Well, it’s that time again and we sent a representative of team Comic Wonder out to award the Comic Wonder of the Year trophy to the best joke-teller of 2008. This year’s winner is no other than 1anero, who hails from the windy city, which is where we caught up with him…

Kris presents the big trophy!

 

 

 (Trophy detail)

Discount Engraving Corp comes through again!  How do they keep their prices so low?!

 

 

The ‘Big Check’!

 

 

 

Eager to cash in on his Comic Wonder booty, 1anero heads to the ‘Big Check Cashing Store’

 

 

her: “We’ve never had a check this big before!”

1anero: “$2500 is a lot, but that’s the biggest you’ve ever gotten?”

 

 

I’d better get the manager

 

 

That’s the manager?

 

 

…Seriously? The guy with the eye patch manages the check cashing store?

That is the most appropriate thing I’ve ever heard of.

 

 

I’m pretty flush, so I guess I can wait around a while while they discuss how big my check is.

 

 

This guy is VERY impressed too.

impressed guy: “Who’s the comic?”

1anero: “me”

impressed guy: “You must be pretty funny with a check THAT big.”

1anero: “You have no idea”

 

 

Might as well endorse it while we’re waiting

 

 

Is this even going to fit in here?

 

 

 What!?? It’s just like cash! What are you talking about?

 

 

 There’s the door Comic Wonder!

 

 

Seriously bummed best joke-teller in the world.

 

 

This check isn’t even worth the massive amount of paper it’s printed on!

 

 

 This is the part of the story that I warned you about in the headline.

Comedy turns to rage as 1anero opens up a 55-gallon drum of Whoop A$$ on the messenger.

This is also the hard lesson that I talked about in the headline. Big checks aren’t real. They’re for photo ops, because people look really stupid shaking hands and holding a really tiny check. You cash the tiny check. I feel bad that I didn’t mention that to Kris before he left.

 

Who’s laughing now!

(answer: 1anero)

 

 So, we got these photos in the mail and nobody’s heard from 1anero since. If you happen to live in Chicago and see him, please drop us an email or call the authorities.

Incidentally, we’re hiring a new … whatever Kris did.

This week’s feature member is presently the third funniest person on Comic Wonder. At least according to our Sense of Humor Index, a rating system that rewards those who tell funny jokes, find funny jokes before everyone else, are positive members in the community, and win stuff.

Yes, Skez63 is truly funny. He has the hardware to prove it to. Hailing from Indiana, his midwestern drawl is a trademark on his winning performances. He’s pulled in Comic Wonder of the Week nods four times:

• “Breakfast at the White House” on July 21st, 2008
• “Foreskins and matzo balls” on July 7th, 2008
• “No Monkeys Allowed” on May 19th, 2008
• “Gator Shoes” on Cinco de Mayo, 2008

His most famous joke is “No Monkeys Allowed” which received Comic Wonder of the Month honors for May, and is in the running for the Comic Wonder of the Year announced in December.

Skez is one of our best community members, and it shows. He has started this trend of putting “(JL)” in his joke titles for any jokes he rescues from Joke Limbo. By our count, his is our most prolific missionary. Both Skez and Comic Wonder invite you to start tagging your jokes with (JL) in both your joke title or your joke tags.

So thank you Skez for giving us some of our best jokes (and best voices of drunk people and blondes!), and being our finest missionary saving jokes from Joke Limbo Comic Wonder has ever had!

Twice a month, Comic Wonder will bring you some Featured Members commentary. Our goal for the feature is to give some inside information on those members who deserve to be broadcast to the community.

This week’s featured member gives us two guys from our neighbors to the north, Canada. Canucklehead and FOGGY are two members who have been active on Comic Wonder since the start. Well, we’re pretty sure Canucklehead is from Canada with a name like that! FOGGY has some fantastic jokes with Canadians as the punchlines, so it was natural to assume we could include him in this award.

We chose these two guys because we wanted to give a big thanks to our very large Canadian contingent on the site. Who would have thought Canadians would love jokes as much as Comic Wonder does? Well, we’re glad to have them and some of our best joke tellers hail from “up nort.”

