Great Evil Laugh Contest

[ Update June 28th: The contest winner is announced! Please check out the awesome results show in Unmortem Report #4 for the winning entry, including the top 10 evil laughs! Muahahahahahahaha! Congratulations to the winner! You have won immortality and an awesome iPod touch! ]

[ Update June 22nd: Please note that the contest is now closed for entries. Thank you all for participating! Check back on June 28th, 2009 for the results show which will be in Unmortem Report #4! Muahahahahahahaha! I'll announce the top 10 evil laughs and the contest winner! You can subscribe to the RSS feed for free to be updated right when the results show is posted, or just keep checking back on the 28th manually to find out! ]

I am looking for the Greatest Evil Laugh in the World! Do you have it? If so, you can win immortality and an awesome iPod touch, just by laughing! Hurry! Start laughing! Contest entries are due by June 21st, 2009.

Featuring world-class evil guest judges JC Hutchins, Seth Harwood, Matthew Wayne Selznick and Corey Graham!

Click below for the audio-only promo for the Great Evil Laugh Contest:

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Here’s what the winner will receive:

• IMMORTALITY! (In the form of having his or her evil laugh forever embedded in an upcoming episode of FETIDUS: The Damned Heir!)
• An awesome iPod touch! Lovingly pre-loaded with all the episodes of FETIDUS up to the date of shipment!

Here are the official rules of the Great Evil Laugh Contest:

1. Your evil laugh audio entry must include the following minimum spoken words, with your name, general location, email address and of course your very best evil laugh filled in:

“My name is [ say your name ] and I am from [ say general location ]. My email address is: [ carefully say/spell your email address ]. This is my evil laugh: [ do your very best evil laugh ]. “

Click below to listen to an example entry for the Great Evil Laugh Contest:

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2. You can only enter once.

3. Your evil laugh entry must be yours and yours alone.

4. Your evil laugh must be in your natural voice with little or no audio effects/processing. (A little reverb or compression is okay, but not needed.) We are judging based on the awesomeness of the evil laugh*, not the quality of the audio recording or cool effects. (Please don’t send me pitch-shifted stuff either, and that means you, Auto-Tune users!).

5. Enter by phone (1-202-470-3471) or email an MP3 file to evillaugh@fetidus.org (preferred but not required) by June 21, 2009.

6. By entering you give me, James Durham, permission to use your evil laugh entry in the podcast/novel/website. I will not reveal your email address, but if I play back your entry on the podcast, I may also play back your name and/or general location. (Trust me, it will be a cool episode!)

7. By entering this contest, you confirm that you are doing so legally for whatever country/state/province/jurisdiction you live in and that I’m not liable for anything going on with the Internet, your phone, your time, your brain, your wallet, your customs agent, your tax man, your evil laugh muscles or anything remotely related.

8. That’s it! No other rules! Just get your entry to me by June 21, 2009! Tune in on June 28, 2009 for the announcement of the winner!

A few words about the Amazing Evil Guest Judges and the Judging process:

The best evil laugh will be chosen by a panel of world-class evil guest judges including JC Hutchins, evil mastermind behind 7th Son and Personal Effects: Dark Art, Seth Harwood, evil genius behind Jack Wakes Up, Matthew Wayne Selznick, evil visionary behind Brave Men Run, Corey Graham, evil high priest of the undead at Midnight Podcast and me, James Durham, just pure evil.

I will personally listen to all the entries. I will then select the top 10 evil laughs and give them to the elite, evil panel of uber-awesome guest judges. They will confidentially vote for their top three favorite evil laughs. Their scores will be tallied. The winner will be determined. In the event of a TIE, I will write the names of those who are tied onto pieces of paper and place them tenderly into my fedora, the very fedora style that Art Blanchard wears in FETIDUS: The Damned Heir. I will then insert my hand and randomly select the winner.

* What constitutes an awesome evil laugh? Here at the Great Evil Laugh Contest we do not discriminate against one type of evil laugh or another. There are hilarious evil laughs that make us want to laugh out loud ourselves like giddy schoolchildren. Then there are terrifying evil laughs that make us want to cower in teeth-chattering fear under the covers. Then there are creepy evil laughs that make the hair stand up on our necks and our spines tingle. There are so many other types of evil laughs — we want to hear every kind imaginable. We’re just looking for the greatest, most memorable evil laugh, no matter what type, and the one that tickles the fancy of yours truly and the prestigious panel of mega-awesome evil guest judges is the one that wins. Give us your best shot!

Click below to download the Great Evil Laugh Contest Promo and spread the word!:

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