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“All right, now, I did not make pirate jokes, so I will try not to make height jokes either, though I’m tempted.”
Sometimes you know there is an opportunity for an awesome corny joke, but it’s just too much. Bill Chong, who the mayor appointed on Jan. 6 to head the commission on youth and community development, gave de Blasio a run for his money just by showing up with an eye patch. “I am resisting making pirate jokes,” de Blasio said. “But if I were to make a pirate joke … I’m thinking of something with ‘plunder,’ but I’ll be back with that.” Things got even worse when he brought out another appointee, Mindy Tarlow, who looked like she was as tall as his 6’5” mayor’s chest. “All right now, I didn’t make pirate jokes, so I will try not to make height jokes either, though I’m tempted.” He couldn’t resist, though, when he had to give her a stool to stand on. “Feel the power,” he said.
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“Sometime in the centuries from now, a new civilization will look back and will still find our parking meters in effect.”
Remember the first storm of his term, on January 2? We were all so much younger then. Although the general response was that de Blasio handled his first storm well, he did field a question about why parking meters were still in effect. It’s kind of like when you ask your dad why you have to do homework. This picture is from Feb. 3, when the mood had gotten considerably darker but the mayoral windbreaker fashion remained the same.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio had a rocky February. But after a number of PR flaps, the mayor’s “dad humor” returned in full force on, with some puns about Facebook knowing “What’sApp” and his guest spot on “The Good Wife.”
In honor of the mayor’s rediscovered funny bone, we’ve rounded up some of his funniest/most cringe-worthy jokes. Stay corny, Mr. Mayor. Stay corny.
