Best of the Week!

Comedian Ian Abramson joins 'You Are The Genre!' + the debut of OVERTHINKING + the top five jokes from Mike Poole's takeover & more!

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Episode + Overthinking

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

  • The Mike Poole Takeover!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • ‘Welcome To April’ Letter To Subscribers

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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

  Comedian Ian Abramson joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We explore his childhood love of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and how it may have laid the path for his comedy career.

• Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the NEXT episode with comedian, Kerry Coddett!

  [Kerry Coddett] Is The Genre

• A NEW

  Letters From African America
  SEGMENT CALLED OVERTHINKING!

  In this debut installment of Overthinking I dissect that SNL sketch with Beavis & Butt-Head and go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

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. However, this week the talented Mike Poole took over the show!

I first met him (digitally) when we were writing for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. And if you don’t believe ME when I tell you how funny he is, check him out in this sketch for The Amber Ruffin Show (which he also wrote for)!

So, learn more Mike him here, and check out the top 5 jokes from his week below!

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

MONDAY: 4-222-2024

Due to a pesky time vortex there were two sets of Monday jokes. One from me,

Tim Barnes

— with this winning joke:

• Tesla knocked roughly a third off the price of its “Full Self Driving” system from $12,000 to $8,000. This news came with an update to the manual, which states that the car “fully self drives” as long as you propel it with your bare feet from below:

  

[read other jokes from that day here]

And the other from Mike Poole — with this winning joke:

• A Tribe Called Quest, Foreigner, and Kool & the Gang were all inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame this week. This influential class has not only shaped music but also sound like deleted scenes from Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 2.

[read other jokes from that day here]

The following are all from Mike!

TUESDAY: 4-23-2024

• Construction began yesterday on the first true high-speed rail line in the country. It’s expected to be completed in 2028, and go directly from my place to your moms.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 4-24-2024

• After finding traces of H5N1 in grocery store milk, the FDA has discovered an outbreak of bird flu in cattle. At face value hearing a Cow with bird flu is as confusing as saying Ben Shapiro got athletes' foot. It could happen, but it sounds wrong.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 4-25-2024

• Yesterday, a number of runaway horses galloped through London, causing injury and alarm as they raced through the city streets. Luckily, they were recovered before Vin Diesel could get an idea for another Fast and the Furious movie”

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 4-26-2024

• An employee at Baltimore-area high school is being accused of making a false A.I. recording to make his principal appear racist. That’s way too much work when checking someone’s pre-2008 Facebook posts normally gets the job done.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the most recent batch of Top Five Jokes!

And, as a reminder, if Mike’s week of jokes brightened your days — you can send him a tip on Venmo at @MikePoole:

BEST OF THE BEST!

Vote on your favorite joke from Mike Poole 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!

Get reacquainted with my April letter to subscribers!

Welcome to April, 2024

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