Rock the Jokes: As of Today, Your Vote Counts

Hello. Thank you. For the past seven years or so, Blue Donut has been home to a page called the 100 Funniest Jokes of All Time (applause). The list was compiled originally for a late-1999 "comedy" issue of GQ magazine. Everyone in the media was making contrived end-of-the-millennium lists at that time, and I thought it would be funny (and also funny) to list the "funniest jokes ever" and rank them in order, as if it were as precise a science as listing the top 100 novels of the century. I talked to some comedians and piled up old joke books and put together a list, which the magazine chopped down to 75 jokes for space and added some stupid ones. After that, I put the original, non-editor's-cut version online, and for lack of anything better to do it has become the world's #1 Google result on searches for "funniest joke" and #3 for "funniest jokes."

The list has always been static, and stuck in the past, just like the cultural references on a newspaper comics page. Now that all changes. Thanks to finding a guy who knows how to write online dabatase code, the joke list is undergoing the biggest change in its history. Now you can vote on each joke, giving each a rating from one-half-a-star to five stars. Jokes will be re-ranked continually based on their average world ranking. The hegemony of the French Toast Joke is over! I will be able to add jokes to the list (we'll still call it the "100"). And, coming next: I will accept jokes from site visitors and add many of them, too (after reviewing each submission -- you know how much I dislike the mean and the tasteless). I encourage you to take this opportunity to make your voice heard. The ballot awaits here.