The Onion’s First TED Talk Parody Is Freaking Hilarious (Because It Seems So Real) [Video]

By Mario Aguilar, GizmodoOctober 17, 2012 at 12:56PM

Wouldn’t it be great if cars ran off of compost? That’s not the topic of a TED Talk, but, sadly, that small nugget of an idea is all you would need to to be granted the freedom to pontificate before an audience of naive dreamers at a hokey conference. Welcome to The Onion’s first TED Talk parody. It’s incredible. And its best line just happens to sum up everything that’s annoying about TED in one little sentence: “I’ll be your visionary, and you do the things I come up with.” More »