Best of the Week!

Interview w/ writer and filmmaker Ryan Perez & Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!

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• Latest Posts

  • [Ryan Perez] Is The Genre and Yub Nub

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!

  • Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!

• Mystery Box

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LATEST POSTS

• PODCAST: You Are The Genre

  Ryan Perez (SNL, The Tonight Show) joined me to talk about the impact of Scorsese films on his sensibility as a comedian, writer, and filmmaker.

  • Paid subscribers have access to an ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre with journalist and news curator

    Phil Lewis
    …

    [Philip Lewis] Is The Genre

• PODCAST: Yub Nub

  The Yub Nub podcast is back with Jim Fagan, Greg Iwinski and myself chatting about the THX vibes of Severance and Greg’s experience writing for Young Jedi Adventures!

  

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: 3-24-2024

• Conan O’Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center. Sources say O’Brien considered skipping the event, but then worried Jay Leno would appear dressed as him on stilts to accept on his behalf.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 3-25-2025

• Nathan Lane said in an interview with Vanity Fair that he lost out on a role in 1996’s “Space Jam” and was told it was because he was just “too gay.” As the casting director put it, “too… daffy.”

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 3-26-2025

• The CEOs of NPR and PBS are appearing before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, where they will answer questions about perceived political bias at the public broadcasters. Marjorie’s first an only question: “Where are the white muppets?”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 3-27-2025

• Netflix announced that it will soon be distributing the first-ever live-action "Scooby-Doo" television series, with a story set before the Mystery Inc. gang officially got together. Series creators Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg secured the IP after pitching the origin story as “a prestige cooking video about weed brownies resulting in the mass hallucination of a 3D dog.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 3-28-2025

• The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl concert, with many focusing on the lack of white performers — many, sent live from attendees in this general area:

[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 March” in an upcoming letter.

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