Five Jokes: 1-27-2025
Conan At Sundance, Lindsey Graham vs Trump, The Toxic Results Of L.A. Rain, RFK Jr.'s Bad Ideas, and Paul McCartney vs A.I.
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At Sundance, the hottest ticket in town was a Rose Byrne and Conan O’Brien psychological thriller. That’s right, critics are calling it a classic Will They?/Won’t They?/Wait, Why Are They?..
Lindsey Graham said Trump made "a mistake" by pardoning Jan. 6 defendants who hurt police — and it’s unclear, but he seemed to mouth the words “Especially the white ones…”
Much needed rain gave relief from ongoing L.A. wildfires, but officials warn of resulting hazardous waste, toxic ash runoff and mudslides. Bright side: We have a new group of superheroes called the Mid-Level Mutant TV Writers.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once pitched the idea to run an experiment on the children of Samoa to see whether vaccines actually work. He’s said to have backed away from the concept after getting a tiny whiff of what The Rock had cookin’ for him.
Finally…
In a recent interview with the BBC, Paul McCartney stumped for protections for younger artists against A.I. and exploitation by tech giants. At least that’s what we think he meant by saying "These wiggly tech guys are bang-bangin’ on Maxwell’s silver hammer, you dig? But we gotta come together, you know… and do it in their road before they bake us all into one of them wild honey pies.”
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE
In honor of Conan, here is my favorite sketch from his TBS show. It isn’t officially on YouTube but, luckily, the bold performer Orgena Rose has uploaded this blurry version to her own account:
STRAY THOUGHT
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
on no one knowing what a journalist is:
on the disappearance of the hit-driven business model:
And is always collecting great quotes. Here’s one from Colson Whitehead:
SOMETHIN’ MORE!
What is presidents get “severed” after their term?
(TEXT SKETCH) Joe Biden Wakes Up In The 'Severance' Conference Room
Slobber drooling down his face, a confused elderly man wakes up to the realization that he’s lying in the center of a long conference room table flanked by empty office chairs.
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