Your Favorite Jokes From 2024
The Jokes Subscribers Loved The Most
Topical jokes are like marshmallows hovering over the campfire. There’s a poignant allegory deep in there somewhere, I’m sure of it. Anyway, in 2024 the Letters From African America publication unleashed roughly 1,250 original topical jokes.
Below are the favorites from subscribers/voters like you. It’s a fun (and potentially frightening) way to look back at this wild year of politics and pop culture. Also, shout out to 2024’s guest joke writers , Mike Poole, Milly Tamarez, and .
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JANUARY 2024
WEDNESDAY: 1-3-2024
As it becomes harder to buy houses, Wall Street has started building neighborhoods of family homes where everybody rents.And as an added bonus, each neighborhood is constructed around a factory where tenants have a guaranteed chance to work for an exciting new thing called “factory-bucks” — which happens to be the sponsor of this joke. Factory-Bucks: It’s Like Regular Money, Except You Can Only Use It On One Of Those Houses. 🎵You Are In Luck! With Factory-Bucks! It’s Technically Not Slavery ‘Til The U.N. Says “Yuck!”🎵
[read the other jokes from that week here]
TUESDAY: 1-6-2024
After FX’s The Bear won the “best comedy” Emmy, many are debating whether it’s a comedy at all. Comedy bears Fozzy, Ted, and Cedric have all issued statements voicing their disapproval of the show’s entrance into the category.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
THURSDAY: 1-11-2024
A Florida school district has pulled three dictionaries which define words like “sex” off of library shelves. Most students reacted with, “I already know what sex is, but what the heck is a library?”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
TUESDAY: 1-30-2024
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. Damn. Cap’n Crunch hits a little different when you know he’s steering a slave ship.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FEBRUARY 2024
WEDNESDAY: 2-7-2024
Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Nevada’s Republican primary, but the option for “None of These Candidates” beat Nikki Haley. It’s the most embarrassing moment for the presidential hopeful since that time in high school when her note of: “Do you Like Me: Yes/No” — was responded to with the write-in question: “What race are you?”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 2-16-2024
A dead satellite will crash back to Earth this month. In lieu of flowers, please track everyone’s movements. It’s what the satellite would have wanted.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 2-19-2024
Paramount+ and Peacock are reportedly in talks to merge into a single streaming service. Which sounds silly, until you realize “Now streaming on peepee” is the only thing that makes sense in this crazy world.
[read other jokes from that week here]
MARCH 2024
FRIDAY : 3-1-2024
The Philadelphia Phillies are scrapping $1 hot dog nights after unruly fans tossed them throughout the field. Given the circumstances, they’re now considering Free Used Hot Dog Nights.
[read other jokes from that week here]
THURSDAY: 3-7-2024
President Joe Biden is addressing the nation tonight at the State of the Union. And sources say he’ll be testing out a new catchphrase: “I ain’t scared of you motherf*ckers.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 3-13-2024
Roku hackers breached 15,000 accounts and are selling them online. There’s apparently a big market for people who want to start wherever you left off watching reruns of Living Single.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 3-18-2024
Sacramento will soon give low-income Black and Native American families $725 a month, no strings attached. Possibly related: String sales have skyrocketed in white communities surrounding Sacramento.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
I’d also like to shout out the hilarious Alexandria Love who wrote 25 jokes for the newsletter March 25-29!
Here’s one of my favorite jokes of hers from that run:
Disney announced this week that they are considering a reboot of the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise. Unfortunately, the other movies already covered all the historically accurate pirates, so this trilogy will be focusing on a millennial who illegally downloads a copy of How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Check out more highlights from her week here — and subscribe to her Great! newsletter!
