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Most people are worried they might accidentally burn the turkey in the oven, not have their Christmas tree set on fire. The 50-foot tall Christmas tree that stood outside Fox News’ Manhattan headquarters was set alight just after midnight on December 8. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. Meanwhile, the police quickly arrested the suspect. However, the story didn’t end there. The internet saw this as a meme-worthy opportunity and started making jokes about the incident, mostly due to Fox News’ reputation in the United States and globally.

Bored Panda has compiled a list of the most popular Fox News Xmas tree jokes flying around social media. You’ll find them below.

Entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert Mike Sington went in-depth with Bored Panda about the incident and Fox News' reputation. "People are making fun of Fox News because they’re so angry at them for constantly pushing false information and conspiracy theories. It’s also ironic their Christmas tree was destroyed when Fox News keeps accusing the opposition of 'waging a war on Christmas.' Thankfully no one was hurt, but it seems the visual of the Fox News Christmas tree being destroyed, inspired a lot of people to mock Fox News," he said.

I also asked British comedy expert, author, and all-round creative Ariane Sherine to comment about the situation with the Fox News Christmas tree. According to her, it's a tricky situation when considering that the internet is having a lot of fun laughing at what happened, even though someone could have easily been hurt. "If it had been our own tree, we most likely wouldn’t find it funny—at least, not for a long time," she told Bored Panda. "But when we don’t like someone or something, we cease to have empathy for them and can therefore laugh. It’s human nature, but probably not the best part of it!"

Just to make it very clear, we don’t condone burning down *any* Christmas trees, no matter whom they belong to. Someone could have easily gotten hurt! And think of all the effort that went into putting up the tree in the first place. We do, however, think that bizarre situations like this one can inspire the internet to come up with some pretty funny roasts and hot takes. And everyone needs a laugh or two in these hard times, even if the humor might be too dark for some.

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Finland must have enjoyed this comment 😃

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago

    Love how they used Fox News way of reporting.

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    Thomas Sweda
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    4 years ago

    Make Christmas great again!

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    RandomHumanBean
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    4 years ago

    specific.

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    PenitentEyeball
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    4 years ago

    Good one!

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    Angie
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    4 years ago

    Imagine feeling the need to fervently defend Fox News like this poor, low information rube Ryan.

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    John Topper
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    4 years ago

    That's why there were no trees in 2020.

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago

    It's not even a tree... it's just wire in a cone shape

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    A B C
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    4 years ago

    Sounds reasonable.

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    Chris Hills
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    4 years ago

    Funniest comment on FB yesterday was, "Tucker Carlson's pants catch Fox "News" Christmas tree on fire".

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    Mazer
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    4 years ago

    This looks like a vanilla Oreo cookie in human form

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    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago

    Funny thing, it was Ben Shapiro doing one of his "perhaps" segments. He was so embarrassed he quit and became a pilot. It's going to go how you expect.

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    Persephone
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    4 years ago

    🤣 I wish I could upvote more!

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    Mad Dragon
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    4 years ago

    Dumpster fire?

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    Thorfin Wolfsbane
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I heard if you take a Bible into the Fox News building it comes alive and starts whacking everyone there up top their head.

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    Never miss a story that brings joy to the world. Add us on Google

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    Fake tree, fake news, real fire

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    Joanna Werman
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    4 years ago

    Target acquired

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    Thorfin Wolfsbane
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    4 years ago

    Melania’s usual theme for Christmas: HELL on earth

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    Kelli Pike
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    4 years ago

    Fantastic.

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    best turtle
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    4 years ago

    i cant wait to see what the new year does

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    Paul Neff
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    4 years ago

    The coup is already in process. Lobbyists have power exclusively due to low information voters. Low information voters base voting on the political ads they see in media. These ads are paid for and created by the same companies using the lobbyists. Voters became the product, when they stopped understanding the issues beyond a commercial on TV.

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    rspanther
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    4 years ago

    Hmm did not have burn christmas tree on my bingo card.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago

    I guess the people who aren't laughing are either Trump voters or Fox news reporters.

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    CHRIS DOMRES
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    4 years ago

    Quick! Bring all those nasty books and throw them into the fire!

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    Kimi Tomminello
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    4 years ago (edited)

    A fox news flaming christmas tree

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    Walking On Sunshine
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Maybe I can have my son-in-law fix that up for me because that sounds good.

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    A B C
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    4 years ago (edited)

    And that's the double standard right-wing morons, I mean, "republicans" like Ryan worship.

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    Liam Farranree
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    4 years ago

    Jesus preached that "those who live by the sword will die by the sword" and he was a carpenter that died being nailed to planks of wood.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago

    As always, Fox News reporters don't have a clue what they are talking about.

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    Narwhal Blast
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    4 years ago

    Is this how a fully vaccinated Satanic gay immigrant looks like? I'm digging that look!

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    Ryan Deschanel
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    4 years ago

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    The republican party is trying to protect america from arsonists? Well, it actually makes sense.

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    Piet Puk
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    4 years ago

    Why isn't this at the top??

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    Sheila Stamey
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    4 years ago

    Totally agree..

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    Ryan Deschanel
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    4 years ago

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    Why?

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    John Topper
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    4 years ago

    Of course it is. Didn't you have a giant minorah and burn down several pine trees every night. We Jews take our war on Christmas very seriously.

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    Thorfin Wolfsbane
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    4 years ago (edited)

    And if this were ~2000 years ago, republicans would be ready to hire false witnesses and crucify him.

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    rspanther
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    4 years ago

    And?

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    Andrew Good
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    4 years ago

    What makes it even funnier is that jesus was probably born in spring

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    A. Paige Kruger
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    4 years ago

    Saw it coming

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    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago

    I'm bringing the big speakers! speaker-tr...97-png.jpg speaker-truck-61b2db25ef897-png.jpg

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    Thorfin Wolfsbane
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    4 years ago

    The burning of the tree was the starting point for negotiating Christmas' withdrawal from its illegal occupation of October and November.

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    Of course there is. It is totally off-topic, but there is.

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    Candia Lee
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    4 years ago

    Rerun.

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    Thomas Sweda
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    4 years ago

    Not Biden ?

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    Persephone
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    4 years ago

    Where is it?? I need an e Xmas card!

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    Thomas Sweda
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    4 years ago

    And, and……?

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    I think there's something in the Bible about God disapproving of tree worship

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    Sheila Stamey
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    4 years ago

    I only wish I had heard when this was said "hey y'all watch this, it's gonna be epic!!!"

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    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago

    Repeat 2 electric boogaloo.

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    Sheila Stamey
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    4 years ago

    Fox nuts roasting on an open fire, ashes are tickling my nose, tiny brains with their minds all aglow, will find it hard to speak tonight. They say that evil had it's sway, and lit the giant fake Christmas tree today. But every responsible adult really knows, you can't overload a circuit that way........

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