WANT A LAUGH? HEAD FOR THE FUNNIEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET - WWW.JOKES.COM.

SAN DIEGO, California, November 24th, 1998 - Laugh, they say, and the world laughs with you. WWW.JOKES.COM has the largest, most sophisticated joke data base on the Internet. Viewers can search the database for jokes by category (of course, "Lawyers" is very popular), by joke type such as One Liners, Stories, etc. and view and vote on the Funny Factor of the individual jokes.

Already beloved by its many devotees for its "Joke Du Jour," which can be viewed daily, JOKES.COM was recently singled out by London's Evening Standard for its "compendious database of jokes of all shapes and sizes." The newspaper praised JOKES.COM, noting that "refreshingly, it's not just gags." The Evening Standard, and the website's many daily visitors, also love the Hondo Headline News', which relays real but wacky newspaper headlines from around the world, browsing the Goo Gallery to get a "Goo" view of Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and others and following one of the most hilarious and brilliantly illustrated comics strips on the Net Ð The cartoon adventures of Ribman, a dim witted superhero. While enjoying all of these services, you can meet other jokesters in the chat room, or listen to Jokebot, a Joke Robot who can't stop telling jokes.

Hondo is the happy JOKES.COM mascot, in charge of all the monkey biz the site can think of. Hondo is featured in the site's special holiday and customized interfacesÑthe current Thanksgiving interface features an anxious turkey in the sights of a rifle. Other changeable interfaces include "Sir Hondo and the Dragon" and "2011: A Spaced Oddity." Creating an account on Jokes.com is FREE and in addition to customization features such as the interface choice, you can get JokeMailª a joke emailed to you every workday and get a web-based email account @jokes.com.

Jokes.com is another creation of Lost Reality Studios, Inc. (www.lostreality.com) a company devoted to creating entertaining and informational websites. John Carrieri, Lost Reality's CEO states that Jokes.com is one of our flagship sites; we love it because it brings smiles to people every day.

Laughter remains the best medicine, and for the millions who turn to Jokes.com, it's a tonic that's easy to find.