Modern Humorist

Modern Humorist was a United States-based humor webzine founded in 2000 by John Aboud and Michael Colton (who later became panelists on VH1's Best Week Ever), and managed by CEO Kate Barker.[1] Its board of directors included feature film producer Frank Marshall and comedian Jon Stewart.[2]

Modern Humorist
Type of site
Humor website
Available inEnglish
Created byJohn Aboud and Michael Colton
URLwww.modernhumorist.com
Launched2000
Current statusDefunct (2003)

A competitor of The Onion, Modern Humorist stopped publishing new material in 2003. The site's archives remain online and free to the public. It was nominated for a Webby Award in the Humor category in 2001[3] and in 2004,[4] losing to The Onion both times.

Books

Modern Humorist produced three books:

  • (2001) My First Presidentiary (ISBN 0-609-80818-4)
  • (2001) Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was (ISBN 0-609-80817-6)
  • (2002) One Nation, Extra Cheese (ISBN 0-609-80979-2)

Notable contributors
gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically
gollark: No, it probably isn't your fault, it must have been dropped from my brain stack while I was writing the rest.
gollark: ... I forgot one of them, hold on while I try and reremember it.

References
  1. http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/a_metainterview_with_colton_aboud.php
  2. Mason, Jackie (June 30, 2000). "It list: Modern Humorist". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  3. "Who Will Win a Webby?". Los Angeles Times. May 3, 2001. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  4. "Webby Nominees". Webby Awards. 2004. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
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