Our Emcee Crew for Pun-Off 2003

JOEL McCOLL is returning for his 17th year as our cornerstone emcee. A
singer/songwriter/associate publisher of a golf magazine and all around
swell fella, Joel began competing in the Pun-Off in 1981 when the winner was
judged on the amount of beer consumed. He thinks he won that year but no
one remembers. Joel is looking forward to 3 more years with the Pun-Off at
which time he can take the ankle bracelet monitor off. Once he's fulfilled
his community service obligations, Joel will be returned to the wild where
he will be allowed to run amok with his own kind, assuming anyone like him
can be found. Anyone like him?

GARY HALLOCK says he keeps returning to produce and host this event because
he doesn't know any better. Until someone better actually volunteers to fill
his shoes (with cement) we'll be stuck with him and the many hats he must
wear to engineer this event. Speaking of engineering, Gary wears his
trademark railroad cap to remind himself to stay on track and conduct
himself professionally. This begs the question, "If he's so good at
conducting, wire we always seeing him get insulate?" This is Gary's 13th
year as a Pun-Off emcee and head of the support group for the jeering
impaired, Punsters United Nearly Yearly. Many P.U.N.Y. members
infectionately refer to him as their "Leerless Feeder." You can PUNish him
at garyhallock@mac.com.

STEVE BROOKS can rightly lay claim to being the world's first professional
punster. His victory in the 2001 P.O.S., a send-up of George W. Bush, led to
a trip to Hollywood to appear on TV's "I've Got A Secret," where he won
$1,000. That's just one of the
four first place trophies in P.O.S. and two in HL&LP he's taken home since
1992. This will be Steve's 6th year of emcee duty, as the big wheel
continually threatens to re-tire but keeps ir-rotating us with more. A
well-known Austin songwriter, his new CD, "Fever," is a collection of Texas
peace songs. You can hear some of the songs at <www.stevebrooks.net> and
read some of his championship monologues from Pun-Offs past.