Best of the Week!

Interview w/ comedian Rose Kelso & Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!

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• Latest Posts

  • [Rose Kelso] Is The Genre, and Yub Nub

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!

  • Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!

• Mystery Box

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LATEST POSTS

• PODCAST: You Are The Genre

  Comedian Rose Kelso joined me to talk about about her early love of collecting things and how that ties into her many creative pursuits today.

  • Paid subscribers have access to an ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre with

    Nathan Rabin
    :

    [Nathan Rabin] Is The Genre

• PODCAST: Yub Nub

  The Yub Nub podcast is back with Jim Fagan, Greg Iwinski and myself discussing the aftermath of a Puck News report suggesting that Kathleen Kennedy will be stepping down from Lucasfilm this year which led to Kennedy clarifying the matter during an interview for Deadline.

  

Each weekday I send five jokes to subscribers who then vote on their favorites. Below are THE TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!

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

MONDAY: 3-10-2024

• Opponents fighting DOGE in court have been pinning their hopes of stopping the world’s richest man on a 50-year-old law. Guess that explains what’s taking so long. The law is still getting up from its recliner.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 3-11-2025

• A Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail. But… think about it… Texans are okay with people identifying as COW-boys?! Make it make sense!

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 3-12-2025

• The Education Department is firing 1,300 workers, gutting its staff — and making room for food up chairs to be destroyed during “history matches.” Who needs to know who one the actual Civil War when there’s one happening between wrestlers dressed like Lincoln and Robert E. Lee in the gymnasium.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 3-13-2025

• A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought Pokémon Go, and probably all of your location data. Guess that explains why so many rare Pokémon have been hiding on the “premium” button at the local gas station.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 3-14-2025

• When Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his plans to provide one of the key Democratic votes Republicans need to advance a partisan spending bill, the decision hit like a shockwave among House Democrats — with most asking, “He’s still alive?!” Yes, welcome to the coveted level of age-related political humor, Mr. Schumer. With Mitch McConnell retiring, you’ve rightfully taken his place in Topical Joke Mad Libs. Fitting, as libs are mad as hell at you right now.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

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BEST OF THE BEST!

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