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California
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Sublime satire. Hilarious, absurd, ridiculous news stories that never fail to amuse. Much of the site's content is laugh-out-loud funny. Really well-observed parodies of anything and everything related to current events, pop culture, and all kinds of people: ordinary, famous and infamous.

As excellent as the print material is, the videos are even funnier. The Onion News Network with its faux news stories and offshoot current affairs programming, the Today Now! Segments skewering morning shows, and most recently the TMZ-style gossip show spoof are all perfectly executed and genuinely, consistently funny.

Highly recommended for comedy connoisseurs.

Date of experience: May 13, 2016
TW
30 reviews
235 helpful votes
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I love reading the "news" on the Onion. I love it when news articles from the Onion show up on the google news feed and freak people out. (I have to admit I was one such "freaked out" person by an Onion article showing up on google news once.)

Date of experience: August 4, 2010
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst Ever, Completely Biased to their POV's easily to identify, you can tell yourself When they are phony.

Hahahah, I gues they agree in a society where you are born the wrong gender and that you can cut your $#*!s off!

Date of experience: February 10, 2023
California
10 reviews
53 helpful votes
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The Onion's 5-year-old movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt*******/

It's quirky and fast-paced. Especially funny to me because of being filmed in 2003 and shelved until 2008. Delightful because the jokes only got funnier while aging. An honorable mention is Rodney Dangerfield being in this movie, released 4 years after his passing. To the best of my knowledge, theonion, com doesn't have any references to their own movie, which also cracks me up.

Overall, not any individual hard-hitting spectacular jokes or bits, but a hilarious variety show (with a big emphasis on... variety).

Date of experience: August 13, 2008
India
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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This is a really good satire news site. I love the quality of the videos and the real hardwork gone into scripting the news and videos. The audio channel is also good. They take the real news and questions the relevence of the content as NEWS. They also poke fun at the lifestyle of people and the depths to which reporting has fallen. Thanks onion.com for making me laugh and think. I would rather have just onion.com for sensitive reporting than the sensational news of other regular news channels.

Date of experience: March 15, 2010
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Always a good laugh
November 2, 2018

I absolutely adore this site! Never fails to crack me up! Sometimes its so convincing that it scary, but you gotta know how to tell fake news apart.

Date of experience: October 31, 2018
11 reviews
64 helpful votes
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Very funny fake news magazine - This site is consistently hilarious. I see The Onion as an edgier online version of Weekend Update on SNL. Headlines like: "Pizza Hut's New Pizza Lover's Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas"

Date of experience: May 5, 2007
Switzerland
5 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Too funny to read but the stories aren't real. Gives a refreshing laugh though. I recommend the site for humor.

Date of experience: October 6, 2012
Washington
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Hilarious site with some pretty awesome content. Great site to go for if you're looking for a good laugh!

Date of experience: April 19, 2011
California
35 reviews
137 helpful votes
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Funny website which I found here on sitejabber. Hilarious. Now that i found it I am reading it almost daily. Go check it out. Nothing better than fake news.

Date of experience: August 19, 2009

Overview

The Onion has a rating of 4.8 stars from 29 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with The Onion most frequently mention and fake news. The Onion ranks 2nd among Funny sites.