“Nah, they were all sold out. You know, Tuesdays, am I right?”
If this joke makes zero sense to you now, that’s because according to the person who made it — TikTok user Jaxon Joko — it will only make sense on July 25, 2020.
On May 11, Jaxon uploaded a video of himself telling the joke, warning people that they wouldn’t understand it since it’s a “future joke.”
“Hey guys, the following joke I’m about to tell is a future joke,” he says. “You won’t understand it now, but you’ll understand it July 25 in 2020, so enjoy.”
Though Jaxon gives no explanation as to how he could possibly know a joke that only makes sense in the future, people are still freaked out by his video.
“I’m so scared rn,” one person said.
“If this turns out to make sense I’m gonna go insane,” another user commented.
Evidently, Jaxon first told this joke on July 13, 2019, which only makes people more concerned.
“The more I watch this the more freaked out I get,” one person commented on the original video.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a massive place, with countless comic book characters occupying the big screen. But a few franchises stand out among the rest as fan favorites, especially James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. The motley crew of heroes became household names thanks to Gunn's original 2014 blockbuster, which was infused with the filmmaker's music and sense of humor. Although it turns out that one Guardians joke was cut from the original movie, thanks to Disney and the powers that be.
Shane Dawson has been all over the internet this weekend as some of his old content has come back to haunt him. Dawson, in his younger years as a YouTuber, made very edgy jokes including a recurring bit using blackface and a number of jokes which sexualize children.
People have begun to call him a pedophile due to the large number of instances where he has made wildly distasteful “jokes”. Dawson vehemently denies the accusations and even tells the internet he was molested as a child, so being called a pedophile is incredibly “triggering and the most heartbreaking”.
Whether he is or isn’t, is not something a person on the internet can discern from a slew of bad jokes – though we can see why someone might think it when it becomes a recurring theme in someone’s work. What we do know is that these jokes can be incredibly harmful by normalizing a disgusting and illegal behavior.
We’ve compiled some of the more horrifying instances we’ve come across, but these are by no means the only clips which have been getting passed around online over the weekend. Many more continue to illustrate his disturbing “sense of humor”.
Trigger warning: This article contains potentially upsetting content in regard to pedophilia and rape.
Shane and Friendspodcast
In an episode of Shane Dawson’s podcastShane and FriendsShane makes jokes about typing “naked babies” into Google in order to try and understand the mindset of pedophiles. He says, “I actually went to Google, and I didn’t want to see child pornography, but I was like, ‘let me just pretend like I’m a pedophile for a sec.”
Dawson then goes on to joke that, “So I type in ‘naked baby’. First of all, I don’t understand why anyone would be turned on by that. But . . . they were sexy. I’m kidding.” In a recent video responding to all the accusations he specifically refers to this video by saying he never actually Googled the phrase because it’s gross and doesn’t have time for that.
The precursor to all this in the podcast was equally upsetting because Dawson claims he doesn’t understand why pedophilia is illegal when there’s a fetish for everything including feet. The friend on this podcast episode even tells him to stop because it’s incredibly upsetting, but Dawson continues to talk about the subject.
Willow Smith
Many years ago Dawson posted a video where he sees a promotional picture of Willow Smith for her debut single “Whip Your Hair Back and Forth”. In this video he pretends to masturbate while reciting the title lyrics and looking at the poster. If you don’t remember how old Willow was when she recorded her first single – she was eleven years old.
In another clip which has been circulating on Twitter, Shane starts a segment where he shows a montage of photos of his fans wearing his shirts. A fairly normal thing to do and a way to thank fans for support.
Except he starts the montage by calling the girls, all of which are clearly tweens and teens, “hot sexy bitches”, and then between groans he says, “if iJustine wasn’t watching I would rape all of you”. It doesn’t matter if you want to call this a joke or not, that is definitely not an okay thing to say about any human, let alone minors.
Twerk for us
In another clip on Twitter Dawson appears to have found one of his fans on Omegle, a site where you’re randomly assigned to a video chat partner. The teen girl is clearly very excited and continues to squeal over and over again.
