Rand Paul Beard
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Rand Paul Beard refers to jokes about Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's newly-grown beard, ostensibly grown in quarantine during the Coronavirus. Jokes often centered on applying various incorrect identities to Paul's new look, a la the What Does It Look Like I Do For A Living? meme.
Origin
On April 13th, 2020, Rand Paul appeared on the Fox News program Fox and Friends,[1] sporting a beard (shown below). Paul was on the program to discuss his volunteer work at hospitals after recovering from COVID-19.
Spread
Shortly after Paul's interview aired, Twitter users began joking about his "quarantine beard." One of the first people to post about the beard was user @atrupar,[2] who gained over 150 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below). User @pixie_casey[3] joked he looked like a “professor you were warned to stay away from” (shown below, right).
Many jokes were responses to a tweet by @ProfSamKimin,[4] who posed a Wrong Answers Only question about Rand Paul's new look and gained over 8,300 replies (shown below, left). User @darth[5] joked he looked like Orson Welles in his infamous wine commercial (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by Raw Story[6] and CityBeat.[1]
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[1] CityBeat – Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Appears to Have Grown a Quarantine Beard
[3] Twitter – @pixie_casey
[4] Twitter – @ProfSamKimin
[6] Raw Story – Rand Paul’s new look provides much-needed laughter for locked-down Americans
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