News so fake you’ll wish it were real

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Damper 3 has a dream. A dream that involves a lot of money. Like, obscene amounts of it, and a vacation home in the Bahamas.

But Damper 3 also dreams of becoming a leader in producing news so fake and ludicrous that you’ll wish it were real.

You may be tempted to think that quality satire sites like The Onion, Duffel Blog, Babylon Bee, and the Borowitz Report have a pretty good handle serving up quality fake news. You may even think there’s no room for more satirical reporting.

You’re wrong. Please shut up.

News so fake you’ll wish it were real

Today we’re sharing the first Damper 3 News reel, because we want some of that green cabbage.  Short of that, we'd at least like some of those cool press credentials to stick in our noir fedoras, not a stupid Trilby.

We may not have a lot of money or resources, or ethics. Or journalistic experience. Or journalistic integrity. Come to think of it, we don’t write good either. But we have moxie. And a desire to bring you the fake truth.

But whatever we may lack we make up in complete apathy towards our shortcomings.

That’s our promise.

With that said, we present the very first edition of Damper 3 News:

 




Clearly not everything went according to plan. While we track down just where the heck Jeff is, please check out some of our other videos:

●      Jacks of no Trades Video Page

Like to laugh and read?

●      A Noir Guy Returns to the Office

●      “Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 1) The Bionic Man and America’s space program: Did a Soviet Union “death probe” provide the technology for NASA’s Mars rovers?

Pop culture

●      What Obi-Wan Kenobi got right and Boba Fett got wrong

●      Love and Thunder, Ragnarok, and The Mighty Thor #362

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