Sentence examples for a joke through from inspiring English sources

Like his alter ego, Ansari knows that, even in a profane age, a well-placed expletive can help provide the little explosion that pushes a joke through to an applause break.

That soon cedes to the least political part of Cross's set, a half-hour of observational standup that might look conventional on paper (why are there suitcase shops in airports?), but is distinguished by Cross's deliberate way of working a joke through to its absurd apotheosis.

Perhaps this is most clear with a running joke through the episode with white nationalists waving their confederate flag for other purposes than pride ― such as to swat away a bee or cool down food.

Make plans or share a funny joke through e-mail, but always save important conversations for when you can see the person in real life.

How they hold a drink, laugh at a joke, or move through a room," he explains.  .

Jeanne Schabarum makes a joke to get through a bothersome activity: building gingerbread houses with graham crackers, jelly beans, Skittles and pink and white frosting.

There comes a moment in every series when a "joke" dancer ends up going through and a "serious" dancer is knocked out.

A source tells us the pair met around a month ago online, of course, through a joke Musk had planned to tweet but discovered Grimes had already made, dealing with the complications of artificial intelligence.

I put this bizarre behaviour down to their setback a few years ago, when in a live transmission from Glasgow, Robbie Coltraine was half-way through a joke at midnight and missed the bells.

It was as if – and perhaps this too is especially British – a period of intense pain and sacrifice could only be talked around, and even then only through a joke.

Probably the best way to explain what that means is through a joke I put in the newsletter of the Scandinavian Society of Northwest Arkansas (yes, there is such a thing) 10 years ago, when I was the editor: Lena says to her husband, "Ole, you haven't told me that you loved me over the last 40 years".