Five Jokes: 6-16-2025
Movie Research, 23andMe's Ownership, Minnesota Murder Suspect, Potential New Travel Ban Countries, and The New 'Toy Story' Villain
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Hey! It’s Monday in America, European leaders gathering for the G7 summit with Donald Trump in the Canadian Rockies spent the opening day asking him to justify his confidence that Israel and Iran will make a deal that will mean “peace soon,” and —
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Film trailer research reveals that young male audiences respond more strongly to character-driven storytelling with narrative depth and have a preference for strong, independent female leads. Unfortunately, those same young male viewers consider such films to be “really trippy science fiction.”
23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to buy back the company after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Wojcicki reportedly announced this to staff by bursting into the office shouting, “Look out, there’s the same Sheriff in town!”
Many are relieved that the company will remain in her hands instead of New York-based biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which as of last month was set to buy 23andMe for $256 million. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with biotechnology, but when it’s for a company called Regeneron, it sounds like it’s for some evil purpose like… bringing Ronald Reagan back to life, or worse — small-eyed Sonic:
Vance Boelter, the man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounding another lawmaker and his wife on Saturday, was taken into custody and charged. Boetler could have been arrested sooner, but since the attacks were allegedly made by the gunman dressing like a police officer, it took a while for the arresting officer to move out of the pointing position displayed in this cutting-edge graphic:
According to the website for Boetler’s ministry, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.” Unfortunately, the end of that sentiment was “…then again, God did kill most of Earth’s population except for a few people on a boat that one time.”
Footage has also emerged of the Minnesota murder suspect dancing because he was “excited about Jesus.” For the record, he was dancing in an evangelical church based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Excited for Jesus” is like a “get out of jail free” card for white guys dancing around Black church goers. “Excited for Jesus” also happens to be a “get out of jail free” card for white guys in general.
“Sir, why did you speed past that red light?!”
“I was excited for Jesus.”
The Trump administration is weighing adding 36 countries to travel ban. This is, of course, because RFK Jr. convinced him that something called “travel ban surgery” can solve America’s obesity epidemic.
Finally…
The villain of the newest Toy Story film is one of the most common tools used by parents today: the tablet. The storyline directly parallels the controversial unreleased Toy Story prequel, IdolTale, in which so-called pagan “action figures” fought against the most common tool used by Moses: stone tablets.
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