Best of the Week!

Ashley Ray joins You Are The Genre ! + Sci-Fi Fuel from Alternate Timeline + Best New Jokes & Yu Nub!

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Episode + Sci-Fi Fuel!

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • New Yub Nub podcast!

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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!

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LATEST POSTS:

• Comedian/TV writer/FORMER TV critic

  ashley ray
  joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! Learn how queer television, criticism and comedy helped her become her own genre.

  Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the next episode with

  mike sacks
  now!

  [Mike Sacks] Is The Genre

• Over at

  Alternate Timeline
  (my alternate newsletter), I send weekly updates to fuel your imagination. Check out the latest edition of Sci-Fi Fuel here!

  

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. Here are the top 5!

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

MONDAY: 1-22-2024

• More married people are booking vacation travel for one — which either means they really need some alone time, or the TSA really needs to search their bags.

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 1-23-2024

• Over the past decade, poll after poll has found that young people are growing more and more divided by gender on a host of political issues. Highest on the list of dividing topics: What Restaurant Should We Go To?

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 1-24-2024

• MrBeast posted his first video on China’s Bilibili. And if you don’t know what MrBeast and Bilibili is, just assume they’re Lord of the Rings characters and have a blissful day in you perfect little life.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 1-25-2024

• Israel is building a 1-kilometer-wide buffer zone with Gaza. After a fierce debate, the United Nations has settled on referring to anything that happens within the zone as “Schrödinger's genocide.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 1-26-2024

• Apple is overhauling its App Store to appease the European Union. So, if apps are taking a while to download, it’s just because your phone is on siesta and no longer relies on tips to survive.

[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 January” in next month’s letter.

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

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Yub Nub — the Star Wars focused podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan and Greg Iwinski is back with a hot new episode! We talk about Barbie-gate and make some Oscar predictions, plus your go-to alien earworm, New Jedi Order rumors (Broom boy becomes a Broom MAN) and a check-in at Galaxy's Edge!

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