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December Letter, ‘Chemistry Test’ Short Film, 'You Are The Genre' Podcast + Top 5 Jokes!

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  • ‘Chemistry Test’ Short Film, New ‘You Are The Genre (PAID SUBSCRIBERS), and December Letter (PAID SUBSCRIBERS)

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!

  • Mo Alexander Interview

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LATEST POSTS

• SHORT FILM: Chemistry Test

  Chemistry Test is a short film from

  Andrew Sanford
  , Jim Fagan, and myself about an actor going through a chemistry test to find a co-star for the new CW show he's been cast on. But when he realizes the casting director wants his feedback he takes things too far.

• PODCAST: You Are The Genre

  The podcast is on hiatus but paid subscribers have access to new interviews before they’re released to the public next year! Here, I chat with comedian and TV writer Mamoudou N'Diaye about how his early passion for mystery, science fiction, and fight sequences influences his work today.

  [Mamoudou N'Diaye] Is The Genre

• LETTER: Welcome To December 2024

  My December letter to subscribers is available to paid subscriber now, and free subscribers next week!

  ✉️: Welcome to December, 2024

TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!

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

MONDAY: 12-9-2024

• Sometime in 2030, astronauts will pack up their belongings, turn out the lights, and depart the International Space Station (ISS) to make room for commercial space stations run by private companies. And don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They land ISS and put up a Panda Express.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 12-10-2024

• Toymakers are bracing for Trump's tariffs. Taking note, the next Toy Story film centers around the mystery of how the family can afford them.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 12-11-2024

• A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic. Most annoying, the author’s children use quotes from the book during arguments with her.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 12-12-2024

• Unexplained sightings of drones in the night skies over New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have people asking: Is it legal to shoot them down? “Welcome to our world…” said every brown person on the planet.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 12-13-2024

• NASA images reveal that most dangerous fires share an overlooked trait. And according to the results — it’s… Angela Bassett?!

  

[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 an upcoming letter.

Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Travel back to my 2015 interview with the hilarious

Mo Alexander

!

IAT Ep#66: Comedian Mo Alexander (LIVE!) [Explicit]

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