SatireWire, the spoof news site that bought the world CEO Dream Dates and The Axis of Just as Evil, has delivered its final punchline.
Andrew Marlatt, founder and sole employee at SatireWire, blamed the decision on creative differences.
'I've been producing SatireWire by myself for 159 Internet years (2.67 Earth years), and in a staff meeting yesterday, I all agreed it's time for me to move on,' said Mr Marlatt in a statement published on the site this week.
'While the decision was certainly difficult, the meeting was actually quite harmonious. I brought doughnuts.'
Mr Marlatt launched SatireWire in 1999, as an outlet for his humorous writing. Since then, the site's popularity has soared, from 400 visitors in December of that year, to a million a month today.
Global news exclusives broken by the site included the discovery that Canada owned a warship.
