The Poke is the fastest growing humour site in the UK with over 650,000 unique users and 3 Million page impressions per month.
In just over 12 months we have amassed over 50,000 fans who have signed up to our Facebook, Twitter and YouTube feeds and our weekly newsletter, The Poke On Friday.
We aim to deliver an ultimate antidote to the daily grind – so on here you’ll get original spoof news stories, satirical mash-ups and brilliant photoshoppery.
Plus – with the help of our growing army of contributors we handpick the funniest stuff on the web bringing you up to 10 daily updates.
Original content on the site is produced by a collective of up-and-coming comedy writers, photoshop wizards and video mixologists.
We aim to champion all manner of new and exciting comedy talents rising up from the interwebs and give them a platform.
We also have an annual awards initiative called The Pokes which honours the best-in-show of web comedy.
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Editorial
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History
The Poke started out as fanzine in Aug 2002 – we printed 30,000 copies and distributed it via independent music shops and up at the Edinburgh Festival. People liked it. We really wanted to do a news-stand version..but we got distracted and did some other things instead..until May 2010.
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The Sunday Times put it in their Top Apps of 2012 list.
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Comment Policy
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Author Statements and Comments
The Poke is a multi-author site and any opinions expressed by the authors in posts or comments do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the authors as a group or of The Poke and it’s owners. The Poke and or its owners take no responsibility for statements or opinions expressed by it’s authors. Posts are edited for content with regards to content policy but are not otherwise edited.
Content Policy
The Poke is a humor site suitable for an adult audience. Adult language is allowed as long as it is not overly excessive and the post is clearly marked as being “not safe for work” (NSFW). We do not censor our authors statements, except to comply with our comments policy, and encourage them to exercise their freedoms of speech and opinion.
Crediting Sources
The Poke is a multi-author blog and accepts submissions from a wide variety of sources. Due to our high volume of posts and submissions we are not able to always verify the source of content. Due to the nature of the internet and the widespread availability of the content we use, if we have used your content and not credited you, we ask that you send us an email containing the original URL of the content and we will update the post as soon as possible.
Content Removal
The Poke is a multi-author blog and accepts submissions from a wide variety of sources. Due to our high volume of posts and submissions we are not able to always verify the source of content. Due to the nature of the internet and the widespread availability of the content we use, if you require content be removed from this site, you will need to provide us proof of the original source.
*Oh and just for the record we called it The Poke well before Facebook coined the phrase.
