Modern Humorist
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Modern Humorist is a humor webzine started in 2000, founded by John Aboud and Michael Colton (who later became panelists on VH1's Best Week Ever). A competitor of the more popular 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 and in 2004, losing to The Onion both times.
An interview with the founders is available at Gelf Magazine.
There were three books produced by Modern Humorist:
- (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
In addition, Francis Heaney's "Holy Tango of Poetry", which was first published at Modern Humorist ([1]) was adapted into its own volume, Holy Tango of Literature, in November 2004 (ISBN 1-57860-159-2).
- John Aboud
- Andy Borowitz
- Patrick Broderick
- Tim Carvell
- Daniel Chun
- Michael Colton
- Laura Gilbert
- Daniel J. Goor
- Charlie Grandy
- Fred Graver
- Josh Greenman
- Kevin Guilfoile
- Francis Heaney
- Krister M. Johnson
- Martha Keavney
- Lauren Kirchner
- David King
- Gersh Kuntzman
- Michael F. Martone
- Seth Mnookin
- Nick Nadel
- Jay Pinkerton
- Daniel Radosh
- Alexandra Ringe
- Eben Russell
- Beth Sherman
- Jeremy Simon
- Geoffrey Stevens
- Michael Sloan
- Nicholas A. Stoller
- Rahm Tamir
- Thomas Talbot
- Dirk Voetberg
- John Warner (writer/editor)
- Noam Weinstein
- Steve Zimet
- Modern Humorist
- TheDirk.Com, website of material written by Modern Humorist contributor Dirk Voetberg