**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
**The Irony is So Thick You Could Cut It with a Censorship Scissors**
**MEXICO CITY –** In a plot twist that even *El Chavo del Ocho* couldn't have scripted, veteran comedian and notoriously cantankerous television producer Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo has become the internet’s new favorite meme. And the reason? He’s accidentally done the one thing he swore he’d never do: become the subject of a “woke” cancel culture scandal.
For decades, Ortiz de Pinedo (the man behind *Dr. Cándido Pérez* and *La Parodia*) has been the grandpa yelling at a cloud of political correctness. He’s built a second career ranting against “censorship,” claiming that modern audiences have lost their sense of humor. He famously calls anyone who gets offended a "lacras" (a social blight).
This week, however, the meme matrix cracked. A clip resurfaced of a 1990s skit where Ortiz de Pinedo, in full character, delivers a joke so profoundly outdated that it looped back to being accidentally brilliant. The joke? A pun so terrible, so physically painful, that it triggered a wave of "Dad-Joke Apocalypse" memes. The internet didn't get angry—they got ironic.
**The Meme Format:**
The viral template uses a screenshot of Ortiz de Pinedo’s classic "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed" facial expression. The caption format is:
**[Person A]: "You have to respect people's pronouns!"**
**[Image of Ortiz de Pinedo, deadpan]: "And you have to respect my right to tell a terrible, unfunny pun in 1992."**
**The Deep Cut:**
Meme historians are in a frenzy. The twist is that Ortiz de Pinedo **won**.