By Drew Grant 4:00pm

Political humor

Video

Barack Obama lip-syncing? (The Onion)

Did The Onion Predict Beyonce’s Lip-Syncing Saga? (Video)

Whether or not today’s rumors about Beyonce lip-syncing the national anthem yesterday are true or not, aren’t we missing the much larger point? If Beyonce wasn’t really using her microphone, what’s to say that President Obama didn’t lip-sync his entire inaugural address?

The problem with that premise–which would have been a fine morning-after joke–was that it had already been released as a satirical video from The Onion three days before the inauguration. Read More

By Drew Grant 7/24/12 2:40pm

Viral Video

Video

If only this was a real show (YouTube)

Sex House: Finally, a ‘Reality’ Series We Can All Enjoy (Video)

If you have not seen The Onion’s latest spoof on Real World/Road Rules/Jersey Shore/any reality show that involves strangers being forced to fight under barbaric conditions (lack of food, overabundance of alcohol, constant camera crews, etc.), then you need to immediately go watch Sex House. Now in its second episode, Sex House plays with the reality TV convention before ramping it up to 11.

And then it gets dark. Real dark. Read More

By Jessica Pilot 9/13/11 2:15pm

Too Soon?

NY_Observer_911_final

What's So Funny About 9/11?

“Happy 9/11, everybody!”

It was actually September 9, nearly ten years after the attacks, and comedian Nick DiPaolo was on stage at the Gotham Comedy Club, where he’d been headlining, taking a chance that with a decade’s distance audiences might finally be ready to laugh—not about the thousands of dead, of course, but maybe about our shared anxieties and the collective experience of living with tragedy and fear. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 8/09/11 3:27pm

Paywalls

The Onion Front Page

Fake News, Real Paywall

News isn’t free, even if it’s fake. The Onion announced that they are testing out a new paywall system.

If you live overseas, and read more than five satirical articles a month – time to get out your credit card.

Unless, of course, you are overseas serving the US, in which case read away. Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/21/11 1:28pm

This American Life?

Ira Glass is Ira Glass.

Ira Glass on Onion-Snubbing Pulitzer Board: ‘Co*ksuckers’ and ‘Sh*tfaces’

It would seem America’s satire newspaper-of-choice The Onion‘s recent campaign to receive a (presumably long and overdue) Pulitzer Prize—replete with press from the New York Times, a blog dedicated to the campaign, and co-signs from Arianna Huffingtonm, Tom Hanks, the President of Georgia, and Mario Batali, among others—is continuing to rage forward, ‘rage’ being the operative term in it.  Read More