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    The Funniest Social Media Reactions to New Pope Announcement

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    The Funniest Social Media Reactions to New Pope Announcement



    The web is having enjoyable with the announcement of the brand new pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was elected the 267th pope on Thursday, Might 8, after two days of voting. Prevost (who will go by Pope Leo XIV) was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Villanova College in Pennsylvania, making him the primary American pope in historical past. His Chicago roots are spurring numerous TV-themed tweets in response. Earlier than these tweets, the announcement prompted a hilarious interruption on the Jenna & Buddies hour of As we speak.

    Matt Rogers, actor and cohost of the favored Las Culturistas podcast with Saturday Night time Reside‘s Bowen Yang, is at the moment cohosting Jenna & Buddies with Jenna Bush Hager. Rogers known as Yang through FaceTime for an interview with Hager when, abruptly, the brand new pope announcement interrupted them mid-call. Viewers clipped the video and posted it on social media.

    “The announcement of a brand new pope coming as all of us knew it might: interrupting Jenna Bush Hager interviewing Bowen Yang by FaceTime,” an X (previously often known as Twitter) person captioned the video, which reveals Hager and Yang speaking and Rogers smiling huge as an “Election of the Pope” title card cuts off the interview. NBC Nightly Information anchor Lester Holt seems proper after, getting ready to go stay with the brand new pope information.

    One X/Twitter person joked this second was like an “Different Two episode button.”

    There are loads of TV-themed responses in regards to the new pope usually on Twitter and BlueSky. Social media’s stuffed with posts in regards to the new pope having been to WalMart, serving deep dish pizza in Italy, references to The Bear (which is about in Chicago) and, in fact, to Conclave, 2024’s Oscar-winning movie about electing a brand new pope. A fan account known as Pope Crave was created as a result of Conclave. The account acquired so common, the one who runs it was in Vatican Metropolis on Thursday to cowl the real-life conclave on social media.

    “The pope is about to direct a number of episodes of The Bear,” one Twitter person joked.

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    “Dick Wolf’s CHICAGO POPE coming this fall to NBC,” teased one other.

    “DA POPE,” one other person posted, referencing the “Invoice Swerski’s Superfans” SNL sketch.

    “Walton Goggins as Chicago Pope will go loopy on SNL this weekend,” posted one other person.

    Goggins is internet hosting the penultimate episode of SNL Season 50 this Saturday, Might 10, to advertise his HBO reveals, The White Lotus and The Righteous Gem stones, the latter of which simply aired its collection finale on Might 4. The spiritual comedy had Goggins make a faux present known as Teenjus (a.ok.a. Teen Jesus) within the last season and play Teenjus himself. It’s exhausting to think about that SNL received’t capitalize on having the Uncle Child Billy as host proper when a brand new pope has been chosen.

    It’s been a enjoyable day on the web, to say the least. See among the funniest social media reactions to the brand new pope information within the roundup beneath.

    you’re welcome

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    — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol) Might 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM

    seems like this was the music they need to’ve used to announce him

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    — Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) Might 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM

    Love the lil flex once they realise they simply turned essentially the most well-known chook on the earth.

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    — Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) Might 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM





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