While the girl freaks out over stumbling upon what one can assume is one of her favorite YouTubers Dawson repeatedly asks the girl to twerk. The girl is so excited though she can’t hear him. Eventually he types the command in so she can read it. The girl immediately turns around and begins to shake her rear.
The woman Shane Dawson is with in the clip even declares “good girl” when the teen complies.
Is Dawson finally cancelled?
People have been saying Shane Dawson needs to be cancelled for quite a while now. It seems that everyone else is finally starting to understandwhypeople have believed this so strongly and for so long.
It’s possible Dawson has grown up since then & learned his jokes aren’t funny and actually rather damaging, but with so many strikes it’s hard for a lot of people to look past them.
In Netflix’s oontz-pulsed disco-comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Will Ferrell takes his career’s work — the continued unpacking of arrested-adultescent male idiocy — in an Icelandic direction. The six-foot-three funnyman portrays Lars Erickssong, a shaggy-haired ne’er-do-well with delusions of pop-music grandeur. He teams up with singer Sigrit Ericksdottir (Rachel McAdams) to make an improbable run representing their country at the movie’s titular competition: an annual battle royal watched by as many as 600 million people worldwide, where entrants perform absurdly magniloquent original songs for votes on live TV.
Turns out the film’s director, David Dobkin, has been an enormous fan of Eurovision for years and had long dreamt of directing a movie homage to the beloved music contest. Actually, that’s not true. Like most Americans, the filmmaker behind R-rated comedies Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up had never heard of the Eurovision Song Contest before working on the Netflix project. In fact, he promptly turned down an offer to direct the movie before he learned that Ferrell had co-written the script and was the passion project’s driving force.
Speaking from his home in the hills of Los Angeles, where the filmmaker — who in recent years had branched out from comedy, writing and directing the 2014 Robert Downey Jr. drama The Judge, executive-producing The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and penning the script for Warner Bros.’ King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — remained in quarantine, Dobkin was in a reflective mood. Ahead of his movie’s streaming premiere, he discussed his initial reluctance with Eurovision as well as the “uprising and cultural reshifting” that is fundamentally rewriting the rules of what can be funny in 2020.
I understand this movie came about because Will Ferrell’s wife is from Sweden — that he watched the Eurovision Song Contest on TV over there, and it was so bonkers he wanted to make a movie out of it.
Yeah, 18 years ago. That’s what was crazy: He’s been wanting to make this movie for almost two decades. He started showing up to the contest — he’s been there four, maybe five times. He got the rights to make the Eurovision movie and brought it to Netflix. That’s how into this thing he was.
What was your first response to the material?
I did not know what [Eurovision] was. I finished the script and still did not know what it was.
So your initial response to this being proposed was basically, “Forget it.”
Look, when my agent first called me and said, “Hey, there’s a music contest movie,” I was like, “No way. I’m not doing that.” He was like, “Well, Will’s asking you to read it.” Will and I have been trying to do something forever. The script at the time was really short. It needed to be fleshed out a little; there needed to be some character work done, which we did together. But overall it was really funny. Just, like, the Iceland of it all and how they get into the contest and the absurdist tone to the movie. But also a lot of heart.
One of the funny things about the movie is that the contest, as you present it, is barely fictionalized. I mean, I finished the script and had to be told this was a real thing. The whole idea that this contest was created out of the ashes of World War II to create some sense of camaraderie and community amongst the European nations was amazing. That and the fact that it had gone on for this long and become this big and almost nobody in America has heard of it.
As I’m sure the thinking goes, if Netflix can get a fraction of the hundreds of millions of people who watch the contest to stream the movie, you’ve got a hit. But in reality, those performances are totally over the top — the way people dress, the background dancers are nuts. So as a filmmaker, you have to present all that with accuracy while also having some fun. How did you strike that balance?
The tone was very specific. There’s a huge audience that loves this contest. There’s a campiness, but there’s also a high level of performance, of dancing, visual. They put it on live in front of 20,000 people. Tonally, I knew I did not want to make a parody. I did not want to make fun of these people or the contest. I wanted to just tell a funny story with that as the setting.
