Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15 [Paperback]

Onion Editors (Author)

Book Description

Series: Onion Ad Nauseam | Publication Date: September 28, 2004

All The News That’s Fit to Reprint

The latest book in the New York Times bestselling Onion Ad Nauseam series includes every news story, opinion piece, news-in-brief, horoscope...yes, every last word that appeared in The Onion between October 2002 and October 2003. Here they are at last: all the issues of The Onion that you missed because you had a life to live. And each page takes 0.0 seconds to load!

Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Volume 15 is packed with material no longer available online or anywhere else.

Look for a new volume every year.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

All The News That's Fit to Reprint

The latest book in the New York Times bestselling Onion Ad Nauseam series includes every news story, opinion piece, news-in-brief, horoscope...yes, every last word that appeared in The Onion between October 2002 and October 2003. Here they are at last: all the issues of The Onion that you missed because you had a life to live. And each page takes 0.0 seconds to load!

Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Volume 15 is packed with material no longer available online or anywhere else.

Look for a new volume every year.

About the Author

Winner of the Thurber Award for American Humor, THE ONION's editorial staff is based in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (September 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400054559
• ISBN-13: 978-1400054558
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.8 x 10.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #835,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great compilation, October 2, 2004

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Adam Dukovich "colts_19" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15 (Paperback)

The Onion has been on my favorites list for many years. Who else is able to come out with a heaping helping of hilarity every week and stay as consistently original, literate, and sophisticated as these folks? Not many. For those of you expecting low-brow spoofs, you might be surprised, but I think that ultimately, you will enjoy it. The Onion is similar to a print version of The Daily Show, for all of you fans out there. There are contributing columnists (especially hilarious is a certain accountant gangsta') and parodies of current events, politics, celebrities, and culture. The principal difference is, perhaps, the flat-out invention of news stories to achieve this end, while Jon Stewart prefers to mock the newsmakers. Both approaches work, and if you like one you'll probably like the other. This anthology contains an entire year of Onion hilarity (for about 15 bucks--what a deal). Samples of the Onion's headlines: Cheney enters Presidential race himself (but he's still on the ticket with Bush), Kerry selects 1968 version of self as running mate, McDonalds to remove the "Hammurderer" from its promotional material (the "Grapist" is also going to have to go), etc. I could tell you more, but I think my point is made. Get the book...please.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you laughing for hours... great gift, November 13, 2004

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10za "10za" (Alpharetta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15 (Paperback)

If you like the humor of the National Lampoon or Saturday Night Live you will love this book. I laughed out loud at several pages.
For any humor book there are some duds but they are few and far between with this excellent book.

This is the type of book you will want to read aloud to friends.

Some poor taste and not PC which is what makes it great.

Enjoy!

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny concept very well executed., December 13, 2010

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fanfare for the Area Man: The Onion Ad Nauseam Complete News Archives, Vol. 15 (Paperback)

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.) The one way in which their parodies are NOT perfect is that they are actually BETTER written and edited than real newspaper stories; I found NO typos in the entire book. So not only are they hilariously funny, they're also COMPETENT.