Best of the Week!

Comedian Anna Suzuki joins 'You Are The Genre!' + more 'Yub Nub' & the top five jokes of the week!

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Episode + Yub Nub & Somewhere In The Ring!

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • Interview with Dillon Stevenson

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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 Anna Suzuki joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We chat about about her moving to the U.S. from Japan as a teen, pursuing the same performance crafts as her father, and her ultimate Broadway dreams.

  • Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the NEXT episode with Mychal Denzel Smith!

    [Mychal Denzel Smith] Is The Genre

• YUB NUB

  Yub Nub
  — the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan about Star Wars has two an all new episodes! One about the two-episode premiere of Star Wars: The Acolyte —

  And the other about George Lucas’ impact on cinema sound!—

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: 6-3-2024

• Russian politician Oleg Matveychev recently said the imprisonment of Donald Trump could lead to "civil war" in the United States amid the former president's guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial. Little does he know, America is fueled by a series of mini-civil wars whenever one of these bottles become available at Target:

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 6-4-2024

• CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year. And, somehow, they still look like this:

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 6-5-2024

• The New York Times reports that while visiting Europe, Biden will find both solidarity and isolation. In other words, The New York Times has composed the most accurate description of having small talk with a British person.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 6-6-2024

• A study finds that dogs are finding it harder to express their emotions. Which explains these ads I’ve been seeing all over the internet:

  

  

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 6-7-2024

• Cereal giant General Mills is facing a federal lawsuit filed by several of its Black employees who claim that one of the company’s plants in Georgia has “embraced a racially hostile work environment” controlled by “white supremacists.” Suppose it’s time to find out which side of the civil war this General Mills fella actually fought for.

[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 June” in an upcoming letter.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Journey back to my three-day text interview with

Dillon Stevenson

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A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation with Dillon Stevenson

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