26 of the Funniest Tweets from Thursday, May 2, 2024

More charmed than cursed, Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder are reuniting sooner rather than later. The Curse duo will be taking their chemistry behind the camera as Fielder is set to direct an adaptation of one of chess’ biggest scandals with Stone and her husband Dave McCary producing. The source material comes from Ben Mezrich, whose work has been previously adapted into films like The Social Network and Dumb Money. A24, which helped bring The Curse to Showtime, beat out other studios with a hefty seven-figure deal that had everyone screaming, “Checkmate!”

If audiences have their say, Fielder’s feature directorial debut will clock in at exactly 92 minutes. An online survey conducted by Talker Research concluded that respondents preferred a 92-minute runtime, with only 15 percent finding films over 120 minutes acceptable and an even smaller percentage being okay with movies longer than two-and-a-half hours. Although the April survey was limited to 2,000 Americans, this sentiment is regularly echoed on Twitter, with users constantly clamoring for the return of shorter movies. Bring back the tight 90!

Meanwhile, things are short and sweet on the timeline thanks to all the punchy jokes. Today’s funniest tweets include those about a plea for landlords to be grateful, the feminine urge to be boss(wo)man and the father who isn’t going to let fame change him.