This headline strikes me as a typical set up for a late night comedy monologue joke.
In this form of joke writing the news headline would be the set up and then the follow up would be the punchline. You have to kind of re-interpret or twist the headline to come to a silly or unexpected conclusion.
You could use the headline as-is as the set up, or you could re-word it to help your punchline.
Go ahead give it a try in the comments!
if you want to just brainstorm get a pad of paper and pencil and write down a bunch of ideas then put your favorite ones here I’ll do it too but I’m not gonna come in until I get some from you guys-
I was about to post this on social media and then I realized maybe Fox doesn’t want to promote it yet. But I’ll post it on here!
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“And now”
For some ‘happy news’
The Armed Citizen, The NRA ‘American Rifleman’ Magazine, Nov 2025.
An armed mother in Mississippi used her firearm to shoot an allegedly diseased monkey that had escaped from an overturned truck, according to police.
The mother of five armed herself after her 16-year-old son reported that he thought he had seen a monkey running around outside of the family's Heidelberg, Miss., home. After getting out of bed and arming herself, she stepped outside and saw the monkey approximately 60 feet away. She and other residents had been warned that the monkey was allegedly carrying diseases, so she fired.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” the woman told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
The encounter occurred after a widely reported October 14 incident on a Mississippi highway, when a truck carrying a number of Rhesus monkeys ...
Thanks for the awesome gift print 87/100! Reminded us of our In Their Shoes exhibit.
https://www.air.ngo/programs/in-their-shoes/
We look forward to seeing you again on 12/6!
