• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
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    21 hours ago

    This is so dumb—watch the video! The whole joke was that “Bumble exploded”—would someone who didn’t know Luigi Mangione is popular make that joke?

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      14 hours ago

      Note that for Weekend Update, Colin Jost and Michael Che write the jokes for each other, and they don’t see them until they’re reading them live.

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        10 hours ago

        The joke swap is a frequent feature, but it’s not a universal property of Weekend Update.

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          10 hours ago

          Maybe? That’s what I’ve seen in all the clips, so maybe those are the only funny ones that get shared.