Laugh Away The Apocalypse With Coronavirus Memes: Part 2

“Currently, I’m walking around the city looking for toilet paper for my parents,” says Ben Soffer, creator of @boywithnojob, in an exasperated half-shout. His Charmin-induced vexation was proving hard to solve. “Everybody in Manhattan is such a hoarder!”

Soffer’s 1.6 million Instagram followers have been treated to his sense of humor since he started the account back in 2014. For the record, he does have a job at an advertising firm, and he has plenty of funny things to say about the End Times currently engulfing the world (as did these other meme-makers). “Comedy has always been an outlet for me,” he says. “If we take everything a little bit too seriously, then we find it incredibly difficult to recover.”

So, let Soffer be your salve …


This actually was how he spent one recent quarantined evening. “I was so bored, I was bowling in socks and using tuna fish cans.” The commenters on the post gave him gruff for labeling it a “strike.” “I guess realistically I got a spare.” Stick around for a special guest appearance by Soffer’s King Charles cavalier spaniel, Theo.


“That’s me and a red guitar.” Really? It looks pink. “It could be pink,” he admits. The video parodies Nickelback. (Some of his lyrics: “Every memory of going to a friends house/Going out to eat some overpriced Brussel sprouts.”) “Weird Al is obviously an inspiration,” Soffer says. He quickly adds, “I’m thinking of writing another song.”


Betty White is 98 years old—making her part of an age group that is particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. And making her “a precious, elderly that we all care deeply about.” For the record, White is alive and well. The post “was a little click Betty,” Soffer says through a grin. “Not gonna lie.”


“I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but there was a viral TikTok trend where people put on Benny Benassi, and when the beat drops, they spin something.” This is done to the tunes of Benassi’s “Satisfaction.” “People were doing like bottle caps. I realized that tuna fish cans spin just about as well as anything else.”


Like everyone living through Covid-19, Soffer has found wondering if that latest twinge is a sign that he’s a goner—left pondering if his upset belly “is a result of coronavirus—or my incredibly poor eating habits while in quarantine?”    




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