Best of the Week!
TV actor/comedian Sonia Denis joins 'You Are The Genre!' + an the top five jokes from last week & more!
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New Podcast Episode + Updates From ‘Alternate Timeline’
Vote For Your Favorite Joke From Last Week!
Yub Nub Tackles ‘Flash Gordon!’
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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!
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LATEST POSTS:
Yo Are The Genre
TV actor and comedian Sonia Denis joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talk about how a childhood love of acting guided her away from the lucrative world of coding and onto a roller coaster of entertainment, including standup, TV writing and acting in Marvel’s ‘Ironheart.’
Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the NEXT episode with actor and improvisor Zach Cherry (Severance)!
Letter From African America
I released my “Welcome to April” letter to subscribers filled with updates and recommendations!
Alternate Timeline
Over at
(my alternate newsleter dedicated to sci-fi short stories), I’ve released my latest story Lunar Self which you can read here:
And a [TEXT MESSAGE] interview with writer
which you can read here!
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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: 4-1-2024
Lizzo has announced that she’s quitting the music industry — writing in a statement “I now fully understands the full repercussions of fame, which the demon-elf Zobelk warned me of when granting me a magical flute in exchange for twerk lessons. I have now destroyed the flute. Thus ending my time in this industry. However, the music still plays in my head.”
[read other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 4-2-2024
The winning joke this day was technically a two-parter, since it relied on a callback to a previous joke! Here there are:
Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the company's secret tracking of web activity. Meaning at this very moment, Warner Bro.’s deleted files of Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme are muttering, “There goes the neighborhood…”
Bloomberg Economics ran a million forecast simulations on the US debt outlook. 88% of them show borrowing on an unsustainable path — while the remaining 12% somehow show the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 4-3-2024
International space station trash may have hit a Florida house. Problem is, detectives can’t tell which part is the home and which is the space trash.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 4-4-2024
Despite NYC’s AI chatbot getting caught telling businesses to break the law, the city isn’t taking it down. It’s all part of Mayor Adam’s bold new “Tech Company to Small Business to Prison Pipeline” initiative which keeps all sectors of the city booked and busy.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 4-5-2024
The Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown starts in June — and in the months leading up, Mickey will test his new catchphrase "Run me my money!” while posing for photos at theme parks.
[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!
There’s an all new episode of Yub Nub (the Star Wars focused podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan and Greg Iwinski) unpacking the influence Flash Gordon movie serials had on George Lucas.
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That "Star Wars" posture told the truth- Luke is our time what Flash and Buck were to theirs.