When I spoke to Will, I said, “I think of this along the lines of what the Coen brothers did with Fargo.” The characters speak like they’re from that part of the world. They’re funny. They have their limitations and strengths because they’re from that part of the world. But they’re never looked down upon by the filmmakers. I think you can see from the movie there’s a lot of love for the event and a lot of love for the characters in it. Nobody’s up there being dumb about it, because that would be insulting.
You started out directing music videos. That must have come in handy.
I went to NYU. I wanted to make movies, but at the time, there were all these videos coming out that were incredibly cutting-edge. And I figured, “Well, maybe I can do that.” My first paid gig was for a rapper named Tupac — who was not incredibly well known at the time. But the videos we did blew up and became big hits. I ended up in a career in music videos for quite a number of years and loved it. I’ve always wanted to make a music movie. I have a fastball that suddenly showed up.
Your best-known movies — Wedding Crashers, Shanghai Knights, The Change-Up, now Eurovision — are two-handers: films with two stars. What’s the trick to making sure each character gets enough development so that each serves the plot equally and has a real stake in the payoff?
Rachel’s character [in Eurovision] needed a lot of work when we got the script. It’s that thing where you have to make sure both sides of the story are arcing. They can’t be going through the same story. They have to be going through different things, but they have to somehow land together. And you have to get through it in an authentic way or it doesn’t work.
The trick to all these movies for me is, even though it’s a comedy, to try to tell a real story that has some resonance to the cultural time that you’re in. I always look at Nancy Meyers’s movies because she is so good at finding a moment in a character’s life that you could actually see in the world that we are living in: a mother after a divorce who ends up with an empty-nest moment, a guy who has lost his wife but isn’t done working and becomes an intern for a younger woman. She is so smart in finding those dynamics.
Something funny or surreal that’s grounded in reality. I don’t direct comedy scenes for laughs. I direct them dramatically, and the laughs come from the situations and the delivery. I’m directing it as drama because I want there to be a real base to it. This script [for Eurovision] was so absurd. The whales jumping — it’s insane. And I was like, “Oh, I love this. Can we make these into real people so it just feels funnier and a little bit warmer and a little bit more relevant?”
The culture is changing very quickly these days, and so is comedy. During awards season, Todd Phillips said he felt hecouldn’t make films like The Hangover anymore. He went into Joker after deciding movie comedies had become untenable because current social mores are so strict, you can’t get a laugh anymore. Is there’s a kind of humor that you think used to be funny that you wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole anymore?
As far as what Todd said — and I know he’s gotten attacked for this and he’s a buddy of mine — but I have to back him up. I have always considered myself to be an equal-opportunity offender. I think that we should be able to laugh at anything. Now there are cultural wounds and things that are not nice and that hurt people, and it has taken me a lot of listening and a lot of learning to understand that there are certain jokes that probably are inappropriate.
I would never make a joke that I thought was racist. But I look at something like 48 Hours and I realize how mind blowing my experience was of that movie because the story is about a guy who is racist becoming friends with a guy who is Black. That story and the ability to laugh at what Eddie Murphy does in that honky-tonk bar was incredibly healing for not just me but for the Black members of the audience at that time.
Nick Nolte’s character in that movie is racist, but Eddie Murphy’s character was this new archetype who was going to give as good as he gets, despite the power dynamic of being in handcuffs.
Dude, exactly. And as an R-rated director, you’re usually pushing the irreverence button. That’s what Richard Pryor did. That’s what Lenny Bruce did. That’s what Eddie did. There’s always going to be a difference of opinion about these things, but I do believe art should be able to be art. Yeah, you do get to be criticized. It’s okay for people to tell you you’re being insensitive. But it’s also okay for you to take the swing and see if you can do it as long as it’s coming from the right place. And I do think that comedy is in a very interesting moment right now, because, by the way, the world is in an interesting moment. We are in the middle of an uprising and a cultural reshifting. Resetting that is going to be confusing for comedy for quite some time.
People are trying to figure out the rules.
