Mortified 2: Return of Mortified

Joseph Thomas
4 min readMar 6, 2023

So, a little over a year ago, the Mortified you’ve all come to know and love(?) disappeared without warning. There are reasons for that listed below, but, before I tell you where I’ve been, I’d like to tell you where we’re going, so you can sleep at night again. I can’t wait to dive back into telling stories about funeral service, the South and Southern culture, and the general weirdness of growing up the way I did. I’ll also throw in some updates, links to some of my old pieces for those who’ve never seen them, and funny things by other people, so maybe you’ll discover some previously unknown (to you) humor writers. Wouldn’t that be lovely?

Now here’s what’s been happening over the past year or so:

Molding Minds and Changing Lives

Well, maybe.

Right after I posted my old Second City Network Christmas piece in December 2021, I officially became a remote adjunct instructor at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. Here’s what’s great about that: I love it, and I get to talk about funeral service a lot which I enjoy more than I probably should. Here’s what’s not great about that: It took so much of my time to figure out how to set up my courses and actually teach them that I could not keep up Mortified or its accompanying podcast. Sorry about that.

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Joseph Thomas

Funeral Director and humor writer from Memphis, TN. Access more of me at http://joseph-thomas.com.