The first of four new Onion web shows planned for this summer just premiered on YouTube, and it is predictably Onion-esque in its ability to keep one from crying through laughter.
A Wisconsin woman was arrested Monday and charged with disorderly conduct-domestic abuse for attacking her husband over his collection of old Onion issues.
The Onion botched a joke about congressmen taking children hostage this morning on Twitter. Now, the U.S. Capitol police are investigating the joke. Everyone chill out!
In your throwback Thursday media column: WaPo reporters now required to learn about the "internet," UK tabloid journalists are unpopular, Walter Cronkite's nepotistic legacy, The Onion is leaving NYC, and Scotland Yard is coming for your video footage.
Few articles better capture Joe Biden's caricature as a creepy aging swinger uncle from the '80s than The Onion's 2009 "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway." But has a shirtless Joe Biden ever really washed a 1981 Trans Am in his driveway? No! It was a different muscle car altogether.
In your ferocious Friday media column: The Onion won't be free online forever, the Brits call for Piers Morgan, celebrity magazine circulation plummets, WaPo Co. revenue drops, and the New York Observer's back to broadsheet, baby.
Emily Guendelsberger, an editor at The Onion's AV Club in Philly, was walking along with seven friend Saturday night when they ran into a group of teenagers (between 20 and 40 of them, according to different sources). And teens being teens, they attacked everyone for no reason, including Guendelsberger, who was…
In your musty Monday media column: paywalls infest the iPad, The Onion wants a Pulitzer, Ed Henry goes to Fox News, Spin magazine fires its editor, mommy bloggers get their own talent agency, and reporters are harassed in Egypt.
You may have been surprised to see President Obama's smiling face on the cover of Tiger Beat in last week's The New York Times article about the "original teen-girl tabloid." Your surprise was not unwarranted, as the Times admitted today:
Imagine that! Personal massagers being used for more than a backache. Here the Onion News Network offers an alternative to the wand-style that would prove harder to manipulate.
A new Onion report discusses the troubling new activity among high schoolers: teen toping. Toping, or Isotoping,is the practice of illegally enriching uranium. Between raging toping parties and "Nuke rap," it's clear that teens across America are toping up.
In true Onion style, this report mocks the super alarmist attitudes many of us see soon after a tragedy happens. Here the potential threat is taken out before he can even do anything and the proactive jock is the hero.
How does Joe Biden like those "spoofs" depicting him as an womanizing, shirtless playboy madman in the Onion? "I think it's hilarious," he tells an interviewer. He claims he's a "square" in reality, though, which is a lie. [Image via]
From the Onion SportsDome last night comes this clip mocking the media exploitation of small-town inspirational sports teams. Just remember: class struggles, educational problems, and racial issues are all less important than football.
Parody newspaper the Onion is set to launch two half-hour comedies this year, the first of which premiered last night on Comedy Central. Onion Sports Dome is a show which mocks both sports and sports media.
Comedy Central has debuted a new website for its forthcoming show, SportsDome. Mark Shepard and Alex Reiser will host the show—which will premiere on January 11th, right after Tosh.0's season premiere. Who's ready to "Get Sportsed?"
Fox News subsidiary Fox Nation posted an excerpt from a satirical Onion article in the "culture" section of its site on Friday. The only problem: They didn't tell anyone it was a joke.
The Onion is getting a TV show! It's coming to IFC, and judging by this teaser trailer, will be similar to the side-splitting news clips found online. Catch a sneak peek here.
