September 2017 - Joe Toplyn

Joke About Trump and Dolly Parton

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Joe Toplyn

Setup: Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin Take a Shot at Trump at the Emmys

Punch Line: Trump responds by saying they have gone from 9’s to 5’s. Sad!

Writer: Robb

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Joke About Hillary Clinton’s New Book

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Joe Toplyn

Setup: One-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened” disappear on Amazon

Punch Line: They’re not missing. They’re just displayed on a private server.

Writer: Antoinette Scherer

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Joke About the “Doomsday Clock”

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Joe Toplyn

Setup: “Doomsday clock” scientists use to predict disaster scarily close to midnight

Punch Line: Don’t fret, in the fall you set back your disaster clocks a disaster hour.

Writer: Charlie Currie

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Joke About Dog Biscuits for Lunch

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Joe Toplyn

Setup: Mum accidentally fed her kids pet food after she filled their school lunch box with dog biscuits.

Punch Line: That was for lunch. For dinner they ate their homework.

Writer: Sam Gregory

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Joe Toplyn 19 hours ago

Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones is defending spending hundreds of campaign dollars on a meeting at a strip club. He said he was doing research about election security so he needed to talk to some pole workers.

Joe Toplyn 2 days ago

Because of fuel delivery delays, today American Airlines urged its pilots to do everything possible to conserve fuel. So if an American Airlines pilot tells you he just flew in from Phoenix and boy, are his arms tired, it's not a joke.

Joe Toplyn 2 days ago

This joke about Jeff Bezos's space flight...how was it written? Learn how in my two-minute Joke Writing Workshop: bit.ly/2TFAoyq

Joe Toplyn 4 days ago

The FAA changed its rules and might not award astronaut wings to Jeff Bezos even though he traveled into space. Bezos said that's okay, he doesn't think he'd have room to pin astronaut wings on his jacket anyway next to his 200 sets of billionaire wings.

Joe Toplyn 5 days ago

Coming up this weekend at the Tokyo Olympics are men's and women's swimming events. All the swimmers are vaccinated but don't expect any records to be set because the pool is filled with Purell.

Joe Toplyn 6 days ago

This week CNN held a town hall event where people got to ask President Biden questions. The President answered questions from 8 Democrats, 3 Republicans, and 27 people who bought paintings from Hunter Biden.