Sentence examples for appalling joke from inspiring English sources

Once for saying that he wished he could have assassinated Margaret Thatcher – "an appalling joke".

It is, as the author remarks in a typically appalling joke, "the straight dope".

Challenged on this remark about Lady Thatcher by a member of the audience, Mr McDonnell said: "It was an appalling joke.

An intellectual who shared Mr. Goldberg's sense that Ketziot was an appalling joke from which neither could escape, Mr. Hijazi seemed to Mr. Goldberg an appealing and unusual adversary.

But while Bond girls are impossibly glamorous, Rocky's squeeze, Adrian, is a chronically shy, spectacle-wearing pet-shop assistant, seduced by his appalling jokes.

There's comic poetry from Tim Key (Town Hall, Sun), and a solo show from US anti-comedian Neil Hamburger (Taibhdhearc Theatre, Sun & Mon), whose deliberately appalling jokes are at first baffling but utterly hilarious.

And he will do this in the strong intellectual conviction that there is intrinsic value in abhorrent, appalling jokes, if they make people think, and that, as long as you have rigorously analysed the purpose of saying something, there is nothing that cannot be said.

They seem to respond well to a few of your less appalling jokes and don't seem to be completely repelled by your existence.

The script was entirely satisfactory: the storytelling was brisk, the jokes appalling, the characters familiar.

The following day he totally blew a gasket, saying that Ed Balls' description of Liam Byrne's "there's no money left" note as a joke was "frankly the most appalling thing I have heard in this election campaign so far".

The horrors of appalling magic tricks, dodgy jumpers and the terrifying world of 'Dad Jokes' await.