34 of the Funniest Tweets from Friday, January 17, 2025
Unless America puts on the best damn show this country has ever seen, TikTok will be no more come Sunday. The Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold the decision requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the app, and the divest-or-ban law would make it impossible for American-based users to watch movies split up into 23 parts or have a streamlined way to consume the best parts of SNL. Given the timing, President Biden is passing off enforcement to the incoming administration, which means that the fate of the app is in Trump’s hands.
From one political farce to another, Adam McKay is using the L.A. wildfires to celebrate a movie of his that was “hated” by “critics and cultural gatekeepers.” The writer-director touched on the sudden “energizing” response to Don’t Look Up “in the face of these dramatic catastrophes that keep happening.” McKay revealed to NME that the polarizing Netflix climate-change satire has now been seen by nearly a half billion people, and “ended up being number one in something like 85 countries,” which he called “extremely rare for a comedy usually confined by cultural regional reference points.”
Meanwhile, the timeline continues to be number one in our heart. Today’s funniest tweets include those about a nosy pup, the proper way to skip a YouTube ad and post-job application clarity.
