Sentence examples for Poorly received joke from inspiring English sources

While presenting the award to Minaj, actress Rebel Wilson made a poorly received joke about police brutality while presenting.

Per usual, the Yes Men and director Laura Nix experience both poorly received jokes and pranks that set the press afire, as well as one case that sparks a legal snafu like none other they've encountered.

And in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte has led the country on a bloody and disastrous war on drugs the topic of medical marijuana has risen to the forefront of the conversation as well... even inspiring poorly received jokes from Duterte himself.

Just when it seemed that the world was ready to move on from a poorly received "Tonight Show" joke that offended Sikhs – and, perhaps, onto President Obama's poorly received "spilled milk" joke from Tuesday's State of the Union address – a man has filed a suit against Jay Leno, the "Tonight Show" host, for what he says are "racist" remarks.

Also sure to cause some reaction, if they make it to air, are the two Trayvon Martin-themed jokes -- like one, from Ross, about Franco's poorly received Academy Awards hosting duties: "Face it, Franco, you and Anne Hathaway had the comedic chemistry of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman".

"Human Nature" was poorly received.

Yet the new computers were poorly received.

These have mostly been poorly received.

The poorly received Goal! trilogy fell between every stool possible.

"It was the most poorly received pilot ever," Davies recalls.

The current production, "The Glass Menagerie," closing today, was poorly received.