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Funny News Headlines

Funny News Headlines

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Funny News Headlines are unintentionally humorous titles of news stories in print, broadcast or on the web, which are often shared on online humor communities.

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On November 12th, 2000, the website HeadlineHumor.com[3] was launched, which highlights notable examples of funny newspaper headlines, classified ads and signs.


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On February 1st, 2001, the website for the Forum for English Language Teachers in Ireland[2] posted a page titled "Funny Newspaper Headlines," featuring examples of unintentionally humorous news headlines. On October 28th, 2003, the humor website Fun With Words[1] posted a compilation of notable ambiguous headlines gathered from various newspapers. On September 24th, 2007, Redditor liberal_one submitted an image of an article with a placeholder headline to /r/reddit.com,[6] where it gathered more than 930 votes (75% upvoted) prior to being archived (shown below).


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On July 14th, 2009, Redditor theprizefight posted a photo of a television news report featuring a squirrel with a yogurt container on its head with the headline "One squirrel , one cup" (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received upwards of 2,500 votes (90% upvoted) on the /r/funny[5] subreddit. On June 23rd, 2010, Redditor krodnoc submitted a photograph of a newspaper headline about a woman who attacked her ex-girlfriend while wearing a sumo wrestler suit to the /r/pics[4] subreddit, where it gained over 800 votes (94% upvoted) before it was archived (shown below, right).


CROSS COUNTRY ONE SQUIRREL, ONE CUP GREENVILLE, SC 12:27 71° NEWS Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend in gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers ba

On December 22nd, 2011, BuzzFeed[7] highlighted 50 funny headlines from the past year. On May 24th, 2012, The Huffington Post[9] published a compilation of poorly written headlines containing obvious statements. On April 22nd, 2013, the Internet humor blog Pleated Jeans[8] highlighted 23 funny headline examples.


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External References

[1] Fun With Words – Ambiguous Headlines

[2] Eircom – Funny News Headlines

[3] HeadlineHumor – Headlines

[4] Reddit – Epic News Headline

[5] Reddit – Just saw this headline on my local news

[6] Reddit – Think of a headline

[7] BuzzFeed – The 50 Funniest Headlines of 2011

[8] Pleated Jeans – 23 Funny News Headlines

[9] The Huffington Post – Most Obvious Headlines Ever

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