James!: They should make their own Onion. They could call it the American Thinker.

Of course, that works. In the same way that The Onion has nothing to do with actual onions.

A bit obscure, perhaps. Wouldn't you say?

CapnBlues: Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

oh my god. my soul hurts from watching that. i don't even believe in a soul, and mine hurts from viewing that. did conservatives really think that was funny??? Are they aware that you can't just repeat your lame talking points in a sarcastic tone of voice and expect that to be a joke?

I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

TV's Vinnie: Because conservatives continue to forget to make a joke. That's why.

You don't have to make a joke when you ARE a joke.

I hope The Onion responds to this...

Stop acting like a bunch of idiots instead of crying about how people point out how you are a bunch of idiots.

Jesus, are right wingers ever capable of personal responsibility?

Dennis Miller hasn't been funny in ages.

Now, P.J. O'Rourke, he's funny...although his last book lost a step, sadly.

Well, I would guess it has something to do with shiat, piss, fart and Ni**er jokes not really appealing to most people.

Right-wing humor is the kind of things school bullies laugh at. See: pretty much any joke told by George W. Bush, or nicknames he gave to underlings.

They should allow Breitbart to write an article for them. Now that's comedy!

my favorite Onion Obama headline:

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change (new window)

ELKAY:

I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

The answer is out there... (new window)

actually i see The Onion article as more of a shot at left-wingers who are criticizing Mitt Romney for living in a huge mansion. The Onion is genius and it seems to take shots at both sides evenly, just conservatives have more of a stick up their ass and tend to get more offended while most other people can just laugh it off.

I dunno, I thought the "Marxists' Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Communism Doesn't Work" article was pretty damn funny.

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

Oh, I know that show! Saturday Night Live, it's called, right?

BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

No, it's still on TV, called Fox News.

Dimensio: I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

It's beyond not-funny, though. It's... it's like watching that little kid who was doped up from being at the dentist's office. "Is this real life???" I laugh at it, only because it's so very pathetic. They have no idea how divorced from reality they are.

WizardofToast: The Onion actually makes fun of Obama and the Democrats plenty of times. It's just that when Republicans are made fun of that right-wing bloggers get fussy.


Righties are always getting their panties into a twist. i guess they are sensitive people, unless there are some dollars to steal (wall stroke, et al.), then they get hard as*ed real quick. a strange bunch.

BKITU: ELKAY: I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

It's actually part of teh birferz. The "or whoever he is" is an oh-so-clever way not to say "Barry Soetoro."

Barack Hussein "Barry 'Ingrid `Senator Vreenak` Edvardson' Soetoro" Obama.

WI241TH: It's a classic case of misdirection, a comedic attempt to distract voters from Obama's lifestyle, including lavish Halloween parties thrown by Hollywood elite and taking money-sucking vacations on our dime.

I don't even know how to respond to this...

You could point out his hypocrisy regarding class by asking "Which is it; are the rich innocent successes being hounded by the envy of bitter failures, or are Hollywood elites frittering away our national wealth on lavish parties?"

You could get personal, attacking his initial reason for creating Bug Hollywood by saying, "And yet your scripts still suck."

You could ask him "Ok; what do you think would be a suitably humble way to make kids forget for a few hours that they may never see their parents alive again?"

If you wanted to be really dismissive, you could give him a good long look and say, "wow, you look tired".

The preferred response for the sake of everyone's sanity, however, would of course be to roll your eyes, slowly wank a giant invisible cock towards his person and say, loudly and obnoxiously, "Come OOOOONNNN."

Dimensio: BunkoSquad: Didn't they try to make a right-wing comedy TV show? And didn't it get cancelled before it came back from its first commercial break?

This sketch from the show should explain why the show failed. I am in agreement with the intended sentiment of the sketch, yet I cannot deny that the sketch is not humourous due to a lack of subtlety and an extension of the intended joke for far longer than was necessary.

What I don't get about that sketch is that it features a guy publicly brandishing a handgun who's constantly threatening to kill people with it, not "sport shooting" or "hunting" - the absurdity of the signs notwithstanding, does that not argue *for* gun control? Are we really expected to not think that the real joke is that that guy has a gun in the first place?

CapnBlues: Dimensio: I have viewed only one other segment from that show. It also related to firearms regulation. It also was not funny.

It's beyond not-funny, though. It's... it's like watching that little kid who was doped up from being at the dentist's office. "Is this real life???" I laugh at it, only because it's so very pathetic. They have no idea how divorced from reality they are.

i should add here that no liberal believes that just putting up a "gun-free zone" sign will actually prevent crimes. that's the fantasy that the bit is making fun of.

