Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
July Letter & Current Obsessions
Vote For Your Favorite Jokes!
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Hey, let’s dive in to some newsletter highlights from the week! Oh, and I co-host a live standup showcase with Emily Wirth called RAD COMEDY each Thursday in Brooklyn! Here’s the lineup for next week 7/10. If you’re in New York, get tickets!
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LATEST POSTS
POST: July Letter To Subscribers
A few personal anecdotes as we ease into July.
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: 6-30-2024
Due to to an increasingly urban environment, rodents in Chicago have rapidly evolved over the past century. Chicago squirrels, for instance, once looked like this:
And now, they look like this:
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 7-1-2025
An Iran-linked cyberattack group that hacked President Trump's 2024 campaign is threatening to release another trove of emails it stole from his associates, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Roger Stone — a.k.a. “the weirdest sexts of all time.”
They look like they DM each other about how to defeat Adam West’s Batman.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 7-2-2025
Paramount has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program 60 Minutes. So, if you’re counting, that’s $266,666 per minute, or as Trump calls it, “The amount Melania invoices after sitting next to me anywhere.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 7-3-2025
The U.S. government is breeding flies to fight flesh-eating maggots. So, these days, getting yourself a “nice government job” sounds more like “becoming an orc henchman for the evil wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY: 7-4-2025
A game called Date Everything literally lets you date everything—except people. Back in the day they just called that “being in middle school.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the top jokes from last week!
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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