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.
Borowitz is just not funny.
I can't tell if this is actual news or an Onion-like parody.
It is a joke. The Borowitz Report features current events satire pieces, such as Kim Jong-Un moving his Transformers collection to the border[1]