By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | April 6, 2020 |
By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | April 6, 2020 |
When tech billionaire Elon Musk isn’t being blasé about the worldwide crisis, he’s stealing jokes to amuse his 32.9 million Twitter followers. Over the weekend, our darkest timeline’s Tony Stark got caught and called out for stealing a joke from stand-up comedian Morgan Murphy.
Here’s Musk’s tweet:
So proud pic.twitter.com/Me5HirnJ6N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2020
Here’s Murphy’s response.
I made that. That’s my dog & joke.🤷â€â™€ï¸ pic.twitter.com/iBWxN9skuY
— Morgan Murphy (@morgan_murphy) April 5, 2020
Then, the dragging began.
pay @morgan_murphy
— Joel Arnold (@joelkarnold) April 5, 2020
are you proud of stealing @morgan_murphy's tweet? i don't get it where is the pride coming from?
— Alicia Lutes (@alicialutes) April 5, 2020
Cool job stealing a joke
— QuaranTeenage Fanclub (@bornwithatail_) April 5, 2020
Nothing he does is original. Even coked out car visionary was taken by John Delorean.
— Q elonymous (@QElonymous) April 5, 2020
You have billions of dollars but you have to steal content? 🙄😒
— mj (@scib0rg) April 5, 2020
When you have literally everything that money can buy, but you lack humor. That’s the beauty of the internet, you can steal everything, even a joke.
— Emma 🌙 (@MynameisEmma94) April 5, 2020
Murphy reached out to Musk once more with another picture of Jack, to which he responded.
Nice ink
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2020
Musk did not apologize. However, he agreed to send her a flamethrower because sure why not.
Ok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2020