Ever Wanted To Be a Writer For Letterman's Top Ten Lists?

Well, you can forget that nonsense because you're never going to be. However, there is a site I've been visiting for years that posts bi-weekly top ten lists, to which anyone can submit a presumably humorous one-liner. Christian and Scott's Interactive Top Ten List has been going strong for 11 years, and has a vast archive of user-created lists. First a user suggests a topic, the site authors approve it, and then people who think they're just hi-goddamn-larious submit over 500 entries for the list. The authors then draw from these to compile the funniest top ten.

I've submitted things under the names Macdeth, Cyrano, and Dr. Onteevee. To name a few, my entries (ahem) can be seen in the more recent "Signs You Have Become a Video Game Hero," "Reasons to Look Forward to the World Cup," and "Uses for an Out-of-Gas Hummer"

Once you see one of your genuine entries posted on a new list, it's a good feeling. Then you get all jazzed and submit like crazy to the upcoming ones, but success isn't always forthcoming. Soon you begin to question Christian and Scott's appreciation of a good Lindsey Lohan burn, and the interest fades for a while. But the site is always there, and I've pilfered many a joke from its regulars for use in conversation.