42 of the Funniest Tweets from Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Robert Zemeckis has long been an innovator of visual effects in movies, and the Oscar winner’s newest film is no different — a Forrest Gump reunion with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. While things come and go in the director’s adaptation of the 2014 graphic novel Here, the camera won’t move an inch. The “risky venture” is filmed from a “single perspective (that) never changes” and features de-aged versions of Hanks and Wright as they meet and grow old together in a suburban living room. Hopefully Zemeckis has had enough time to hone his craft with digitally-generated faces since his creepy, albeit groundbreaking, use of it in The Polar Express.
Meanwhile, Colin Jost is headed to the South Pacific this summer — but not for vacation. The Saturday Night Live star will be stationed in Tahiti as part of NBC’s surfing commentary team during the Olympic Games. An avid surfer himself, Jost issued a statement saying he’s “honored to get to watch the best surfers in the world compete on one of the heaviest waves imaginable.” He continued by joking that his “Writers Guild Health Insurance is excited to see what the coral reef does to (his) back.”
Jost won’t be the only one surfing the SNL to 2024 Olympics pipeline either. He will join former cast member Leslie Jones, who will serve as the “chief super fan correspondent,” and Kenan Thompson, who will co-host a highlights program with Kevin Hart on Peacock.
Over on the timeline, everyone is serving up some classic comedy, and we’re happily riding that wave. Today’s funniest tweets include those about store-bought demons, Tim Cook bringing up some demons from your past and a mother fighting her inner demons.
