Hello Comic Wonders!

A year full of great jokes is coming to an end and it’s time to Crown the 2008 Comic Wonder of the Year.

…but before we do that, I want to thank everyone that has helped Comic Wonder grow over the last year. We have served well over ONE MILLION jokes and the new ones keep coming (and keep getting better.) Thank you for listening and thank you for your jokes!

Drum roll please…The 2008 Comic Wonder of the Year is 1anero!

1anero will take home $2,500 in cash, a fairly obnoxious trophy and the title of Comic Wonder of the Year!

His performance “The African Safari” narrowly beat out the other 11 finalists. The judges were very impressed with his character voices, story details and comedic timing. Simply put, his ability to take a joke, bring it to life and make us wet our pants (just a little bit) put him over the edge.

This was a difficult call for us. Funnybone’s originality was hard to ignore. KFC’s smooth joke telling got him some big points. RancheroMan was our runner-up and almost beat out 1anero because of his story telling ability. Skez63 got a good laugh out of the judges. REC didn’t disappoint with his punchline. Benroach90’s voice acting made him one of my personal favorites. Sam Greenfield won our 2008 Radio’s Comic Wonder contest among radio personalities in the United States last summer, and the joke speaks for itself. VoiceofElk has been our most prolific joke teller lately and is one of the staff’s favorites lately. (We used many of his jokes over Thanksgiving!) And Apavlon won our 2008 Political Joke of the Year contest with his insightful look into government contractors.

In the end all were worthy of consideration, but 1anero emerged as the winner. His body of work shows how talented and consistently good he is at telling a great joke.

We will have an official word from him soon (Maybe we can talk him into giving an acceptance speech, so keep an eye out for that!)

So what is on the horizon for Comic Wonder?

We are now hard at work planning the details for the 2009 Comic Wonder of the Year contest and we’re happy to announce that it will be getting bigger and better.

In addition to the annual title, we will be offering prizes for specialized themed contests and teaming up with a great charity to donate some money to a good cause.

We will also be introducing a community forum allowing you to create custom groups around your favorite funny stuff.

And as for you filmmakers, we’ve got some fun challenges specifically for you too!

This has been a great year and we really appreciate all of your involvement and are really looking forward to 2009.