The Funniest Tweets of the Week
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Okay, here’s what happened this week: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, only the third one in American history, started in the Senate. Entirely fictional spokesgoober Mr. Peanut somehow died, somehow overshadowing the very real death of very real comedy legend Terry Jones. Rob Lowe wore a stupid hat. Uh… Megan Thee Stallion released a new song? Yeah, it was a big week, with some big tweets. Here are our favorites. Make sure you follow every single person below, if you aren’t already. They’ve earned your attention and respect, because they have contributed the most valuable of all things to society: a funny internet joke.
The whole joke of gritty was that he was the kind of mascot that looks like he’d fight a kid. You can’t get mad at him for honoring his nature
— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) January 23, 2020
Mr. Peanut is in Hell. He spent decades as the smiling face of a company that sold the boiled and roasted corpses of his people as a snack
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) January 22, 2020
me, high as hell, trying to explain a movie I saw while high one time to my friends pic.twitter.com/IQm9AcEjiq
— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) January 22, 2020
SHOCKER. new audio from 1985 reveals Bernie saying, “By ’82, Black Flag were irrelevant. The Rollins era only revealed the machoism that many believed was a latent feature of the hardcore scene. Anyone who wasn’t more into the Hüsker Dü sound by ’84 was a jock. Period.”
— john (@johnsemley3000) January 18, 2020
The Joker is currently the only oscar-nominated character you can play in the new Mortal Kombat. This is egregious. Let’s get joe pesci and the Marriage Story crew in there
— Robbie Goodwin (@robbiegoodwin) January 18, 2020