Best of the Week!

Interview 'The Interview Show' Host Mark Bazer + Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

• Latest Posts

  • [Mark Bazer] Is The Genre + The Return of ‘Yub Nub’

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!

  • Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!

• Upcoming Shows

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LATEST POSTS

• PODCAST: You Are The Genre

  Mark Bazer joined me to talk about how his early love of comedy bridged into his career as a newspaper columnist and influenced his decision to host the long-running Chicago staple, The Interview Show!

  • Paid subscribers have access to two ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre! One, with award-winning sci-fi novelist, Micaiah Johnson —

    [Micaiah Johnson] Is The Genre

  • — and the other with comedian/TV writer Niles Abston!

    [Niles Abston] Is The Genre

• PODCAST: Yub Nub

  The Yub Nub podcast has returned! Jim Fagan, Greg Iwinski and myself team up to talk about what our Star Wars consumption has been like in this new year.

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: 2-17-2024

• Protests are set to take place in several major cities across the U.S. today during the Presidents Day holiday. Just in case, grocery stores are protecting eggs like they’re deodorant in a Walgreens.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 2-18-2025

• The New York University chapter president of the College Republicans of America has resigned after describing President Donald Trump's son Barron, a student at the university, as "sort of like an oddity on campus" in an interview with Vanity Fair. Stepping into the position is a student who looks suspiciously like Elon Musk’s children stacked on top of each other under a trench coat.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 2-19-2025

• Paul Simon is un-retiring from touring. Fans believe he’s in search of the mythical 51st way to leave your lover.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 2-20-2025

• The U.S. Department of Education has given schools and universities that receive federal funding an ultimatum: eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding. It’s only a matter of time before student athletes of color give schools and universities their own ultimatum: Black history or risk no touchdowns.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 2-21-2025

• Mitch McConnell won’t seek re-election. Instead, he’ll do some soul searching. Literally. “I know I left it here somewhere…”

[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 February” in an upcoming letter.

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