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 (twenty-five years ago)
― Mark, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)
― suzy, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news1802.jpg
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)
roffle
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)
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 (twenty years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
um, the christopher reeve snipe was hardly cricket.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)
True. I guess that somehow escaped me when I first read it.
― Nathan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
I have to say, for having webbed toes you are impressively skilled at typing.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)
a hrarf!
― G00blar, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
I don't even know what that means and I am a hu-man.
― Abbott, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)
who blames a puppy i am lerning better, promise the psyientests are teaching me
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
okay that is awesome
― HI DERE, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)
the onion's had a hardon for superman for awhile - http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30382
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)
whose balls are you, i am lookinf for mine
― a puppy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)
http://fanaticking.com/photos/Michael_Vick_Dog.jpg
― balls, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Cartoon-Cage-Free-Eggs.jpg
― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:25 (nineteen years ago)
One of my more flattering caricatures.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)
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 (nineteen years ago)
lol http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Cartoon-Freak-Dancing.jpg
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)
I read the last word wrong and thought this was gonna be about http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/3/37/250px-Vina.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Teens-Turning-Backs.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 2 November 2007 09:02 (nineteen years ago)
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/3/37/250px-Vina.jpg who's that on the right? Jabba the Hutt?
― Heave Ho, Friday, 2 November 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/mel_brooks_starts_nonprofit
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/KellyKlassicMujahideen.article.jpg
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:29 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
"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 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
Steven Seagal is...
― Kerm, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:09 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
lol "Skeepers"
― Jordan, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/act_now_oped.jpg
: /
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:56 (eighteen years ago)
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 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/75350
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 21:38 (eighteen years ago)
I wonder if his run will end with him exploding?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 August 2026 20:07 (two months ago)
reputationally, psychologically, or actually?
― viking voyages were all inclusive: leg irons, murdered children (Hunt3r), Saturday, 8 August 2026 22:07 (two months ago)
i’m just relieved Horace is okay
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 8 August 2026 22:09 (two months ago)
is it just me or did Douggpound do the voiceover for one of the fake ads this week
― frogbs, Sunday, 9 August 2026 06:42 (two months ago)
this is actually from The Hard Times:
Karoline Leavitt Says She’ll Still Defend Pedophiles on Pro Bono Basis After Exiting White House
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 August 2026 01:36 (two months ago)
Jim Haggerty’s reactions to the guy’s death were amazing
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 14 August 2026 19:18 (two months ago)
weird: I just got in the mail the September/October 202*5* issue, but still haven’t received the One Nation Over God special issue.
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 16 August 2026 02:26 (two months ago)
not sure if this is an old one but it killed me
https://scontent-den2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/774461401_2277653546317436_2609616531236274461_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1080x1350&ctp=s1080x1350&_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=iZpq895z-MQQ7kNvwGa8wrh&_nc_oc=AdodnHb5A_ptNEZV9aEgn9_Qw0hpX_BgyFGS-pQ_HwgSUX2r8Wvc08LURp1qiHuxL1Q&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.xx&_nc_gid=Vs-0oreRZ5gW0Lc5m54R4Q&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_AQEFcJ3udxDO42CaUifQ5DRG0bHzcu1wvBniK2uhXhkLuw&oe=6A895C83
― shaking babies (map^2), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:56 (two months ago)
Something interesting and/or troubling I noticed. If you google "infowars" or "onion infowars", you get hits for real news stories about the acquisition but no get hits for their Infowars site or content. Same thing when you toggle the search to "videos." I wonder why? If you search in youtube you get the stuff, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 August 2026 22:44 (two months ago)
https://www.avclub.com/brad-holbrook-interview-the-onion-infowars-the-jim-haggerty-show
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 August 2026 21:16 (two months ago)
last episode of the Jim Haggerty Show tonight, and new host for Emergency! with promised “very, very” special guests.
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 August 2026 21:21 (two months ago)
Phil Braun is my new hero
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 21 August 2026 14:42 (two months ago)
Of course the payoff would be a C-Span squareness/normalcy, what better way to underscore how weird these weirdos are.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2026 15:06 (two months ago)
Chemicals That Pushed Man's Ancestors To Hunt Down Wild Boar Flare At Sight Of White Cheddar Popcorn Bag
― shaking babies (map), Wednesday, 26 August 2026 15:55 (two months ago)
I don't think I've ever seen Phil Braun break on Office Hours but Edi Patterson got him to do it several times
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 September 2026 16:57 (two months ago)
Full circle here, since this is what inspired me to start this thread twenty-five years ago:
https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mukrelcygs2b
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month.It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 September 2026 20:30 (two months ago)
https://theonion.com/klingon-speakers-now-outnumber-navajo-speakers-1819565239/
― Kurt Koozebane (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 September 2026 11:35 (two months ago)
hahahah what are they doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Nr1X8hif4
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 September 2026 21:28 (one month ago)
yeah I’m stokes
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 22:01 (one month ago)
stoked
lmao on the one-year anniversary no less
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRoA4YfM128
(apparently they didn't use AI to make this, though obviously they tried to make it sound like it did)
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 September 2026 17:12 (one month ago)
lol My son and his friends sing that "We Are Charlie Kirk" song as a joke.
― every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in f (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 September 2026 17:16 (one month ago)
i'm trying to find the one with the guy who was maybe talking about some mission he went on and how he had to escape being detected and it was literally just the scene from Mrs Doubtfire with the cream pie in the fridge.
― omar little, Thursday, 10 September 2026 17:19 (one month ago)
starts at 7:09 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBUYJbuz3Y
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 10 September 2026 17:47 (one month ago)
lmao
― shaking babies (map), Thursday, 10 September 2026 18:20 (one month ago)
heh v good
― viking voyages were all inclusive: leg irons, murdered children (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 September 2026 21:32 (one month ago)
Thanking u
― omar little, Thursday, 10 September 2026 23:22 (one month ago)
this interview with Phil is killing me
― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 September 2026 00:23 (one month ago)
that felt so much like an On Cinema thing especially the way he was writing that comedy writer and Phil Braun
― frogbs, Friday, 11 September 2026 13:23 (one month ago)
the new Vic Berger vid on the Infowars account is insane
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2026 13:38 (one month ago)
HOG WATER
― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Friday, 18 September 2026 13:42 (one month ago)
missed the new Vic Berger show last night
― Stone Temple Pilates (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 18 September 2026 14:05 (one month ago)
If you're a like minded American man with a similar background, you won't just love Hog Water, you'll find YOU NEED IT
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2026 14:12 (one month ago)
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social· 17hCan confirm! My bones are even bigger and hotter now!
― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Friday, 18 September 2026 14:23 (one month ago)
gawd damn
https://theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight/
― frogbs, Monday, 5 October 2026 18:47 (one month ago)
has anyone tried playing the voting simulator? very funny but tough to navigate. I always seem to get blasted into the void.
― AI Influencer Pope (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 5 October 2026 22:27 (one month ago)
JUST A BIG FAN OF WINDOWS 95!!
― frogbs, Monday, 12 October 2026 18:44 (three weeks ago)
which is to say if you haven't seen the latest Infowars vid, it is pretty fkin' wild, also NSFW
Conservative Worried Government Coming to Take His Hard-Earned Genitals
10/10
― old helen (map), Wednesday, 28 October 2026 13:55 (one week ago)
should we start a thread for the Real Infowars? the "Dinosaur Alien Headshot Theory" thing had me rolling, all those artists renditions in particular
― frogbs, Friday, 30 October 2026 16:43 (one week ago)