Back in the aughts, Cracked magazine was owned by the same company as the Weekly World News. During the rocky final years of Cracked, our editor, in an attempt to give the writers a pay check, had us contribute articles to WWN ("the humor magazine that nobody knows is a humor magazine.") It took me a while to get the hang of the paper but soon I was working on some straight forward fake news stories.
Another article I can't believed they used. Once again, I was digging into my old files and found several sketches and bits about bad restaurants (as well as toys, candy, rollercoasters). There might have been one or two to get me started, but the material is mostly original for the article, except for the closing Fast Food restaurant gag, which I had kicking around for a while. Jerome Howard was able to make it work (and frankly, publishing a weekly fake newspaper ate up a lot of content).