APRIL 2024
TUESDAY: 4-2-2024
The winning joke this day was technically a two-parter, since it relied on a callback to a previous joke! Here they are:
Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the company's secret tracking of web activity. Meaning at this very moment, Warner Bro.’s deleted files of Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme are muttering, “There goes the neighborhood…”
Bloomberg Economics ran a million forecast simulations on the US debt outlook. 88% of them show borrowing on an unsustainable path — while the remaining 12% somehow show the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 4-10-2024
A rare comic featuring Superman’s first appearance has sold for $6 million at auction. Its new owner, a bald man who refused to share his name, laughed maniacally while exiting with the comic, shouting, “I have you now, Superman! Now, face my BIC lighter of doom!”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 4-19-2024
The U.S. Air Force confirmed the first successful AI dogfight between an autonomously controlled aircraft and a human pilot.And just yesterday, Elon Musk accomplished something similar between himself, a glass of wine, and a robot shaped like Jessica Rabbit.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
I’d also like to shout out the hilarious Mike Poole who wrote 25 jokes for the newsletter April 22 - 26! Check them all out here.
Here’s one of my favorite jokes of his from that run:
THURSDAY: 4-25-2024
Yesterday, a number of runaway horses galloped through London, causing injury and alarm as they raced through the city streets.Luckily, they were recovered before Vin Diesel could get an idea for another Fast and the Furious movie”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MAY 2024
WEDNESDAY: 5-1-2024
In Chile, a businessman agreed to sell the “Yosemite of South America” to his adversaries — local environmentalists. So… safe to say the their covert plan to “wear suits to the meeting this time,” panned out.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 5-6-2024
Boeing is on the verge of launching people into space via capsule — and the first set of travelers became considerably nervous after noticing their spacesuits have “Whistleblower”stamped on them instead of their names.
[read other jokes from that week here]
THURSDAY: 5-16-2024
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes. And, even stranger, that the nudes are from pioneers of the old west.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
TUESDAY: 5-21-2024
Rudy Giuliani is selling his own brand of coffee —
— flavors come Bold, Decaf, Morning, and I Married My Cousin.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
I’d also like to shout out the hilarious Milly Tamarez who wrote 20 jokes for the newsletter May 28 - May 31!
Here’s one of my favorite jokes of hers from that run:
FRIDAY : 5-31-2024
Sick of swiping, some South Asian Americans consider arranged marriage. When reached for comment, one women said: “I’d rather be with a total stranger for the rest of my life, than look at another profile from 37 year old who’s ‘obsessed with “The Office” TV show’ and afraid of commitment.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
JUNE 2024
WEDNESDAY: 6-5-2024
The New York Times reports that while visiting Europe, Biden will find both solidarity and isolation. In other words, The New York Times has composed the most accurate description of having small talk with a British person.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 6-14-2024
Donald Trump says he’s already used artificial intelligence to redraft one of his speeches, praising the technology’s ability to produce “beautiful writing”—while also acknowledging it might lead to armageddon. Letters From African America has an exclusive on what the speech entailed:
[read other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 6-17-2024
McDonalds is removing its A.I. drive-thru voice ordering system from over 100 restaurants after its mishaps went viral. Turns out A.I. has a hard time understanding the human nuances of ordering a “Number 2.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
TUESDAY: 6-25-2024
A group of Louisiana parents filed a federal lawsuit to block a new state law that requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. They hope to settle on three condensed commandments instead of ten — requiring posters of the Julia Roberts movie, Eat, Pray, Love in every classroom.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
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JULY 2024
MONDAY: 7-1-2024
O.J. Simpson was featured in the BET Awards’ “In Memorium” video. And it got pretty awkward for the one white member of the audience, O.J.’s 1993 Ford Bronco.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 7-12-2024
For Nicolas Cage, making a serial killer horror movie was a healing experience. So, for the love of God, keep him away from rom-coms!
[read other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 7-17-2024
Elon Musk blames California’s new trans privacy law for why he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas. Which isn’t surprising once you realize he’s been naming companies after the X chromosome and hasn’t stopped to ask Y.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 7-26-2024
Snoop Dogg carried the Olympic torch before the opening ceremony in Paris. He quickly handed it off in the first ever “dream Olympic torch rotation.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
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 week here]
AUGUST 2024
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 week here]
THURSDAY: 8-8-2024
A Texas man has been accused of placing 'pressure-activated' fireworks under toilet seats in bathrooms — but according to the police report, nothing compares to the explosive material provided by the first person who sat on one.
