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Comedians Tweet The News: The Week's Best Jokes On The Week's Hottest Topics

First Posted: 01/07/11 02:48 PM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:25 PM ET

Gone are the days when someone must tune into a late night talk show or go to a comedy club to hear topical jokes about the day's headlines. Today, Twitter has given many comedians a reason to turn joke telling into a 24/7 business. Even during relatively slow news cycles, like right now, comedy wordsmiths still make topical jokes about the events in the news available to a mass audience. Here are some of the best tweets from our favorite funny tweeters that cover today's biggest stories, from the "Huckleberry Finn" controversy, to John Boehner, to Ted Williams.

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Gone are the days when someone must tune into a late night talk show or go to a comedy club to hear topical jokes about the day's headlines. Today, Twitter has given many comedians a reason to turn jo...
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AggieReal
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02:42 AM on 01/08/2011
Funniest joke I heard lately is that Phyllis Diller's thing is so old it had a separate entrance for blacks.
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04:51 PM on 01/08/2011
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11:17 PM on 01/07/2011
Huck Finn has been reedited ala Snakes on A Plane style and the n-word has been replaced and now Tom will call Jim by the name n-n-n-nightclub singer Jim.
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06:32 PM on 01/07/2011
ha! most of these were pretty decent jokes
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AliRenee96
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06:08 PM on 01/07/2011
@BettyFckinWhite tweeted a better version of Colbert's tweet a full day before Colbert's Huck Finn tweet.

@BettyFckinWhite: "Huckleberry Finn is eliminating the "N" word from new editions to be less offensive. Also, Moby Dick will now be called Moby Penis."
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03:10 AM on 01/08/2011
Sorry, not at all better. :)
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05:32 PM on 01/07/2011
good twits.
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even if i don't go anywhere, I'll still be late.
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04:46 PM on 01/07/2011
@yoyoha, DANG! I CAN PICTURE IT!
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partisanpolitico
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04:21 PM on 01/07/2011
I'm 'unfollowing' my list just to follow these comics.
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bwright85
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04:21 PM on 01/07/2011
Some of these were actually pretty humorous and all of them were a satire of the truth :)
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