Political Humor | Political Humor Writer’s Contest

Here’s your chance to show off your talent and find out how thick your skin is, by entering a monthly, right-leaning, political humor writer’s contest with very little social redeeming value or reward. All political viewpoints are welcome but you’ll have a much better chance of winning, if you can at least fake being conservative.

This Month’s Contest:

For the month of August 2008. Both McCain and Obama have had their “Reagan moments” during this campaign. Ronald Reagan once said “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” This month, just finish the sentence for each candidate. Feel free to use the now infamous “It was a dark and stormy night(’s)…” ill-structured, verbose, silliness as a model.

Obama : All great change in America begins…

McCain: All great change in America begins…

How To Enter:

Just send us your best material to PoliticalHumorContest AT Gmail.com

Place your name and email address and your entry in the body of the email, not as an attachment. We will delete any entries with attachments, without ever opening it. This is due to all of the nasty stuff that creeps around in these things.

Privacy:

Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty believes strongly in the right to privacy. We’ll ever sell your information or give to anyone else. All we require is a name and email address. It doesn’t even have to be your real name. Except for the winning entry –which will be posted and archived- all submissions and personal information will find their way into the wastebasket at the end of each month. Can’t have it clogging up the inbox.

For more information, see our Privacy Policy page.

Cost:

A big, fat zero. That’s right, nothing. Freedom isn’t free, but contest can be.

Topics:

Each month -probably around the beginning- Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty will post that month’s topic. You will then have whatever time is left, to compose and submit your attempt at humor.

Prizes:

Again, somewhere around the first of the following month -depending on just how lazy the staff gets- the winner’s entry will be posted on the site for the entire world to read and poke fun at, through their comments. But here’s the best part, the winners can comment back. Is that the greatest prize ever, or what?

We might even post an honorable mention entry now and again, if we think it is warranted.

Deadline:

The last day of each month. We’re standing firm on that.

Rules:

Every month the new topic will be posted in the contest section. Along with the topic, guidelines will also be included. These may include such constraints as word count, style or voice. Follow the guidelines or risk having your hard work cast into the void.

Write in English. It’s not that we’re prejudice, we just don’t know too many words in other languages. Most of those that we do know wouldn’t be deemed appropriate.

A little adult language is OK, as long as it’s contextual, but try to keep it to a minimum. Intelligent humor tends toward loftier words, ideas and phrasing (sometimes), and intelligent humor is what we’re seeking. All you have to do is read our posts to know that. So please don’t make us speculate at your IQ level, we’re really bad at it and tend to guess very low.

The highly evolved folks at Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty have the final say as to who wins and who loses. We will accept bribes, but taking the high moral ground, we’ll not let that influence our decisions. If you don’t win, consider that you may have had stiff competition, the judges just don’t know funny when they see it or just maybe, you suck. Regardless, please enter as you vote, early and often.

Contest is not open to the usual suspects at Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty, their families, or other bloggers. Don’t get upset bloggers, you guys are something like professionals. This contest is a forum for those who would love to be in your position, raking in all that money and basking it the fame and glory of it all.

These rules are subject to change, but don’t bother asking.

Good Luck!