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Daniel O'Brien

Born

in Hazlet, New Jersey, The United States

January 06, 1986

Website

http://thisdanobrien.tumblr.com/

Genre

Humor and Comedy, History

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Head Writer and Creative Director of Video for Cracked.com. Co-creator/co-writer/co-star of Agents of Cracked and Cracked: After Hours.

O'Brien claims to have developed a fascination with presidents after a college professor told his class they could never be president. O'Brien took the professor's remark as a challenge and began researching presidential lives in order to emulate them and one day become president.

Instead of doing that, he wrote a book about presidents and named his dog after Andrew Jackson.

His dog has an excessive amount of hoodies that he doesn't like, and are impractical, given the hot average temperatures of Los Angeles, where O'Brien and his dog, Jackson reside. ...more

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Hey, did you know we were doing this?

So, once upon a time I worked for a comedy website and sometimes it was good and sometimes it was bad and sometimes it was Great. There are way, way too many things that fall into the “good bucket” to remember or name right now, and the things that fall into the “bad bucket,” have honestly, blissfully, been mostly forgotten. So I won’t talk about those two buck

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Average rating: 3.96 · 9,823 ratings · 1,062 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com, Daniel O'Brien (Co-author) 3.83 avg rating — 4,777 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country 4.11 avg rating — 2,679 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew by Cracked.com, Daniel O'Brien (Co-author) 4.04 avg rating — 2,364 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team by Daniel O'Brien, Winston Rowntree (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 4.22 avg rating — 130 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartender 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be Abraham Lincoln.”
― Daniel O'Brien, How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

tags: abraham-lincoln, x-men

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“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t murder John C. Calhoun.” In a life rich with murdering people for little-to-no reason, Jackson’s only regret was that he didn’t kill quite enough people. People like Calhoun, who, it should be noted, was Jackson’s vice president. No one is safe from Jackson’s wrath.”
― Daniel O'Brien, How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

tags: andrew-jackson, henry-clay, john-calhoun

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“FDR’s struggle with illness and subsequent metal-filled life are remarkably similar to the story of another great leader who was part robot: Iron Man. FDR, much like Tony Stark, was cocky and arrogant before his life-changing diagnosis, but the years of suffering changed all of that, and he emerged more humble, more fearless, and ready to defend America. Also, FDR wore iron braces and used a wheelchair, which, for the purposes of this comparison, is exactly like a well-armed robot suit.”
― Daniel O'Brien, How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

tags: franklin-delano-roosevelt, iron-man

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