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Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion

the onion todd hanson carol kolb robert d. siegel

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"The Onion is laugh-out-loud, go-tell-your-friends, get-angry-you-didn't-think-of-it funny."
-Conan O'Brien

"Outside of maybe Dario Fo, an Italian who few are sure exists, the Onion people make the most consistently perfect and excoriating social commentary we currently have. But will those Nobel bastards honor them, too? Only God, our merciless and just God, knows."
-Dave Eggers

"The funniest publication in the United States."
-The New Yorker

"This publication is tasteless and destructive to our shared values. Read it for yourself and you'll see what I mean. Seriously, what else could make me laugh-much less laugh uproariously-while being offended week after week after week?"
-Al Gore

"The Onion is the funniest thing in news since Dan Rather's spooky stare."
-Matt Groening

"Brutal satire that rushes into the far reaches of race, class, sexuality, and culture where many publications-and critics-fear to tread."
-Chicago Tribune

"The Onion, unlike any other entity in our media culture, offers a refreshingly honest look at our complicated life."
-Ken Burns

174 pages, Paperback

First published September 4,2001

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Format
174 pages, Paperback
Published
September 4, 2001 by Three Rivers Press
ISBN
9780609808344
ASIN
0609808346
Language
English

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The satirical newspaper The Onion was founded in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Originally a weekly humor print publication targeting a local student population, The Onion is today a booming news organization known as America's Finest News Source.

The launch of TheOnion.com in 1996 expanded its signature brand of satire to a national and international audience. Online expansion opened doors to growth in a multitude of areas. The company has become an omnipotent news empire, reaching millions of fans through print, broadcast, radio, mobile apps, books, and, in January 2011, two new television shows on the Independent Film Channel and Comedy Central. The website continues to be the nucleus of all The Onion does, described by TIME magazine as “the funniest site on the Internet.”

TheOnion.com now averages 40 million page views and roughly 7.5 million unique visitors per month. The Onion's digital strategy has resulted in an enormous and dedicated fan base. The newspaper's content is delivered constantly, Tweeted at optimum times and posted on Facebook during high-traffic periods. Subsequently, users can easily embed, share, or post articles and videos to their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. As a result, the Onion's fans take an active role in the viral nature of the content. Within minutes of posting an article or video, the content materializes across a number of platforms.

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tokomata
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April 17,2025
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I can't exactly remember when I started reading the Onion, but hardly a day goes by without my checking in on it. It's 'America'sFinest News Source' according to their own press, and I have to tell you... they might be right. They attack popular issues as frequently as they attack meaningless crap and generally poke fun at the media to hilarious effect. Be forewarned though - if you have no sense of humor, if you hate profanity, if the idea of a retired machinist making up horoscopes doesn't sound like it's for you, put it down. Or don't - you're probably the market they're targeting to offend.
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PostPunkTea
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April 17,2025
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Like the other Onion books, this is one to browse rather than read straight through. Its parody is kind of like some of George Carlin's humor; it leads the reader to take a second look at some things in life that he/she may not have thought much about and see how weird or ridiculous they are. God diagnosed with bipolar disorder? That would explain a lot... things like that.
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April 17,2025
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My favorite parts are the headlines, point/counterpoint, and the 'interviews.' Sometimes, they really could have left out the stories and just had the headlines, and it would have been just as funny.
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April 17,2025
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Somewhere on my mental top five list of cool things about living in Madison, Wisconsin, would be the piles of Onions that would appear for free on a weekly basis throughout the city. Along with the city's other free paper, The Ithsmus, it was the best newspaper in Madison.

Now that I live in provincial exile, I have to purchase past Onions in book form. Worth it. At its best, The Onion is subversive and funny. At it's worst, it's in extremely poor taste (but still pretty funny).
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