42 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of June 2, 2025

he encouraged her to embrace computer-generated filmmaking. 

“‘Natasha, this is a pencil,’” Lyonne ed of their chat, in which the director told her that everyone would soon jump on the A.I. bandwagon. “It’s how you use the pencil, you see?”

Though Lynch had, in fact, publicly praised the potential of A.I. prior to his death, some fans still weren’t sold on Lyonne’s story, taking to Twitter to share their own unverified encounters with the bygone artist. “Before he died, David Lynch told me I’m the prettiest girl in the world and that he wanted to make a movie about my extremely normal and good life,” joked one fan, while another touted his sway over the judicial system. “I spoke to David Lynch shortly before he died,” they wrote. “He gave me permission to commit many crimes.”

We, too, gleaned an unsubstantiated bit of wisdom from Lynch prior to his ing: He said this week’s Twitter burns were as scathing as they were funny. The best of them lampooned Beyoncé’s fictional high school, your dumbest uncle’s impact on federal funding and Sabrina Carpenter’s doppelganger.