NewsBiscuit is a British

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or e ...

news

website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google Search, Google, Facebook, Amaz ...

. It was founded in September 2006 by John O'Farrell to create a new outlet for British humour on the internet by a group consisting mainly of comedy writers including Pete Sinclair, Maz Evans, Ivor Baddiel and Wrenfoe.

Content

Each day the site publishes 'front page' articles and shorter 'News in Brief' stories, with a range of headline tickers. All articles are available free-to-view in its archives. The site also develops new writing using a submissions board where readers can rate each other's material and suggest rewrites or edits. These user submissions are rated by other subscribers and the most popular are reworked for the article boards. Alternative punch lines are also encouraged on the site's submissions board. The articles and features range from satirical takes on current affairs, to various silly and bizarre ideas. On its LaughLines blog, ''The New York Times'' declared that NewsBiscuit was the British version of the Onion. There is a Writer of the Month competition, anyone can participate in. A number of writers who cut their teeth on NewsBiscuit have gone on to write for radio, TV and film or have had novels published.

Adaptations

Since 2021. NewsBiscuit has had its ow
podcast
In June 2008, the

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

recorded a "NewsBiscuit" pilot for transmission on

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

later in the year. It starred John O'Farrell as the host of fictional radio station NewsBiscuit Dot.Com, and

Anna Crilly Anna Crilly is an English actress and comedian. Education Crilly was educated at Kent College, Pembury and attended Middlesex University, where she studied performing arts. Career She was a finalist in the "So You Think You're Funny" competiti ...

as its co-presenter. It was, according to O'Farrell, an opportunity for new writers and actors to show their talent. Also in 2008 a book featuring many of the stories featured on the website was produced, called ''Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax: And Other Groundbreaking Stories from Newsbiscuit''. In 2020 they published '15 Years of Typos' - a collection of their previous work. In 2021 they are scheduled to release another book 'Five Go Dobbing In Their Neighbours'.

Books

Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax (2008 annual)
15 Years of Typos
(collection)
Five Go Dobbing In Their Neighbours
(2021 annual), Earth to be Recycled (2022 annual), Lego to replace Bitcoins (collection)

Current Editors

Throngsman (publisher), Chris F (rota editor), Chipchase, Kit Caboodle, SteveB, David H, TechGuy, Deceangli, BangingOnAgain, Modelmaker, KatieWritesStuff, Dominic_mcg, Oshaughnessy, Lockjaw, StewartBarclay & Wrenfoe

References

External links