You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com

It was just a matter of finding a way to harness all the creativity and energy. When we hired him, Pointless Waste of Time became the forum, and we suddenly had this community full of really funny people interacting on the backend of the site. We were looking to hire an editor, and the best guy for the job, David Wong, also happened to be the head of a forum called Pointless Waste of Time where a bunch of our best writers already hung out. Tell me how the Writers' Room concept came about and how it works. I have not received a thank you note as of yet. I like to think we converted a lot of stoners to Judaism with that article. For instance, I’ll probably pay someone else to burn down the guy’s house who called me evil instead of doing it myself.ĭid calling Moses a stoner ever make you worry about divine retribution? That’s what a lot of comedy is: making boring stuff seem interesting or crazy. If you give them a blank slate, they’re going to draw a mustache and devil horns on you because that’s more interesting than the truth, and also because mustaches are funny. I think it has something to do with the way comedians think about authority figures. When I meet fans of the site, they’re usually surprised that I’m not a 45 year old Russian Mobster. Our columnists, who I do know, have devoted plenty of words to making me look like a lunatic. I actually hadn’t seen that particular page until you pointed it out. I think the bio you’re referencing is a topics page, which are sort of like our site’s open source section where people work out ideas before running them by our staff. How has that attribute helped you as editor of the website?

We also chatted about how the Writers' Room started and why lists work so well.Ī bio on your own site says you may be pure evil. In this e-mail interview, O'Brien talks about his own writing, including ways it has helped grow Judaism.

You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com