Worlds Best Jokes is a novella concerned with dreams and identity. Printed on fine newsprint with a rugged cinnamon card stock cover. Limited while supplies last. Hand numbered out of 25. Approx. 15,000 words or 68 pages. Approx. read time 3.5 hours.

Worlds Best Jokes is a novella and the first book by writer/musician Ben Yost. Yost is a metro-Detroit based drummer, composer, songwriter, lyricist, writer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is most well known for his group Blank Tape Tax that fuses elements of jazz, punk, and hip-hop. Yost has been performing semi-professionally since the age of 13, playing in bars, clubs, and at house parties with his high-school band The Flaks. Most notably, The Flaks performed with Break Anchor (featuring Jay Navorrow of Suicide Machines), The Armed, The Twistin' Tarantulas, Glocca Morra, Empire Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), and The Dickies. After high school, Yost would go on to form Broadacre with James Schultz of Sunlight Ascending. Most notably with Broadacre, Yost would go on to perform with such acts as Hot Mulligan, Pines (Greet Death), and Forester (featuring Julian Baker).

After Broadacre, Yost suffered an episode of acute psychosis and a subsequent hospitalization as part of his long and ongoing battle with bipolar disorder. During this time, Yost began to seriously study jazz at Wayne State University under the tutelage of Professor Chuck Newsome, Professor Edward Gooch, and Professor David Taylor. He also began teaching at Expressions Music Academy in Novi Michigan, where he taught for 4 years. Friend, bandmate and longtime collaborator Ja’vahn Peterson would teach Yost about production using the software Ableton Live 9. Around this time, Yost began gigging around the city as a freelance musician, including at churches, bars, and restaurants. Most notably with the group Blank Tape Tax, Yost has collaborated with Alexis Lombre, Jonathon Muir-Cotton, Logan Gaval (of Greet Death), and Kash Tha Kushman (of Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade), and he has performed with the Wayne State Concert Band at the DSO. In 2019, Yost spearheaded a tribute to the prolific, late, and bipolar jazz artist, Roy Brooks, along with Saxophonist Xavier Bonner, and trombonist Professor Vincent Chandler for the Wayne State Jazz Lab Big Band II.

Yost has released 6 full length albums, 6 extended plays, 1 mixtape, 2 vinyl 7"s, and 1 vinyl 10", as well as a handful of CDs and cassettes. He has played hundreds of performances and has toured the Midwest. Yost has performed at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas and has been featured on Sofar Sounds Chicago and Detroit Public Television's Metro Arts Detroit, as well as multiple appearances on Detroit's NPR affiliate, WDET's Culture Shift.

Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records, Minor Threat, and Fugazi after hearing Yost's jazz arrangement of the Minor Threat song "Filler" had this to say: "I got a real kick out of the Blank Tape Tax take on 'Filler' and thought it was well conceived and well executed. I especially appreciate the bridge formed between genres that reveals the commonality of music."

Key collaborators in Yost's music include Anthony Wehby, James Schultz, Ja’vahn Peterson, Hayley McNicole, and Emily Parrish.

Besides writing and arranging music, Yost sings, plays the guitar, saw, piano, drum set, and writes his own autobiographies. Currently, Yost is playing guitar in his band Blank Tape Tax and is studying, touring, and promoting awareness about mental health.