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Jimmy Fallon may have a reputation for being less political than his late-night TV peers, but in the wake of President Trump’s accidental stand-up comedy routine at the United Nations on Tuesday (see: “Donald Trump bragged about himself to the United Nations. The UN laughed,” per CNN), the “Tonight Show” host devoted most of his monologue to mocking the (theoretical) leader of the free world. After playing the clip of Trump getting laughed at (“Trump hasn’t heard that much laughter since his night with Stormy Daniels,” the host joked), Fallon also served up an exclusive clip of a Memoji-fied Trump talking about his day at the UN. It begins with Trump (who sounds suspiciously like Fallon imitating Trump) saying,

Look at me! I’m a Memoji! Everyone’s been talking about these things. I love Memojis because they have the word “Me.” Anyway, I’ve had such a fantastic time speaking at the United Nations, or as it’s also known, “the un.” It’s my favorite “un,” right after my bestie, Kim Jong-un. And it makes sense why they invited me to speakI mean, people are always comparing me to the un. I’m unfit, I’m unqualified and I’m don’t un-derstand grammar.

You can hear the rest in the segment above, which should automatically start at the Memoji portion of the monologuebut if it doesn’t, just jump ahead to 2:41 mark.

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As concern over personal data protections continues to mount, representatives for six major tech and communications companies, including Google, Amazon and Apple, told federal lawmakers today that they supported federal data privacy legislation–so long as it is not nearly as strict as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy…

Jimmy Fallon may have a reputation for being less political than his late-night TV peers, but in the wake of President Trump’s accidental stand-up comedy routine at the United Nations on Tuesday (see: “Donald Trump bragged about himself to the United Nations. The UN laughed,” per CNN), the “Tonight Show” host devoted most of his monologue to mocking the (theoretical) leader of the free world. After playing the clip of Trump getting laughed at (“Trump hasn’t heard that much laughter since his night with Stormy Daniels,” the host joked), Fallon also served up an exclusive clip of a Memoji-fied Trump talking about his day at the UN. It begins with Trump (who sounds suspiciously like Fallon imitating Trump) saying,

Look at me! I’m a Memoji! Everyone’s been talking about these things. I love Memojis because they have the word “Me.” Anyway, I’ve had such a fantastic time speaking at the United Nations, or as it’s also known, “the un.” It’s my favorite “un,” right after my bestie, Kim Jong-un. And it makes sense why they invited me to speakI mean, people are always comparing me to the un. I’m unfit, I’m unqualified and I’m don’t un-derstand grammar.

You can hear the rest in the segment above, which should automatically start at the Memoji portion of the monologuebut if it doesn’t, just jump ahead to 2:41 mark.

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If you’re a hockey fan or devotee of the noisome digital hive that is Sports Twitter, by now you’ve probably familiarized yourself with the Philadelphia Flyers’ sinister, googly-eyed new mascot, Gritty. An amorphous burnt-sienna blob that looks like the product of the unholy union between a third-tier H.R. Pufnstuf character and an even-more-hirsute-than-usual Seth Rogan, Gritty began winning over children and under-medicated sociopaths alike shortly after the team introduced him to the world on Monday afternoon.

Minutes after his formal unveilingin a ceremony punctuated by Halloween confetti and theatrical smoke, the Flyers trotted him out for a bunch of ecstatic school kids at Philly’s Please Touch MuseumGritty made his Twitter debut, where he was immediately greeted with accolades, hoots of derision and the inevitable cascade of uninspired reaction gifs. (How ’bout we retire that Exasperated Ryan Reynolds Facepalm thing already, huh?)

Gritty’s more enthusiastic early engagers likened the Grimace-shaped mascot to canonical weirdos like Animal from “The Muppet Show” and Gossamer, the lurching orange fuzzball with tennis shoes on his feet and malice in his heart familiar from that old Bugs Bunny cartoon. More cynical Twitter users invoked the grim specter of PCP or observed that Gritty “looks like he’s halfway through opening the Ark of the Covenant.” One wag snarked that anyone looking for a marketing job should try cold calling the Flyers as the team is likely “hiring an entirely new staff.”

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As concern over personal data protections continues to mount, representatives for six major tech and communications companies, including Google, Amazon and Apple, told federal lawmakers today that they supported federal data privacy legislation–so long as it is not nearly as strict as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy…

If you’re a hockey fan or devotee of the noisome digital hive that is Sports Twitter, by now you’ve probably familiarized yourself with the Philadelphia Flyers’ sinister, googly-eyed new mascot, Gritty. An amorphous burnt-sienna blob that looks like the product of the unholy union between a third-tier H.R. Pufnstuf character and an even-more-hirsute-than-usual Seth Rogan, Gritty began winning over children and under-medicated sociopaths alike shortly after the team introduced him to the world on Monday afternoon.

Minutes after his formal unveilingin a ceremony punctuated by Halloween confetti and theatrical smoke, the Flyers trotted him out for a bunch of ecstatic school kids at Philly’s Please Touch MuseumGritty made his Twitter debut, where he was immediately greeted with accolades, hoots of derision and the inevitable cascade of uninspired reaction gifs. (How ’bout we retire that Exasperated Ryan Reynolds Facepalm thing already, huh?)

Gritty’s more enthusiastic early engagers likened the Grimace-shaped mascot to canonical weirdos like Animal from “The Muppet Show” and Gossamer, the lurching orange fuzzball with tennis shoes on his feet and malice in his heart familiar from that old Bugs Bunny cartoon. More cynical Twitter users invoked the grim specter of PCP or observed that Gritty “looks like he’s halfway through opening the Ark of the Covenant.” One wag snarked that anyone looking for a marketing job should try cold calling the Flyers as the team is likely “hiring an entirely new staff.”

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