Especially for white men. I’m a white guy. Todd’s a white guy. God bless Jordan Peele. He could do whatever he wants and should be able to. Same for what Tiffany Haddish does, what Kevin Hart does. There’s a reason that Louis CK can’t do what he used to do. This is a different conversation, but I’m a huge Louis CK fan. I really wish that he hadn’t done what he did. At the same time, I respect that he came out and said, “Yes, I did those things.”
He doesn’t seem to have learned from it, but he was able to confess it. It’s going to be confusing, man. I do think that the movie studios probably looked at scripts like The Hangover and anything that was similar to it for a while and thought, “This is a little bit dangerous.” Unless you are making a Bridesmaids and you have women writers and women creators being able to say, “Hey, this is our experience. This is where we’re sharing the humor from.” That’s where it kind of elevates.
By the way, we want to hear those voices. I’m frankly sick of hearing white guys’ stories. They’re boring. We’ve been watching them our whole lives.
Actress Jennifer Garner has a great sense of humor! The Alias star showed off her amazing style in quarantine when she shared a few funny photos of her wearing different outfits at home.
“Quarantine, but make it fashion,” Jennifer, 48, captioned the Instagram snap on Monday, June 29, with the hashtags, “#Lockdownfierce” and “#DMtobookyourColonialZoom.” In one of the pictures, Jen appeared to dress up as Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones as her cat watched her in the living room, and in another, she drew on her face to give herself a fake mustache and unibrow.
However, the best snap was the one that Halle Berry liked. The Catwoman actress shared a laughing emoji in the comments section when she saw her friend relaxing in the pool with goggles and a wetsuit on. “You are a true fashion icon in every one of these,” a fan commented with the hashtag, “#LoveItAll.”
Jen seems to be having the time of her life in quarantine. Since she and her three kids, Seraphina, Samuel and Violet, have been social distancing at home, she’s been trying to find ways to “keep them occupied,” a source told Closer Weekly on March 25. “They’ve closed all the hiking trails in L.A., so to get some fresh air, she’ll take them for walks on the beach and in the park … or they’ll play soccer or skateboard in the yard.”
Since the Elektra star doesn’t want her children “glued to their iPads or playing computer games all day,” she would also “keep them busy” by making fun treats at home. “They’ll bake and decorate cakes,” the insider shared, and added, Violet is the one who has a knack for cooking.
“[She] takes after her mom and is a great cook so she helps Jen make dinner,” the source said. Although the kitchen would be a “complete mess afterward,” the mom of three wouldn’t really care because she got to spend quality time with her family.
Even though the 13 Going on 30 star can’t wait for quarantine to be over, she’s just enjoying every single minute she gets to spend with her kids!
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The BMW M2 is one of the greatest cars the Bavarians currently have on offer, if not the greatest. It sits at the lower end of the M scale, but don't let that fool you: if driving dynamics is what you're after, then this is the M car for you.
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People were quite upset when BMW announced it would not continue the wonderful 1 Series M Coupe past its first generation, a decision that seemed to make no sense at the time given the rave reviews the car everyone tried very hard not to call "M1" received. Then the M2 came along and all was once again good with BMW.
You're probably wondering what it is about the M2 that makes it so wonderful. Well, it's the last car you can buy that preserves the spirit of the original M models. It's got a no-nonsense rear-wheel-drive architecture with a six-speed manual transmission (a seven-speed auto is also available) and a straight-six engine producing 370 hp. More expensive and exclusive versions such as the Competition or CS will bring that up to 410 hp and 450 hp respectively, but 370 hp is a perfectly decent figure for a sedan this size.
All this may explain why the M2 is held in such high regard, but it still doesn't clarify why US President Donald Trump took the time to express his opinion on the German sports sedan. Well, despite all the crazy stuff he's done, I think we all know Trump didn't review the M2 of a mildly successful YouTuber. What made this possible is his rather unique voice and way of talking that makes impersonating him so simple. Still, the sketch would have been pretty dry if it weren't for the bang-on jokes that seem to come one after the other, starting with the camera used to film the "review."
As you watch this, try not to make this about politics and just enjoy the humor. Or don't, if it's not to your taste. And if, for some reason, you feel offended, nothing is keeping you from making a similar clip about any politician you want. Actually, make sure to send is a link, we'd love to see it.
