If Bill Murray and P.J. O'Rourke had a hilarious and slightly deranged lovechild, it might resemble Cracked.com. Or maybe just Cracked columnist Seanbaby, in a good way. Allow me to introduce the editor of the comedy site that claims to suck more productivity out of America's day than competitors FunnyorDie, The Onion, and CollegeHumor combined.
Cracked, a humor magazine created in 1958 to compete with Mad, was supposed to relaunch a print version in 2006. It never happened. Meanwhile on Cracked.com, website editor Jack O'Brien—a former Georgetown philosophy major and "Primetime Live With Diane Sawyer" writer—was allowed to publish whatever made him laugh. This turned out to involve cartoon villains, the Cubs, and whether to piss on Tom DeLay if DeLay were on fire. Shortly after O'Brien launched Cracked.com in 2006, Demand Media scooped up and expanded the humor site to include pop culture trivia, a virtual writers' room of 2,500 funny people—and, recently, movie guides. You can read more about joining the comedic meritocracy here.
Mother Jones interviewed O'Brien recently about mythological comedy figures, whether male comedy writers pee in cups, and other serious investigative matters.
Source: http://motherjones.com/media/2011/05/cracked-jack-obrien-interview-sxsw-mcclure
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