Five Jokes: 5-28-2024
MILLY TAMAREZ TAKEOVER! - A Tech Settlement With The DOJ, 'Furiosa' vs 'Garfield,' Mexican Mummy Mayhem, SpaceX, and Going Nude In Virgin Airlines
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Hey! It’s Tuesday in America, and my friend Milly Tamarez is taking over this week with her own unique spin on these Five Jokes updates! You might remember her from an episode of my You Are The Genre podcast (which has a new episode out now featuring Roy Wood Jr.)!
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Y’all hear about this?..
A tech staffing firm settled with the Department of Justice after a ‘whites only’ job posting. To be fair the tech company was developing an A.I. tool for bleaching laundry.
‘Furiosa’ sneaked past ‘Garfield’ to claim No. 1 spot over Memorial Day holiday weekend. As a result, Garfield now hates, Saturdays, Sundays AND Mondays.
The Mexican government says the arm of a 19th century mummy came off after mishandling by museum staff. I think the real story here is that the Museum staff kept referring to the mummy as “Mamá.”
Space entrepreneurs say that SpaceX is using anti-competitive tactics to squash rivals. Turns out the strategies from other space companies' also rely on their owners being embarrassingly stupid.
Finally…
A Virgin Australia flight was forced to turn around shortly after takeoff Monday night after a passenger allegedly got naked and ran down the aisle. Unrelated, Virgin Australia has renamed itself “Sex Pest Airlines” which is Australian for “Australia Airlines.”
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Milly Tamarez is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress based out of Brooklyn, New York.She most recently wrote for ABC's The Celebrity Dating Game, Jason Biggs’ Cash At Your Door on E!, WWE’s Friday Night Smackdown, NPR's weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Milly is also co-host for a female-led political and pop culture podcast, The Betches SupShe was recently chosen as one of a handful of comedic voices to participate in Will Ferrell, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers produced podcast, Clown Parade: An Anthological Character Piece Carefully Curated by Las Culturistas.Milly has also written for Buzzfeed, Reductress, and MTV and has been featured on Thrillist, Vice, BET, Flama, Above Average, Univision, and Comedy Central. She is one of the creators and producers of Flexx (a satire magazine for people of color) and Diverse as Fuck Festival a festival that highlights diversity in comedy. Milly is also one of the founders of the all-women of color improv team Affirmative Action. Her work has been featured in Vulture, Bushwick Daily, The Daily Dot, HelloGiggles, Galore Magazine, Adweek, and CodeBlack Report.
