Five Jokes: 3-26-2025
+ You Are The Genre w/ Ryan Perez (Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show)
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Hey! It’s Wednesday in America, and writer/filmmaker Ryan Perez (Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show) joins me in the latest episode of my You Are The Genre podcast!:
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Sorry to post a rare LATE edition of the update, just been so busy thinking about how the cartoon characters Arnold and Helga are basically —
Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!
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The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timing of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne. Turns out the only thing he kept vague in the text chat was his mood for lunch, with one text reading “I dunno… maybe something sort of… solid?”
Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail so that he can keep up with the "voluminous" amount of discovery evidence prosecutors are expected to provide. If granted, he will be assigned a laptop without a camera installed, so that he can avoid providing fans with voluminous personal elements they’d like to discover.
Nielson data for February shows that YouTube now dominates 11.6% of total TV viewing time—more than Disney and about equal to Netflix and Amazon combined. So, if your’e searching for the next Johnny Carson, he’s someone out there… perhaps even in a room in your house… opening a box, alone, in his gaming chair.
An Australian senator revealed a dead salmon in a plastic bag while speaking in parliament, in protest against a bill being debated. Senators who agree with her points on protecting salmon-farming jobs grew concerned as she continually pressed a button that wasn’t there, shouting, “Oh, come on! Sing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!’”
Finally…
The CEOs of NPR and PBS are appearing before a House subcommittee on government efficiency, chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, where they will answer questions about perceived political bias at the public broadcasters. Marjorie’s first an only question: “Where are the white muppets?”
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