Sentence examples for a butt of jokes from inspiring English sources

Only the most aged comedian would make man-and-bag a butt of jokes.

Proposed cars that didn't pan out included a motorized margarine tub and a giant pantyhose container that might have become a butt of jokes.

With an indictment on the horizon and, perhaps as important, its having become a butt of jokes on late-night television, Andersen discovered it could not keep clients.

His comments have made him a darling of conservative radio hosts, a butt of jokes on television talk shows and a target of criticism from state Democrats.

Mr. Shaw is out of sorts because suddenly, involuntarily, he is a pseudocelebrity, a butt of jokes, and the victim of an executive order stipulating that the deputy mayor for operations fills in when Mr. Bloomberg is away.

And so it remained for decades, a butt of jokes, a rubbish dump, out of sight and mind except when used as a backdrop for Hollywood car races and chases.

However, Obama made that line a butt of his jokes in the State of the Union address.

He was not the first former soccer player with enough leg to place-kick, but his size and accent made the Armenian Cypriot a butt of nervous jokes.

The singing--often by Broadway-trained Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele--is thrillingly first-rate and may account, along with Disney's High School Musical trilogy, for a reawakened interest among teenagers in musical comedy, so long a butt of sitcom jokes.

While beloved in Britain, the cars are also a frequent butt of jokes.

IN TRUTH, even the proudest Belgians are aware that their nation is a traditional butt of jokes across Europe.