Humor - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:19:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Humor - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Ted Yoho, It’s Been a Week and You Still Haven’t Apologized for Loving Your God, Your Country, and Your Family. https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/07/28/ted-yoho-aoc-wont-apologize-for-loving-god-country-and-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ted-yoho-aoc-wont-apologize-for-loving-god-country-and-family Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:07:26 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1185791 Last week, after US Rep. Ted Yoho called his colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “fucking bitch,” his subsequent statement of contrition included this qualifier: “I cannot apologize for my passion, or for loving my God, my family, and my country.” I disagree. Congressman Yoho, it’s time for you to apologize for your love of God, family […]

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Brief History of Elevator Fails at the Washington Monument https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/21/brief-history-elevator-fails-washington-monument/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brief-history-elevator-fails-washington-monument Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:45:10 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=985432 The history of the Washington Monument’s elevator is proof that what goes up…might get stuck halfway down. October 9, 1888 A steam-powered lift starts ferrying passengers. It takes about ten minutes to reach the top—a figure cut in half three years later when it’s replaced by an electric version. August 7, 1949 After a suicide—not […]

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Please Stop Calling My Humor Dad Jokes https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/03/22/please-stop-calling-my-humor-dad-jokes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=please-stop-calling-my-humor-dad-jokes Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:00:32 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=661621 I have pretty good taste in music, decent taste in food, and terrible taste in jokes. Seriously, here’s one of my favorites: What did the janitor yell when he jumped out of the closet? Supplies! I love puns, wordplay, appalling punch lines. Okay, one more: Why do scuba divers jump backward out of boats? Because […]

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Can Humor Help the Dems Win in 2020? https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/01/07/can-humor-help-the-dems-win-in-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-humor-help-the-dems-win-in-2020 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:27:58 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=575145 Back when he worked in the Obama administration, Brad Jenkins probably wouldn’t have shown up to work wearing jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt emblazoned with the cartoon heads of Bernie Sanders and Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. But his outfit is hardly the only thing that’s changed: Instead of liaising with thought leaders as an associate […]

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We Asked a Comedian to Help Us Understand the National Gallery’s Exhibit on Humor https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/07/12/we-asked-a-comedian-to-help-us-understand-the-national-gallerys-exhibit-on-humor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-asked-a-comedian-to-help-us-understand-the-national-gallerys-exhibit-on-humor Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:00:47 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=414555 The National Gallery of Art’s “Sense of Humor” exhibit gathers satirical prints, caricatures, and other comic imagery from a span of more than 500 years. Some of it, we have to admit, does not seem hilarious. We asked NGA curator Jonathan Bober and local comedian Jamel Johnson—whom you can catch July 20 at the District […]

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Before My Child Goes Over To Your House, Please Sign This Contract https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/08/18/before-my-child-goes-over-to-your-house-please-sign-this-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=before-my-child-goes-over-to-your-house-please-sign-this-contract Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:19:40 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=234588 Dear Nancy, I appreciate your offer to have my son, Holden, come over for a playdate tomorrow afternoon with your son, Johnny. Before I have our nanny drop him off, please reply to this email to certify that you and your family agree to conduct yourselves appropriately in our child’s presence. If you can’t comply […]

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