Best of the Week!

Writer Maggie Serota series joins 'You Are The Genre!' + more 'Yub Nub' & the top five jokes of the week!

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Episode + Yub Nub

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • ‘Mike Coscarelli Rules’ podcast!

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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

  Writer

  Maggie Serota
  (SPIN Magazine, Salon, Esquire) joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talk about what it means to be a “self-appointed trash scholar,” navigating the media world with a working class background, and how she learned to translate her voice onto the page.

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    • Next week’s episode w/ artist Branson Reese!

      [Branson Reese] Is The Genre

      He’s the creator of Swan Boy!

• YUB NUB

  Yub Nub
  — the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan about Star Wars had a jam packed week with three episodes…

  • An analysis of the Acolyte finale…

  • An analysis of the entire first season of The Acolyte…

  • And a deep dive into the creation of George Lucas’ first feature film THX 1138…

    If you’re a fan of Star Wars and like talking about it as media a little more than lore — you’ll really love the

    Yub Nub
    newsletter!

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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.

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

MONDAY: 7-15-2024

• The joint Despicable Me and Minions franchise shattered the box office record for animated movies with $5 billion in global ticket sales. Not realizing these were the names of movies instead of descriptions of his campaign, Donald Trump took credit.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 7-16-2024

• Hackers claim to have accessed 1.1 TB of Disney Slack messages. Disney can either pay them 10 million dollars or risk having their lunch orders leaked to the public.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 7-17-2024

• Elon Musk blames California’s new trans privacy law for why he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas. Which isn’t surprising once you realize he’s been naming companies after the X chromosome and hasn’t stopped to ask Y.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 7-18-2024

• A new study from the Wharton School found that the correlation between wealth and happiness does not plateau, but rather as people get richer, they get happier. And since the students who reached this conclusion now face a mountain of college debt, they’ve decided to sell ads on future studies. “These heartbreaking statistics were brought to you by SquareSpace.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 7-19-2024

• Ford will produce gasoline trucks at a Canadian plant, reversing a plan to make electric vehicles there. The working title for the truck is The Ford F**k It.

[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 July” in an upcoming letter.

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

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

I was recently a guest on the Mike Coscarelli Rules podcast to unpack some thoughts around the Trump assassination attempt.

UPCOMING SHOWS

To any New Yorkers out there — on August 14, I’m hosting Banned Book Comedy at Queens Public Library! (TIX/INFO)

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