CAPTION CONTEST WINNER #100
Congrats to Padraic Connelly for his winning caption! You can see Pad do imrpov at ComedySportz Chicago
Thanks to Kristi Parker Barnhart for the image!
See all the runners up: http://on.fb.me/1GxcK5n
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Winner! Congrats to Sarah Donovan for another Caption Contest Win! A special thanks to Marla Caceres for the picture! (You can see Marla be hilarious in Whirled News Tonight at iO Chicago).
See all the runners up here: http://on.fb.me/1v4whWl
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We have a winner! Winner of Caption Contest #104 is Tamara Nolte! This is the second time Tamara has won her own caption contest. You can see Tamara (www.tamaranolte.com) in New York City, because that’s where she lives.
Thanks to Jon Forsythe for the image!
See all the runners up: bit.ly/104captions
Want to play the next one, follow along here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/iwontamarascaptioncontest/
Check out this interview with Caption Contest winner @KateCohenTweets and then go check her out at @nymif tonight!
Winner! Congrats to @KateCohenTweets for the win! You can see Kate all over Chicago with The Improvised Sondheim Project, ComedySportz Chicago, and Baby Wants Candy, The Improvised Musical with Full Band! and more.
See the runners up here: http://on.fb.me/1qAXBeJ
Want to play along? Follow Tamara here.
Caption Contest Winner #105
Congrats to Tyler Dean Kempf for his winning caption! Tyler is director of The Improvised Sondheim Project. Their newest show, Outta the Woods, was just extended through February. It’s playing at Chicago’s MCL Saturday’s at 9pm.
Thanks to Alan S. Dalinka for the image!
See all the runners up: bit.ly/105captions
Want to play the next one, follow along here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/iwontamarascaptioncontest/
Winner! Congrats to @KateCohenTweets for the win! You can see Kate all over Chicago with The Improvised Sondheim Project, ComedySportz Chicago, and Baby Wants Candy, The Improvised Musical with Full Band! and more.
A big thanks to Alina Ozersky Henderson (Who is currently fundraising for great cancer awareness https://fundraise.brightpink.org/LadyHendo) for the picture, and Steven Lyons for the text overlay (http://www.doingdoingdone.com/).
See the runners up here: http://on.fb.me/1qAXBeJ
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Caption winner is Morgan DeTogne of NYC who performs as part of the Hypokrit Theatre Company.
Image submitted by Rebecca George of Chicago, IL - learn more here: therebeccageorge.com
Sorry to Kevin and Jon for their second and third places. See their post and the other runners up here: http://on.fb.me/UI1Erq
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Caption Contest #109 - CAPTION CONTEST LIVE SPEED ROUND
Congrats to Rebecca George for her WIN!!!
See the contest here: bit.ly/109Captions
Congrats to Natalie Sullivan Shipman for winning Tamara’s Caption Contest #133! Thanks to Anne Marie Scalies
See the runners up here: bit.ly/133Captions
Congrats to Geoff Crump on his Caption Contest win! You can get his sketch duo’s comedy album at crassus.bandcamp.com (pay what you want) or on iTunes under “We are Crassus,” the album is titled “Arm the Whales.”
See the runners up here: http://on.fb.me/1o2UxmA
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A delayed farewell to the Caption Contest.
Back in July 2013, I posted to Facebook a picture of a few pennies stacked on top of each other near a staircase. I asked my friends to comment with funny captions for it. I never knew that simple act of trying to make Facebook amusing would lead to more than 100 pictures and hilarious captions, and the chance to chat with people from around the world who joined in on the fun.
But here we are, and after that first picture (one of the winning captions: “Taking the stairs makes cents”) my caption contest grew far beyond what I could have imagined. 423 people supplied 5908 hilarious captions to 140 images ranging from pun-filled pitches to more esoteric entries.
I’ve had some amazing experiences doing the caption contest, have met some wonderful people through a video series I called WinnerViews, got to watch people making each other giggle in a video series I called ViewerViews, and I myself, spun off Caption Contest into a game show I called the Nun On Pun Off.
What better way to end than after a string of hilarious and enjoyable live shows? The caption contest became such a success that I took a 90-minute live version to Brooklyn, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Audience members, as well as people watching from home on their phones, threw out captions for a string of silly and bizarre images, and some local comedians joined in as well.
I want to thank the hundreds of people who were a part of making the Caption Contest so fun. What unites all the images and the suggested captions is an earnest desire to make others laugh, to give everyone a quick chuckle and make their day a little brighter. From joining the Facebook Page to attending an event - in a small way we all made the world a little better place to be.
While I miss these conversations, I encourage everyone, everywhere, whenever they see a strange or unusual image to think about a funny caption and share it with their friends.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the final image in the contest? A line up of child-sized dolls looking out a window. The winning caption: “American Ghoul Place.”
Thanks for the laughter, everybody.
- Tamara Nolte
P.S. Interested in bringing Caption Contest back to life, and want to help produce the online experience? Email me at tamnolte[at]gmail[dot]com
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Want to see all of the videos created over the life time of Captions Contest? Grab some popcorn and enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnhFaH-sXGIfi482jmw2hwvm-hghXB2Un