# The Onion: 20 Years Later Reviewing The Onion from exactly 20 years ago to laugh, see what holds up and revisit cultural references we forgot about. Page: Feed: --- ## [Revisiting The Onion’s jokes about "Snakes on a Plane," the Unabomber and more](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-snakes-plane-unabomber-august-16-to-22-2006) _2026-08-19 · James daSilva_ Jokes about "Snakes on a Plane," the Unabomber, Brett Favre, Randy Johnson, Matthew McConaughey, ESPN's credibility, dogs in purses and much more. ## ["Kitten Thinks Of Nothing But Murder All Day" was 20 years ago](https://onion20.substack.com/p/kitten-thinks-of-nothing-but-murder-all-day-august-2006-the-onion) _2026-08-16 · James daSilva_ Plus, Cocaine writes a column! And jokes about the Gates Foundation, Styx, Jessica Simpson, Jim Belushi and AOL ## [The Onion gave Bush presidential clones In August 2006](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-ozzie-guillen-bush-clones-august-9-to-15-2006) _2026-08-12 · James daSilva_ Plus, the terror plot that still restricts liquids on planes today, Troy Aikman, the X-Games, Babe Ruth and more. ## [20 years ago, The Onion introduced a 9/11 conspiracy theory](https://onion20.substack.com/p/august-2006-the-onion-oliver-stone-condoleezza-rice-rocket-fuel) _2026-08-09 · James daSilva_ Plus, Stan Kelly forgives Mel Gibson, and jokes about Condoleezza Rice, Middle East terrorism economics and much more ## [Every athlete cheats: The Onion warned us in August 2006](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-august-2-to-8-2006-steroids-mel-gibson) _2026-08-05 · James daSilva_ Also, jokes about Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic views, Fidel Castro, Derek Jeter, Nick Saban, Uma Thurman and more ## [The Onion gave Bush even more power 20 years ago](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-bush-power-joe-biden-meat-condiment-august-2006) _2026-08-02 · James daSilva_ Plus, new print features! And jokes about Joe Biden, Ken Lay, the 787 Dreamliner, meat, nonprofits ## [The origin story of Stan Kelly, cartoonist for The Onion](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-origin-story-of-stan-kelly-cartoonist-the-onion-ward-sutton) _2026-07-31 · James daSilva_ Stan Kelly has been The Onion's editorial cartoonist for 20 years. But who is he? ## [The Onion joked about Tiger, A-Rod, stem cells and more 20 years ago](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-web-only-jokes-july-26-to-august-1-2006-tiger-woods) _2026-07-29 · James daSilva_ Plus, jokes about Tiger Woods, A-Rod, the Tour de France, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, the "living wage," President Bush and more ## [20 years ago, The Onion introduced cartoonist Stan Kelly](https://onion20.substack.com/p/july-2006-the-onion-stan-kelly-sickos-wikipedia-750-years-american-independence) _2026-07-26 · James daSilva_ Plus, Wikipedia celebrates 750 years of American independence, and jokes about Iraq, birds flying into glass, office politics and more ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YdfGKUsDuQZR) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [Reviewing The Onion's web-only jokes: July 19-25, 2006](https://onion20.substack.com/p/the-onion-web-only-jokes-july-19-to-25-2006) _2026-07-22 · James daSilva_ Baseball! Baseball! Baseball! Plus, Skip Bayless, nukes on the moon, the Big Dig and President Bush on race relations