Best of the Week!

Poet Dr. Mahogany L. Browne 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

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite jokes!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • Uncertain Life Comic

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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

  Poet Dr. Mahogany L. Browne joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talk about falling in and out of love with poetry, and her path toward becoming genre-less in her craft as a writer and creator.

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    • ...next week’s episode Daily Show segment director Chinisha Scott!

      [Chinisha Scott] Is The Genre (Uncensored)

• August Newsletter

  All subscribers now have access to my August letter filled with personal insights and recs!

  Welcome to August, 2024

• YUB NUB

  Yub Nub
  — the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan has an all new episode with MacKenzie Green of The World Needs Nerds podcast about the evolution of George Lucas’ marketing prowess and what it’s like to be a newcomer to Star Wars fandom!

  If you’re a fan of Star Wars and like talking about it as media a little more than lore — you’ll really love the

  Yub Nub
  newsletter!

And if you’re enjoying the newsletter, consider upgrading to a paid subscription —

Or just sending me some coffee money! It’s hard our here in these entertainment industry streets!

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: 8-12-2024

• Woody and Buzz will be back for Disney Pixar‘s “Toy Story 5.” And based on this photo, they’ll be facing off against their biggest foe: An Incognito Mode Google Image Search For The Word “Butts.”

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 8-13-2024

• Mars and Jupiter are pairing up this week in a celestial dance unseen from Earth in years. This was confirmed after NASA pointed a satellite at the two planets and heard the first notes of Ginuwine’s “Pony.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 8-14-2024

• Starbucks has named Chipotle Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol as the coffee chain’s new CEO and chairman. Personally, I think that’s too much power. This dude knows too much. No one man should have all them beans.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 8-15-2024

• The New York Times reports that Nancy Pelosi’s five-decade friendship with President Biden has chilled after helping push him out of the 2024 race. Not a single telegram or homing pigeon has been sent between them in the weeks since.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 8-16-2024

• A Las Vegas casino has been accused of catering to organized crime — and local judges have reported a sharp increase of men in track suits staring them down from the gallery while moving an invisible knife across their necks.

[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 August” in an upcoming letter.

Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Find more of my Uncertain Life comics here!

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🎨: Madhuri Shukla

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