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
'Little Boy Heroically Shoots, Mutilates Burglar'
'Black Man given Nation's worst job' (After Obama won)
I've never laughed so hard at headlines
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-ca...
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.
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…).
https://www.theonion.com/black-man-given-nations-worst-job-1...