Five Jokes: 3-19-2025
Roku Ads, A Netflix Money Heist, New JFK Files, New Social Security Standards, and Gal Gadot’s Walk Of Fame Conflict
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Hey! It’s Wednesday in America, and writer/coiner of the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” joins me in the latest episode of my You Are The Genre podcast (it’ll be available to all within the hour of this post)!:
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So, without further ado here are FIVE JOKES!
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Roku is testing showing ads before the home screen loads. If it catches on, look forward to restaurant servers singing the Liberty Mutual jingle before showing you the menu.
Federal prosecutors have indicted Carl Rinsch for allegedly taking $11 million from Netflix for a long promised sci-fi series that was never made. Naturally, this court case will will become an $11 million drama on the service that’s never watched.
In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone. DOGE has gifted the administration posters named the Scale Of Acceptable “Baby Fat” to aid with the new influx of people.
Finally…
Gal Gadot’s Walk of Fame ceremony was disrupted by a confrontation between pro-Palestine and pro-Israeli demonstrators. Gadot tried calming the crowd down with an a cappella rendition “Imagine,” and, surprisingly, both camps united in shushing her.
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