National humor magazine Cracked announced today they’d given their Cracked.com website a facelift. The move was designed to bring more original humor content to the 47-year-old publication’s virtual presence.
The new Cracked.com will be updated five times a week. It will feature, according to a company press release, “Celebrity Blogs, spoofs, web comics, animated and live-action films and message boards where users can discuss comedy and entertainment, pop culture, the number of celebrity poker shows that cable television can support at any one time, cat shows, Dick Cheney’s lip curl, Paris Hilton’s sex tape, Supreme Court nominations, determining who the father of Katie Holmes’ spawn actually is, British dental care, muffin recipes, rising gas prices, Scientology and silent births (what, no epidural?), Burt Reynolds’ hair (or lack thereof), rugby versus football, knitting, Al Pacino’s constant yelling, sumo wrestling, nipple slips, winning at roulette, masturbation techniques and other weighty matters of global importance.â€
Jack O’Brien, a former ABC News production associate who handled the “That Was the Week That Was†satire segment on PrimeTime Live, was also named as the new editor of Cracked.com.
“While I am extremely distrustful of computers, robots and even modern medicine, I really want to cash in on this whole Internet fad before it’s too late,” said O’Brien. “I’ve been told by people who ‘surfed’ our Internets that CRACKED.com has moving shapes and bright colors, both of which I have long championed.”
