Background
Dan grew up in Hazlet, New Jersey, and later attended Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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Daniel O'Brien
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Rutgers University.
Career
His college job as a bartender was the inspiration for his unpublished online novel, Bartender. In 2007, O'Brien started working for Cracked.com as senior writer and editor. O'Brien has written over 200 articles for the site that have been seen more than 50 million times.
O'Brien mocked himself, such as in the sketch "Mug of Pens: The Coffee Mug (For Your Pens)", which also became popular on YouTube. He presents this fictional persona as a socially awkward pop culture enthusiast who openly admits to loving fictional characters, including Spider-Man, far more than his real friends. O'Brien has written about Spider-Man several times, such as "Proposed Script for Spider-Man 4: The Grittiest Reboot Ever", "Why Spider-Man Is a Dick", and "3 Insane Spider-Man Movies You Won't Believe Almost Got Made".
Agents of Cracked and Cracked After Hours O'Brien and Michael Swaim have become the faces of Cracked, after starring in its many original web series like Agents of Cracked and Cracked: After Hours. The Agents of Cracked was renewed in October 2010 and ran for another 13 episodes, followed the next year by a third season of 10 episodes. To date, the series has been seen more than 20 million times.
Some of the material that ends up in the Agents of Cracked is based on real events, including an incident where Dan is confronted by Secret Service after writing an article titled "How to Kidnap the President's Daughter." O'Brien also co-wrote, produced and acted in Cracked's series Cracked After Hours, which has been seen more than 15 million times.
Achievements
Politics
O'Brien's writing encompasses a range from politics to pop culture. The series premiered in November 2009, and the first 13 episodes were viewed nearly 4 million times.
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This followed such articles as "The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time" and "How to Fight Andrew Jackson: The Deadliest President Ever" The book was published March 18, 2014, full title How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country and was illustrated by Winston Rowntree.
