ONN: Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes

Videos I wrote last year for the Onion News Network are now starting to air on the site - this one, for the Today Now morning show program, is one of my favorites.


Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes

UPDATE: Because of this video, Make-A-Wish was apparently inundated with callers concerned about their impending bankruptcy. Their statement, captured from their website:

FURTHER UPDATE: The news of a “bankrupted Make-A-Wish” made it all the way to popular mythbuster site Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/makeawish.asp

This entry was written by Kula and posted on January 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm and filed under Everyday. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

7 Comments

  1. charlie todd
    Posted January 17, 2008 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    I bet that kid will wish for Bob Seager to show up next.

  2. Annony #2
    Posted January 17, 2008 at 7:49 pm | Permalink

    You are an evil, evil person… but very funny!

  3. Anonymous
    Posted January 20, 2008 at 7:36 pm | Permalink

    Hilarious!

  4. zelltron
    Posted January 21, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink

    Haha!

  5. Julie
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    Mission accomplished: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/makeawish.asp

  6. Kula
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    Julie - thanks for the heads-up!

  7. Justin
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

    Wow. I stumbled across your clip art videos middle of last year. Then I stumble here today and find one of the funniest ONN vids I’ve EVER seen. I work at a non-profit org, and the whole idea just makes me smile. “We can only hope that that comes soon…” Beautiful. Keep it up.

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