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Amy Greenlee

@greenleeish.bsky.social
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Humor for McSweeneys, Belladonna Comedy, Slackjaw, et al. | Editor of the TV humor publication Pause Button | Creator of The Gospel of Jest: gospelofjest.substack.com

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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just calculating my overall and type-specific skin cancer risk for each remaining decade; how's your morning going?
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing I hate about public restrooms is that people are always using them
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Norwegian (me) reviews Trader Joe's Norwegian Lefse amygreenlee.substack.com/p/trader-joe...
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Trader Joe’s Is Making Lefse Now
Here’s what one Norwegian thinks
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Forget your super glue. I've got the goop that holds beans in the bottom of a can.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have finally acquired and squirreled away enough chapsticks that wherever I reach for one, I often find two
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
May we all some day be blessed with a schedule such as hers.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Walking home from work, I passed a woman who smiled and wished me a "good morning." Reader, the time was 5:18 PM.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes taking the train into work feels glamorous, and sometimes you can't set your bag down because there's poop on the floor
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about Katie Dippold's early Widow's Bay draft is that it is totally different words that tell the exact same story 😍 drive.google.com/file/d/1Tot6...
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WIDOW'S BAY (12.12.13) By KATIE DIPPOLD (1).pdf
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Give Widow's Bay all the awards. amygreenlee.substack.com/p/everything...
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Everything I Hope Will Happen During Tonight’s Emmys
Widow’s Bay or Bust!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My kids having no association between baseball and the national anthem because we've never made it to a game on time
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sometimes I think I would be okay having a permanent cold if it meant my voice could always sound like Susan Sarandon's
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me handing my child the bagel with avocado and salt they requested: "This is called avocado toast, and it was created by the Millennials. It is a gift to your generation."
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Is your child watching something loud on their tablet? Use it to write humor.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My youngest consistently says "hewf" instead of "phew" and I hope she never changes
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's definitely quitting, but it's not being quiet about it!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So tired of my bladder sounding the alarm every time it's tasked with holding a small amount of liquid. Like, that is literally the job you were hired to do.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My children call Chuck E. Cheese "Chunky Cheese," and it's honestly the most fitting malapropism I've ever heard.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
you know what. it's decent enough to work in a pinch. can't compete with homemade for the holidays tho!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trader Joe's finally discovered my culture. Although I hardly expect to see lutefisk in the frozen aisle anytime soon!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Red Flags in The Odyssey 🚩🚩🚩
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excited to be back in McSweeney's with some Odyssey humor #Odyssey #ChristopherNolan #redflags
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Can't wait for my new suitcase or shopping cart or rollator
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Also, the person I am talking to here is me.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stop saying you haven't had your coffee yet. You are like this even after coffee.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My daughter wrote a note for the Tooth Fairy, and the exclamation point is a tooth
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
greenleeish.substack.com/p/hating-hea... Not exactly timely, but we all process things at our own speed...
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Hating Heathcliff Is Easy
sitting with what the novel has to say about human relationships can be wuthering...
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And you're nowhere near Obsidian
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
you say you're fluent, but I can tell you've never even made it to Amethyst League
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
every old disney movie: hey, wouldn't it be funny if...
drunk dumbodrunk pinocchiodrunk mouse
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
me: what's the french word for doll? also me: hahaha. no seriously. what is it? also me: ok, sure, but how is it pronounced? also me: well, that's unfortunate
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If Aubrey Plaza was your BFF, you'd already be halfway done knitting her some baby booties ❤️ medium.com/pausebutton/...
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If Aubrey Plaza Was Your BFF
You would never ask her what it was like to grow up in Delaware
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
this was so good!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
feeling too scared to merge. might just drive to fresno instead.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
remember when we could swing on swings without getting terribly dizzy for the rest of the day
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
community is seeing other parents scrambling around the Target at 9:30 pm the night before a holiday
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
And JUST IN CASE IT COMES UP I did NOT hate the Emerald Fennell adaptation
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Back in McSweeney's with some Wuthering Heights red flags 🚩🚩🚩
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Loved this one! Looking forward to the Oscar watch party installment 😂
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Making a Pro/Con list can help you see that there are, indeed, two options
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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! ❤️
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
What multi level marketing scheme it will be this time, I wonder
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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 ❤️
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
If my handwriting makes me look neurotic, it's just because I am.
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
and don't even get me started on BOTH legs tucked up in the chair 🤯
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I personally believe it to be unremarkable. And yet...
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ninety percent of in-office interaction is just men asking how I can possibly sit with one leg tucked up in my chair
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Thanks for the repost, Luke! And for the feedback of your humor-writing class!
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Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Among members of Gen Z, the use of a semicolon is considered rude." open.substack.com/pub/chortleb...
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22 Fast Facts About Semicolons
Everything you need to know; plus lots you certainly don't.
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