Satirewire Calls It Quits

stuyman writes "After almost three years, Andrew Marlatt, SatireWire's best (and only) employee is leaving the company. Says Marlatt "I all agreed it's time for me to move on...while the decision was certainly difficult, the meeting was actually quite harmonious. I brought doughnuts." He's going to start doing other things, and it has nothing to do with money. Read about it here. Satirewire has landed, please remain seated until we are fully stopped in the terminal area..." I owe Andrew some heavy laughter, and wish him good luck.

Comments

Officially, anyway

[PhysicsGenius]

He actually pretty much stopped producing content about a year ago. (During that time the charts, by far the funniest part of the site, have been updated like twice). He kept the site going "on hiatus" while he flogged the dead tree edition, but now he's out. Kind of like women who quit AFTER maternity leave time ends.

But I'll show him. I'll read the book at Barnes and Noble so he won't get a dime.

GREAT!!!

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

So I can continue to ignore it completely and just read http://www.onion.com

Oh, and I can continue to ignore BetaMax and listen to my Ogg Muzac and Divx pr0n. (see earlier news)

Like Forest Gump said while sittin on the bench talking, "And I though, that's good! One less thing to worry about."

Re:more brilliant twisted humor

[DNS-and-BIND]

Powerful? Nah, satirewire was definitely one of the weak sisters of the comedy news sites. Every article on there wasn't particularly insightful, matter of fact I usually think, "I could have written that" when seeing a satirewire link. Kind of like Saturday Night Live (shudder).

Re:more brilliant twisted humor

[DNS-and-BIND]

Well la-dee-dah, an Adams quote. Obviously satirewire stories were so predictable I considered it a WASTE OF MY VALUELESS TIME to write ones like them.