AOL and HBO To Launch Comedy Channel
When AOL launched TMZ.com, a celebrity news website, with sister company Telepictures it met with success. TMZ, by the way, stands for Thirty Mile Zone.
So why not have lightning strike again. Only this time, AOL has partnered with corporate cousin HBO to rebrand "AOL Comedy" as "This Just In," a current events-focused humor site. Expect that sometime in the first quarter of 2007.
"This Just In" is supposedly going to feature original content and HBO will use it in part to incubate new talent. In other words, it will not use clips from HBO's television network.
The site will be headed by Steve Stanford, who founded and was CEO of Icebox.com, a before-its-time humor website that created comedy programming with TV writers, and co-founded and was COO of cell phone service Ampd Mobile.
(originally reported by Broadcasting & Cable)
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November 16th, 2006
A man left the streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife, on a business trip and was planning to meet him the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
To find out why she dies check out The Comedy Festival Joke of the Day http://thecomedyfestival.com/jotd/