Five Jokes: 1-30-2025
Space Life Ingredients, Blocked Communication Between Health Organizations, Viral Declassified CIA Documents, Pardon Recipient Surprises, and Podcast Press Conferences
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Hey! It’s Thursday (a.k.a. National Croissant Day) in America, and there’s an all new episode of You Are The Genre featuring my conversation with the Center for Brooklyn History’s chief historian, Dominique Jean-Louis!
Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!
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Scientists from NASA and other institutions have found essential ingredients of life as we know it in an asteroid sample. Cool, but look at this place… We need signs of life as we don’t! Let’s get some DEI ingredients up in here.
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization — putting mutual friend, UNICEF, in the awkward position saying “Hey… yeah they’re good…” when either one of them asks about the other.
A declassified CIA document for sabotaging facism is suddenly viral. In return, the Trump administration is asking the Kremlin to release a diss files against the CIA. Still unclear who will win the doc beef.
Donald Trump pardon recipients are being charged with new crimes. Most of them, of fashion.
Finally…
The White House received more than 7,400 requests for credentials one day after saying it would open press briefings to content creators, influencers and podcasters. So, if you really want to know why so many drones were hovering New Jersey, subscribe to Vance In My Pants, the only official J.D. Vance podcast behind the White House patreon paywall.
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE
Let’s take a trip down comedy lane with comedian/actor Pat Morita of “Mr. Miyagi” fame… Did you know he was a standup?
He was also very close with Redd Foxx…
And if you don’t believe me, take his word for it…
STRAY THOUGHT
IN OTHER NEWS…
[Interesting Headlines Minus Jokes]
Donald Trump's aid freeze forces Zelensky to look elsewhere…
And… Scottish soccer fans serenaded Prince William with anti-monarchy chants.
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I want to vote for the CDC joke. Democracy is gone. :(