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6 unusual facts about The Onion


Christian Norberg-Schulz

The Onion, a fictional and satirical "newspaper", has featured Ask the Concept of Phenomenology in Architecture as developed by Christian Norberg-Schulz, a parody of an advice column.

Dave Kirwan

He was a reporter with NBC's national WeatherPlus network based out of New York City and weather anchor for satirical website The Onion.

David Cordani

In 2012, David Cordani was lampooned (using his real name) in an article by The Onion, in which Cigna's infamous claim denial history was the subject of the joke.

Deb Amlen

She is on the team that constructs the American Values Club crossword (formerly The Onion A.V. Club crossword), edited by Ben Tausig, and is the "X Games" columnist for BUST Magazine.

Systems analyst

The American humor publication The Onion consistently features a systems analyst on its (fake) panel of "American Voices," a spoof of man-on-the-street journalism.

Ward Sutton

He also illustrates and writes a cartoon for The Onion under the pseudonym of 'Kelly', depicting the far-fetched Republican and Fundamentalist Christian one-panels of a middle-aged cartoonist.


Black Twitter

Manjoo referred to the hashtags the black community uses as "blacktags," citing Baratunde Thurston, then of The Onion, who argued that blacktags are a version of the dozens.

Elliott Francis

Coincidentally, he's played the role of a television news reporter or anchor on more than a half dozen television shows including, The Practice, Once and Again, and The Agency and on the satirical Onion News Network.

OnTen

Rounding out the cast is Saman Arbabi, who, during the first season also acted as the show's host and The Onion-style fake news anchor.

The Rejection Show

The Rejection Show has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New York Times, The Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, The Onion, ABC News, CBS News Sunday Morning, NPR, XM Satellite Radio, and in international papers around the globe.

Upworthy

Upworthy is a website for viral content started in March 2012 by Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn, and Peter Koechley, the former managing editor of The Onion.


see also

Chicago Sketch Fest

In addition to the events, writing workshops were added, including Joe Garden- head writer from the Onion, and John Vorhaus-author of "The Comic Toolbox".

Hackett Catholic Central High School

Megan Ganz ('02): Writer on the NBC series Community and a former editor of The Onion.

Jack Szwergold

Szwergold convinced The Onion Editor and Publisher Scott Dikkers that a Web site would increase readership, and The Onions site launched in May 1996.

Vidalia onion

The 1999 album Oh! The Grandeur, by American musician Andrew Bird, includes a song called 'Vidalia', an ode to the onion in question.