Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Current Obsessions & Stuff You Might’ve Missed
Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!
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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some newsletters highlights from the week! Oh, and I’m co-hosting a new live standup showcase with Emily Wirth called RAD COMEDY each Thursday starting June 26 at Radegast Hall!
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LATEST POSTS
POST: Stuff You Might’ve Missed (April & May 2025)
It’s a comprehensive list of your favorite jokes and posts you may have missed in April and May…
POST: Current Obsessions
A quick dive into some of the media I’m obsessing over.
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: 6-2-2024
Bill Clinton and James Patterson collaborated on a thriller novel titled "The First Gentleman" — and readers aren’t sure what to make of said gentleman’s best friend, Steffery Jeffstein.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 6-3-2025
Rick Astley has earned a spot in Spotify's "Billions Club" after his inescapable '80s hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" reached the streaming milestone. However, Astley is cautiously taking everyone’s word for it and, smartly, has refrained from clicking on any headlines regarding said achievement.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 6-4-2025
The Netherlands’ national museum has a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art — and that’s just in the lost and found section.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 6-5-2025
Companies in the East of England are preparing to welcome the first generation of “pensioner gamers” who played the first home video games in the 1970s are now at or approaching pensionable age. Progressive developers hope gaming can forge a path toward broadening the horizons of this demographic. What better way to discuss pronouns than by introducing Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man’s successful non-binary child, Dr. Pac-Person.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 6-7-2025
Nearly a dozen ICE officials and a group of eight deportees have been left stranded and confined in a makeshift South African detention center after a judge blocked their removal to South Sudan. A predicament known by quantum physicists as Schrödinger's ICE Bucket Challence.
[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 June” in an upcoming letter.
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