Stuff You Might’ve Missed (April & May 2025)
Your favorite jokes, podcast episodes & more!
Hello fellow citizens of African America and gaggle of curious onlookers,
Instead of highlighting stuff you might’ve missed in my monthly letters, I’ll be releasing a compilation of jokes, podcasts, and posts in a separate update at the end of each month. This one’s a little beefier than normal, but there’s nothin’ wrong with a chunky email, right?
Let’s start off with…
Each weekday, I email five jokes and subscribers vote on the ones that make them laugh the most! Here are your favorite jokes from March, April and May 2025! I was traveling for the bulk of April, so you’ll probably notice a massive gap. Feel free to fill in the blanks with your own jokes… silently… to yourself.
FRIDAY : 3-6-2025
Canadian provinces are removing American liquor from their shelves. Leave it to Canadians to find the most peaceful way of literally hurting American spirits.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
THURSDAY: 3-13-2025
A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought Pokémon Go, and probably all of your location data. Guess that explains why so many rare Pokémon have been hiding on the “premium” button at the local gas station.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 3-19-2025
Gal Gadot’s Walk of Fame ceremony was disrupted by a confrontation between pro-Palestine and pro-Israeli demonstrators. Gadot tried calming the crowd down with an a cappella rendition “Imagine,” and, surprisingly, both camps united in shushing her.
c[read the other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 3-26-2025
The CEOs of NPR and PBS are appearing before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, where they will answer questions about perceived political bias at the public broadcasters. Marjorie’s first an only question: “Where are the white muppets?”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 4-11-2025
RFK Jr. claims the U.S. will know the cause of the autism 'epidemic' by September. A photographer at the press conference caught a glimpse at his notebook, hinting at RFK Jr.’s plans for cracking the case:
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 4-4-2025
For the first time, CBS will broadcast the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards — which is a casual way of saying, if MTV means anything to you, you’re old now.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 5-9-2025
The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics have a new pope, and for the first time, he is from America. Specifically, Chicago. Which would certainly explain his affinity for reading from “deep dish” bibles.
The new pope, who goes by Leo XIV, is the first to have an online footprint— and his conclave of peers were pleased to learn that his recent TikTok answer to “Who would win in a fight between 100 men and one gorilla?” was “The Holy Spirit.”
And beyond Chicago, Pope Leo has Creole roots in Louisiana — as evidenced by this exclusive look at his DNA:
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 5-16-2025
Dick’s is buying Foot Locker — a merger that could result in the perfect name for “athletic” condoms:
[read the other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 5-21-2025
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, known for starring in what feels like deleted scenes from Starship Troopers —
— falsely described habeas corpus as the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people. A bizarre flub, as habeas corpus is clearly the Harry Potter spell that’s kept Mitch McConnell alive for so long.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
THURSDAY: 5-29-2025
The Trump administration has cancelled plans to develop a bird flu vaccine.Given its current stances on PBS and education in general, the White House figured, “Killing Big Bird oughta do the trick.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
In the You Are The Genre podcast, I dissect the career paths of actors, screenwriters and more. Behold! The episodes released in March and April! I took a little mental health break since then, but the podcast will return in June!
I spoke with comedian/TV writer/filmmaker Niles Abston about defying the silos of the internet to forge community through comedy.
Had a good chat with comedian/director/photographer Rose Kelso about her early love of collecting things and how that ties into her many creative pursuits today.
Always fun talking to Nathan Rabin — this time about his early interest in politics and trivia, and how they influenced his career as a dissector of pop culture’s past, present, and future.
Ryan Perez (SNL, The Tonight Show) is one of my favorite people and we’ve somehow never met in person, so it was a blast peeling back the layers and learning about the impact of Scorsese films on his sensibility as a comedian, writer, and filmmaker.
I spoke to Philip Lewis about how his early passions led him to journalism.
And Felipe Torres Medina (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and I had a conversation about his experiences growing up in Columbia, the impact comedic imports from America, and the everlasting power of being a moody boy. His book, America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story was published March 2025 and has earned some pretty cool reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. ORDER IT NOW!
![[Niles Abston] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RxX4!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2815d876-991c-45fa-92ff-c4144987f327_3000x3000.png)
![[Rose Kelso] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uY96!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c5927ed-30b3-4e7b-818f-37ccdbac7250_3000x3000.png)
![[Nathan Rabin] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mlUM!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F488b33b7-ae59-4288-a91b-405572b464a6_3000x3000.png)
![[Ryan Perez] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FsBj!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5106b105-dc86-4211-bc8a-6bdee61ecab7_3000x3000.png)
![[Philip Lewis] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NLyO!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faff08b05-4746-490b-9265-9c82f5c0eaed_3000x3000.png)
![[Felipe Tores Medina] Is The Genre](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Fng_!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6fe141e-0d04-410a-b18e-3e4ea42cc337_3000x3000.png)
POST(s): 1 Joke From The Vault
During my break I posted deep-dives into comedic projects I’ve been involved with. If you missed them, you can check out the behind-the-scenes antics that led to creation of things like:
PODCAST: Yub Nub
Yub Nub, the Star Wars focused podcast that I co-host with Jim Fagan and Greg Iwinski came back with a fresh May The 4th episode!
We also recently released episodes about catching up on season 1 of Andor, and the recent theatrical re-release of Revenge of the Sith!
INTERVIEWS & APPEARANCES
On May 14 I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation with best-selling novelist
for Queens Public Library…📡: An Evening with Bestselling Fantasy Author Lev Grossman (livestream)
I’m moderating a conversation with fantasy author Lev Grossman right now for the Queens Public Library’s Culture Connection series. If you’re reading this too late, you can always watch it later!
I was also a guest on a recent episode of the Somewhere In The Ring wrestling podcast!
That’s all, folks!