10 Things You Should Know About Me
1. I’m a writer/editor who lives in Queens, New York. I moved to Gotham City fourteen years ago from the great state of Texas.
2. I got my start in publishing as the receptionist for a small publishing company where I rose through the ranks to become a technology journalist. But my first clip as a writer was in an arts zine circulated in bars on New York’s Lower East Side. I interviewed a guy dressed up like Jesus who came up from Alabama to protest a pro-gay play.
3. I’m a playwright, but I am opposed to starvation. Been there, done that. But writing plays and having them produced is fun. My plays have performed all over New York, as well as in Chicago, Vancouver, and Scotland. The New York Times called one of my plays “Triumphant!” A Brooklyn blog called it “Unrestrained, self-indulgence!” I think I win that particular battle. I still write plays. I like talking to myself, then forcing other people to perform the conversation.
4. I’ve been an Internet content creator for about ten years. I love the web. I was one of the original launch editors for Maxim Magazine’s website. I was also an editor for that same magazine. Sure, I was a flesh merchant. No, I’m not a frat boy. Yes, it was fun. At one point I had a box of fireworks under my desk, a desk drawer full of expensive whisky, and I sat next to a Segway. Once a month, I’d get a box full of comic books to, eh, review.
5. I was also one of the launch editors for Jokes.com, which was sold to Comedy Central. I worked there too. While at Comedy Central, I was lead writer for all kinds of sites for shows like South Park, The Daily Show, and Reno 911. While at Jokes.com, I created my greatest work — Zombie Baby Jokes.
6. One of the things I am most proud of was being an editor and writer for the award-winning, critically-acclaimed satire sites Chickenhead.com and Whitehouse.org. Whitehouse.org inspired other various political parodies online, including PsychedelicRepublicans.com. It also lead to me co-authoring the political parody “White House Inc Employee Handbook,” published by Plume.
7. For about three years, I co-hosted the popular nighttime talk radio show ”DeVore and Diana,” with Diana Falzone for Sirius Satellite Radio. We talked for four hours every night about sex, monkeys, and lasers. During the 2008 election, I also hosted the political talk radio show “The DMZ with John DeVore” for Sirius’s Indie Talk Channel. My dad got his start in media and politics as a radio guy. I wish he had been around to have seen me dragged in front of a mic… and not screw it up. He might have been proud.
8. I have written for The New York Sun, The New York Times, Time Out New York, The New York Press, Men’s Journal, Cracked Magazine, Sound and Vision Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Public Radio International. Online, I have written for Playboy.com, Comedycentral.com’s Indecision Forever, WEtv.com, The Fix.com, Esquire.com, Nymag.com, CNN.com, AOL.com, Cracked.com, Stuffmagazine.com, TheBlackTable.com, Will.I.Am’s Dipdive.com, and the “I Can Haz Cheezburger” blog network.
9. I am a regular guest, and sacrificial liberal, on the late-night, satirical gabfest Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. My blabbering bobblehead has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, G4TV, CBS and NBC .
10. Currently, I am Managing Editor of Digital Content and Social Media for Turner’s truTV.com. I also edit truTV.com’s humor blog Dumb As A Blog (dumbasablog.com). Most recently, I was Deputy Editor for the movie site Premiere.com. I also write the weekly column “Mind of Man” for amazing lady blog TheFrisky.com. Oh, I also had an essay published in “Best Sex Writing 2010″ which I’m proud of.
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10 things I thankfully don’t hate about you
I’ll be honest, I’m kind of hoping I’ll be one of the first to leave a comment on your new shiny blog. However if I am not, I will also survive. Ultimately I look forward to reading more of what you have to say, because normally it is well worded and laced with a refreshing sense of wit I haven’t seen in a while.
You rock. Good luck!
-Katie/@rdlenix
Hello John, I read your article in Cosmo, and I have chosen you and your article to write an essay about for my Human sexuality class, ( all good by the way) And I need a little bit more info on you, like…. Education, How educated are you? I Have noted your experience based on your “About”, but need the education.
Thanks for all of your help!
Sarah
I found you tonight and read your Mind of a Man: Why We Don’t Call You Back….you’re my hero, LOL. I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole damn thing — especially the “women are so fatalistic…” quote. Funniest stuff I’ve read on this topic…Awesome work.
So I randomly read a hysterical article you wrote for the frisky, which led me to your website, which led me to your Facebook and the conclusion that you went to Mclean High School. Slightly small world – as that’s also my alma-mater and I’m also a writer, but fresh out of j-school and blogging/doing some freelance social media from the parents’ basement with dreams of someday (soon) moving to new york.
I just read the “why you’re not married” article on THE FRISKY….and I re-shared it on facebook. YOU ROCK. : )
In reality you should not exist, but in fact there is no reality, so you are real, a flesh
and bone, (-A fide) , writer of great Pieces of Literature and Comedy. Mr. Devore or is it De ‘Vore has nailed the So-called opinion of the Heartbeat of the American Male who know not a thing about women and his own penis and how that penis thinks. I said how it thinks, not how it acts! Devore has captured a real straitforward thinking mans pulse on his boob addicted mind and pointed him in the correct direction to realize that there is a serious, rational, humorous way of life than just huge boobs on a cheerleader or a MILF buying formula at the local market looking so hot she would melt your butter. He (Devore) has brought a sinical divine comedy to everyones life that reads his words, and his words are pure gold and coated in platinum. Thank you John Devore, I have added you to my list of list of Johns I admire most in life. #1- John Lennon, #2-John Wayne, #3-John Fitzgerald Kennedey,#4- John Devore(not bad for a guy whom I never heard of until I read his “For men” articles on some WebSite called, “Frisky” just two days ago March 17, 2011. So for all us 50 year old men who are the product of two failed marriages and no children, we(I), salute you and hope that by reading your words we(I), can still rationalize Huge breasts on cheerleaders and Hot MILF’s Buying milk at the local market without the (well you know who they are…..??) making us(me), feel mighty guilty or completely stupid for having a libido( that means BONER for you younger set of men out there). So for all I have not said in this “Comments response” I will leave well enough alone and realize that no amount of praise or hype is going to get me free seats at the next Bulls game. Have nice day and know there is always someone in this world that feels just like you do right now–even if it is just one.
all i can say is HA HA and HA.
Your articles, which i stumbled upon through the frisky are refreshing and more importantly- convenient.
Did you write the article about Red Heads?