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They were great when they weren't shackled 'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar' 'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won) I've neve
by dontupvoteme 2y ago
They were great when they weren't shackled
'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar'
'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won)
I've never laughed so hard at headlines
- pants2 2y agoAnd who can forget their famous headline "Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality"
- hyperhello 2y agoStandard Deviation Not Enough for Perverted Statistician
- paulsmith 2y agoThis, this is the GOAT.
- mangosteenjuice 2y agoThe Onion had two events that resulted in a huge drop in writing quality and edginess: OG writers refusing to relocate from NYC to Chicago in 2012 when the HQ was moved, choosing to part ways instead. Then, the remaining writers being called out for the following tweet, somewhat rightly, but being neutered forever after: https://crasstalk.com/2013/02/sorry-former-onion-staffers-calling-a-9-year-old-the-c-word-isnt-funny/ https://crasstalk.com/2013/02/sorry-former-onion-staffers-ca...
- ddingus 2y agoYes, both sad days for what was razor sharp satire.
- Nition 2y agoI don't know any of the context around that tweet, but The Onion has obviously chosen the most innocent, blameless celebrity they could think of to make sure it's a clear joke to everyone, right? Like finding the skinniest person and calling them obese. The writer of that article seems to have still somehow misunderstood and come to the conclusion that The Onion actually hates Quvenzhané Wallis. I wonder if they really don't get it, or if they're just sort of performatively not getting it for the outrage article.
- justin66 2y agoOn the contrary, the context was that the kid was getting a lot of very stupid criticism already. It’s certainly why they attempted the joke. I don’t think anything about that situation was somehow off limits or immune to satire, they just didn’t pull off the joke. It’s not like the kid was likely to have seen the joke, so no worries there. The problem is that when you use language like that and you’re not even funny, you’re operating at the Andrew Dice Clay level of comedy. That should inspire suicidal ideation in any comedian (who isn’t Andrew Dice Clay… I guess…).
- astrange 2y agoThey also seem to think their Diamond Joe Biden character made real Joe Biden too popular, and their self-seriousness about this is making it hard for them to do anything political.
- justin66 2y agoIt seemed to me they were well into the current era of lessened relevance before that stuff happened.
- benstein 2y ago"Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game" is the greatest headline ever written
- unzadunza 2y agoMy vote goes to “Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right V. Wrong’”
- theremin808 2y ago"Area Bassist Fellated"
- swyx 2y agodid you misremember the second one? https://www.theonion.com/black-guy-asks-nation-for-change-1819569703 https://www.theonion.com/black-guy-asks-nation-for-change-18...
- kevinmchugh 2y agoThey did not. The one you linked is from March 2008. https://www.theonion.com/black-man-given-nations-worst-job-1819570341 https://www.theonion.com/black-man-given-nations-worst-job-1...