This week, let’s look back at some of the older, forgotten sections of the Boatload of Fun. While many of our classic features are still linked to from our main page, a few former features have been shuttered off for various reasons. As part of our tenth anniversary, we thought it would be fun to look back at a few of the nearly-forgotten gems.
The Jimmicam was one of the original sections of the site when we launched in August, 1999 and was a (fake, obviously), live webcam documenting the life of one of Amalgamated Humor’s Employee’s. It was a parody of the then well-known, Jennicam. When the original shut down in 2003, it didn’t make much sense to keep the original around.
It Ain’t Cool in the Basement News was a parody of Aint It Cool News, the nerd-movie site run by Harry Knowles (at the time) out of his parent’s basement. Probably we drifted away from this because the niche was a little too narrow, and Zonar picked up the slack on movie jokes (well, for a long time anyway).
Art Bypass - our art gallery in which classic works of art + young guys learning how to use photoshop = comedy fun. Just didn’t get updated that often and shuffled off to the back burner. Some enjoyable jokes and a couple of cheap gags. We’ll let you decide which are which.
The Pete Best Project - a salute to the guy who allllmost got to be part of the biggest pop band of all time from a variety of contributors.
Things have been a little nutty around the Amalgamated Humor Offices lately, requiring our staff to work on some other pressing-matters despite our 10th anniversary. Still, we’ve got some real big fun coming up real soon. We hope you’ll find it worth the wait!
