had a Trump joke to tell but it's really hard to recount because it's lost its appeal

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 Sarkar 🗽 (@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 Sarkar 🗽 (@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.

annieli

“You’re not mopping fast enough. (Laughter) That’s a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause) Grab a mop — let’s get to work.” – Barack Obama (2009); “Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible!”

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