28 Facts About The Onion

The Onion is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29,1988 in Madison, Wisconsin.

In 2013, The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.

The Onion previously ran ClickHole, a satirical website founded in 2014 which parodies clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy, before ClickHole was acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020.

Sometime after The Onion appeared online in 1996, the publication was threatened with a lawsuit from Janet Jackson because of the article "Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson".

In June 2000, writers and editors of The Onion participated in Comedy Central panel discussion moderated by Jeff Greenfield titled "The State of The Onion" during the "Toyota Comedy Festival 2000".

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On September 27,2001, The Onion debuted its New York City print edition with an issue focused on the September 11 attacks.

In November 2002, a humorous op-ed piece in The Onion that was satirically bylined by filmmaker Michael Bay titled "Those Chechen Rebels Stole My Idea" was removed from the site without explanation.

In 2003, The Onion was purchased by David Schafer, who had previously managed the $2.

In 2005, The Onion moved its New York City offices from its initial Chelsea location to downtown on Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.

In 2006, The Onion launched a YouTube channel, which was structured as a parody of modern American television news programs.

In September 2011, it was announced that The Onion would move its entire editorial operation to Chicago by the summer of 2012.

The Onion has always thrived on the youngest, greenest people.

In 2013, The Onion received an email from Michael Cohen claiming that an article published about Donald Trump was defamation, and demanded that it be removed with an apology.

In June 2014, The Onion launched the spinoff website ClickHole, which satirizes and parodies so-called "clickbait" websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy that capitalize on viral content to drive traffic.

In January 2017, The Onion partnered with Lionsgate Films and production company Serious Business to develop multiple film projects.

At its peak, The Onion had a print circulation of about 500,000 while the publication's websites brought in more than 10 million unique monthly visitors.

Since the first publication of Our Dumb Century in 1999, The Onion has produced various books that often compile already produced material into collected volumes.

In January 2011, The Onion launched two TV shows on cable networks: Onion SportsDome which premiered January 11 on Comedy Central, and the Onion News Network which premiered January 21 on Independent Film Channel.

In 2008, The Onion launched a series of YouTube videos produced by its 'Onion Digital Studios' division, funded in part by a grant from YouTube and exclusive to the site.

On February 5,2018, The Onion published its first podcast, titled A Very Fatal Murder.

On January 16,2020, The Onion expanded its podcast formula to include The Topical, a news podcast which parodies the style and format of NPR drive-time news broadcasts.

Emmett Rensin claimed The Onion is an important if unintentional fomenter of Marxist thought in America:.

In September 2005, the assistant counsel to President George W Bush, Grant M Dixton, wrote a cease-and-desist letter to The Onion, asking the publication to stop using the presidential seal, which it used in an online parody of Bush.

The Onion responded with a formal request to use the seal in accordance with the executive order, while maintaining that its use was legitimate.

On June 16,2017, The Onion featured an article of professional wrestler The Big Show being killed by WWE after a seven-year-old boy wandered into a steel cage during a live event in Indianapolis.

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In October of 2022, The Onion filed its first amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case Novak v City of Parma.

The Onion supported the certiorari petition of Anthony Novak, who was seeking civil damages after having been arrested and unsuccessfully prosecuted over a Facebook page parodying the page of the Parma Police Department.

The Onion brief contained numerous jokes, including a claimed readership of 4.