Ireland threatens to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia for that country’s refusal to support the GAA’s ban on “foreign games” – while the threat causes much laughter, some of it fatal to older politburo members, Beria the head of the KGB observes that “These Irish may be a force to be reckoned with in the future”. Thus Beria becomes the first ever outright winner of the Moscow heats of So YouThink You’re Funny, when his comments wipe out all of the older politburo members to survive the original threat.

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