- Cracked Newsletter
- Posts
- Jim Breuer Says Woke Psychopaths Are Starting to Lighten Up
Jim Breuer Says Woke Psychopaths Are Starting to Lighten Up
Alyson Lewis
March 24, 2024
Welcome to the Cracked newsletter!
This issue is about Soviet Union jokes, crazy sandwiches, trivia, amusement park finds, prison escapes, and much more.
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here.
“Show me the comedian that talks about being woke for an hour that is selling out theaters and arenas,” comedian Jim Breuer recently told Outkick. Anyone? Beuller? Oh, that comedian “doesn't exist. So yeah, we are learning to laugh again at common sense."
The good news, according to Breuer? The unnamed woke comics are being shown the door — either that, or they’re recalibrating their senses of humor. “As what I would call them, ‘psychopaths’ have realized how crazy they are and are going, ‘You know, maybe we should lighten up a little bit, we pushed it a little too far.’ They're lightening up a little bit,” he says. “I think the 'woke’ — oh, we're not allowed to talk about that movement — is dying tremendously.”
In the later seasons of The Office, Toby Flenderson has a crisis of conscience over the conviction of George Howard Skub for the murders committed by the so-called “Scranton Strangler,” which makes sense — it’s kind of HR’s job to be understanding toward coworkers.
While the show was still on the air, many Office fans believed that the secret identity of the best unseen character on the show, a mysterious murderer who haunted Lackawanna County starting in Season Six, was actually Toby himself, and the plot line in which the piled-on human resources representative served on the jury for the murder case was a red herring designed to throw us off the scent. Paul Lieberstein, the actor who played Toby and head writer for much of the series, has since claimed that the connection many Office fans have drawn between Toby and the Scranton Strangler was not planted intentionally, but that he enjoys the theory nonetheless. “There’s a world where he was the Strangler,” Lieberstein once teased during an interview.
TWEET OF THE DAY
