You'd better avoid that "flat stale" Jonathan Swift, then! Also Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, and ... you know what? Most people disagree with you.
I used to read the onion, but I found its brand of satire to only occassionally be clever and funny, and usually very, very dumb.-A friend and I used to discuss this a few years ago. The jokes seem to sound sorta like this "THEY think it makes sense for a person to have two cars. Maybe they think we should eat with two forks at the same time, too." And then people laugh for some reason; apparently believing that the feeble analogy hides some kind of clever irony. I usually hate humor that revolves around politics, social issues, and civil rights. It's flat or stale or something.
Tom Lehrer said this after Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize: "It was at that moment that satire died. There was nothing more to say after that."-Truth often IS stranger than fiction.
I think real news lost its credibility when Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California, and the Onion didn't make anything up. They just printed the full story: Muscleman becomes governor of California
You'd better avoid that "flat stale" Jonathan Swift, then! Also Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, and ... you know what? Most people disagree with you.
I used to read the onion, but I found its brand of satire to only occassionally be clever and funny, and usually very, very dumb.-A friend and I used to discuss this a few years ago. The jokes seem to sound sorta like this "THEY think it makes sense for a person to have two cars. Maybe they think we should eat with two forks at the same time, too." And then people laugh for some reason; apparently believing that the feeble analogy hides some kind of clever irony. I usually hate humor that revolves around politics, social issues, and civil rights. It's flat or stale or something.
Tom Lehrer said this after Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize: "It was at that moment that satire died. There was nothing more to say after that."-Truth often IS stranger than fiction.
Tough call.
I think real news lost its credibility when Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California, and the Onion didn't make anything up. They just printed the full story: Muscleman becomes governor of California
I enjoy reading the Onion.It sure is ridiculous