Do you think you have the funniest crab joke in the world? Do you dream of holding a trophy above your head to a round of rapturous a-claws? Then don't be shellfish and enter the World's Funniest Crab Joke Competition!
To shell-ebrate International Crab Day on 26th April, Europe’s only Crab Museum and Chump’s Comedy are teaming up to find the greatest crab gag in the entire world. But to do this they need the help of you, the crab loving public! Submissions are now open, and the shortlist will run the gauntlet of an expert panel of judges.
Panelists include comedians Sally Phillips, Harry Hill, Rose Matafeo, Phil Wang, No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, Mike Stirling (Director of Mischief at Beano), Palaeoanthropologist/comedian Ella Al-Shamahi, zoologist & presenter Lucy Cooke, and a classroom of kids at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. With more to be announced - including a secret mystery judge!
The winner of the inaugural World’s Funniest Crab Joke will be crowned at an award ceremony at Crab Museum, Margate, on 26th April (International Crab Day) as part of an evening of comedy, science and, naturally, crabs. So if you think you might be sat on a clawsome pinchline visit crabmuseum.org and stick your funniest crustacean puns in their state-of-the-art Google form.
And please, no lobster jokes, it's 2024. Enter Here: www.crabmuseum.org/crab-joke
Any examples? Where do crabs commute from? King's Crustacean!
Why did the crab go home early from a night out? It pulled a mussel!
But why? Crabs may be weird looking, but these under-appreciated animals make life as we know it possible. Pandas, giraffes and elephants have hogged the mic for too long, and it's time for decapod crustaceans to scuttle into the spotlight. As Crab Museum co-founder Chase Coley says, "a crab joke contest may sound silly, but humour can be a powerful tool for engaging the public in bigger issues such as climate change, biodiversity collapse, or finding out where crabs poo from".
What is Crab Museum? Crab Museum is an award-winning, free-to-enter and completely independent science museum in Margate, Kent. It uses crabs, humour and philosophy to engage children and adults alike with the vast weirdness of life itself. It has been featured in the Guardian, the New York Times, the New Statesman and welcomed around 80,000 visitors over the last year. Crab Museum believes that learning about science doesn’t need to be stuffy, inaccessible or boring - it can be fun, unexpected and radical too.
Crabs can teach us about biology, climate change, evolutionary history and much much more. But, with the right frame of mind, they can also teach us about ourselves. And who are Chump’s? CHUMP'S exploded onto the comedy scene out of nowhere a year ago, and have quickly gained a reputation as one of most exciting stand-up nights in the UK. Having brought a diverse mix of household names and the best new acts to sold-out crowds, Chumps are lending their expertise to the World's Funniest Crab Joke Competition.
The Crab Museum owners were recent guests on Dan Schreiber's podcast 'We Can Be Weirdos' where they announced the competition. That episode can be found here: https://podfollow.com/1687199754
(the pod has previously featured Dan Aykroyd, Sara Pascoe, Ross Noble, Bec Hill, Richard Herring, Elf Lyons and Daliso Chaponda, as well as a neurosuregeon, a ghost hunter, and the mayor of Easter Island, as guests)
