Best of the Week!

Screenwriter Jordan VanDina joins 'You Are The Genre!' + the top five jokes of the week, May Letter, & more!

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Episode + Guest Appearances

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • Rapper ShowYouSuck Interview

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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!

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LATEST POSTS:

• You Are The Genre

  Screenwriter Jordan VanDina (The Binge, The Animaniacs,What Would Diplo Do?) joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talked about his time growing up in Ronkonkoma Rhode Island, being inspired by Kevin Smith to pursue filmmaking, and writing his famous “weekend scripts” to carve a place for himself in Hollywood.

  • Starting Monday — paid subscribers will have access to THREE episodes (w/ Grant Lindahl,

    Jourdain Searles
    , and Roy Wood Jr.)!

• May Letter

  Free subscribers now have access to my monthly letter full of personal insights recommendations!

  Welcome to May, 2024

• PODCAST: Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast?

  Molly McAleer (who was a guest on my You Are The Genre podcast) invited me onto her Mother, May I Sleep With Podcast? podcast about Lifetime Original Movies. We talk about the hilarious mockumentary Jackie’s Back! I don’t know HOW or WHY this is a Lifetime movie. it should’ve played in theaters. Anyway, listen!

  

  Tim Barnes from the wonderful podcast "You Are The Genre" joins Molly to recap the absolutely hilarious 1999 Robert Townsend directed Lifetime flick, "Jackie's Back!"

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. Check out the top 5 jokes below!

Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.

MONDAY: 5-6-2024

• Boeing is on the verge of launching people into space via capsule — and the first set of travelers became considerably nervous after noticing their spacesuits have “Whistleblower” stamped on them instead of their names.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 5-7-2024

• Amazon’s delivery drones won't fly in Arizona's summer heat. Garry, the guy who thought he was hired to tape boxes, will:

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 5-8-2024

• Katy Perry and Rihanna didn’t attend the Met Gala. But AI-generated images still fooled fans. After taking a look at one of the images, who could blame them?

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 5-9-2024

• Neuralink encountered a problem with the implant in its first human patient that reduced the amount of data it could capture from his brain — that’s right… the brain-chip only downloaded half a boob.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 5-10-2024

• Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resigned just days apart — after learning the contest won’t grant them entry into The Avengers.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the most recent batch of Top Five Jokes!

BEST OF THE BEST!

Vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that way I can email the “Top Jokes of May” in an upcoming letter.

Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Check out my 2016 podcast interview with Show You Suck, who has a new album called THESE HITS SUCK....

IAT Ep#74: Rapper ShowYouSuck (LIVE!) [Explicit]

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