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'Coloring book' skewers New Orleans Mayor Nagin

New Orleans' controversial mayor is now officially a character.

Ore. student editors sorry for 'kill Jews' humor

A student editor at a college campus-run humor publication in Portland says he and others plan to be more cautious when making decisions about the newspaper's content after running a phony article that said students at another college killed all the Jews at their school.

‘Glee’ has rabid fans, but they deserve better

Fox's “Glee” has only aired a half-dozen episodes, but it has already established a rabid fan base. Because creativity and frivolity is so rare on network television, those fans have latched on to the over-the-top satire of high school life told through a glee club.

Satirical party campaigns to rebuild Berlin Wall

A satirical political party that calls for rebuilding the Berlin Wall has launched a campaign fronting a chancellor candidate chosen at a casting call to add pizzaz and humor to Germany's largely predictable parliamentary election.

‘Alien Trespass’ is all too familiar

The midnight-movie success of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in the late 1970s and the publication of “The Golden Turkey Awards” in 1980 firmly established that, yes, those old 1950s creature features sure were hokey, what with the stiff acting and the crappy special effects and all.

Pols Beware: Late-Nite Jokes Coming Back

Attention, presidential candidates: Not to disrupt your holiday plans, but if you have any cringe-inducing mistakes, insensitive jokes or outright hypocrisy yet to engage in, there's no time like the present.

Chinese City May Fine Web Surfers

A major city is threatening to fine Web surfers up to 5,000 yuan ($625) for online defamation amid a surge in short satirical Internet films, a news report said Monday.

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet
Source: xkcd.com

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Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech
Source: MAD Mafizine #139, December 1970

"My fellow citizens, it is an honor and a pleasure to be here today. My opponent has openly admitted he feels an affinity toward your city, but I happen to like this area. It might be a salubrious place to him, but to me it is one of the nation's most delightful garden spots.

The Mississippi Wall...East/West... North/South....Left/Right..Red/Blue.

After having been a part of newsvine for several months now...It has become quite clear that there is a division in this country that hasn't been see since the civil war..so my proposal would be somewhat akin to King solomen's where he threatened to divide a Baby in Half giving h …

Source Code to the United States of America
Source: United States House of Representatives

I'm a professional software developer, and imagine my surprise when recently I stumbled onto the source code for the United States of America of all things. Now I'm familiar with a number of programming languages, but this one's just way out in left field.

Blame the Government for Traitorous Appliances

Have you ever noticed how appliances wait until you get just a little money ahead—not much, say $200—and then they break or fail to the tune of at least $250?

Donch'a Know it's time to stop people What's that sound...everybody look What's goin' down"

There's something happening here And what it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me that I've got to beware I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what goin' down There's battle lines being drawn And nob …

Marginalizing Rush

Maybe you thought that was what I was going to do...but the White House,David Axelrod, Raum Emmanuel,Robert Gibbs, do that every time they open their mouths...They attempt to Marginalize Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,Mark Levin,Bill O'Reilly as entertainers with not a lot of Credib …

Wish we had a President like that

My wife and I watched a Movie with Harrison Ford tonight called "Air Force One" about a President who's plane is hijacked by terrorists..(The lead terrorist played by Gary Oldman) and he, Harrison Ford enginneers an escape plan for all of the people on Board, and he is eventual …

U.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan (Satire)
Source: The Onion

I see that once again the Onion is up to its old tricks :)

"Crazy German Kid' (Computer Problems)
Source: YouTube

"Some German kid going crazy in front of the computer. He's having trouble with his Unreal Tournament game. "

Dishing Dirt

If it is your quest to come to the vine and dish out dirt and insult conservatives/Republicans..do not be surprised if we respond in kind..Most of the time There is a lot of well thought out reasoning that goes on here at the vine,but ocassionally it turns into mudslinging and fo …

Paranormal Legislative Activity
Source: Sunlight Foundation Blog

Some really weird stuff went down when Sunlight gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a local couple. Please watch this and share. Totally unexplainable. WARNING: Scary Stuff!

One Helluva Halloween Fantasy

I've been home with the flu all week. Maybe it was my fever. Maybe it was the cold medicine. Anyway, about midnight, on a particularly feverish night, I awoke to find a ghostly apparition standing next to my bed.

The Flymeld...A Love Story....Hide the Kiddies

You may remember several years ago when the Star Trek series was on Television that Mr.

States Struggle To Fill Budget Gaps | The Onion
Source: The Onion

As the economy continues to falter, states are finding it difficult to remain solvent.

Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology
Source: The Onion

LOS ANGELES—According to a report released Monday by the American Institute of Religions, the Church of Scientology, once one of the fastest-growing religious organizations in the U.S., is steadily losing members to the much newer religion Fictionology.

Right falls for "thesis" hoax
Source: Political Animal

Right-wing pundit Michael Ledeen published an item this week on Barack Obama's "college thesis," which Obama allegedly wrote as a student at Columbia 25 years ago. Leeden cited some website, which ran a piece in August. . .

Priest Shortage Forces Vatican To Hire Temps To Deliver Sacred Rites (satire)
Source: The Onion

"The reduced number of active diocesan clergy has forced us to take unprecedented measures to stop parishes from closing," Pope Benedict XVI explained in a decree issued Saturday by the Vatican.

Television, Processed Foods Couldn't Be More Proud Of Child They Raised
Source: The Onion

love the onion for pieces like this

More Americans Falling For 'Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work' Schemes [Satire]
Source: The Onion

A report released Monday by the Omaha-based public-interest group Aurora indicates that increasing numbers of Americans are being defrauded by schemes that offer financial reward for a lifetime of hard work.

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