Joe Toplyn

Tag: Valentine

  • Joke About Putin’s Valentine

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    The joke: Monday is Valentine’s Day, and everybody’s getting into the spirit. Even Vladimir Putin sent Ukraine a Valentine reading “Won’t you be mine?” How I wrote it: I wanted to write a joke about Valentine’s Day because it’s a well-known cultural phenomenon. It also has lots of associations–cards, candy, flowers, Cupid, and so on–which…

  • Joke About Jussie Smollett

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    The joke: Actor Jussie Smollett faces new charges of lying to the police about being attacked. Apparently for Valentine’s Day, he told the police he was shot with an arrow by a chubby little guy with wings and a diaper. How I wrote it: In Touch Weekly reprinted this joke in its March 9, 2020,…