The Judges
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| Simon Crisp is a journalist and editor whose work regularly appears in national UK newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Sun and the Telegraph. He is also the founder of the odd news website NewsLite and the DAFTAS Awards where his stupid idea. | Buck Wolf is Weird News editor at AOL and has been covering the offbeat for more than a decade. He is the former entertainment producer at ABC News, and blogs for the New York Times About.com website, holding the esteemed title, “Guide to Weird News.” | Olly Mann is a presenter of the award-winning comedy podcast Answer Me This! (also available in book form)He regularly reviews the papers for BBC Breakfast, Sky News and TalkSport, and thus has read more ridiculous news stories this year than any human should ever be permitted to do. | ||
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| Kevin Sage is songwriter and comedian from Nashville. His sketches, parodies, and original songs have been viewed over 10m times on YouTube, and his in latest parody of Young Money’s “Bedrock” he reminisces about how “The 1980’s Rocked.” | Dan Kelly is the breakfast show host on Galaxy Radio in Birmingham where he enjoys talking about odd and weird news stories… well if you were getting up at 5am you’d want to be talking about fun stuff too wouldn’t you? | Steve Folland is radio presenter on 106 Jack in Hertfordshire and the host of the video podcast Weird Week, when he’s not doing either of those he can normally be found writing, whether it’s a book like Hey Mr DJ! or for the BBC. | ||
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| Ed Chatterton is the news editor at NewsTeam press agency where he writes news articles for national UK newspapers ranging from The Sun to The Independent. He particularly enjoys odd and off-beat stories, and is responsible for some you’d find hard to believe. | Jack Schofield is the technology journalist who covered IT for the Guardian from 1983 to 2010 and is the Jack in Ask Jack. He enjoys tweeting fun links about photography, Lego, art… and odd news, obviously. | Tim O’Brien is a vice president at Ripley Entertainment. That means his days are filled working with some of the attractions at their odditoriums around the world and writing about them for the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! books. Anyone who has the Lizardman on speed-dial is a friend of ours. |