Best of the Week!
Horror novelist and screenwriter Tananarive Due joins 'You Are The Genre!' + more 'Yub Nub' & the top five jokes of the week!
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You Are The Genre
Horror novelist and screenwriter Tananarive Due joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week!
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YUB NUB
— the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan has released its SEASON FINALE!
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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: 8-26-2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. The GOP is has reached out to doctors to see if ripping RFK Jr. in half would make him regenerate into more RFK Jr.’s the way normal worms do. “A few more surprise endorsements from him could be good for us.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 8-27-2024
The Gallagher brothers are reviving Oasis, seemingly ending their decades-long feud — most likely after realizing money is thicker than blood.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 8-28-2024
Florida’s state tourism website took down resource pages for L.G.B.T.Q. travelers — instead, directing them to a conversion video of J.D. Vance promoting couches as a safe, Christian alternative.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 8-29-2024
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed during an attempted landing on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Amazing how times change. Years ago that would’ve been the opening line of a groundbreaking science fiction novel. But today, it’s just another random fact in the same reality where “Hawk Tuah girl” and “Trump-style ear bandages” are a thing.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 8-30-2024
Last night, Vice President Harris sat for her first interview since entering the presidential race five weeks ago. Here she is, tactically explaining the separation of church, steeple, and people.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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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.
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