[4] Chris Taylor also attended the University of Sydney but never knew the others during that time, joining the Chaser later after volunteering as a contributor while working as a journalist in Melbourne.

Following the end of the War on Everything, a number of researchers and writers were elevated to on-screen roles for the new series The Hamster Wheel, with this team growing through four seasons of The Checkout, to 2016's Election Desk.

[5][13] In 2005, after six years and 91 issues, The Chaser decided to cease publication of the newspaper, due to an inability to meet production costs and the "large amount of time it takes to produce a paper nobody reads".

The magazine managed to last just 20 editions before folding due to financial insolvency, with founding member Firth stating "in hindsight we probably shouldn't have spent $40,000 on our bar tab".

The site initially featured articles from The Chaser's newspaper, as well as a popular fan forum, and a directory of internet oddities run by Andrew Hansen which included stern faced reviews of all the pornography he found.

[11] The Chaser's web presence expanded exponentially in the year 2000 after the spinoff site Silly2000.com, a parody Sydney Olympic website, went viral, gathering millions of views and international reviews.

[16] Though the app generated a large subscriber base, the team stopped updating it within a year due to their "frankly idiotic belief that the iPad would be a fad".

In 2016 The Chaser teamed up with satirical website The Shovel to produce a new live tour titled The War On The Year, wrapping up the news headlines of the last 365 days.

[20] In 2006 The Chaser team signed with the ABC to produce a variety comedy show based on news reviews, studio monologues and confrontations with politicians.

The project would be performed in front of a live audience compared with their previous news format television productions and was named The Chaser's War on Everything.

Originally set to air on 29 April 2011 on ABC2, a Chaser special was to be shown based on the Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton featuring live commentary from the team members.

However, a diplomatic row ensued, after the ABC were forced by the BBC and APTN to pull the show from being aired due to concerns from Buckingham Palace.

At the 2007 Logie Awards some of the Chaser team were "manhandled" by Crown Casino security staff on the red carpet before being closely supervised for the rest of the evening.

[35] During Dick Cheney's visit to Australia in 2007, members of The Chaser team were included on the official list of terrorists, anarchists, and protesters deemed to pose a threat to the US Vice-President.

The song satirised the media's posthumous praise of deceased celebrities, regardless of their behaviour in life, and mentioned among others John Lennon, Peter Brock, Stan Zemanek, Princess Diana, Steve Irwin, Donald Bradman, and Kerry Packer.

[43] In October 2018, the Chaser made national headlines following a guerrilla stunt that saw the words "Advertise here, call Alan" projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House.

[48] The team made news in August 2019 following a spat with the Catholic Church over a plaque for cardinal George Pell, who had been convicted on child abuse charges (later overturned by the Australian High Court).

[51][52] This led to widespread confusion due to the Chaser's verified status on Twitter, with many members of the public thinking Trump had abandoned his campaign.

The team's verified account status was restored in June 2021, only to be immediately suspended again within hours, after they impersonated Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and claimed he was deporting his daughters to Nauru.

[56] The Chaser responded to their new status as 'Facebook's only news site' by publishing a 600-point list detailing every instance of the sitting government's corruption while in office, which immediately went viral.

[59][60] In April 2021 the Chaser Interns started a hoax petition calling for fairy bread, a popular children's snack, to be banned, in an attempt to bait News Corp into running an obviously fake story.

Despite being called out on air by talk back radio host Ben Fordham, the prank was a success, with the story being picked up by multiple News Corp mastheads leading to a national outrage before being revealed as a hoax.