Comments on: A joke walks into a website ...

A joke walks into a website ...

scottreynen — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:59:37 -0800

Comic Wonder is a new joke telling and rating site. With jokes as audio, would-be comics are able to capture the timing and tone that make many jokes funny.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:32:18 -0800

Dial-a-joke goes Web 2.0. Does anybody else suspect the involvement of Woz?

By: Anything

Anything — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:00:10 -0800

Pity I don't have Flash, that looks like a neat site.

By: salishsea

salishsea — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:54:19 -0800

With jokes as audio, would-be comics are able to capture the timing and tone that make many jokes funny. ...too bad most of them don't. Definitely heavy on the "wonder" and light on the "comic."

By: zippy

zippy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:33 -0800

Don't get me started. Don't e-ven get me started.

By: davejay

davejay — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:38:09 -0800

At ImprovOlympic in Chicago, they used to (still do?) a midnight thing one day a week after the shows, called one thousand and one. The host gives a thing, and everyone rushes the stage to tell their best improvised "one thousand and one things walks into a bar..." joke. Those who do well live to judge the others; those that do not get judged accordingly, and must do the monkey dance. Call me when that experience (including the monkey dance) has been converted to Web 2.0, and maybe I'll click.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:16:49 -0800

Pity I don't have Flash, that looks like a neat site. That would have been a justified comment in 2000. We've moved on since then. You ought to catch up. If you're thinking of pulling the "open source defence" then I think you'll find that there's a very capable open source rendition of the Flash player. If you're going to pull the "HTML is all we need" defence, you ought to climb back under that rock.

By: Occams Hammer

Occams Hammer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:42:39 -0800

@humblepigeon - Woz is not behind it but we are definitely trying to track him down. As for the content...At least we're funnier than MOST 4-day olds. We're brand new, working out some bugs and looking for great joke-tellers. @anything - know any good Linux jokes?

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:31:05 -0800

If you want toi track down woz, just send him email. I believe he publishes his contact info on his site.