Best of the Week!

A Text Interview With DC Pierson, Sci-Fi Fuel #6 + Top 5 Jokes and more!

In This Newsletter:

• Latest Posts:

  • Sci-Fi Fuel #6 & An Interview with DC Pierson!

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • The first Letters From African America post!

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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!

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LATEST POSTS:

• INTERVIEW: A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Actor / Author / Comedian DC Pierson

  We talked about the evolution of internet comedy, fatherhood, book writing, Marvel movies & more!

  A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Actor / Author / Comedian DC Pierson

• Sci-Fi Fuel #6

  Had a nice sci-fi themed rant about The Beatles. Read it here!

  

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. Here are the top 5!

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

MONDAY: 11-6-2023

• Elvis’ second cousin, Brandon Presley, is campaigning to become the first Democratic governor of Mississippi in over 20 years. If he really wants the to win, he’ll launch an initiative to give Black people their dance moves back.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 11-7-2023

• Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. “Fascinating…” said one researcher. “They actually drew the eggplants back then.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 11-8-2023

• The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress. For those unaware of what a censure even is: It’s a formal vote of deep disapproval. Like, if in the middle of an intervention, the majority of your peers suddenly gave you the middle finger. Ironically, Democrats of color already call that “Tuesday.”

  • Defending her stance on Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime, Tlaib said, “It is important to separate people and government…” And there were a few surprise cheers from Republicans who thought “people” was gonna be the last word of that sentence.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 11-9-2023

• Tracy Chapman became the first Black woman to win a Country Music Association award. You know phrases like “He walked so that they could run…”? Well, apparently Tracy drove a fast car so that Lil Nas X could ride a horse.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 11-10-2023

• Sex therapist Dr. Ruth is New York’s first loneliness ambassador. She shocked the Mayor by saying the best way to fix the city’s loneliness problem is by speeding up the D train.

[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 December” in next month’s letter.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

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