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15 ‘Looney Tunes’ Jokes for the Comedy Hall of Fame

15 ‘Looney Tunes’ Jokes for the Comedy Hall of Fame

Alyson Lewis
June 07, 2023

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This issue is about cringe comedy, origin stories, another Pete Davidson meltdown, Looney Tunes jokes, and much more.

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The ‘New York Times’ Has No Idea What ‘Cringe Comedy’ Is

What do I Think You Should Leave and TikToks poking fun at true crime fans have in common? If you answered “not much,” then you do not work for the New York Times.

This past Friday, the New York Times Magazine published their latest issue with a cover story titled “Tim Robinson and the Golden Age of Cringe Comedy,” in which the Times interviewed comedy’s most paradigm-shifting performer, the co-creator and star of Netflix’ absurdist humor hit I Think You Should Leave. The next day, the New York Times newspaper published a story in their business section titled “Welcome to CringeTok, Where Being Insufferable Can Be Lucrative,” which dove into the economics of “cringe comedy” in online spaces.

Alfonso Ribeiro’s ‘Carlton Dance’ Was Inspired By Eddie Murphy and Courteney Cox

Eddie Murphy and Courteney Cox probably don’t get asked to do the “Carlton Dance” nearly as often as Alfonso Ribeiro does, but maybe they should.

In all of sitcom history, no single dance move has become as inextricably linked to its performer and its character as the great “Carlton Dance.” And, most likely, no sitcom actor ever gets asked to do the same fucking dance for the 100th time that week than Ribeiro, who appeared on a recent episode of The Rich Eisen Show to tell the origin story of the iconic two-step that still follows him everywhere he goes 26 years after the finale of Fresh Prince.

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