Russian Takeover

USA Today

The premise of this joke is that the Russians control President Trump, so there is actually now a wing of the White House that houses the Russians.

This joke has been beaten to death and it isn't funny anymore.  The premise that Trump got elected in part thanks to some hacking by the Russians, or that at least they hacked and tried to help him, is unproven but potentially true.  But the notion that Trump is really a puppet of Mr. Putin is a stretch since Trump seems to be so rah-rah all American and pugnacious in his rhetoric.

People who don't like Trump are pushing this idea.  Given how mean Trump was to Obama he probably deserves mean treatment in return, but it isn't clever, it is just piling on. 

So don't feel too bad if you aren't howling in laughter.  The entirety of the joke is that Trump is closer to Russians than have been the bipartisan consensus heretofore.

Workplace misery, ha ha.

Dilbert

Lots of people don't think Dilbert jokes are funny.  I don't either.  He creates an imaginary world of a workplace where everyone is worthless except Dilbert, the character in the red shirt.

What is supposedly funny about this joke is that there is someone at a conference table who responds to Dilbert by using very bad analogies.   He picks familiar ones like "closing the barn door after the horse gets out" which makes sense some of the time but not in this case.  There is some humor in the idea of a person who criticizes other ideas by labeling them with irrelevant sayings.

And he keeps doing it in frame after frame.  The point of the whole Dilbert cartoon series is how frustrating it is to be around people who do stupid things and and persist in it.

It is all right if you don't think it is funny.  This is a good example of a not very funny one.   But what humor there is, such as it is, is found in this explanation.

Don't laugh too hard.

Trump Cannot Count

From The New Yorker

This is my first blog post of my first blog.  This cartoon is supposedly funny because it teases Donald Trump who overestimated the number of people who attended his inauguration. It shows him here, underestimating badly how many women are there.  He is not terrific at estimating crowd see, proven by how badly he is estimating this one.  His bad estimate is the basis of most of the humor.

  The cartoon also reminds people that there are lot of women who marched on Washington in protest to him and that there are way more of them than who attended his inauguration.  Some of the humor of the cartoon is that it teases Trump and most readers of The New Yorker were opposed to Trump.

  It shows a tiny Mike Pence hiding behind Donald Trump, which isn't exactly funny, but it shows the VP hiding behind Trump, so it belittles Trump a little, and that is sort of fun if you don't like Trump.

  It shows Trump with the TV on this isn't exactly funny, but it is one more element of teasing Trump.

Summary:  the cartoon is mostly funny for people who don't like Trump, since it makes him Trump look bad generally and dishonest about crowd sizes in particular.