Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Current Obsessions + You Are The Genre
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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PODCAST: You Are The Genre
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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: 6-16-2024
The villain of the newest Toy Story film is one of the most common tools used by parents today: the tablet. The storyline directly parallels the controversial unreleased Toy Story prequel, IdolTale, in which so-called pagan “action figures” fought against the most common tool used by Moses: stone tablets.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 6-17-2025
Al Pacino met with Pope Leo XIV Monday, becoming the first movie star to have an audience with the new pope. It’s hard to tell why the pope was so energized after the meeting. Cardinals are split, with 50% voting Dunkaccino and the rest betting on cocaine.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 6-18-2025
Tom Cruise is getting an honorary Oscar. That is, if he can make through the intricate array of laser trip-wires surrounding a confused Morgan Freeman presenting the award on stage.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 6-19-2025
A headline from The Verge reads: SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground. Which almost sounds like a compliment? Like, we’re so used to SpaceX ships exploding that we’re treating their launches like a race over which can burst into flames the fastest. Truly, when will Musk learn that his “starship” business is actually in the “missile” business?
Meanwhile, Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket.
Officially making Honda better at vehicles on the ground, vehicles in space, and cute robots we’d feel comfortable bringing into our homes without totally feeling like slave owners.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 6-20-2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers blocked federal agents from entering their stadium on Thursday. But, even if they had entered, the feds should know… they got the name “Dodgers” for a reason. You an’t catching anything except a few baseballs to the head in there.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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