Gail Mackenzie-Smith – Weekly Humorist

About Gail Mackenzie-Smith

Gail loves a good joke. That’s why she got her MFA in screenwriting. She also writes humor, satire, and depressing stuff but only when Mercury is retrograde. She’s been published in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, Weekly Humorist, Jane Austen’s Wastebasket, Little Old Lady Comedy and elsewhere. She lives in L.A.

Entries by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

If You Have a Podcast, But No One Listens, Do You Still Exist? Sort of.

June 20, 2026/0 Comments/in Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

According to science, the answer is “yes”.

If a tree falls in the forest, it would invariably emit sound waves even if no one is around to hear them. So, yay! You are a living breathing human being with a body and a desperate need of attention.

But, according to the blogosphere, the answer is a resounding “no”. You do not exist. Not where it matters most — on the interwebs.

What a conundrum — to simultaneously exist and not exist. Like Schrödinger’s cat. You’re both alive and dead at the same time.

This Handy Guide to Everyday Psychedelics Will Ensure Your Next Trip to Costco is a Good One

June 14, 2026/0 Comments/in Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

Psychedelics have been fighting a bad rap for decades. The intense feelings of euphoria, loss of ego, sense of “oneness” with the universe and undiscovered medical potential were deemed bad. After all, who wants to live in a country where everyone loves each other? But you can’t stuff a genie back into the bottle and that genie is out now and sitting next to you watching Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Geico Gecko Deported by ICE After Spending Christmas with Family in England

December 21, 2025/in Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

The ubiquitous lizard has been in the U.S. on an EB-1visa for twenty-five years. The visa—christened the Einstein—is awarded to people with extraordinary abilities like Nobel laureates, Olympic medalists, and Oscar winners.

Thank You Note to the Health Insurance Company Who Denied My MRI

September 29, 2025/in Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

Of course, my orthopedic surgeon is skilled enough to use a simple x-ray as a guide when he replaces my hip. An “easy-peasy” surgery, like you said in your denial letter. The fact that he also wanted to check my D2 disc and the rest of my spine can be revisited at another time. Let’s “put a pin in it” for now. Haha.

Things to Do in Los Angeles While Waiting for an Insurrection

June 12, 2025/in Best of 2025, Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

We hear that 4,800 of you have been bunking in parking lots or government buildings the last couple of days. This spur of the moment trip didn’t even give you enough time to book a hotel room. Sleeping on concrete is hell on your back. There are some cool boutique hotels in the area, however. The Hotel Figuroa has rooms for as low at $175 a night. But with the $134 million dollars of taxpayer money being spent on your visit, why not splurge out? Stay at the Biltmore. Have dinner at Redbird. Maybe lose the tactical gear. Not a good look for an evening of fine dining.

New MAGA Flavors from Ben & Jerry’s

May 22, 2025/in Best of 2025, Originals/by Gail Mackenzie-Smith

White Chocolate Supremacist, Noem Noem Noem Cheesecake, Grab her by the Cookies and Cream…and more!