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!:

  • Ian Abramson on You Are The Genre!

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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.

  • PAID SUBSCRIBERS can listen ahead to…

    • ...next week’s episode with horror novelist and screenwriter Tananarive Due!

      [Tananarive Due] Is The Genre

• YUB NUB

  Yub Nub
  — the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan has an all new episode with Brian Jay Jones — author of George Lucas: A Life!

  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!

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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: 8-19-2024

• The Burning Man festival is facing an unusual drop in demand. Attendees finally wizened up and realized the entire world is on fire for free.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 8-20-2024

• Michelle Obama is set to speak on the second day of the Democratic National Convention — and spectators wonder if she’ll be updating her phrase from “when they go low, we go high” to “when they go low, we pour loose change into a sock.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 8-21-2024

• Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' list of economic policies received a welcome reception from the DNC crowd , but it was his call for an end to the war in Gaza that received a big response from the audience. Or, as some mainstream leaders described it: “Insurgent applause that must be monitored closely.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 8-22-2024

• Tim Walz headlined the third night of the Democratic National Convention with help from Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder. See, I love a good underdog story… Despite all odds, they were a pretty good Phish cover band.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 8-23-2024

• The biggest diamond in over a century has been found in Botswana.

  

  Leaders worry it will inspire Lil Uzi Vert to install it as a replacement for his entire head.

  

[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!

Listen back to my You Are The Genre interview with Ian Abramson!

His new standup special, The Heist is available to watch for free on Amazon.

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🎨: Madhuri Shukla

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