“I know everyone thinks Republicans aren’t funny. But if you get a bunch of us together, we can be a real riot.”
— Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), quoted by Politico, telling jokes during the Washington Press Club Foundation’s annual congressional dinner.
This Should Do It
Exchange of the Day
Historian Michael Beschloss and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Twitter:
BESCHLOSS: Anyone have any personal memories of the events around President Kennedy’s assassination today 1963?
CRUZ: Only passed down through the family.
Conservatives Made Everything in Britain Worse
Jonathan Pie: “So Liz Truss will be Britain’s next prime minister — the nation’s fourth in seven years. And she’s inheriting a nation falling apart at the seams.”
Roy Moore’s Defamation Suit Rejected
“An appeals court on Thursday rejected a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who said he was tricked into a television appearance that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him,” ABC News reports.
‘An Appeal from Brett Kavanaugh’
Andy Borowitz: “In a public appeal for help, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has asked if ‘anyone has seen’ a briefcase he accidentally left at a bar late last week.”
Boris Johnson Is a Liar
Jonathan Pie reports in a hilarious new video what many of us suspected all along: Boris Johnson is a liar.
This will almost certainly be the funniest thing you see today.
Republican or Not?
Game show contestants in a Saturday Night Live skit are given clues to try to identify which guests are Republicans.
SNL Has a New Trump
Saturday Night Live unveiled a new cast member’s portrayal of former President Donald Trump last night.
Playbook: “It’s an uncanny likeness — better than any Trump impression we’ve seen — that captures not only his mannerisms and vocal tics, but his jigsaw-like thought pattern as he speaks. Expect to see a lot more of it — and for Trump to notice as 2024 approaches.”
SNL Skewers Kyrsten Sinema
Saturday Night Live returned for a new season and blasted Sen. Kyrsten Sinema right out of the gate.
Arizona Republic: “It wasn’t pretty, but it was pretty funny. The show portrayed Sinema as out of touch and against pretty much everything.”
“And it didn’t waste any time — it all happened in the cold open. If Sinema thought reportedly escaping from Washington to Arizona during the middle of a heated fight over important legislation involving a massive infrastructure bill would somehow keep her out of the public eye, it didn’t. At all.”
Did Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Jokes Work?
Brian Lowry: “Although there was considerable debate Thursday night about Julia Louis-Dreyfus making jokes at Trump’s expense, watching Biden’s speech – in which he never mentioned the president by name – made clear that was a calculated move: Let someone else jab at Trump, while allowing Biden to be statesmanlike.”
“You can question the extent to which the material worked, but like everything else about this convention, it was thought about and planned. Either way, it was one of those stories with a shelf life of about two hours.”
Quote of the Day
“What kind of spectacular prick do you have to be that everyone’s last request is ‘make sure that asshole isn’t at my funeral’?”
— Bill Maher, noting President Trump did not attend the funerals of important figures in both parties, such as Sen. John McCain, former first lady Barbara Bush, Rep. Elijah Cummings and Rep. John Lewis.
Sarah Cooper Credits ‘the Writing’ for Her Success
Comedian Sarah Cooper, who lip-syncs President Trump on social media, told the Los Angeles Times she gives much of the credit for her newfound success to “the writing, which is so good.”
Said Cooper: “Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it. There were so many moments I was able to use. I put the video out within a few hours of him saying those words. A lot of people said they saw the parody before they saw the real thing, which made it not only good content but newsworthy.”
What Is Obamagate?
Desi Lydic watched Fox News for 48 hours straight to find out what “Obamagate” is all about.
Brad Pitt as Dr. Anthony Fauci
Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch featured Brad Pitt played an unusually candid Dr. Anthony Fauci, reacting to and translating President Trump’s false statements about the coronavirus pandemic.
Days of Our Impeachment
NBC’s Saturday Night Live took a barely-veiled shot at NBC News in the first moments of its cold open sketch this week when a C-SPAN voiceover noted that “some people” felt the first impeachment hearings were “lacking in pizzazz,” the Daily Beast reports.
With that in mind, the show presented a soap-opera version of the proceedings called “Days of Our Impeachment.”
Netflix Special Will Let You Skip the Trump Jokes
Seth Meyers told CNN that he asked Netflix to create a button for viewers to opt out of watching jokes about President Trump in his new comedy special in the same way Netflix users can bypass the introduction credits with the “skip intro” button at the top of some of its programs.
Said Meyers: “It dawned on me that because it was on Netflix, there would be this opportunity to put in technology that would allow people to skip it. It was a way to build in the response to anyone who would say, ‘Oh, let me guess there’s going to be jokes about the President.'”
What It Would Take for Trump to Lose the GOP
Saturday Night Live brought three GOP senators together on Meet the Press to demonstrate just how far the Republican Party will go to defend President Trump.
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