9. Mitt Romney vs Big Bird
The former Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made headlines late last year when he pledged to cut state funding of the American broadcasting service PBS, causing a rabble of ardent Sesame Street supporters to take to Twitter and start badmouthing him. During one of Romney’s speeches, he famously declared, “I like PBS. I like Big Bird. But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for”. Within hours, Twitter exploded with fierce defenders of PBS and all of the childhoods it has nurtured, and some went as far as to create Fake Big Bird accounts, whereby they facetiously expressed their displeasure with Romney’s speech in hilarious fashion, with one such account declaring, “Yo Mitt Romney, Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letters F & U!”.
If there’s one thing you don’t do while trying to win an election, it’s besmirch one of the most beloved children’s institutions of all time.
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Umm, Dude. Stick to movie reviews, I actually dig those. If these are the top 10 things you found funny this year, you’re going to really hurt yourself when something funny actually does happen.
And…I’m glad you find the American political system amusing (so do we Americans), but feel free to keep your British biases to yourself, ‘lest I be forced to take jabs at Prince Harry’s pool hijinx, which were funnier than anything on this list. You forgot to add Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair, BTW, which is also not very funny, but seems like something that would have been right in your wheelhouse with this article.
You’re better than this.
“White people mourning Mitt Romney” made me piss myself. I didn’t even notice and I’m brownm and prone to notice displays of white grief.
What’s the fun of New Year as a writer if you can’t look back at the year like this ;-)….
Loved the old lady with the painting, especially as since that’s happened she’s tried to sue the church for some of the extra money they made from the fame of the story….. Looks more like Jesus after being hit by a steamroller
Remember it’s all the writers opinion. If you feel differently WRITE YOUR OWN ARTICLE
The Jesus painting was a brilliant moment, especially all the Photoshopped versions that followed
I can’t agree with the Ted moment being on here as it was such a terrible film to begin with, and so many rehashed jokes from the TV shows, some from other TV shoes. The fight is just a live action version of Stewie vs Brian or Peter vs the chicken. It’s been done before and the credit that Ted has got as a comedy is one of the most annoying things of last year.
***TV shows, not TV shoes***
White people mourning Romney was perhaps the greatest thing on this list. Nix that… it was the greatest thing ever.
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