People On Twitter Can’t Stop Joking About The ‘Joker’ Trailer

The first trailer for Joker — Todd Phillips’ Joker origin movie starring cape enthusiast and three-time Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix — debuted Wednesday morning. Since then, people on Twitter have been having fun making jokes, speculating about Easter eggs, and contrasting the trailer with other films. Robert De Niro has already confirmed there’s a connection between Joker and Martin Scorsese’s King of Comedy, beyond the fact that Scorsese is a producer on Joker. People quickly made comparisons to other movies and TV shows as well:

— Dan Van Winkle (@Dan_Van_Winkle) April 3, 2019

Joker looks great pic.twitter.com/Cc2GO6741F

— Caden Gardner (@cadenmgardner) April 3, 2019

when Pagliacci sees he's trending on Twitter vs when Pagliacci sees why he's trending on twitter pic.twitter.com/CMUeRUBUr9

— Kenny Keil (@kennykeil) April 3, 2019

This is the Joker origin story I was hoping for pic.twitter.com/fyXgk1yrvm

— Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan) April 3, 2019

I don’t know why the new Joker movie takes place in an episode of Atlanta but sign me up pic.twitter.com/NIzycRitBk

— yc (@yc) April 3, 2019

new joker looks so good pic.twitter.com/lHZoaVzGZ4

— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) April 3, 2019

And just as people were drawing comparisons between Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker and Heath Ledger’s (two guys who were friends in real life, so maybe don’t pit them against each other in a manufactured catfight), the references to other on-screen Joker performances continued throughout the day:

— David Sims (@davidlsims) April 3, 2019

1989: what if the Joker was a mobster

2008: what if the Joker was a nihilist

2016: what if the Joker was a punk

2019: what if the Joker was that guy in your office who comments “Beautiful” on all your Instagram posts

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) April 3, 2019

Cesar Romero: 1966

23 years

Jack Nicholson: 1989

19 years

Heath Ledger: 2008

8 years

Jared Leto: 2016

3 years

Joaquin Phoenix: 2019

At this rate, we should have another Joker by earl 2021, and then new jokers every few months then weeks then days then hours until all is joker

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) April 3, 2019

And some folks were just glad to see a gritty ’70s or ’80s era New York City and Joaquin Phoenix going full Joaquin Phoenix:

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) April 3, 2019

I know Twitter is overrun with bad takes on the Joker trailer, but…I'm totally down for Joaquin Phoenix acting his ass off for two hours in a setting that meticulously evokes grimy, 70s-80s era New York City. I could care less about how it fits into the bigger DC mythology.

— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) April 3, 2019

People also pointed out it’s probably for the best this movie is set before Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, because this Arthur Fleck fellow would definitely be a weird internet dude:

— Eric Szyszka (@ericszyszka) April 3, 2019

Oh I get it The Joker is one of the guys who posts pictures of my feet on reddit next to my home address.

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 3, 2019

And some continued the argument about his weird internet dude vibes by pointing out stereotypes about stand up comedians:

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) April 3, 2019

The new Joker just looks like the backstory for every comedian whose entire act is complaining about political correctness.

— Ryan Schutt (@ryschutt) April 3, 2019

We all know that the Joker's real origin story was that he worked as comedian, but that his edgy humor no longer played well on college campuses.

— (@casersatz) April 3, 2019

the least believable thing about the joker is that there's a comedian who does crimes but none of them are sexual

— Ivan Hernandez (@ivan_hernandez) April 3, 2019

And people re-contextualized this Joker’s origin story to make it a little too real:

— Alan Zilberman (@alanzilberman) April 3, 2019

Look I get why people are so excited about the trailer for Joker but I also just don't know if I have it in me to get enthusiastic about a movie that's basically, "Sad white man loses it, seeks revenge on the world"

— Lux Alptraum (@LuxAlptraum) April 3, 2019

No thanks, the Joker movie. If I want to hear about a white guy who starts murdering people because he got picked on, I’ll just watch the news.

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) April 3, 2019

And finally, there were the people who decided to just blow our fragile minds or focus on the bigger picture:

— Kyle (@KylePlantEmoji) April 3, 2019

Personally, I think a Joker movie would only be interesting if Batman is completely a figment of the Joker's imagination. A total Tyler Durden scenario.

— Aaron Fullerton (@AaronFullerton) April 3, 2019

disappointed in everyone on here today. crime isn’t a joke, people

— matt lubchansky (@Lubchansky) April 3, 2019