BKITU: ELKAY: I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

It's actually part of teh birferz. The "or whoever he is" is an oh-so-clever way not to say "Barry Soetoro."

That's actually even funnier than anything I thought it could be, conservatives can be so unintentionally funny.

Great comments:

dcase137p · 19 hours ago
once again, is anybody REALLY surprised by this?

'The Onion', not regarded a serious news outfit anyway, is an inner city-centric parody paper that appeals to the kool aid crowd. That they occasionally tweak them is due to their eminnent 'tweakability'; the progressives are so anal they are easy to parody. Lockstep thought does that to a person.

So 'The Onion' is pro Obama. As the sun rises in the East...

Libs are easy to parody, but we continually fail to parody them. What does this tell us?

discgolfguru: ultraholland: Republicans are inherently humorless.

Exhibit A:
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Alternatively, people who lose their sense of humour are more likely to become Republicans.

Diogenes: Breitbart, the whiny little biatches of the conservative chattering class.

Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

CONservatism is a form of Mental Illness.

something about them seems inhuman. its as if their brains didn't fully develop. i don't mean intellectually, but the thing that makes us Human is missing or damaged in the CONservative/Republican brain.

ELKAY: I was reading the comments section below the article and found this gem.

"The Leftist wing of the American population is so desperate to keep their dream alive they just can't bring themselves to live up to their proudly stated principles if those principles lead them to criticize Obama, or whoever he is. Journalists practicing journalism would have to criticize Obama, or whoever he is, so these journalists abandon journalism. Comedians known for ridiculing the arrogantly powerful turn instead to ridiculing the earnest criticizers of arrogant power since the seat of that arrogant power is Obama, or whoever he is. The dream they are all trying so hard to keep alive is that of a collectivist utopia. Obama, or whoever he is, will be the one to lead us there if only we would love him enough."


I know I'm probably reading this incorrectly but it makes me happy to think that there's some contingent of people out there who thinks Obama is not Obama. When I read this it makes me think of an invasion of the body snatchers type scenario. Really, it's no crazier than the birther's beliefs.

Thiswould be my reply to the precious snowflake from the comments section who is trying SO HARD to not let slip with "whatever he is"...



And yes. It was a gem.

ciberido: Diogenes: Breitbart, the whiny little biatches of the conservative chattering class.

Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

Since when?

ciberido: Silly poster, you were fooled. This article was an Onion piece spoofing conservatives. Real conservatives aren't that vapid and whiny.

*snicker*

*snort*

*PPPPPFFFT*

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I'd wager that it's because N!&&ER jokes, and jokes about killing gays and those gays going to hell for wanting equal rights aren't funny.

again, conservative humor comes down to forced puns and name-calling.

"..Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun!
And their shenanigans are cruel and tragic...
Which... makes them not really shenanigans at all!"

/Evil shenanigans!

Diogenes: When a GOP Congressman believes the Onion's Abortionplex article, I think we can safely assume right wingers "don't get it."

No, that's when laws get made disallowing The Onion to create satire without ahuge THIS IS NOT REAL watermarked on every page.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Don't expect entertainment media to do what right-wingers want until right-wingers come up with a single show that doesn't suck donkey balls. Isn't that how your precious free market works? If your ideas aren't being sold, it's because nobody is willing to buy them.

You have to keep in mind that they don't really want a free market. They want a market that benefits them and only them.

CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

His new act seems more like an hour of telling people to get off his lawn, and how much better life must have been when idols like Frank Sinatra were young. In other words, your typically old ex-lefty boomer bullshiat.

crab66: LouDobbsAwaaaay: Don't expect entertainment media to do what right-wingers want until right-wingers come up with a single show that doesn't suck donkey balls. Isn't that how your precious free market works? If your ideas aren't being sold, it's because nobody is willing to buy them.

You have to keep in mind that they don't really want a free market. They want a market that benefits them and only them.

So... Capitalists.

Heron: CapnBlues: Conservative "humor" seems to consist largely of name-calling and really-stretching-it puns. When that becomes the primary content of The Onion, then the conservatives might have a chance.

/Also whatever it is that Dennis Miller does. Hyper-referential rapid-fire hate diatribes?

His new act seems more like an hour of telling people to get off his lawn, and how much better life must have been when idols like Frank Sinatra were young. In other words, your typically old ex-lefty boomer bullshiat.

i've seen him on the O'Really Factor once or twice. inevitably, he just starts spewing hatred and resentment in every direction. It's sickening.

FunkyBlue: No, that's when laws get made disallowing The Onion to create satire without ahuge THIS IS NOT REAL watermarked on every page.

No because that would sink Fox News and most other right-wing media outlets.


Can't have that.