Five Jokes: 2-11-2025
PBS Ends DEI, DOJ Supports Mayor Adams, Egg Security, Fox’s Podcast Venture, and Magic Kingdom Power Fail
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PBS is closing an office dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. How do you get to Sesame Street? Trick question. It’s Sesame Heights now and a big birdy told me that if you’re fuzzy, feathery, or any color of the rainbow, you should really hit the road before sundown.
Related: The next Ken Burns documentary is titled Ken Burns’ Ken Burns: A Slow Zoom Into Whiteness.
The Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. This officially plants the mayor as one of only two names on Trump’s list of “the good ones”. The first, of course, is Tim Scott… So, in hindsight, maybe it’s just a list of bald Black people willing to shake his hand.
Hey, P. Diddy, what do you want more, your hair or your freedom?
Grocery stores are enforcing purchase limits on fresh eggs. Controversially, they’re doing so based on “How much it looks like your fat ass can eat.”
Fox has acquired Red Seat Ventures, a podcast company with clients that include Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan. Each episode will be sponsored by the negative space between the letters, words, and paragraphs the Bible.
Finally…
The same night that the Philadelphia Eagles were celebrating their Super Bowl win at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, nearly all the rides shut down at the park. All I’ve got to say is thank goodness the president pressed the wrong red button.
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Sesame Street hasn't been on PBS for a few years, so they dodged that chop. But HBO isn't any better...