Five Jokes: 1-24-2024
Five Jokes: 1-24-2024
‘Barbie’ Oscar Snubs, Inevitable Bide/Trump Rematch, Netflix Get’s ‘RAW’ With WWE, MrBeast’s Social Media Expansion, and Google's New A.I. Browsing Feature
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Ryan Gosling received an Oscar nomination for ‘Barbie’ but not director Greta Gerwig or star Margo Robbie. In response to backlash, Academy leadership stated, “Sure wish we had an electoral college to blame right about now…”
Trump is racing toward a 2024 Biden rematch — figuratively, of course. Doctors have advised that both candidates avoid driving, biking, jogging, sprinting, running, or fighting in the next 11 months to maintain stamina. In fact, they’ll be seated on La-Z-Boys during debates. For Biden, that’s a chair. For Trump, that’s his nickname for Senator Tim Scott.
Netflix paid $5 billion for WWE’s Raw. Furthering speculation that streamers no longer care about shows that are well done.
MrBeast posted his first video on China’s Bilibili. And if you don’t know what MrBeast and Bilibili is, just assume they’re Lord of the Rings characters and have a blissful day in you perfect little life.
Finally…
Google is rolling out an AI feature that can organize tabs on your browser. There are three settings:
Intellectual: Which places Wikipedia entries and news websites at the forefront.
Edgy: Which highlights Joe Rogan YouTube links and reeddit entries.
and I Definitely Cooked That: Which highlights random recipe tabs so that your family thinks you really did make those Hot Pockets from scratch.
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A JOKE(s) FROM SOMEONE ELSE OTHER PEOPLE
Rob King with hilarious insight into how Jeffrey Wright reacted to his ‘American Fiction’ Oscar nomination:
Hoff Matthews with some little known facts about Larry the Cable Guy.
Josh Johnson on Jonathan Majors.
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