Five Jokes: 10-31-2023
SAG/Studio Talks Continue On Halloween, X Is Worth Less, King Charles Pressured To Acknowledge Colonial Abuses, Bats Ruin A Home Rental, a News Is Booming On TikTok
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Halloween isn’t stopping talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the studios today. In a joint statement, executives clarified that wearing the same Monopoly Man costume was purely coincidental and not a negation tactic.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is now worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it a year ago — cementing it as the only Musk product that consumers trust less than an approaching self-driving Tesla.
In Kenya, King Charles is facing calls to answer for British colonial abuses. And the broader African continent has the fastest growing, youngest population in the world. So, if he doesn’t answer soon, he’ll soon face every white person’s deepest fear: getting clowned on by the largest group of Black teenagers on earth.
A group of women have filed a lawsuit against Airbnb and the owners of a Victorian home, saying they rented the house to celebrate their 50th high school reunion only to discover that it was infested with screeching bats that swooped down on them in their beds. However, the owners of the Victorian home have snapped back —
— saying “Wait, I thought we rented this to bunch of bats.”
Finally…
News on TikTok and Instagram is booming. To compete, legacy news networks are exclusively hiring journalists via the new hit game show So You Think You Can Dance AND Accurately Report On Middle East Conflicts.
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE!
Josh Nasser always makes me laugh. This new music video of his is no exception. If it makes you laugh as well, consider checking out this text interview I did with him earlier in the year!
STRAY THOUGHT
This is a new segment for a joke or “stray” thought of mine that doesn’t fit the standard setup/punchline format. Hopefully it’ll make me post on Twitter less. Enjoy (and feel free to share!):
SOMETHIN’ FROM THE VAULT!
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