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Comedian Tim Platt Joins The 'You Are The Genre' Podcast + Top 5 Jokes!

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LATEST POSTS

• PODCAST: You Are The Genre

  Comedian Tim Platt joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast to talk about telling jokes through music, the impact of Jim Carrey, and the inspiration behind his new comedy record, TEETH LIKE BEAK, out now out now with Abso Lutely Records.

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    [Anita Flores] Is The Genre

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TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!

Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.

MONDAY: 10-28-2024

• A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is attempting to distance the candidate from a racist joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who spoke before the former president at his Madison Square Garden rally. In fact, Hinchcliffe just received a bill for the wall that’s being built between them.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 10-29-2024

• In the final stretch before Election Day, ballots have been set on fire and damaged in two ballot drop boxes and a Postal Service mailbox in three states. In an effort to stop such destruction, president Joe Biden has on numerous occasions shouted, “Ballotbots, assemble!” with his best Optimus Prime voice.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 10-30-2024

• The Scary Movie franchise is getting a Wayans brothers reboot. This comes after the studio rejected former president Barack Obama’s pitch for the franchise: The Audacity of Nope.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 10-31-2024

• Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed Kamala Harris for president — causing concern to one of Trump’ biggest supporters in tech, Elon Musk. It just means something a little different when the world’s most famous time traveling android assassin says…

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 11-1-2024

• Donald Trump’s childhood home, which has sat vacant for years, now has a new inhabitant: a horde of feral cats. Upon learning this, Trump insisted that animal control “Gram ‘em by the… well… huh…”

[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 October” in an upcoming letter.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

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