Brian Lair on WNYC, all right, it's a quarter to 12.

All right, coming up on 14 minutes to 12 and ask threatened.

Here is our invitation for you to do something on the air that we haven't invited you to

do ever before.

And that is tell one joke based on a recent news story.

That's right, for the last 15 minutes of the show, we are inviting you to tell one joke

on the air that's based on any recent news story.

It can be a joke you make up or one that you heard over it somewhere.

212-433-WNYC, you can also text a one-liner works well or two-liner even a three-liner works

well in text message, same number 212-433-WNYC, 212-433-9692, maybe some of you have been

getting these ready during the show today as we've promoted it a couple of times.

And again, why are we doing this?

Well, during the writers' strike, many of us have been missing those late night talk show

hosts, news-based monologues, right, the jokes about what we mostly cover seriously on

this show, and personally, I'll usually watch them live, but I see the good ones passed

around the next day.

So now that the writers' union is going back to work, we can have a little fun filling

the remaining void until these shows actually get back on the air without being scaps.

So you are invited to tell a joke based on any recent news story on the air, can be one

that you are making up.

It can be one that you've read or heard just to get us going.

Somebody already texted, nothing's going to be funnier than Andy Borowitz's cartoon,

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