Friday Funny

This is a strange one.

March 16, 2018 - YouTube

The Onion burns Elon Musk in a totally fake news story (really) about a bad day for the billionaire.

March 16, 2018 - The Onion

This might be one of those uncomfortable laughs.

February 23, 2018 - xkcd

In this fake, satirical article, The Onion imagines that the MTA has finally had enough complaints about service failures and overcrowding on the New York subway. Vulgarities ensue.

February 16, 2018 - The Onion

The Onion is back at it again, this time satirizing society's interest in self-driving cars with a new concept: the carless driver.

February 2, 2018 - The Onion

A CityLab article surveys Twitter for the seven stages of Amazon grief.

January 19, 2018 - CityLab

Not everything went according to plan in a perfectly planned demolition even in Atlanta over the weekend.

November 24, 2017 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Onion is probably trolling the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration more than bike riders with this one.

November 17, 2017 - The Onion

The lengths to which cities have gone, or will go, in their bids to attract the second headquarters for Amazon has produced a cottage industry of media coverage. Satire from The Onion follows that trail to its most explosive of possible ends.

November 17, 2017 - The Onion

OK, the officer said it was "screaming" a song that got a driver near Montreal in trouble.

November 3, 2017 - CTV News Montreal

The Onion is satire, so we'll never know if Jeff Bezos felt sorry for any of the cities wasting time and money on a pitch to win Amazon's second headquarters.

October 27, 2017 - The Onion

You know the bumper sticker. It's the one that begins with the words "How's My Driving?" and ends with a 1-800 number.

October 20, 2017 - The Onion

Building Design (BD) a British architecture publication, has announced the "winner" of the competition to decide the ugliest new building of the year.

September 8, 2017 - Building Design

Finally, we know where Internet trolls come from—no, not the basements of parents' houses.

August 25, 2017 - Wired

A new voice in the wilderness of YouTube: the War on Cars.

August 11, 2017 - CityLab

The Onion's always-sardonic "American Voices" feature allows some totally fake people to respond to Honolulu's recent decision to make it illegal to text while crossing the street on foot.

August 4, 2017 - The Onion

Actually-fake-news site The Onion got a few burns on the world of planning this week. One article satirized the nation's inaction over the state of its infrastructure. The other hit the Brookings Institute where it hurts: the policy recommendations.

July 21, 2017 - The Onion

Satirical news site The Onion lambastes (in familiar fashion) the gig economy—i.e., the euphemism applied to the side jobs and revenue sources offered by transportation network companies like Uber and short-term rental companies like Airbnb.

June 30, 2017 - The Onion

If a new online cartoon for The New Yorker were a real calendar, we'd expect it would sell more copies than Playgirl and find itself spread across dart boards in all five boroughs.

June 16, 2017 - The New Yorker

A totally fake news story from the fake news site The Onion reports the fake news that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is leading an effort to demolish Donald Trump's boyhood home.

June 2, 2017 - The Onion