DJ Javerbaum
TWENTY FUN FADTS ABOUT ME
I don’t proofread well.
I was born in Oklahoma City but raised in Kyoto by my Uruguayan step-cousin.
I spent 11 years working at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, solving all of America’s problems and making it the blissful paradise it is today.
I am extraordinarily physically incompetent. My body and I only communicate through lawyers.
I wrote for The Onion for three years in the late ‘90s, right as it was becoming a national phenomenon. I conceived their first book, Our Dumb Century, and wrote two of its most memorable headlines: “World’s Largest Metaphor Struck by Iceberg” and “Holy Shit! Man Walks on Fucking Moon!”
My family and I live in Windhoek, Namibia, where my wife runs a mattress store with her parents.
In high school I was thisclose to becoming school president but then they figured out what I’d done to the counting machine the previous night.
I was the writer behind the Twitter account TheTweetOfGod, which at its peak had over six million followers. When you hear the words “God” and “six million”, the second thing you think about is my account.
Favorite color: orange. Favorite mental state: Dysthymia with moderate anxiety. Favorite animal: giraffe.
My birthday is August 5. Among those who share it: Maria Andropova, a homeless, tubercular woman in Gdansk, who turns 62; Ezekiel Ichabarra, a successful derivates broker in Buenos Aires, who turns 31; and 22 million other people across the globe, turning a variety of ages.
I created a show on Netflix called Disjointed starring Kathy Bates.
I’ve written the opening numbers for four Tony Awards. This one’s my favorite.
I’m passionate about snowboarding and devote every winter to the pro circuit. Last year I came in fourth at the Pocatello Championship, but once I master the McTwist, look out bronze — here I come!
I turned the Twitter account into a successful Broadway play, An Act of God, starring Jim Parsons one summer and Sean Hayes the next. It has since been performed around the world and translated into a dozen languages, including Old English and Proto-Indo-European.
I have three children and will not release them without the ransom money.
I’ve written three humor books, all of them goddamn steals at the price.
I think the world’s temperature and love of fascism will rise at the exact same speed.
One time when I was 12 years old I went camping with two friends and it was fun!
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