Comic ‘flakes’ out on sanitized subway car
This failed comic ought to clean up his act.
A video shared Tuesday on the social media app TikTok shows a wannabe comedian from Connecticut filling up a large plastic bin with milk and cereal aboard a northbound No. 4 train before dumping it on the floor.
“I got the munchies on the subway today so I pulled out some cereal and started chomping away,” Josh Popkin, 23, quips in the video. “I asked if anyone wanted cereal and that’s when it all fell. Everyone started getting mad at me and this guy was like, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’ I was like, ‘I can’t believe this is happening again.’ ”
The video shows him scooping up some of the slosh before exiting the train, leaving behind a disgusting mess in his wake.
Police said they are investigating the stunt, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted that the act was “despicable.”
“A new low: Pulling a prank on essential workers in the middle of a global pandemic,” the tweet said. “And making essential workers clean up your mess.”
The MTA has in recent months drastically scaled up its efforts to clean the subway during the coronavirus pandemic. In early March the agency moved to disinfect each of its 6,400 subway cars once every 72 hours, and last week Gov. Cuomo ordered the entire system to be closed from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. each night so the cars could be cleaned at least once a day.
The unfunny prankster did not respond to multiple requests for comment. When reached for comment, his sister Alex said she was “not sure” whether she was related to the disgraced doofus.
The cereal incident is far from the first time Popkin has shown contempt for essential workers and subway crews during the pandemic.
The day before he posted the cereal video, he posted another clip of him walking around a Duane Reade while wearing a ripped face mask that left his mouth exposed. He chided an employee for kicking him out of the store.
In another video shared Tuesday he has his friend tie him to a subway pole with plastic wrap. “I was like, this is a smart idea, I already feel healthy,” he says in the video.
Videos online show Popkin has attempted to form a career as a standup comedian for the past
three years, but recently turned to TikTok for an audience after his jokes failed to land on stage.
He has a recurring bit in which he sits in on college lectures at schools he does not attend before pulling out kitchen items like microwaves and small grills.