Best of the Week!

Film critic Jourdain Searles joins 'You Are The Genre!' + the top five jokes of the week & more!

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• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • Chemistry Test

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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

  Comedian/film critic Jourdain Searles (The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Sight & Sound Magazine, and more) joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! She talks about growing up in Georgia, falling in love with cinema, and melding the skills she’s gained from comedy and criticism.

  Paid subscribers can listen ahead to episodes next week’s episode with Roy. Wood Jr.!

  [Roy Wood Jr.] Is The Genre

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: 5-20-2024

• The New York Times customized chatbots to be conservative or liberal to see how they spread disinformation. But the last thing they expected was for the chatbots to have makeup text.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 5-21-2024

• Rudy Giuliani is selling his own brand of coffee —

  

  — flavors come Bold, Decaf, Morning, and I Married My Cousin.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 5-22-2024

• Companies are planning to hire fewer new graduates and are rethinking their needs for entry-level talent. Their logic of course being, “Well… robots never report me to HR.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 5-23-2024

• Vials of blood sent to RNC headquarters, causing evacuation. The vials were promptly picked up by a pail man under an umbrella, explaining, “These were intended for a different gathering of vampires…”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 5-24-2024

• Biden is hiring a meme manager and is willing to pay up to $85,000. Wow! Can you believe that? I mean, in a time like this, who would even — uh… oops, how did this get here?!

  

[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!

A few years back,Andrew Sanford told me about an odd chemistry test experience. I’d never even heard of one, which added to the strangeness. I said “hey, you should write something about that” and now it’s a short somehow starring me and co-directed by Jim Fagan that you can finally see May 31st in Brooklyn for TOOTSIE'S VIDEO VAULT at Littlefield! 7PM Doors 8PM Show (TICKETS)

And, speaking of short films, watch the one I wrote with Ian Abramson a few years back!

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