Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!
Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!
Mitch McConnell Gets Heckled, Wayne Brady Comes Out, Zoom Workers Are Back In The Office, Space Tourism, & Tech Workers vs UPS Drivers!
Hey, happy Saturday!
The weekend is a great time to reflect, and the subscribers (yes, you!) have voted on what made them laugh the most. Due to a personal loss, there were only four days of jokes this week. But, by chance, there was a tie on Thursday — so there are still five of the best jokes to share!
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TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
MONDAY: 8-7-2023
Mitch McConnell was mercilessly heckled during a speech with chants of ‘Retire!’ — However, he powered through due to the one major perk of being an 81-year-old Republican: the inability hear anything other than a dog whistle.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 8-8-2023
Wayne Brady came out as pansexual. According to Brady, saying “pansexual” is a much easier than his old method of waiting for someone to ask if he’s gay or straight and responding with, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 8-9-2023
Zoom ordered workers to return to the office. And due to the widespread lack of pants on their first day back, the company has swiftly enacted a “Don’t Look Down” policy.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 8-10-2023
Virgin Galactic’s first space-tourism flight launches today.
Among its three passengers are Keisha Schahaff and her teenage daughter. Asked why she agreed to the trip, Keisha said, “Hopefully rocketing into the cosmos and witnessing the glory of Earth from above will get her to stop scrolling TikTok for a few seconds.”
Tech workers are reacting with a mixture of anger and admiration to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package. Speaking anonymously, one tech-bro said, “No offense, but earning roughly the same amount as a UPS driver makes developing robotic gun-wielding police dogs feel a little less cool, you know? Like, what’s the point?”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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