ByJoel Kim Booster

Joel Kim Booster is a comedian and writer living in Brooklyn and deep down really just wants everyone to like him.

  1. Previously in this series: If Archie Panjabi Were Your Girlfriend

    If Vin Diesel were your boyfriend, he wouldn’t mind that you spend every Sunday alone with your friends. “You’re not just friends, you’re a family,” he’d say while you get ready for brunch.

    If Vin Diesel were your boyfriend, he would rewatch Gilmore Girls with you without argument. He would be staunchly Team Dean (much to your annoyance) until Dean cheats

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  2. Joel's last piece for The Toast was "No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians."

    You could say Whoopi started a movement. 

    I am of course speaking about a very niche, a very important corner of our pop culture landscape: the inspirational singing competition movie. What would the late twentieth century and early aughts have been without the tried and true formula of a group of misfit teens getting together, ignoring racial

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  3. “I like naked boys better than naked girls.” This is my very first joke. I am four years old. My parents are allowing my brother, sister and I to sleep in the same room so that we can celebrate the installation of dozens of glow-in-the-dark stars on my sister’s bedroom ceiling. My brother and I are camped out on the floor while my sister, a wise twelve to our four and six, respectively, explains the…

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