Last updated on December 3, 2020
Perhaps it’s the pandemic or Thanksgiving but this type of tweet has now become Twitter’s new version of the Dad joke. It’s not yet a genre and doesn’t yet have a #hashtag. It’s also hard to tell what a good one is, other than relatively topical or unclear about its logic so far.
I had a Jenna Ellis joke, but now there is no evidence of it?
— Hilary ☺️wens (@Hil67) November 28, 2020
I had a bad Monet joke but now it’s all water under the bridge
— Alex (@everlastingitch) November 27, 2020
I had a joke about being a woman in tech but I'll just wait for a man to say it louder in a meeting six months later.
— Resham (Not) Birbiglia 💉 (@piplimoon) November 28, 2020
I had a Jim Jordan joke but I keep wrestling with the punchline
— Lucy ᵀᴴᴱ Optimist (@LucyPesk) November 28, 2020
I had a great joke about Ivanka and Jared but they leaked it anonymously to Maggie Haberman first.
— sherean (@sherean) November 28, 2020
Perhaps it’s the pandemic or Thanksgiving but this type of tweet has now become Twitter’s new version of the Dad joke. It’s not yet a genre and doesn’t yet have a #hashtag. It’s also hard to tell what a good one is, other than relatively topical or unclear about its logic so far.
I had a Jenna Ellis joke, but now there is no evidence of it?
— Hilary ☺️wens (@Hil67) November 28, 2020
I had a bad Monet joke but now it’s all water under the bridge
— Alex (@everlastingitch) November 27, 2020
I had a joke about being a woman in tech but I'll just wait for a man to say it louder in a meeting six months later.
— Resham (Not) Birbiglia 💉 (@piplimoon) November 28, 2020
I had a Jim Jordan joke but I keep wrestling with the punchline
— Lucy ᵀᴴᴱ Optimist (@LucyPesk) November 28, 2020
I had a great joke about Ivanka and Jared but they leaked it anonymously to Maggie Haberman first.
— sherean (@sherean) November 28, 2020
I know I had a Heisenberg joke but I don’t know where it went exactly. https://t.co/KA13jJNTa2
— Hyperlexic (@Hyper_lexic) November 28, 2020
Please feel free to share your own even if you’re not on Twitter.
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