Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion

Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion
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Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion ant farm for ALL BUY BEST BLACK FRIDAY 2011 SALES... “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.../ Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion / ant farm Dave Eggers, Matt Groening, Ken Burns, and Conan O'Brien agree: The Onion, that scrappy mag ruthlessly satirizing madcap modern life and earnest newspaper journalism, is funnier than reality. Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion carries on the proud, shameless tradition of Our Dumb Century, which won the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. If a real, dumb newspaper wrote a feature story about hell, you bet its headline would be the boosterish one imagined by the maniacs at the Onion: "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell." When one reads in this book the headline "Arabs, Israelis Sign 'Screw Peace' Accord," one wonders whether The Onion has not, alas, anticipated the news. Their style of yuks is not for softies: the headline "Loved Ones Recall Local Man's Cowardly Battle with Cancer" may not strike the funny bone of the recently bereaved, but it's a dead-on parody of the sort of sentimental slop that cops major journalism awards in our dumb news era. If you can laugh at the preposterous world around you, and muster the courage to tear down without building up, this book is for you. .../ Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion / ant farm Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion ant farm Special for Best Deals Shopping for BLACK FRIDAY 2011 Customer Review : Great, but not excellent : Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion There has, on occasion, been criticism leveled at American humour from us Brits over the pond on the grounds that the Us has no grasp of irony. Well, the Onion firmly blows that idea out of the water. Gut-wrenchingly funny, dark as the midnight sky and sharp as a surgeons scalpel I have yet to come over a book so packed with top level merriment. What verily sets the Onion apart from all other satirical publications is the incisiveness of its observational comedy: "World Death Rate Steady at 100 percent"; "Aspirin Taken Daily With Bottle Of Bourbon Reduces Awareness Of Heart Attacks". The point-blank absurdity of humanity is exposed again and again with a ability and consistency unsurpassed. The Onion is more than able to cut open the deepest, most banal and ridiculous behaviour of our species and leave the entrails hanging out on display for all to see. "Students put in order Breasts For Increased Springtime Display". See? In this respect it stands alone: I am a fan of both The Simpsons and Larry Sanders Tv shows but this book takes satire to a new level. For those readers not accustomed with Us tabloid-style newspaper reporting some feature styles may be unfamiliar......but what the hell. Buy it anyway. In more enlightened moments I like to think that the human race will save itself from destruction only by eschewing all original news journalism over the globe in favour of this: the most media reporting ever committed to print. "New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks". Sheer genius.

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