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A comedian who delivers rapid-fire laughs

A comedian who delivers rapid-fire laughs

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Stef Hayes, The Atlantic’s deputy research chief, who has written about a novel that has a healthy dose of skepticism about true crime, the story behind the Oxford English Dictionary’s creation, and Ottessa Moshfegh’s riveting meta-mysteries. Stef is counting down the days until she can see world-class jiu-jitsu athletes fight near Las Vegas. She has been watching The Sopranos for the first time—she’s a defender of Dr. Melfi—and recommends a trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art for anybody seeking some whimsy. First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Culture Survey: Stef Hayes Something I recently rewatched: Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special, Get on Your Knees—for the third time in about as …

Question Time Audience Laughs At Richard Tice’s Climate Claim

Question Time Audience Laughs At Richard Tice’s Climate Claim

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The leader of Reform UK Richard Tice could not stop digging himself a hole last night on BBC Question Time when discussing climate change. Responding to an audience question about what the UK is doing to protect the environment amid rising concerns, Tice said: “We all care about the environment but the climate has changed for millions and millions and millions of years.” At this point, leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, Carla Denyer, rolled her eyes. Tice said this was the “reality” long before man-made CO2 emissions – triggering a wave of laughter from the audience. He admitted that 2,000 years of human activity has worsened the climate. But he claimed: “There’s no evidence at all that if you get to net zero CO2 emissions, that all of a sudden, the power of the sun, the power of the sea, the power of the volcanic activity is going to stop.” He said: “The better thing to do is to adapt to the change in climate and that is the smart thing …

Biden Taunts Trump Over Truth Social Stock Plunge As Crowd Laughs

Biden Taunts Trump Over Truth Social Stock Plunge As Crowd Laughs

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US President Joe Biden cracked a joke at Donald Trump’s expense on Tuesday, mocking the former president’s financial struggles as the value of his media company continues to plunge. “If Trump’s stock in Truth Social ― his company ― drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his,” Biden said in Pennsylvania, causing the audience to erupt with laughter: “If Trump’s stock in Truth Social, his company, drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his.” — President Biden, while pitching his plan for higher taxes on the rich in Scranton, Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/2vF3CzpSfJ — The Recount (@therecount) April 16, 2024 Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which went public last month, once hit nearly $80 (£64) a share, briefly putting Trump on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index of the world’s richest 500 people. Since then, however, shares have tanked, closing at $22.84 (£18.32) on Tuesday. Because Trump owns about 60% of the company’s stock, his net worth has plunged as well ― and he’s already lost his spot …

Escape to the Country’s Jules Hudson laughs at gobsmacked couple who thought ‘dream’ house was over budget

Escape to the Country’s Jules Hudson laughs at gobsmacked couple who thought ‘dream’ house was over budget

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Jules Hudson during Sunday’s episode of Escape to the Country -Credit:BBC Jules Hudson was left laughing at one stunned couple after they realised they could afford their ‘dream’ home. During an episode of the BBC One show, that aired on Sunday (April 14), presenter Jules escaped countries as he went house hunting in North Wales with a couple who lived in Bedford. Claire and Mick have been married for over 20 years but after retiring from the police force they wanted to leave Bedfordshire for a quieter life in a rural part of Wales. Claire is originally from Wales and felt like she was being ‘drawn back to the motherland’ and wanted to start fresh after working in the local area for so long. The couple had a budget of £600,000 to spend on their new dream home, and they weren’t left disappointed. After looking around two properties, Jules took Claire and Mick to a mystery house – and they instantly fell in love. READ MORE: Homes Under the Hammer presenter floored by £110k West …

Server Laughs At Customer Who Tried To Not Tip

Server Laughs At Customer Who Tried To Not Tip

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A server revealed how he was able to get the last laugh after a customer refused to tip him. In a TikTok video, Dean Redmond shared how he was tasked with serving a large party of people. However, while serving them, one of the women in the group, who Redmond labeled as a ‘Karen,’ acted horribly toward him throughout their dinner, and threatened to tip him poorly. Redmond’s ‘difficult’ customer tried to tip him nothing, not realizing gratuity was automatically added. In Redmond’s video, he explained that while he was working, 26 people entered the restaurant looking to have dinner. He recalled that the group had come in only an hour before the restaurant closed and were rude to him throughout their meal. The party of 26 people immediately asked to be seated all together, despite Redmond informing them that they would need “two separate tables” since they didn’t have enough room to accommodate everyone. “This woman starts screaming that I have no idea what I’m talking about and ‘where’s my manager’,” Redmond said.  RELATED: Woman Lost Her Job …

Rishi Sunak laughs off Liz Truss’ claim the ‘deep state’ killed her premiership – POLITICO

Rishi Sunak laughs off Liz Truss’ claim the ‘deep state’ killed her premiership – POLITICO

