A discussion with frequent HumorQ Winner Joey Allgood...
So, you’re a HumorQ champion. To what do you credit such an impressive sense of humor?
My wife is my harshest critic, so I’m under constant pressure to meet her standard of funny. Once while we were dating, I uttered a mediocre pun and spent the next month sleeping on the couch. We weren’t even living together!
Do you have some sort of ritual that you do that helps you submit champion caliber captions?
I usually log in pretty early in the day and see what the new caption is, then maul it over in my head for a while until I come up with something that makes me laugh. That should be everyone’s barometer of funniness.
Are there certain people you’d like to approach and say “Remember that day you said I wasn’t funny? Well my humorq is (fill in your humorq here)” ?
There’s a couple, but it would be in poor taste to gloat and mock at this point. Does that make me a better person than Elisha Allgood or Russ Clinton? I’ll let you decide.
Let’s say you realized a tiny goat family has been living in the glove compartment of your car, what would you say to them?
Nothing. I’d let the vacuum do the talking.
Fair is fair. Do you have a question for me?
Nope, I have two. Is there a way to provide an edit option on a caption you submitted on that day? I get why editing your caption after it’s been voted on would be a bad idea, but sometimes you misspell a word or think of a funnier way to phrase something. Also, would it be possible to add an option to add bold, italics, underlines, etc. to captions?
Yes there’s a way. But you asked two questions so I can’t help you until some penalty period passes.
In case you happen to write one liner jokes too, what (tasteful) one liner joke of yours would you like me to try out for you at my next open mic visit? (which I would put on youtube so you could see if it worked)
I’m just curious, does anyone here know if bulimics prefer finger food?
Joey, you should be ashamed. Bulimic finger jokes are in ‘bad taste’.
Is there another website (besides HumorQ.com where we put a number on how funny people are), that you would like the world to know about?
Sure! My lovely and talented wife helped set up a place for me to put my creations (mostly caption wins and fake news articles at the moment)… it’s at https://joeyallgood.wordpress.com/
Finally, is there anything else you would like to share with the people learning about HumorQ?
If you’re anything like me when I first joined, the first few weeks were brutal. Give it time and don’t lose heart. It takes a while familiarize yourself with the type of entries that win. Scroll through past winners and get a feel for the kind of humor voters appreciate. And above all, BE PATIENT! There are a lot of talented captioneers out there. Just when you think you’ve written a “sure thing”, people like Cary Antebi, Rita Welegala, and Ted Rivera will come up with something that makes you embarrassed by what you submitted. And if you think you deserved a name check in the previous sentence, win next month’s contest and prove me wrong… :)
