THEME: JOK

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
June 13, 1993	15	PUNCH US	Complete any of the provided jokes in 75 words or fewer.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
June 26, 1994	70	SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA	Come up with jokes based on noises.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
February 12, 1995	100	THE JOKE'S ON YOU	Retell any of these jokes as they would be told by some celebrity, living or dead.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
May 21, 1995	114	THE JOKE'S ON YOU	Come up with jokes to culminate in any of these six punch lines.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
February 25, 1996	154	ENTER LAUGHING	Make up a knock-knock joke. The subject of the third line must be something crude, silly, or profound.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
June 2, 1996	168	LICENSE TO CARRY A PUN	Come up with original jokes like those provided.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
September 7, 1997	234	THE JOKE'S ON YOU	Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
February 8, 1998	256	THE PYLE INVITATIONAL	Come up with hip, contemporary riddles and answers. The punch line must contain a painful pun.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
March 8, 1998	260	IT'S A SNAP	Come up with replacements for the two hackneyed answers: "Is the Pope Catholic?" and "When Hell freezes over."	JOK	Text file | Contest image
April 2, 2000	343 (X)	Eastwood Ho.	Create a Good-Bad-Ugly progression.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
April 30, 2000	347 (XIV)	Capital Pun-ishment	Take an expression, or a lyric for a song, or any recognizable line of prose, and make it the punchline of an awful pun.	JOK LIT	Text file | Contest image
August 6, 2000	361 (XXVIII)	Bad Libs	Select one subject, one verb, and one object from the provided lists, and then answer the riddle you create.	WOR JOK	Text file | Contest image
August 20, 2000	363 (XXX)	It's Your Movie	Take the title of any movie and make it the answer to a riddle.	MOV JOK	Text file | Contest image
October 1, 2000	369 (XXXVI)	Punch Us	Complete any of the provided jokes.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
June 24, 2001	407 (LXXIV)	Adverbiage	Come up with a witticism or a joke by making a pun out of an adverb. Unlike Tom Swiftlys, your adverb must modify not a verb but an adjective.	JOK WOR	Text file | Contest image
September 23, 2001	420 (LXXXVII)	Ha Anxiety	Make us laugh.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
January 20, 2002	437 (CIV)	The Telegraph Poll	Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
June 16, 2002	458 (CXXV)	It's a Setup	Come up with joke setups for any of the provided punch lines.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
December 22, 2002	485 (CLII)	Asterisky Business	Write a joke with a punch line depending on knowledge so esoteric that it requires an asterisked explanation.	JOK	Text file | Contest image
May 16, 2004	558	Set Us Right	Send us conservative-leaning humor in any of the provided genres.	JOK	Text file
September 5, 2004	574	Boor Us Silly	Come up with some unwise attempts at humor--one either likely to backfire or to create other unpleasant consequences.	JOK	Text file
June 19, 2005	615	Airy Persiflage	Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement.	JOK	Text file
February 9, 2008	752	The Might-Mates Right	Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates.	JOK	Text file | Post e-version
February 16, 2008	753	Hot Off The Riddle	Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer.	JOK	Text file | Post e-version
December 20, 2008	796	Sincerest Flattery	Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote.	JOK	Text file | Post e-version
August 1, 2009	828	Inhuman Puns	Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it.	BUS JOK WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 7, 2009	842	Ask backwards	Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please.	JOK JEO	Text file
March 6, 2010	859	Can't goods	Cast a joke in one of the forms listed above.	JOK	Text file
January 15, 2012	954	Bring on the 'fight' jokes	Tell us an original joke ending with “And then the fight started.”	JOK	Text file | Contest image
March 17, 2013	1013	Har monikers	Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer.	JOK WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 23, 2013	1026	'Might' makes ink	Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates.	JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Art Grinath	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 7-21-13) Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 7-28-13)
August 18, 2013	1034	What's to like?	Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel]."	JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 2, 2014	1058	Eastwood Ho	Create a good-bad-ugly progression.	JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 8, 2015	1110	The mama of all humor	Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke for some well-known figure, past or present, real or fictional.	JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 27, 2016	1168	Asterisky business	Tell us an original joke whose punchline can't be understood without knowledge -- not necessarily scientific -- that most of us don't have (which you'll supply with a concise explanation). (Conversational text)	JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 31, 2019	1325	Stand up and jeer	Give us some original standup jokes that would have been good at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.	POL JOK	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jesse Frankovich	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 23, 2019	1337	Lidder me this: anagram riddles	Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names.	ANA JEO JOK QUE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 2, 2020	1369	Shoot us some oops	Tell us a concise original joke that revolves around a typo or misheard word. (Conversational text)	JOK WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 12, 2020	1379	Your wish: A pun -- a star	Tell a joke, in your choice of form, whose punchline is a pun on a song title or lyric. (Conversational text)	JOK WOR MUS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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