Do You Think Taxes Are Funny? Then You Are Either Weird or Eligible for This $10,000 Contest
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: contests, taxes
While scouring the internet for somewhere to buy TurboTax’s Home and Business edition for a lot less money than I really want to pay, I came across this little contest running over at the place where lame wanna-be film artists go to die: YouTube.
Apparently all you have to do is make a video of a funny stand-up routine, as long as it’s about taxes, and then the least suckiest person wins $10,000 and gets to open for Jay Mohr who you may remember from his hot wife, Nikki Cox. To get you started, here are some jokes about taxes that you can use for your video that I just made up:
I’m out of work, my wife left me, I owe the IRS $50,000, I’m being audited for the sixth straight year, and I just found out my dog has rabies. On top of that, I apparently really suck at joke-writing because I thought “my dog has rabies” was an awesome punchline to “I owe the IRS $50,000.”
I went to my tax accountant the other day when he said he was done with my tax return. He’s at his desk clicking away at his computer when I come in—you know, doing tax accountant stuff—so I go up to him and I ask him, “Am I getting any money back this year.” He jumps out of his chair and shouts, “Yes! $523!” I look up at him, throw my hands in the air, and say “Hallelujah!” He looks at me funny and he says “Oh, I didn’t realize you got excited when someone else won at computer Solitaire. By the way, you owe $4,000 this year.”
I decided to try out some of that “tax preparation software” this year rather than going with my old way of doing taxes—being unemployed and not making any money to pay taxes on in the first place. But when I started up the program it started asking me all of these personal questions that made me feel uncomfortable. “What’s your Social Security Number?” “How much money do you make each year?” “How many children do you have?” Well, I know from Dateline NBC that I shouldn’t give out by Social Security Number to a computer. I wouldn’t even tell my wife how much money I made each year, assuming I had a wife, or that I made money each year. And if computers aren’t advanced enough to be able to scan the entire world for my DNA and tell me if I have any children I don’t know about, then I sure as hell don’t want a computer doing my taxes for me.
As you can see, you’ll get no competition from me in this contest.
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30 Responses »
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Mrs. Micah
February 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
If only I was a comedienne. But I’m not. I do enjoy a good tax joke, though. Good being the operative word.
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Money Blue Book
February 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Your sense of humor is funny, but Punny, your punchlines here need a bit more work
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Roger
October 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Was there ever a winner to this contest? Because a decently funny tax-related joke would be great… if it existed.
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ximike2101
July 26th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Taxation is a basic national development is inevitable. Of course, taxes are reasonable is another matter.Thank you for sharing!
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November 3rd, 2010 at 8:21 am
TurboTax always was very creative about their marketing campaigns .. I really enjoyed their TurboTax rap contest in 2007
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November 3rd, 2010 at 8:24 am
here is a video to this contest http://www.taxforum.us/video/
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الجياش
December 20th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
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December 20th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
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March 4th, 2011 at 5:50 am
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July 5th, 2011 at 12:45 am
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July 5th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
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September 3rd, 2011 at 12:54 pm
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September 15th, 2011 at 9:56 am
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October 2nd, 2011 at 8:36 am
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October 25th, 2011 at 9:55 am
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November 21st, 2011 at 7:36 am
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
It’s sad and funny how you can present real problems with such easy and in such a funny way
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
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November 25th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Taxation is a basic national development is inevitable. Of course, taxes are reasonable is another matter.Thank you for sharing!
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jocu-RI cu Masini
December 1st, 2011 at 5:33 am
Impressive you managed to turn something about money into something funny
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January 3rd, 2012 at 9:31 am
Great article as usual, I know that this is a problem for everybody but I still can’t stop laughing
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February 1st, 2012 at 9:17 am
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