I don't think I've ever laughed at a Borowitz Report headline. In all fairness to him, the New Yorker (otherwise my favorite magazine) is kind of a stupid plac

I don't think I've ever laughed at a Borowitz Report headline. In all fairness to him, the New Yorker (otherwise my favorite magazine) is kind of a stupid place for things like this. Part of what makes The Onion so funny is how ruthless they are at playing as a straight news source. The New Yorker doesn't have any pretense as a straight news source, so there's just no surprise. So you know it's a joke before you get to the punchline. I don't know, or maybe he's just not funny.