{"id":185498,"date":"2014-11-03T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/this-is-the-2nd-911-joke-that-ive-heard\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T01:28:00","slug":"this-is-the-2nd-911-joke-that-ive-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/03\/this-is-the-2nd-911-joke-that-ive-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the 2nd 911 Joke that I&#8217;ve Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/i-made-911-funny-today.html\">made the first one a few years back<\/a>, and it wasn&#8217;t that good.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/11\/03\/chris_rock%E2%80%99s_snl_monologue_put_911_jokes_back_on_the_table\/\">Chris Rock hits it out of the park<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On the eve of the New York City Marathon, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/11\/02\/chris_rock_rips_into_american_materialism_in_hilarious_snl_monologue\/\">Chris Rock opened his monologue <\/a>with  jokes about last year\u2019s Boston Marathon bombings. Too soon? Well, the  joke was pretty tame, all things considered. But that was just the  warm-up for Rock\u2019s main riff on the Freedom Tower, the new One World  Trade Center building that\u2019s now America\u2019s tallest skyscraper. He went <i>there&nbsp;<\/i>\u2014 to the 9\/11 joke.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhat  were they thinking?\u201d Rock demanded with trademark incredulity. \u201cWhat  kind of arrogant Floyd Mayweather crap is this?\u201d then \u201cWho\u2019s the  corporate sponsor, <i>Target<\/i>?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s really funny. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYZLKqGhSZs?list=PLWSw1Fq79oB3P429yic2CdeAV4KRopD_z\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I made the first one a few years back, and it wasn&#8217;t that good. Well, Chris Rock hits it out of the park: On the eve of the New York City Marathon, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d host Chris Rock opened his monologue with jokes about last year\u2019s Boston Marathon bombings. Too soon? Well, the joke &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1076,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-terrorism","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}