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Comedian, writer and comic book creator James III joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! Learn how a childhood love of cartoons fuels hiswork on stage and behind the scenes.
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TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Each weekday, I send five topical jokes. Subscribers (yes, you!) have voted on what made them laugh the most. Here are the top 5!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 2-19-2024
Paramount+ and Peacock are reportedly in talks to merge into a single streaming service. Which sounds silly, until you realize “Now streaming on peepee” is the only thing that makes sense in this crazy world.
[read other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 2-20-2024
Veterinarians pulled $7 in coins out of an alligator's belly at a Nebraska zoo. Officials are now begging, “Please, only large bills.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 2-21-2024
Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em' debuted at number one on the country chart. As a result, some country fans have abandoned the name, instead referring to their favorite genre as Americana Heights.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 2-22-2024
Google suspended the image generation tool of its Gemini program after it created historical ‘inaccuracies,’ including racially diverse WWII-Era nazi soldiers. And worse — this rendering of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X:
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 2-23-2024
Pro-Trump internet trolls are attacking Nikki Haley in sexist and racist ways, using artificial intelligence to manipulate her likeness and depicting her as Shiva, the Hindu goddess of destruction.That’s a lot coming from a voter base that can’t tell the deference between these four photos.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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BEST OF THE BEST!
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Now streaming on peepee is everything to me
Maybe Google is on to something. The Nazis could stand to be a bit more inclusive!