Five Jokes: 2-10-2025
Trump vs The Kennedy Center, X Bans Kanye West , Medicaid Shrinkage, Serena Williams At The Super Bowl, and No New Pennies
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Hey! It’s Monday in America, human-like teeth have successfully grown in a pig’s mouth, here are some of the best ads from yesterday’s Super Bowl —
— and, here are FIVE JOKES!
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Trump plans to name himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts… A fancy way for The Village People to announce their permanent D.C. residency.
Kanye West‘s X account has been deactivated after he spent spent several days posting racist and antisemitic comments, from declaring “I’m a Nazi” to calling Hitler “so fresh.” You know it’s bad when even Elon Musk is saying “Come on, brotha. There’s a subtle way to say the same thing. Let me see your hand…”
Many Republicans think that shrinking Medicaid will make it better. This comes after years of practice saying something quite similar in bed.
Serena Williams made a surprise appearance on stage at the Super Bowl 2025 halftime show. Unknown to most, she was a last-minute addition. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was originally set to twerk on stage but decided against it given current international trade conditions.
Finally…
Donald Trump has ordered the treasury to stop minting Pennies. I understand its a cost-saving measure, but, come on, man, hasn’t Lincoln taken enough shots?!
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE
Take a trip back in time to this classic special from the great Dwayne Kennedy!
FUN FACT: I interviewed Dwayne back in 2014.
Health insurance facts from Noah Cutwright…
STRAY THOUGHT
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
on WIRED’s excellent coverage of the Musk chaos…
Veronica Chambers for The New York Times on How Negro History Week Became Black History Month…
Mychal Denzel Smith for The New Republic dissects Imani Perry’s Black In Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People…
And… on forgetting your age…
SOMETHIN’ MORE!
A clip from one of my favorite podcast appearances with Ryan Perez and Anne Rieman on their Mama Needs A Movie podcast talking about the wonderfully strange Ray Bradbury movie The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit…
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The Canadian government decided to ditch the penny about 13 years ago. Trump must have cottoned to how that saves us a lot of money every year.