Jay Pinkerton (born June 15, 1977) is a nationally published humorist and a former editor of both CRACKED.com and
Cracked magazine.
Prior to joining
Cracked, Pinkerton served as the managing editor of
NationalLampoon.com, the website of the national comedy and film brand. Since joining
Cracked, Pinkerton has helped make CRACKED.com a leading comedy site, including by bringing in new contributors.
Jay Pinkerton initially registered his website, Jaypinkerton.com, to be a portfolio of his comedy and artwork. Afterwards, Pinkerton joined the forums of the Internet humor website "
Pointless Waste of Time" (PWOT), and took the attention of the site's owner, , with whom Pinkerton worked on a now-defunct satirical news commentary, the "News Skim", and other comedy articles. It was around this time that he first published his redone Spider-Man comics, spawning an Internet phenomenon.
In addition to
Cracked, Pinkerton’s work has also appeared on
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency,
Modern Humorist,
CollegeHumor.com and numerous other sites. He has also had his humor writing published in print, including in
Jest Magazine,
McSweeney’s Best Non-Required Reading 2003,
National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love,
The CollegeHumor Guide to College and
Golden Words.
He has also been hired by
Valve Software, according to Game Informer, to write some of the sequel to
Portal,
Portal 2.
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