46 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of June 17, 2024

In addition to directing a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along, Richard Linklater is getting ready to make a follow-up to his rom-com Hit Man. It’s called Blue Moon, and the Oscar nominee will travel to Dublin to shoot it, where he’ll reunite with long-time collaborator Ethan Hawke as well as join forces for the first time with Kinds of Kindness star Margaret Qualley and Ripley’s Andrew Scott — casting that one Twitter user aptly described as “Avengers for depressed indie people.” 

While Linklater’s casting choices got burned this week, he definitely wasn’t alone in bearing the brunt of the internet’s wrath. Other digital burn victims included someone reaching new levels of broke, a Love Island contestant who could be from Springfield and an Irish actor who knew he had to do it on ‘em.