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The Digest by SSC · Jul 17, 2026

The Midsummer Comedy Festival

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Justin Kramm · Kramm Session

Happy Friday and welcome to Cubicle Comedy Club, your Friday lineup of the funniest people turning the 9 to 5 into a set instead of a sentence.

This week, LinkedIn accidentally assembled one of its strongest comedy lineups of the summer. We found observational comics, visual gags, accidental performance art, and one AI voice transcription that deserves representation.

Grab your coffee. The show is about to begin.

This is the kind of joke that makes comedians jealous.

It’s oddly specific, instantly visual, and somehow gets funnier the longer you think about it.

Somewhere, an imaginary saxophonist just played one note so emotional that a helicopter exploded.

Standing ovation.

Matt tried to dictate a LinkedIn post using AI.

Instead, he accidentally published what appears to be the internal monologue of every knowledge worker in 2026.

You couldn’t script this.

It’s somewhere between Black Mirror, The Office, and your uncle discovering ChatGPT.

AI probably did not laugh. But I did. 🤣

One chart.

One circle.

Fourteen million LinkedIn posts explained.

Bravo, Anna. 👏

…neither were our dopamine receptors.

Or our necks.

Or whoever decided every Tuesday needed another carousel called What Daycare Dropoff Taught Me About B2B Sales.

Somewhere, an entire Notion workspace just deleted itself.

That’s the rare roast that arrives dressed as helpful advice.

My hat’s off to this guy. As a balding guy, I can relate.

No fake founder journey.

No pivot into leadership.

No emotional lesson.

Just joke.

Then hat.

Honestly, more marketing should work this way.

Get your Shitshow hat here

Charlie Day’s conspiracy board...

...except every string somehow leads to another use for spent coffee grounds.

Agriculture.

Biochar.

Biopolymers.

Sunglasses.

At this rate, coffee grounds are three TED Talks away from replacing lithium.

Every Friday, LinkedIn quietly becomes the world’s largest open mic.

Most people show up with slides.

A few show up with jokes.

Those are the people who make the platform worth opening.

Congratulations to this week’s performers!

Please exit through the gift shop, where LinkedIn Premium still costs too much, every conference lanyard is somehow $89, and someone has already published “7 Leadership Lessons I Learned From Attending a Comedy Festival I Invented.”

We’ll see you next Friday!

Bring your best joke. If it accidentally teaches leadership, we’ll allow it.

Read the original on shitshowcreative.substack.com

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