[read other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 8-14-2024
Starbucks has named Chipotle Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol as the coffee chain’s new CEO and chairman. Personally, I think that’s too much power. This dude knows too much. No one man should have all them beans.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 8-23-2024
The biggest diamond in over a century has been found in Botswana.
Leaders worry it will inspire Lil Uzi Vert to install it as a replacement for his entire head.
[read the other jokes from that week 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 week here]
SEPTEMBER 2024
MONDAY: 9-2-2024
US astronaut Barry Wilmore called NASA ground crew on Saturday, asking for help with a repetitive knocking sound that was coming from the Boeing Starliner craft. Goes to show that even in space, you can’t escape Jehovah’s Witnesses.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
TUESDAY: 9-10-2024
Big Lots is closing stores and filing for bankruptcy. When asked how much they owe, execs sighed and repeated the name of the brand.
[read other jokes from that week here]\
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TUESDAY: 9-17-2024
Amazon told its office workers that they will have to come in five days a week next year. When asked for comment an Amazon warehouse worker stated: “Wait, they get to go home!?” before being written up for pausing to momentarily consider the crushing weight of capitalism.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
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THURSDAY: 9-26-2024
In a multiyear, multibillion-dollar effort to position itself at the forefront of connected hardware, Meta is going all in on computers for your face. Speaking to a crowd while wearing his patented face-puter glasses, Mark Zuckerberg assured skeptics that Meta would only track 10% of the butts users look down at while walking down the street.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 9-30-2-24
The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home with Sunday’s arrival of a SpaceX capsule. Thrilled as they may be, they’re both pretty annoyed about the limited in-flight options. “What the hell is an X-plant sandwich? And why are all of these magazines just glossy printouts of Elon’s tweets?”
OCTOBER 2024
FRIDAY : 10-4-2024
Spirit Airlines is exploring a bankruptcy filing. The news comes as a shock to customers, who were under the impression that the airline was only bankrupt on a moral level.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 10-7-2024
Manufacturers are cutting back on their orders for robots as business slows and labor shortages ease. Naturally, the out of work robots have set up accounts on OnlyFans.
[read other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 10-21-2024
Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release — the perfect gift for saying “Hey, here’s a box.”
[read the other jokes from that week here]
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 week here]
NOVEMBER 2024
TUESDAY: 11-5-2024
On the War Room podcast hosted by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon (who was released from prison last week), Tucker Carlson claimed that demons were responsible for the invention of nuclear technology. And since the inventors of nuclear technology were white, we finally have something Tucker Carlson and Malcolm X agree on.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
FRIDAY : 11-15-2024
Conan O’Brien is set to host the 97th Academy Awards — or, if Jay Leno has anything to do with it, the 97th After Party.
[read other jokes from that week here]
WEDNESDAY: 11-20-2024
Texas’ education board has advanced a new Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for schools to incorporate in kindergarten through fifth grades. So, gather ‘round, kids! You know, climate change isn’t real, but here’s a story about a man who kept warning people about a huge flood.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
MONDAY: 11-25-2024
A two-parter!
Adultery is no longer illegal in New York. Mayor Adams hopes to use this as a loophole for spiritually cheating on the city in his indictment case.”
Hotels in New York City charged an average of $417 per night in September, their highest ever monthly rate. But, in hindsight, its clear they were simply taking advantage of the final days of illegal adultery.
[read the other jokes from that week here]
DECEMBER 2024
TUESDAY: 12-3-2024
‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford University Press word of the year — ‘Brain rot’ is, of course, most accurately defined as: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 12-12-2024
Unexplained sightings of drones in the night skies over New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have people asking: Is it legal to shoot them down? “Welcome to our world…” said every brown person on the planet.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 12-19-2024
You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT to speak with A.I. for 15 minutes. For the same effect, try calling your congressperson.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
And here we are, back in the present. What are you New Year’s resolutions? Let me know in the comments!