because in their ~~inaugural~~ chart [a commenter points out that the feature's a year old, which makes it even less explicable], each editorial description is a variation on "fuck you." Clip number 3 is "honestly not that impressive," #5 is "boring" (and like five years old), #6 is "annoying," 7 is "never-funny." More »

6:23 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,001 views, 14 comments

Latest by Teasdale: How come you guys can't find anything positive to say about their feature? What's wrong with the world today more »
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MoveOn Snags Area Funnyman
Peter Koechley, former managing editor of The Onion, now works for that 2004 throwback MoveOn.org. So everyone who still inexplicably receives their email blasts ought to enjoy his biting wit and trenchant satire as he begs them for money and encourages them to vote for whichever Democratic candidate's loss will be the most heartbreaking. [DC Examiner]

10:26 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Pareene
328 views, 4 comments

Latest by Smitros: And the H-dog would have to be dead at a time like this. Damn. more »
What was it like writing the book "Our Dumb World," Onion editor-in-chief Scott Dikkers? "What was it like? Do you know what it's like to bang your head against a concrete wall until you die of a brain hemorrhage? That's similar, I would say, to what it was like to make this atlas. There's really nothing inherently funny about land masses...." [Fishbowlny]

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