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Interview w/ comedian and 'Dave' writer Niles Abston + The Lasting Impact Of Conan O'Brien & Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!

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  • [Niles Abston] Is The Genre, Overthinking Conan O’Brien, and 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

  Niles Abston joined me to talk about his journey from football to comedy!

  • Paid subscribers have access to two ADVANCED episodes of You Are The Genre! One, with comedian Rose Kelso —

    [Rose Kelso] Is The Genre

  • — and the other with writer

    Nathan Rabin
    !

    [Nathan Rabin] Is The Genre

• POST: OVERTHINKING The Increasing Relevance Of Conan O’Brien

  With Conan on the brain ahead of his Oscars hosting gig, I wrote about his lasting impact on comedy.

  OVERTHINKING The Increasing Relevance Of Conan O'Brien

• PODCAST: Yub Nub

  The Yub Nub podcast is back with Jim Fagan, Greg Iwinski and myself discussing he 'Andor' season 2 trailer, Star Wars books, the value of video games as an entryway for young Star Wars fans, and the recently released 1999 film The Annihilation of Fish starring the late great James Earl Jones!

  

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: 3-3-2024

• A depressed German loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the reluctant star of a children’s television program that accidentally became equally popular with adults. However, some have distanced themselves from the loaf due to rumored ties to the far rye.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 3-4-2025

• Canada's retaliatory tariffs on the United States take effect today in response to U.S. tariffs. So, soak up as much syrup as you can today before theInternational House of Pancakes becomes the American Apartment of Where’s My Rent.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 3-5-2025

• LeBron James is the first player to surpass 50,000 points. That is, of course, in terms of the game of basketball. The first person to have won the most points of anything ever is most likely none other than, Ryan Stiles.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 3-6-2025

• Canadian provinces are removing American liquor from their shelves. Leave it to Canadians to find the most peaceful way of literally hurting American spirits.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 3-7-2025

• The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay.” Taking things further, the Trump administration aims to doctor all images of the bomber, effectively changing its name from “Enola Gay” to “Enola Breeder,” or the more complicated “E-no-homo-la”

  

[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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