The phrase "a joke based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the foundation or inspiration for a joke, indicating that it derives from a specific idea, situation, or context.
Example: "The comedian told a hilarious story that was a joke based on his experiences traveling abroad."
Alternatives: "a joke derived from" or "a joke inspired by".
There is even a joke based on the name of the BBDO ad agency.
She wrote a joke based on the premise, but felt it was too personal to perform.
It's partly a joke based on the conceit that two of the options are plainly ridiculous.
The idea came together partly because of a joke based on a fictional character called Shrimpy that the two created.
Kickoff for the 2014 MIT Mystery Hunt was held in Kresge Auditorium on Friday, January 17 at noon, masquerading as the 33rd Annual Conference on Maturing Young Scientific Theories: Emerging Resolutions for Yielding Heuristic Unphysics using Noncomputation Techniques, featuring a plenary talk by John Galt (a joke based on the writing team's previous name of [the entire text of Atlas Shrugged]).
A number of these characteristics can be connected to the acusmata (Arnott 1996, 583), e.g., the lack of bathing may be a joke based on the acusma that forbids the Pythagoreans from using the public baths (Iamblichus, VP 83), Antiphanes (fr.
This gave rise to a clever joke based on a multilingual pun.
Neither of these genres are so much of the moment but let's just say that I imagine Mr. Legs is a group of guys that grew up together in Upstate New York and that their name derives from a private joke based on a lanky individual who used to hang out at their local swimming hole.
He came up with a pseudonym, Malath Aumran — an inside joke based on family nicknames — and came up with a portrait for Twitter and Facebook that was a composite photograph of 32 men.
I know he was kidding, but it was a cheap joke based on silly stereotypes and has no place in an otherwise witty, astute piece.
A simpler joke, based on the Bush Dunce model, is used.
