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O'Brien, Jack

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For other uses, see: Jack O'Brien (disambiguation).

Jack O'Brien is an American editor and humorist.

Biography

Early life and career

Jack O'Brien (born July 27, 1980 in Eugene, Oregon) attended Milton Academy and was a 2003 cum laude graduate of Georgetown University.He majored in philosophy and minored in English and government. While a student, O'Brien interned with Miramax Films and the Boston Celtics NBA basketball team . He also served as an editor of The Georgetown Heckler, the university’s humor publication, and wrote for the school newspaper, The Georegtown Hoya.

Later career

O'Brien became a producer at ABC News and developed the satirical segment "That Was The Week That Was" for the ABC newsmagazine PrimeTime Live. He was also the co-publisher and frequent contributor to the humor blog killthewidow.com.

He is now the editor of the humor website, Cracked.com.

References

Interview with Jack O'Brien at Gothamist.com

This biographical information was gathered from the Jack_O'Brien page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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