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The Best Jokes Of The 2019 Federal Election Campaign That Went Way Further Than Intended

These are tough times and we could all use a laugh. Or six.

Well folks, after weeks of a pretty contentious campaign that involved eggings, horrible attacks on people’s mums, and personal space invaders, the 2019 federal election is nearly over.

But the real journey of this campaign wasn’t trying to figure out who will guide Australia to a better future or the friends we’ve all made along the way. No, the real journey were all the jokes that came out of the campaign and proceeded to go way further than anyone could’ve expected.

Some good jokes came out of this year’s campaign but the following three got so out of hand that future historians are going to have a field day trying to figure exactly just went on during this period of Australian history.

I have no idea nor am I even going to try to figure that one out.

Michael Hing’s One Asian Party

Seeing as how there were several seriously ridiculous parties and candidates this election, it’s a no brainer that someone would also try their hand at getting on the ballot as some sort of comedic pisstake on the state of Australian politics.

And that’s exactly what The Feed‘s Michael Hing did when he launched his One Asian party in April.

The joke was objectively one of the best things to happen this election but things started snowballing and actually got somewhat out of hand.

Hingers actually started getting some momentum behind him as he began to pop up on talk shows and radio programs to talk about his “party’s” platform, which was basically “let the people figure out policy stuff for me,” and people began to rally behind him on social media. Hell, he even managed to score a political endorsement from Stormy Daniels (after he paid her $250), which is a win no matter how you look at it.

While it would’ve been nice to see Hingers go all the way to the Senate, he sadly didn’t make the ballot. Not because he was embroiled in some scandal or anything but because of that part in Section 44 of the Australian Constitution that states you can’t be on the ballot if you hold “an office of profit under the Crown,” which he does since he works for SBS.

RIP One Asian Party, you will be missed but boy did we have some laughs.

Chloe Shorten’s husband

The folks at The Feed are pumping some gems these days and their running gag on Chloe Shorten is just fantastic.

Since no one really knew or gave a crap about Bill Shorten prior to the election, Jenna Owen and Victoria Zerbst pumped out a brilliant little skit that revolved around coming up with the “campaign strategy” of “Vote No.1 Chloe Shorten’s…husband” as a way to make Bill somewhat likable.

Things jumped up a notch when the duo doubled down on the gag in a follow-up video in which they produced a cardboard “clone” of Chloe and tagged along Bill’s campaign trail in an attempt to get some sort of reaction.

Which they absolutely did.

Folks went along with it, people greeted the “clone” like a real person, and Bill capped it all off by going along with the joke when he said, “vote no.1 for Chloe Shorten’s husband.”

Personally, the best moment was when Victoria quipped “Oh my god, I love that, see men can be funny, it’s really cute!”

Then things went completely meta on the eve of the election as Bill was spotted wearing a “Vote no.1 for Chloe Shorten’s husband” during his morning run.

Good on Bill for trying to own the joke, which is more than what we can say for the next entry…

Scott Morrison and what happened at Engadine Maccas in 1997

The biggest question on everyone’s mind during this election wasn’t who had the better tax plan or who will do better regarding climate change.

No, the thing people really cared about was this: Did Scott Morrison did shat himself at Engadine McDonalds after the Cronulla sharks lost the grand final in 1997?

It’s an important question and one that initially came up when hip-hop artist Joyride dropped the rumour on Twitter after Morrison became PM back in 2018.

Since then, the mystery of Morrison and what went on with his bowels in 97 has captured people’s imagination, so much so it overshadowed some of his campaign promises.

From “serious” in-depth investigations into whether it was plausible to Engadine Maccas fully embracing the myth by installing a plaque commemorating Morrison’s alleged 1997 visit, everything really did go out of hand for what is essentially a poo joke.

We may never know the answer to whether Morrison filled his pants back in 1997 and he hasn’t said anything about the alleged incident. One thing’s for sure though, it is a joke that had some serious legs and remained in the public consciousness for far longer than it really should’ve.

But hey, it did give us one of the greatest covert burns we’ll ever see. Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi recently shared a Twitter thread that initially sounds like a pretty standard election push but is in reality a well hidden jab.

Check out the full thread and take note of the first letter of each tweet. You won’t be disappointed.