Somebody needs to put that yearly yawnfest to bed.

As I was reading them I thought it sounded like the staff wrote them all themselves.

It’s just not funny. I mean, I know humour is subjective and I have a notorious dislike for Borat-style “funny”, but this stuff sounds more like, I dunno.

Unfunny people trying to be funny, I guess.

Well, there was one of the East Nashville ones that kind of hit home to me.

I’ll agree with you that it’s not funny. but enlighten me: how is a statement implying that Kenny Chesney may be gay a homophobic one?
It didn’t say it was a bad thing that he was gay, nor was it implied. So, I don’t agree with “homophobic” part of the post.
BUT - I have always hated thise YASN issues. Before, they were always sooooo urban-yuppie-liberal-elitist , now it seems like they are going in the other direction to an extreme.

They just seem like the same ones year after year somehow, even though I know they aren’t exactly the same.

how is a statement implying that Kenny Chesney may be gay a homophobic one?

I think I came to that conclusion after reading about the entry-submitter guy. (I read that article before I read the actual winning entries.)

His attitude seemed to be one of “being gay is teh funnee!!!”

Especially in this part:

When Kroger and Harris Teeter stores pulled issues of Out & About off the racks more than a month ago, citing a need to remain neutral on “specific agendas,” Williams had one question: where’s Kenny Chesney gonna get his copy now? “You hear rumors and things, innuendos,” he says. “[Chesney] went to college at East Tennessee State, where I went. There’s a big gay population there. You just joke about things like that.”

We’re not sure about those East Tennessee State gay stats. Still, Williams says most people can’t help but chuckle at the thought of catching Chesney at the magazine rack when they’re hitting up the cart corral. “For one person on my team, I had to explain what Out & About was because they’d never heard of it,” he says. “But they understood the Kenny Chesney part.”

I maybe had a knee-jerk reaction, I’ll admit.

Are we supposed to believe that the same 5 people wrote all of the top 20 judged funniest entries? Stupid and disappointing.

Sorry, this one is the winner if you are really Nashville.

You ask to get comped to a charity concert. —Charles Alexander

You’ve either asked someone to do this for you or been asked to do it for someone.

I kinda like the ‘Bluetooth’ one myself

I read these for years as an outsider and laughed. Sadly, the one year I finally “get” most of them…they’re just really not that funny.

Brittney - the YAWNIs?

The YASNIs make me wanna party like it’s 1998.

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The dude that took top honors must be paying them off. Not funny. And very old rumor that ain’t so. Several of the also-rans were actually quite humorous, at least more so than the top three.

The dude that took top honors must be paying them off. Not funny.

It’s one of his subsequent entries that sealed the deal for me:

YASNI “you can’t decide if your pro-family or anti-gay”

Wasn’t his winning entry last year also something about how inherently laughable teh gay is? I think he’s got a fixation.