The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 14

The Onion Complete News Archives

by The Onion (Editor), Robert D. Siegel

All The News That’s Fit to Reprint

Get ready for another year of award-winning journalism from The Onion , America’s Finest News Source. The Onion Ad Complete News Archives, Volume 14 collects every article that The Onion published between November 2001 and October 2002, including opinion pieces, horoscopes, and your favorite columns from all of the Onion regulars.

The Onion Ad Complete News Archives, Volume 14 is packed with material no longer available online or anywhere else. Look for a new volume every year.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Collections, Comedy

272 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2003

About the author

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Reviews

[Jimyanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. What is particularly amazing about this is that not only do they fill an entire book with spot-on parodies of headlines, but in most cases, they actually write the article that goes with the headlines, and remain just as spot-on in their parodies. (In a few cases, all we see is headlines with fake "see story on page xx" tags.) My only complaint is with the "Ask A (fill in the blank)" repeating feature, which spoofs advice columns by having standard, run-of the mill advice column questions directed to some completely random "columnist" (Third Party Candidate, Raymond Carver, A High School Student Who Didn't Do The Required Reading, Someone Who Insists On Dominating the Conversation, etc) who makes no effort whatsoever to actually answer the questions, but simply goes off on their own rant. This was just barely amusing the first time, but did not bear repeating a second time, much less in over a half-dozen iterations. It would have been more amusing if the "columnist" actually made vague hand-waving gestures at responding to the questions, but somehow managed to drag their own screed into each answer; the total and complete disconnect was a gag that got old very quickly. Nor did I find the "columns" by "Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor for Midstate Office Supply" who talks in gang-slang as if "accounts receivable" was his "turf" to bear repeating as often as it was used; it was funny enough once or twice, but not as a regular feature.

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is some of the wittiest writing I've ever come across.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's great drinking music and there's great drinking reading.

[Belle Meade School]

818.607

[Benjamin Plume · Rating 4 out of 5]

These never stop making me laugh.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny. Funny funny.

[Helga · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to have in your bathroom.