--- title: Cory Booker Endless Dating Coffee Jokes Amuse the Internet description: Cory Booker's nearly decade-long joke about "dating" coffee has resurfaced, much to the amusement of the Internet. canonical: https://time.com/5554379/cory-booker-coffee-joke/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-19T17:41:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:10.061Z og:title: Cory Booker's Longtime 'Dating Coffee' Joke Amuses Internet og:description: He's been joking about it for a decade og:url: https://time.com/5554379/cory-booker-coffee-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt691ad5e85e66772b/698946ed86f68e226c6eb899/cory-booker-dating-coffee-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Cory Booker Holds Campaign Event In Las Vegas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cory Booker's Longtime 'Dating Coffee' Joke Amuses Internet twitter:description: He's been joking about it for a decade twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt691ad5e85e66772b/698946ed86f68e226c6eb899/cory-booker-dating-coffee-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Relationship Timeline: Cory Booker's Been Telling the Same Corny Joke About Coffee for a Decade ## Video: Meet the Democratic Candidates Running for President in 2020 [Watch (HLS stream): Meet the Democratic Candidates Running for President in 2020](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EcGVhn6h.m3u8) (1:17)  _Published 2019-01-18. Meet the Democratic Candidates Running for President in 2020_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 19, 2019 5:41 PM UTC  NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks at his "Conversation with Cory" campaign event at the Nevada Partners Event Center on February 24, 2019 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Booker is campaigning for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks at his "Conversation with Cory" campaign event at the Nevada Partners Event Center on February 24, 2019 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Booker is campaigning for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)Ethan Miller—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 19, 2019 5:41 PM UTC While many people might know that United States senator and [Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker](http://time.com/5518158/cory-booker-campaign-launch/) is an [active Twitter user](http://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/), the Internet recently rediscovered the New Jersey politician’s penchant for the same corny joke about coffee — a predilection so strong that Booker’s actually been telling the same joke for nearly a decade. Thanks to some online sleuthing by writer Anna Fitzpatrick, it’s been revealed that Booker has told the joke, which consists of variations on a bit about Booker “breaking up with sleep” to start “dating coffee” on Twitter no less than 12 times since 2009, when Booker was [still the mayor of Newark](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1910913,00.html). The joke generally riffs on how “hot” coffee is and Booker’s complicated and often tumultuous relationship with sleep, which often includes “fights” and frequent “break ups.” Fitzgerald noted that Booker first started his “dating coffee” joke in May 2009 and last tweeted about it in 2017\. Booker is currently dating actress and activist Rosario Dawson, but given his affinity for coffee, she might want to hide the French press. See all of Booker’s “dating coffee” tweets below. > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107756767000223744) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758387809251329) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758476984377344) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758560690106368) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758626473558016) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758672069816321) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758768182312960) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758883173335040) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107758952010309632) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107759044612096000) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107759092141981696) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107759316382048256) > [](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1107759459458138112) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5554379/cory-booker-coffee-joke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5554379/cory-booker-coffee-joke/"},"headline":"Relationship Timeline: Cory Booker's Been Telling the Same Corny Joke About Coffee for a Decade","datePublished":"2019-03-19T17:41:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:10.061Z","description":"It has to do with coffee and his love life","url":"https://time.com/5554379/cory-booker-coffee-joke/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt691ad5e85e66772b/698946ed86f68e226c6eb899/cory-booker-dating-coffee-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt691ad5e85e66772b/698946ed86f68e226c6eb899/cory-booker-dating-coffee-joke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. 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