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TV actor/comedian Zach Cherry joins 'You Are The Genre!' + an the top five jokes from last week & more!

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

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LATEST POSTS:

• You Are The Genre

  TV actor and comedian Zach Cherry joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talk about his lifelong love of comedy, navigating the nuances of his mixed race identity when auditioning, and how it feels to be in projects that across a wide spectrum of genres.

  FUN FACT: Zach was also recently featured in The New York Times!

  

• Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the NEXT episode with journalist Madeline Moitozo!

  [Madeline Moitozo] 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.

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

MONDAY: 4-8-2024

• Economists sent similar résumés to job postings at about 100 of the largest U.S. companies — but changed the applicants’ names to suggest an ethnicity — and some companies discriminated against Black applicants much more than others. Which is why I firmly believe Tyrones should be allowed to self-identify as Dustins on job applications.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 4-9-2024

• Tonight, in his first return to NBC late night since departing the network, Conan O’Brien is joining Jimmy Fallon as a guest on The Tonight Show — where they’ll play the hilarious new game: Please, For The Love Of God, Don’t Remind Anyone Of What Could’ve Been.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 4-10-2024

• A rare comic featuring Superman’s first appearance has sold for $6 million at auction. It’s new owner, a bald man who refused to share his name, laughed maniacally while exiting with the comic, shouting, “I have you now, Superman! Now, face my BIC lighter of doom!”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 4-11-2024

The winning joke this day was technically a two-parter, since it relied on a callback to a previous joke! Here there are:

• New technology at Target will crack down on theft at self-checkout kiosks. Which is just a fancy way of saying, your local Target has hired a guy named Leon to stand next to the self-checkout machines.

• WIRED reports that election workers are already burned out — and on high alert. But that’s just because of Leon, the guy the government hired to stand next to the voting machines.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 4-12-2024

• The Golden Bachelor couple has announced divorce after 3 months of marriage —posting in a joint statement, “Life is too long…”

[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 April” in an upcoming letter.

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

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Yub Nub

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