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HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

What is your favorite sketch by "The Onion", aka "Onion News Network"?

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What is your favorite sketch by "The Onion", aka "Onion News Network"?

HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago
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    I’m just gonna leave this here with no further content…

    “Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work”

    • anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml
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      to this day I still occasionally mutter “it never ends, this shit…”

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    Supreme Court: Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

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    Prague’s Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

    And a ‘from-16-years-back’ broadside at the US approaching November:

    ‘No Values Voters’ Search For Most Evil Candidate

    • anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml
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      honorable mention to New Marijuana Study Confirms Everyone Knows You’re High And You Will Be Stoned Forever

      because when this was originally uploaded on their website it would play a slightly different version every time you opened the page. So you’d laugh and show your friends, so then even if your (allegedly) stoner ass hadn’t gotten tripped out the first time, while they’re watching it and laughing you’d start sweating.

      Second honorable mention to “Is The Government Spying on Schizophrenics Enough?” But I’m honestly still not sure that one’s totally okay, even if I still laugh every single time I watch it. I’m not that type of mentally ill but have had people close to me who struggle enough with it and the very nature of the disorder is such that even though I laugh I’ve always at the same time felt it treads very much on the line.

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    The “post office box” sketch:

    New Live Poll Let’s Pundits Pander to Voters in Realtime

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      I love this one. I sometimes fit “post office box” into sentences just to say it the way Duncan does.

      Side note, I saw Duncan’s actor in an episode of Always Sunny a few years ago and it was lovely seeing him. He’s probably my favorite from ONN. The segment about Nigeria where he accidentally reads about Niger is a phenomenal use of visual comedy

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    Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex

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    Oldie but a goldie; Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

    It’s just so amazingly on point

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    I like the Taliban guy telling the 911 conspiracy guy that 911 was real.

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    You’re pronk of order!

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    Missing Teen’s Friends Go On Tv To Plead For Her Release, Gossip About Ugly Classmates

    or

    Expert Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters

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    These comments are proof that The Onion peaked like 15 years ago. They just haven’t been as funny since then.

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      Weirdly, this comment is a little hasty but only because of recent developments. ONN presumably didn’t make enough money so it was canceled, thus they couldn’t keep doing sketches like that. Now that The Onion has bought itself from its corporate owners, ONN is said to be returning. If the new ONN sucks this comment will be accurate though.

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    HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About": https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8?si=wHKW3AJSuDnGDRq9

  • gerbler@lemmy.world
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    Without a doubt:

    Situation in Nigeria seems pretty complex

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    The MacBook Wheel. Imagine how disastrous this product would be if it actually happened.

    Not to mention that was the first time I discovered the Onion.

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      Honestly same I didn’t know who was the onion

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    Concentric Circles Emanating from Glowing Red Dot

  • General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    ONN Exclusive: One-on-One Interview with God https://youtu.be/Vo1IwmaUz90?feature=shared

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