Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
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Current Obsessions
Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!
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POST: Current Obsessions
A quick dive into some of the media I’m obsessing over.
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: 5-26-2024
Cuban pro-Trump rapper El Funky is at risk of deportation. Trump has at least asked authorities to be lenient with musician, politely asking “Won’t you please take him to Funky Town.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 5-27-2025
Carl Pei, CEO of the British startup Nothing, thinks the phone of the future will only have one app — and it turns out we all have this app installed for free. It’s called TheBrain. Nothing has discovered that it’s located between our ears, but for the low cost of $15.99 a month, the Nothing company can make sure its patented NothingBucks are installed.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 5-28-2025
The CDC will no longer recommend Covid shots for children and pregnant women — stating, “What do I look like? Some sort of center that controls diseases?”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 5-29-2025
The Trump administration has cancelled plans to develop a bird flu vaccine. Given its current stances on PBS and education in general, the White House figured, “Killing Big Bird oughta do the trick.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 5-30-2025
Scientists have introduced a wireless, temporary electronic forehead tattoo that monitors brainwaves to objectively measure mental workload. But that doesn’t really explain why it has to look like a nude woman playing hockey.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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BEST OF THE BEST!
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