PR Newswire: Cracked Launches the All-New CRACKED.com; Jack O'Brien Named Web Editor

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Cracked Entertainment, Inc., parent company and publisher of the 47-year-old national humor publication CRACKED Magazine, officially launched the all-new CRACKED.com (http://www.cracked.com/) today.

Speaking from Cracked Entertainment's Worldwide Headquarters high above Park Avenue, CEO Monty Sarhan discussed the completely re-designed website.

"The new CRACKED.com is more than just a website to promote the print magazine. It is a destination site for original comedy content as well as a humor publication in and of itself," said Sarhan. "We expect CRACKED.com to become the home for comedy, satire and parody on the Internet. But more than that, we want it to be a comedy community."

Updated five days a week, the completely revamped CRACKED.com includes a host of new features, including "Celebrity Blogs," spoofs, web comics, animated and live-action films and messageboards 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.

O'Brien, Wojciechowski Join CRACKED.com

Sarhan also announced that veteran gritty newsman Jack O'Brien has joined as the Editor of CRACKED.com. He will also be an Associate Editor of the print magazine.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Jack comes to CRACKED.com from ABC News, where he was a Production Associate on "PrimeTime Live" and wrote for and produced the show's satire segment, "That Was the Week That Was." O'Brien is also a former editor of Georgetown's humor magazine, "The Georgetown Heckler."

O'Brien seemed excited by the challenge.

"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."

Joining O'Brien at the helm will be Webmaster Joseph "Wojo" Wojciechowski. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Wojo earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Media, Arts and Communication. He is extremely adept at long division and is often mistaken for Tae-Bo pioneer Billy Blanks. Watch out!

About Cracked Entertainment, Inc.

Based in New York, Cracked Entertainment publishes CRACKED Magazine, one of America's oldest and most well known comedy publications, and the all-new CRACKED.com (http://www.cracked.com/). The company's redesign of the 47-year-old CRACKED Magazine is already underway and will be making a return to newsstands in early 2006.

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CONTACT: Giles Hanson at Maloney & Fox, +1-646-356-8315 or ghanson@maloneyfox.com, for Cracked Entertainment

Web site: http://www.cracked.com/