Category: Weekly Humorist - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Hashtag, You're It! - #Icky Action Movies

6/10/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

Only 2? I only got 2 in? I was robbed. Granted, a lot of cereals have the word "pop" in it which can easily be changed to "poop," but why discount them all? I'm annoyed they didn't use my favorite, Nort 'n Honey. But I kinda screwed that one up, spelling it as Norton Honey, attaching a gif of Ed Norton from the Honeymooners, but I didn't include a picture of the cereal Nut 'n' Honey to better set up the gag. Oh, and I did it because Norton is famously a sewer worker. Yeah, I'm starting to realize that joke is too clever for its own good. But it's not a lengthy list of "winners" this week. Even the official WH entries seem light. Well, here's the link to the WH page:

Hashtag, You're It! - #Icky Action Movies

5/27/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

Starting to get a little concerned with the games; it seemed like there were a lot of posts, but the only a small percent of the "winners" seemed to have been chosen. Of course, the WH posts dominate the page. And I got 8 included this week. But the remaining few seem to come from only 4 other tweeters. This seems light. Anyway, it was a gross topic, but I can get as scatological as the best of them, so I just had to brush up on my reality shows and dive in. I'm not really a fan of the form, and really only remember the game show-type programs. And while my most blatant ones got picked, I'm disappointed by the ones they skipped. I really liked Wet Dog the Bounty Hunter. Oh, well. Check them out at:

#ReekingRealityShows

Hashtag, You're It! - #Icky Action Movies

5/21/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

They made me nervous this week. I submitted a lot but when they posted it, I was scrolling down not seeing any. They the last bunch were mind. I got 7 in this week. They get kind of gross, but that's the nature of these things, especially with the work "icky" shoved in there. Anyway, check them out:

#IckyActionMovies

Hashtag, You're It! - #Bargain Boardgames

5/14/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

Weekly Humorist seems to be going through some things. They used to post the "winners" of the hashtag games Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Then they started delaying it. I thought they were releasing it the day before the latest game, to keep things hopping. Now, they went back to a quicker release, but I got busy and couldn't address that. But I'll sit on it until Tuesday anyway.

It was a cute topic. But again, WH posted a lot of them and really forced we minions to hustle to create new ones. A couple of jokes popped right up. Then I did some via research. And then when I thought I was done, a couple more popped up and I posted them late in the day. It kind of devolved into a more general "bad" boardgames, as did mine. But there were some very funny ones. Check it out!

#BargainBoardgames

Hashtag, You're It! - #Sitcom A Restaurant

5/6/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I almost missed this one. I kept getting interrupted while attempting to play this hashtag game. But it was a good topic. Except that WH grabbed all the low-hanging fruit. And posted all their tweets. Once I finally got into the groove, I did okay. My biggest problem was I went too far back in sit-com history to come up with puns (Make Room for Daddy, The Phil Silvers Show). But I entered a bunch, got a number of likes and got 6 of them included. Check them out:

#SitcomARestaurant

Leave it to the Prose: Son of Hollywood Memo I.P. Daily Newsletter

5/5/2025

I've circled back to my roots here, creating a hodgepodge of jokes and gags, then coming up with a premise to contain them all. It started out with a couple of "content creator" type bits that I thought up, but don't have a way to produce. One of them was Abbott & Costello Elementary, which I created and posted online. Then a Shrek joke presented itself. Then, from there, I decided to write out the ideas and figured to put them into a sequel to my first I.P. Daily Newsletter article. It started out random, but then I started to chase the news a bit, and worked them together. It came out quite well. I backed up and reworked the A&C bit into a political joke, but I forgot to do the same to the Shrek idea. I could have turned it into a Hunter Biden laptop joke easily enough. Weekly Humorist like the article and posted it today! So, check it out:

Hashtag, You're It! - #Painful Pastries

4/29/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I skipped last week. I didn't care for the topic and wasn't in the mood to work blue. I'll get dark, I'll get mean, I'll get punny and silly, but doing blue material still rubs me the wrong way. I'm a prude like that and very tightly wound. But this week I went all in. The crowd seems to be thinning. I don't see a lot of retweeting. There's one participant who posts the hashtags, but the account is set up so you can't like or retweet any of them (not that they are that good). I managed a couple before I was forced to resort to a website to list the actual names of pastries. Because I just call everything "pastries." I got some good ones picked. They ignored my bad ones. They even included my favorite (S'ores) which actually came up late in the session. Ten included in all. I keep hoping this will make them more reception to my prose pieces (still very hit & miss). Anyway, check out:

#PainfulPastries

Leave it to the Prose: Executive Order Declaration Concerning Bring Your Daughter to Work Day 2025

4/22/2025

I certainly have opinions about what was once called "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day." I understood the idea behind it, but I didn't quite get what me bringing my kid to the day job I hated was going to prove. I got my first piece in the NY Post on that very topic. The optics have changed over the years, but I still cringe at the thought of it, even though my kids have long since aged out of it and fortunately never got into my line of work.

But circumstances change but parody doesn't. I had a glimmer of an idea based on current events and it blossomed into this piece, now up at the Weekly Humorist. Enjoy!

Hashtag, You're It! - #Moist Mystery Movies

4/8/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

This was an odd juxtaposition; mystery movies with the most disliked word in the English language. I got nine in. Almost as many as Weekly Humorist did. A lot of people have a very broad definition of what a mystery movie is, and I stretched it myself...I couldn't help it, Damp Yankees was sitting right there! I got a good number of them recognized. Although, frankly, I'm getting worried about the whole hashtag game thing. In the beginning, they used to brag how their hashtags were in the top place. I don't see that anymore. It seems to be the same group of Tweeters week in and out. It's a fun pastime and one of the few remaining hashtag games I see on Twitter these days.

#MoistMysteryMovies

Hashtag, You're It! -#Chef A Children's Book

4/1/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

This was a fun topic, merger cooking and kid's books. A bunch popped into my head, then I had to google some other children books. A lot of people when with punning actual chef names, but I'm not as familiar so I went the food route. And got 9 on the list. Some solid pun work here. Check it out:

#ChefAChildrensBook

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