Here's a recent ad from the Onion's website, for yet another Onion book of fake news.
Funny? Not really, right? Kind of un-funny, isn't it? And I say this as an Onion fan. Here's what Vineet Chander had to say:
I usually find the Onion's stuff funny enough that, on more than one occasion, I have actually had to place a hand over my mouth and stifle my laughter to stop myself from making a scene while reading the print edition on the subway.
Still, I just don't find this Vishnu "Please hold..." ad funny. There is plenty of fodder for good, smart humor relating to the Indian subcontinent or to Hinduism. The malaria reference and lampooning a multiple-armed deity seem to go for easy, cheap laughs instead. Instead of finding something that we could all laugh along with, the Onion seems content in giving us something sufficiently exotic that some of us can laugh at. What a shame!
True, no?