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“Is there a deep state: are you part of it, am I part of it?” the Conservative MP William Wragg asked Sunak in a follow-up. “Probably a question for her,” Sunak added, before deadpanning: “But I probably wouldn’t tell you if I was Will, would I? And we wouldn’t tell anyone else either, would we?” Truss — who comfortably defeated Sunak in 2022’s Conservative leadership contest before her administration collapsed and he succeeded her — has grown close to the populist U.S. right since her swift exit from Downing Street. Liz Truss has argued that her record short term in office was sabotaged by “agents” of the “left” active in public and private institutions. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images In February, Truss joined big names on the U.S. right at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, including the former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon — with whom she shared a stage. While at the conference, she wrote an opinion article for Fox News which claimed that forces on the left don’t “just fight at the …

Mexican Cartel Laughs As US National Guard Helicopter Crashes, Kills 3 On Biden’s Chaotic Border

Mexican Cartel Laughs As US National Guard Helicopter Crashes, Kills 3 On Biden’s Chaotic Border

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President Biden’s southern border crisis continues to spiral out of control. The latest comes as a reconnaissance helicopter monitoring a group of migrants illegally crossing the border crashed on Friday afternoon, killing two US National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent and injuring a fourth person. A statement from the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force North said the Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota crashed around 1450 local time while it was “conducting aviation operations” near Rio Grande City, Texas.  On X, Fox News’ Bill Melugin posted horrific images of the mangled helicopter that appears to have fallen out of the sky.  BREAKING: Per sources, there are “multiple fatalities” after a federalized National Guard helicopter w/ 3 National Guard soldiers working under federal Title 10 orders and a Border Patrol agent on board crashed in the RGV in La Grulla, TX this afternoon.They were not working… pic.twitter.com/axsHqMXFwr — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 9, 2024 For the pilots out there, when a mechanical failure occurs, autorotation can be applied as a last-ditch emergency maneuver to glide the helicopter …

Shane Gillis Delivers Mixed Bag of Laughs and Cringe in SNL Return

Shane Gillis Delivers Mixed Bag of Laughs and Cringe in SNL Return

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Shane Gillis’ meant-to-be-triumphant return to the Saturday Night Live stage this weekend was a mixed bag of humor, some of which landed with a thud — like any episode of the long-running show — and a couple of good laughs. Much of the show’s sketches took the comedian and podcaster’s white-bro shtick and dialed it back a tad — ultimately finding a sweet spot closer to the line that his routine crosses. Gillis made a strong effort in his return to Studio 8H on Saturday night, but he struggled throughout his monologue and was visibly anxious as he pivoted to new topics. Ribbing his dad, who sat with his mother to support him in one of his bigger career moments, didn’t go over well — yes, having a dad who’s a girl’s basketball coach might be pretty funny to you, Shane, but it’s not really to everyone else. Despite this rough start — which followed a tepid cold open referencing Donald Trump’s win in the South Carolina primary on Saturday — the show had some highlights. In …

BBC Audience Laughs After Esther McVey Says Sunak Has ‘Turned Economy Round’

BBC Audience Laughs After Esther McVey Says Sunak Has ‘Turned Economy Round’

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A Tory minister was openly laughed at after she claimed Rishi Sunak has “turned the economy round”. Appearing on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Any Questions’ programme on Friday night, McVey said Tory MPs must rally round the prime minister despite the party’s latest humiliating by-election defeats. She said: “People need to now get behind Rishi Sunak, who actually inherited a difficult set of circumstances and say ‘yes, he has turned the economy round – that is turning round now’.” As the studio audience burst into laughter, presenter Alex Forsyth said: “Is it? The UK’s just gone into a recession.” McVey replied: “Yeah, OK. Those figures were from the end of last year, and you’re right it was a technical recession and it’s a shallow recession.” Figures released by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday showed that the economy shrank by 0.3% in the final three months of 2023. With gross domestic product (GDP) also contracting by 0.1% between July and September, that meant the economy was officially in recession. Source link

Brianna Ghey’s parents met hate with love, and Sunak chased cheap laughs. That says it all about him and his party | Gaby Hinsliff

Brianna Ghey’s parents met hate with love, and Sunak chased cheap laughs. That says it all about him and his party | Gaby Hinsliff

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Rishi Sunak had been warned that Brianna Ghey’s bereaved mother would be watching. If he hadn’t initially expected Esther Ghey to be in the public gallery, gazing down on the bear pit of prime minister’s questions like a visitor from another world entirely, then the penny should have dropped when Keir Starmer opened by welcoming her to parliament. That was the prime minister’s cue to flip through his ring binder and cross out a tacky prepared line – variants of which he has used several times before – about Starmer changing his mind on everything from tuition fees to planning law to “defining a woman, although, in fairness, that was only 99% of a U-turn” (a reference to Starmer saying 99.9% of women don’t have penises). Nobody need ever have known. Ironically, the attack might have landed better without it, given the day’s headlines would then have been dominated by Labour flip-flopping on green policies instead of a mortifying prime ministerial misjudgment. But Sunak didn’t do it. He didn’t see the ground opening up under …