Area Woman Mourns Ironic Death: Remembering The Onion’s newspaper days
by Before there was the viral video, before the Internet meme, before the Tweet and ReTweet, the Huffington Post and the Colbert Bump, there was The …
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Big names win big in Webby Awards
by The Golden Globes may be criticized year-in and year-out for skewing nominations and awards to the hottest celebrities, but what about the Webbys? For all …
Which came first: The Onion’s satire of student athletes who rape, or the real thing?
Trick question. This is a segment from Onion SportsDome that aired on Comedy Central in 2011. As friend of the site Krister Johnson, who worked on …
The Onion’s Oscar Live-Tweet Fail Reminds Us That Thing X Exists, Funny Remains
Did you hear the one about the satirical publication that live-Tweeted a joke on Oscars night that won hundreds of favorites and ReTweets, only to …
Amazon Studios announces slate of comedy pilots for 2013
Amazon Studios announced six new orders for comedy pilots to head into production for 2013. Amazon.com began soliciting original pitches for comedy series for the first …
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Comedy Headlines for 10/29/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… G4 announced late Friday that it would cancel its most popular live programming, Attack of the Show, at …
The Onion’s NYC office auction/sell-off
Look. I know this isn’t the actual table. But still. The Onion’s editorial staff is facing a move this spring to Chicago to meet up …
Onion News Network writers on the blurry line between ridiculously real TV news and IFC parody
One of the more fascinating features of IFC’s Onion News Network is how this fake parody of TV news relies heavily on people with real experience as …
The Onion’s publisher emeritus weighs in on proposed move to The Yukon (Chicago)
If you haven’t yet heard, The Onion‘s corporate executives want to move the editorial staff from New York City to Chicago — where the executives …
The Onion testing new online paywall, but still free for Americans
The Onion‘s website, https://www.theonion.com, has begun testing a new system that charges for accessing more than five pages per month online. But wait! It doesn’t …