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Amy Greenlee

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Humor in @mcsweeneys @The_Belladonnas @SlackjawHumor @JaneWastebasket @FrazzledHumor @WeeklyHumorist | Editor of the TV humor publication Pause Button | Creator of The Gospel of Jest: gospelofjest.substack.com

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And JUST IN CASE IT COMES UP I did NOT hate the Emerald Fennell adaptation

20.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back in McSweeney's with some Wuthering Heights red flags 🚩🚩🚩

20.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Loved this one! Looking forward to the Oscar watch party installment 😂

07.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Making a Pro/Con list can help you see that there are, indeed, two options

29.01.2026 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When your mother-in-law teaches classes on bookbinding, your kid ends up with a gorgeous journal for their Sutter's Fort field trip. And coffee-stained pages! ❤️

15.01.2026 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What multi level marketing scheme it will be this time, I wonder

11.01.2026 02:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Getting to share increasingly complex forms of humor with my kids as they age is one of my favorite things about being a parent--right up there with watching a newborn smile ❤️

04.01.2026 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If my handwriting makes me look neurotic, it's just because I am.

23.12.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and don't even get me started on BOTH legs tucked up in the chair 🤯

11.12.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I personally believe it to be unremarkable. And yet...

11.12.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ninety percent of in-office interaction is just men asking how I can possibly sit with one leg tucked up in my chair

11.12.2025 00:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks for the repost, Luke! And for the feedback of your humor-writing class!

09.12.2025 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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22 Fast Facts About Semicolons Everything you need to know; plus lots you certainly don't.

"Among members of Gen Z, the use of a semicolon is considered rude."

open.substack.com/pub/chortleb...

08.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Damn Hot Wheels. That was a solid commercial. 🥹

27.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE BINGO 🍂 Don't forget to play along! 🍂

27.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Frankenweenie Movie CLIP - Lightning (2012) - Tim Burton Animated Movie HD
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First time watching Frankenweenie and this might be the best explanation of lightning I've ever heard: youtu.be/WCjpY5oko-E

03.11.2025 03:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worse. Energy supplements. This is also the episode where Simon gets addicted to coffee over the course of, like, a day

07.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sounds like you, too, must have watched that 7th Heaven episode where Mary's friend offers her vitamins to help her play basketball

07.10.2025 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

❤️ it

01.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Nobody:

Me, suddenly sing/shouting: "Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothin'. Are we nothin'? No!"

29.09.2025 03:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And won't stop asking for it every time we go to Starbucks...

28.09.2025 02:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never not interested in this kind of chatter

27.09.2025 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A couple walked past me, and all I heard of their conversation was "I'm just saying the psychological profile of someone who would enjoy a show like that is..." And it took everything in me to not catch up to them and be like: What show are you talking about? And can I please join this conversation?

27.09.2025 02:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

First 20 minutes of Task (HBO show) be like "we'll tell a story when we feel like getting around to it, thank you"

Started because I was expecting Mare of Easttown S2.

Does it ever become Mare of Easttown S2?

14.09.2025 21:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My daughter accidentally rubbed off some of the paint on her mass produced baby doll's eye, and she brought it to me and asked if I could call the artist who made it and have them repaint it, and this is the sort of world I wished we lived in.

01.09.2025 05:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

His progression from Child Bobby felt so natural and honest to the character. If you made it past the bumpy first episode of the new season, it ended up being a pretty charming little revival. ❤️

31.08.2025 05:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can't understate how satisfying it was to see Adult Bobby doing well. #NewKingoftheHill

31.08.2025 05:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This also felt like a film made especially for younger brothers of older brothers, and, no, I cannot explain what I mean by that. I just know it to be true in my bones.

26.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Second time watching Bottle Rocket = discovering that what previously seemed like a comedic heist film is actually a poignant story about one guy finding his way out of a mental health crisis and into a stabilizing routine only to discover that his best friend is on the opposite trajectory.

26.07.2025 02:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sounds like the only thing they are guilty of is having a good time...

12.07.2025 18:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0