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Comic Book Creator James III joins You Are The Genre! + Best New Jokes!

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• Latest Posts:

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• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • A [TEXT MESSAGE] Interview

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

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LATEST POSTS:

• Comedian, writer and comic book creator James III joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! Learn how a childhood love of cartoons fuels hiswork on stage and behind the scenes.

  Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the NEXT episode with historian, paleographer, and activist Mary Rambaran-Olm!

  [Mary Rambaran-Olm] Is The Genre

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: 2-19-2024

• Paramount+ and Peacock are reportedly in talks to merge into a single streaming service. Which sounds silly, until you realize “Now streaming on peepee” is the only thing that makes sense in this crazy world.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 2-20-2024

• Veterinarians pulled $7 in coins out of an alligator's belly at a Nebraska zoo. Officials are now begging, “Please, only large bills.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 2-21-2024

• Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em' debuted at number one on the country chart. As a result, some country fans have abandoned the name, instead referring to their favorite genre as Americana Heights.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 2-22-2024

• Google suspended the image generation tool of its Gemini program after it created historical ‘inaccuracies,’ including racially diverse WWII-Era nazi soldiers. And worse — this rendering of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X:

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 2-23-2024

• Pro-Trump internet trolls are attacking Nikki Haley in sexist and racist ways, using artificial intelligence to manipulate her likeness and depicting her as Shiva, the Hindu goddess of destruction.That’s a lot coming from a voter base that can’t tell the deference between these four photos.

  

[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 February” in next month’s letter.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Take a trip down memory lane via my 2024 [TEXT MESSAGE] interview with writer Mychal Denzel Smith!

A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Writer Mychal Denzel Smith

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