27 of the Funniest Tweets from Thursday, February 15, 2024
Despite all rumors to the contrary, it appears that Todd Phillips’ highly-anticipated follow-up to his startling blockbuster Joker isn’t a musical after all — at least according to cinematographer Lawrence Sher. In a recently-shared Zoom call, Sher said of the film, “It’s not a musical per se; it just has music in it. The music is part of the film and the characters. But I don’t know if it’s a musical.” Someone should tell Sher that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a musical (or singing duck?). Nevertheless, audiences will have to wait until October to see if Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga break into song and dance at Arkham Asylum when Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters.
Speaking of sequels, the Repo Man is returning for another extraterrestrial adventure. Thirty years after the original cult classic rocked the world, writer/director Alex Cox returns for Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer. The sequel will follow the satirical spirit of the original, and the story is said to have “punk energy, existential comedy and unconventional storytelling, navigating the absurd and chaotic world of repo men into a new age of nuclear brinkmanship and driverless cars.” Elon Musk, prepare to get repoed.
Meanwhile, the timeline is delightfully original today with some seriously laugh-out-loud tweets. Today’s funniest ones include those about autocorrect protecting a therapist, a grandmother with ulterior motives and the egg that Godzilla uses for his omelettes.