Best of the Week!

'Last Week Tonight' writer Chrissy Shackelford 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!:

  • Mike Coscarelli Rules Podcast

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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

  Last Week Tonight writer Chrissy Shackelford joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! We talk about how her childhood love of I Love Lucy re-runs influenced her evolving career as an actress, improvisor, and writer.

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    • Next week’s episode w/ filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell!

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• YUB NUB

  Yub Nub
  — the podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan has an all new episode with Connor Ratliff about George Lucas’ second feature-length film, American Graffiti!

  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

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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: 7-29-2024

• Voters under 30 are now splitting by gender with men shifting their support to former President Trump and women remaining strongly behind Democrats. We just need two brave souls at this homecoming who dare to dance.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 7-30-2024

• Elon Musk posted a deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy. Incredible coming from the man who, despite us all begging him to do so, never seems to post a deepfake of himself not looking like a tall vampire baby.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 7-31-2024

A two-parter!

• Meta’s AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn’t happen. The company has since altered the service so that it correctly adds the phrase “From a certain point of view…” at the end of further statements on the matter.

  

  • Hundreds of ads on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, some as recent as Friday, steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs such as cocaine and prescription opioids. The company has since corrected the issue by purchasing those illegal drugs and feeding it to Meta’s A.I. assistant.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 8-1-2024

• Regulators found that Amazon is responsible for defective products sold by its third-party vendors—which include flammable pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors, and hair dryers that could electrocute you. Perfect for the supervillain who needs quick access to increasingly intricate booby traps.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 8-2-2024

• Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday will be celebrated with a musical gala at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. Performers will be announced closer to the event pending their aliveness.

[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!

I was recently on the Mike Coscarelli Rules podcast unpacking all the feels of the surprised Kamala Harris campaign…

UPCOMING SHOWS

To any New Yorkers out there — on August 14, I’m hosting Banned Book Comedy at Queens Public Library! (TIX/INFO)

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