Before there was "Fake News" there was the Fake News, and today's guest - The Onion co-founder Scott Dikkers - was the driving force behind the farce. Dikkers has been an editor-in-chief or General Manager of the newspaper and website for three spans between its founding in 1988 and 2014.

Scott is also the bestselling author of over 20 humor books, including the lauded 3-book How to Write Funny series, and codified the '11 Funny Filters' that are used in almost every joke. 

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