"My job in the Security Council will be much easier than answering your questions," joked Power, a former journalist who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the U.S. government's failure to prevent genocide in the 20th century.
If you ask why dictators can't take a joke, you have already answered your own question: jokes, like free elections and a free press, are one of those annoyances that dictators are designed not to take.
If someone answers to your joke to tease you, invent a new joke about him.
If the answer is B) your joke theft might result in your tweet being blocked on copyright grounds — if the original composer of the joke reports your theft as copyright infringement to Twitter.
The worst example is when Kohli asks a member of the audience to answer the joke: "What do you call a black man flying a plane?" When she undermines his leaden-footed point on race by correctly answering "the pilot" he admonishes her for ruining the joke.
To "Our Handsome Uncle Jay -we already miss your smile, your terrible jokes, your answering machine jingles, your tie-swapping, your joyful enthusiasm, your love of family and heritage, and most of all, your keeping your eye out for us always.
Ask television news executives how long they have been planning for the royal baby's arrival, and they're liable to answer with a joke: nearly as long as Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have been.
Some of the commenters, too, tend to answer with jokes or snark, instead of trying to be helpful.
"Some guy called to see if I really answer," Feinberg joked.
Mr. Gore did not answer questions, but joked, "I think we're going to win this game".
But his smile doesn't stop him from asking tough questions: After the Kids Talk team was escorted into Liberia's Executive Mansion, George asked Chairman Gyude Bryant, "Why do people boo you?" Gyude answered with a joke and a laugh.
