During yesterday's round-the-clock coverage of a Vatican City chimney, comedians tweeted their own version of play-by-play, before and after the selection of the new pope. My favorite was a single word from Pee-wee Herman (“FRANCIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!”) that had me spit-taking into my laptop screen even before I opened the photo of his Big Adventure nemesis. The hits still keep coming on Twitter, so after the jump are five faves in the light of a new papal day.
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OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.