The Internet might very well be eating its own tail at this point, with satire going viral within hours of breaking political news. Wednesday’s case (5/31/17) was the presidential Twitter fragment ending in the mystery phrase “covfefe,” and things went ballistic in a matter of hours. Minnesota Senator Al Franken told CNN that he assumed covfefe was Yiddish for “I gotta go to bed now.” But our faves were a few references to Bill Hader’s SNL “Stefon” character, with memes making the round on Twitter, one captioned, “DC’s hottest new nightclub is Covfefe…” This club has everything… —Eric Gould

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