Best of the Week!

Animator Grant Lindahl joins 'You Are The Genre!' + the top five jokes of the week & more!

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  • New Podcast Episode + Text Interview

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • You Are The Genre

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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

  Comedy writer and animation director Grant Lindahl (Comedy Central’s Tales From The Trip) joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talked about his time growing up in a military family and moving from an Appalachian farming town to the coasts of New York City and L.A. in pursuit of a life in comedy and animation.

  Paid subscribers can listen ahead to episodes with comedian/film critic Jourdain Searles and comedian/actor Roy. Wood Jr.!

  Double The Future! 2 Advanced Episodes of 'You Are The Genre' Featuring Roy Wood Jr. and Jourdain Searles

• An [EMAIL] Conversation with DuVay Knox (a.k.a.

  𝐏𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐔𝐒
  )

  In my first ever interview requiring a parental advisory sticker, I interviewed writer DuVay Knox about what it means to write in the Black pulp fiction / “Blaxploitation” genre, the various definitions of the word “pimp,” and navigating race, class, and politics in his creative work.

  An [EMAIL] Conversation with writer DuVay Knox

  

  🎨: Luis Paredes

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: 5-13-2024

• By the end of this year, only two Chuck E. Cheese locations will have the chain’s hallmark animatronic band. Due to the band’s age a lack of maintenance, kids at those locations have come to expect a rant or two about “inner cities” between songs.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 5-14-2024

• OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT that can respond to voice commands, images and videos. Said one sassy robot, “An algorithm that listens, compliments your pics and laughs at the TikTok videos you send?! Girl, you better marry it!”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 5-15-2024

• A high-end fashion brand’s $800 jeans that make you look like you wet yourself have sold out — despite the much more affordable $50 “poop slacks” being readily available.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 5-16-2024

• iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes. And, even stranger, that the nudes are from pioneers of the old west.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 5-17-2024

• The final episode of Young Sheldon aired last night. But don’t worry. The trilogy will soon be complete with a sequel series titled, Ghost Sheldon.

  

[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.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

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