These guys are both winners. Canucklehead most recently won Comic Wonder of the Week on February 28th, 2008, with the joke “Oh Canada!” FOGGY’s follow up five weeks later was “FIRST DATES”.

Canucklehead has exactly 50 jokes on Comic Wonder, and although “Oh Canada!” is hilarious, our favorite is “Oh No Ewe Didn’t!” — Short, simple, and hilarious.

FOGGY has some classics in his arsenal, but our favorite is “PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS”, which includes his trademark laugh at the end. And what great timing with the American election coming up!

So we’d like to give a big ol’ American salute to our Canadian friends, and any other Comic Wonder member who greets us from above the northern border. If you happen to be a Comic Wonder member and from Canada, please leave a comment with your username so we, and everyone else, can know and thank you!

Thanks again, Team Canada!

Hello Comic Wonders!

Our second installment of our bi-weekly feature gives us one of the most positive members within the community. This is of course Wayne Edwards!

Wayne has come over to Comic Wonder from his blog The Family Poet, where he writes humor-based poetry for families and children. In a world where the concept of “joke” is often instantly related with dirty, derogatory, or debauchery connotations, we are happy to have members like Wayne to help balance things out. In the future, Comic Wonder is hoping to provide some family-rated sections of the site where only the best content for children will be available. If you’re a fan of the traditional joke, this may not the section for you, but it is a goal of Comic Wonders’ nonetheless, and Wayne’s jokes will be front and center for families to hear.

Wayne has not won any Comic Wonder of the Week awards, but here are some of our favorite humor poems he has told:

• “Idiot Store”
•  “Grandpa’s Secret for Long Life”
• “Highway Sign”

Do you have a favorite humor poem by Wayne? You can check out all his work here. He has 86 jokes to choose from, so if you find one you like that we didn’t mention, please feel free to share!

A big heart-felt thanks goes out to Wayne for all his creativity and positive energy on Comic Wonder, and we’re proud to feature him as this week’s Featured Member.

You can view all our featured member stories by bookmarking this page. Check back every other Friday when we release the next installment. Something tells me next week we’ll be going north of the border…

Comic Wonder is proud to announce our first featured member: Funnybone!

First, let me explain a little more about this new feature. Comic Wonder recognizes that it’s the community that keeps it going. It’s certain individuals within the community who tell and share funny jokes, spread the word of Comic Wonder outside these walls, leave positive comments, and have a distinct personality all their own that make Comic Wonder what it is today. They are unique, which in turn makes Comic Wonder a unique community.

It is recognizing those individuals that drives this new bi-weekly feature. We are going to try to pick out a member who deserves to get placed on the front page in front of all of his or her peers, fans, and friends.

It is with that said that Funnybone was the no-brainer first choice.

Funnybone was a part of one of the first wave of users to sign up for Comic Wonder. She joined our little yukster community  on January 12th, and went on a terror telling one great joke after another. They were welcome additions.

She won her first Comic Wonder of the Week on January 28th with the performance “Sick kitty” and didn’t look back from there. She had a total of 4 follow up Comic Wonder of the Week winners. Here they are:

• “A blonde wins a bet”
• “Face lift”
• “George Bush goes jogging”
• “How to avoid a speeding ticket”

The “Face lift” performance won the Comic Wonder of the Month award for January, and is in the running with 11 other finalists for the 2008 Comic Wonder of the Year.

She has been featured as an Audio Joke of the Day a total of 10 times, with her most recent joke, “I want to join this damned church” — which I might add could be her funniest and dirtiest joke to date — being featured yesterday.

Funnybone has amassed a 40,000 point lead in the Sense of Humor rankings, and what makes us proud is that she’s done it the legal way: Telling quality jokes, being active in the community by voting, commenting and being constructive with others, and winning awards.

Yes, let it be known that one day in the future when there is a “Comic Wonder Hall of Fame”  Funnybone will be a first ballot entry. Congrats to Funnybone for being our first featured member!