Name: Scott Sevener Title: Editor-in-Chief Hometown: Gaylord, MI Websites:  Just Laugh magazine Comedic-Genius.com

Favorite Food: chinese, cake, anything prepared for me...
Favorite TV Shows: The Simpsons, Futurama, The Drew Carey Show
Favorite Book: Big Trouble (Dave Barry)
Favorite Band / Type of Music: Aerosmith / anything that doesn't rhyme with 'ountry'
Favorite Movies: The Muppets Take Manhattan, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Office Space
Favorite Quote:

"Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else..." --Matt Groening

Aerosmith: Nine Lives
Michelle Branch: Spirit Room
Jimmy Buffett: Far Side of the World
Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
Britney Spears: Britney

"After failure comes a new opportunity for success..."  Or something like that!  Basically, I got the idea for Just Laugh once I got tired of getting rejection letters from other publications...I figured that if no one else wanted to publish my stuff, then I'd do it myself!  I've been writing humor in one form or another ever since the 8th grade when I wrote my first "big" piece and it's just sort of evolved from there.

It's something to do!  Seriously, though, it combines three things that I've always enjoyed doing very much: stroking my own ego, helping others out and, most importantly, making people laugh.  I know what it's like to get slapped in the face by editors and their assistants, so it's great to be able to give writers and artists a chance when somebody else won't.  As far as making people laugh, we've got one of the best line-ups around, so I know that there's something on our site to make just about anyone fall out of his or her respective chair...

Oh yeah, and not that my ego needs any more encouragement or anything, but running one of the most popular humor sites on the 'net and getting recognized on the street is pretty damn cool, too!

Total world domination.

That and the idea that I would probably never last as any other kind of journalist!  As an editor, I get to make my own rules and take a lot of chances that other people dealing with boards of directors and a bottom line could never do.  And because I am my own publisher, I don't really have to worry about getting rejected by the editors!  I can write what I think is funny without any restrictions.  The Internet allows a new freedom that simply wasn't possible before with print media.

My favorite is still my first true effort, the novel I wrote back in the 8th grade - The Adventures of the Space Patrol -- Episode 1.  I poured everything I had into a notebook after school for a solid four months with the dream of being able to sell it to a publisher and purchase a computer so that I could continue my writing.  It never did get picked up by anybody, but the fact alone that I had completed something that big told me that I was on to something.  Luckily, my english teacher soon gave us the assignment of writing a short story as an exam, so it did prove to have a higher purpose.  Needless to say, after turning in an eighty page tale consisting of over 17,000 words, he was impressed!

I got an A+ on that story and still think it's hilarious.  Maybe someday I'll get around to posting it online...

Living out my dreams in the tropics - ruling the entertainment industry by day from the helm of the greatest humor publication ever to grace the planet, then driving the gem of my classic car collection - a candy-apple red 1969 Chevy Corvette - home to a classy crib on the beach where my beautiful wife is waiting eagerly for me with nothing more than a sandwich, an ice-cold Corona and a smile!

• If what you're doing isn't fun, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it...
• Don't let anyone tell you that you're not good enough to achieve your own dreams.
• Laugh at your own jokes.  If you don't, how can you expect anyone else to?
• Don't eat yellow snow.  In fact, don't eat snow at all - that's disgusting!