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Mar 13, 2015

The Onion’s Joe Biden Is Pissed About D.C. Legalizing Marijuana

This is just a great Onion article.

Jan 18, 2013

Joe Biden Tweets Question To The Onion’s Joe Biden

Worlds collided when actual Vice President Joe Biden had a question for The Onion’s Joe Biden.

Jan 18, 2013

Read Excerpts From Joe Biden’s Unauthorized Autobiography

The Onion is publishing Vice President Joe Biden’s autobiography, and we’ve got some excerpts.

Mar 22, 2012

The Onion Ceases Distribution in D.C.

The Onion has ceased distributing in D.C. No really, it has. Seriously.

Sep 29, 2011

The Onion’s Jokes About Gunfire in Capitol Fall Flat in D.C.

This morning, many Washingtonians were pretty surprised to get some big, breaking news from The Onion’s Twitter feed.

Apr 09, 2010

The Onion to Shutter its D.C. A.V. Club

Satirical newspaper The Onion plans to scale back its presence in Washington, D.C. after Friday, shutting down the web version of the localized A.V. Club and significantly scaling back its local coverage in the print edition. In an email to The Onion’s cadre of D.C. freelancers Thursday, outgoing local editor Matthew Borlik said that the print edition of the paper will continue to hit newsstands every Thursday in the D.C. area, featuring Onion and…

Oct 20, 2009

Turn That Frown Upside Down, Redskins Fans

It may be dark, dark days for those loyal to the Washington Redskins, but those with glass half-full attitudes will recognize this as an opening for a golden age of ‘Skins-related self-deprecating humor. The product on the field might be downright unwatchable, but at least we’ve stumbled upon: a) the subsequent parade of funny homemade T-shirts, b) the quintessential Zorn-face, and of course c) one of the most ridiculously hilarious stories in NFL history: the…

Nov 30, 2007

The Onion: D.C. AIDS Epidemic is Hilarious

The Onion’s regular American Voices segment takes on the D.C. HIV/AIDS epidemic today, proving once again that there is no holy mad cow disease too sacred for America’s Finest News Source….

Jun 29, 2007

Go Home Already: Last Words

>> “The D.C. inspector general’s office has confiscated computers from the offices of the National Capital Revitalization Corp., the quasi-public agency that develops District land in low-income areas and that the city plans to abolish by September.” [WaPo] >> One of the victims of the Unifest crash may have died. [City Desk] >> “Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered…

May 04, 2007

The Onion Jump Off at the Black Cat

Last night, satirical D.C. newcomers The Onion threw themselves a little D.C. fete to celebrate their recent local launch. Editor Joe Garden prefaced his welcoming remarks by relating that he had, on the previous evening, attended an event with “people from… Reuters and Bloomberg News” but that he was much happier spending his time with a few hundred of his new friends at the Black Cat. Well, of course he is! We all know what…

 
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