Quick: Who's wackier, Vice President Joe Biden or The Onion's depiction of Vice President Joe Biden? As regular readers of "America's Finest News Source" know, Biden has long been a figure of fun, but lately, in real life, Biden has started to resemble his Onion alter-ego.
Two years ago, The Onion dreamed up a scenario in which Justin Bieber is revealed to be a 51-year-old pedophile who crafted a lovable teen heart throb persona to gain access to underage girls. It was the sort of dark, absurdist humor the satirical newspaper thrives at, but no one thought it would actually sort of come true.
Using the treasure trove of readership data that are Bitly links, Forbes' Jon Bruner has created an interactive map of the news preferences of online readers that mediaphiles like us are sure to scour over.
The Onion is in the midst of the biggest upheaval in the newspaper's 24-year history.
Meet John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it.
They both are making the same point tying his death to American decline
The Onion tweets turn out to just be a prelude to an unfunny fictional news brief
In an interview with Car and Driver, he recounts his bare-chested Onion alter-ego
The satirical news source has brought in Tom Hanks and Arianna Huffington to lobby
A comedy tiff over who coined,"Afterbirthers demand to see Obama's placenta"
The Webby Award nominees were announced today
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