World’s Greatest Joke-Teller Discovered in Seattle
February 5, 2008
From a long list of some of the world’s most formidable joke-tellers, one was left standing in the global battle to be recognized as the world’s greatest joke teller. ComicWonder.com recently announced that Chris “Captainhilariousness” Cashman of Seattle tallied the most laughs in the first ever audio-based, online joke-telling contest.
Launched in December 2007, ComicWonder.com is an innovative Web site where people just type in their phone number and the site automatically calls them so they can record their joke — similar to leaving a voice mail message. Once the joke is on the site, the world listens to it, votes on it, shares it with others and ultimately decides who the best joke teller is.
With its motto being “A joke is not a joke until it’s told,” ComicWonder.com is on a mission to bring the ancient art of joke-telling back to life after it has suffered serious damage from an endless supply of text jokes, which have proven to be a sad surrogate for the real thing. It scoured the earth to discover the one hero who could be a beacon of light for its cause — the Luke Skywalker of Laughter, the Frodo of Funny — the Comic Wonder of the Year. Read more
