Comedy 23/6 (original) (raw)
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Satirical news website
"23/6" redirects here. For the date, see June 23.
HuffPost Comedy
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| Type of site | News |
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Comedy News Ventures, Inc.HuffPost |
| URL | www.huffpost.com/entertainment/comedy |
| Commercial | Free with advertisements |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 9 November 2007; 17 years ago (9 November 2007) |
| Current status | Active |
Comedy 23/6 was a satirical news and opinion website developed by HuffPost, launched on November 9, 2007.[1][2] Published by Arianna Huffington and edited by former The Daily Show writer Jason Reich, the site featured daily news coverage, original video, and a group blog known as "The Room."
Bloggers for the site have included Bill Maher, Tracey Ullman, Mike Birbiglia, Taylor Negron, Greg Fitzsimmons, and Paula Poundstone.
Video producers for the site include Eugene Mirman, H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, David Rees, A.D. Miles, Patrick Borelli, Julie Klausner, Jenny Slate, Larry Murphy, Max Silvestri, Todd Barry, Joe Mande and Sam Seder.
Dickipedia – A Wiki of Dicks was a parody collection of satirical biographies "about people who are dicks". It is self-described as "a monolingual (English), Web-based, free content encyclopedia project, …[which] does not contain information about people who are detectives".[3][4]
The first entry was Mitch McConnell.[5] Bikram Choudhury was also featured.[6]
- ^ Vascellaro, Jessica E. (November 9, 2007). "IAC Launches Comedy News Site". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Huffington, Arianna (9 November 2007). "23/6: Our New Comedy Site is Live!". HuffPost.
- ^ Gebreyes, Rahel (May 29, 2015). "Dickipedia: Bikram Choudhury". HuffPost.
- ^ MARTIN, PETER (March 12, 2009). "Dickipedia: The (As-Yet-Incomplete) Library of Jackasses". Esquire.
- ^ Dickipedia: Mitch McConnell. HuffPost. April 4, 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12 – via YouTube.
- ^ Dickipedia: Bikram Choudhury. HuffPost. July 25, 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12 – via YouTube.