I contributed to ClickHole for years after its 2014 debut, satirizing clickbait and the cultural drive for viral content. Here are some of my favorite headlines.

And below are some of my favorite features jokes that I’ve written.

Why These 5 Famous Books Were Banned

The Harry Potter series: These books drew heavy criticism from Christian parents for not giving a more central role to Hagrid, whom they viewed as an obvious stand-in for Christ.

Ulysses: American courts banned this groundbreaking look at the early 20th-century urban Irish landscape after reading the first few pages and saying, “Fuck this.”

The Giving Tree: Too sad.

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8 Things You Did When You Were A Kid That Parents Would Never Let Their Kids Do Today

Bestowing Christian names upon bags of gravel: Three words: Ain’t gonna happen.

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7 Things Every Bilingual Person Knows To Be True

There’s more than one word for “chips”: You know of two ways to say “chips.”

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8 Things All Band Geeks Know To Be True

The timpani contained the curled-up skeletons of their former players: This time-honored band geek tradition goes back centuries.

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Finally, here’s a full article I wrote, “7 Bumbling Dopes Who Died Before They Became Famous.”