Best of the Week!
Interview w/ Comedian & 'After Midnight' Writer, Alexandria Love + Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
[Alexandria Love] Is The Genre
Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!
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PODCAST: You Are The Genre
Comedian and After Midnight writer Alexandria Love
joined me to talk about the many lives comedians live and how she bridged her early love of the comedy genre into action as an adult.
— paid subscribers have access to two ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre! One, with award-winning storyteller
—and the other with one of Chicago’s greatest interviewers and host of The Interview Show, Mark Bazer!
![[Shannon Cason] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hH4Z!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe67e0d6f-7f93-4dfe-8309-22ab1bfd5632_3000x3000.png)
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SHORT STORY: Morgan Stern & The Spyglass (PART 1)
Over at our sister-newsletter I released the first entry into a monthly serial titled The Alternate Timeline of Morgan Stern. Read about the series here and check out the first entry here.
TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 2-3-2024
NASA is tracking a trio of vehicle-sized asteroids set to whizz close to the Earth today — with one getting three times nearer than the orbit of the moon. But, don’t be alarmed, there’s a 99% chance it’s just filming for Fast & Furious 11.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 2-4-2025
For the first time this year the streamers will spend more on content than commercial broadcasters. Explaining the resent rebrand of the popular Netflix game show, Is It Cake? to Does It Even Matter?
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 2-5-2025
Workers at NASA have been told to scrub key terms and mentions of groups from its website including indigenous people and women. Ironically, leaving nothing on the site except for the lyrics to Gil Scott-Heron‘a “Whitey On The Moon.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 2-6-2025
Fox News Channel has hired Eric Trump’s spouse, Lara, to be host of a new weekend show — officially replacing D.E.I. practices with Daughter-In-Law hiring. Of course, DEI initiatives at Fox News meant having the occasional brunette woman in the background of a street interview.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 2-7-2025
Dog treats made from lab-grown meat have gone on sale in the UK — and customers are reportedly pissed that it smells better than the mushy peas and spotted dick they’re eating for dinner.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the top jokes from last week!
BEST OF THE BEST!
Vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that way I can email the “Top Jokes of February” in an upcoming letter.
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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!
With so much talk of Mars these days, its a good time to revisit my cartoon!
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