Sentence examples for botched joke from inspiring English sources

Did You Hear the One About the Politician's Botched Joke?

The comment, he said, was a "botched joke".

CONAN O'BRIEN John Kerry today apologized for his botched joke.

He insisted that it was nothing more than a botched joke, but he quickly issued an apology.

Republicans have been making good on their promise to "beat John Kerry to death" over his botched joke and belated apology.

A virtual conservative Main Street, QubeTV asks its users to "stay on guard" and to submit video clips of the "next botched joke," referring to Kerry's comment about U.S. troops.

Here's what happened: John Kerry was trying to tell a joke, trying to be funny, and he botched the joke.

He could forgive the cast forgetting some lines or even performing drunk, but botching jokes was far worse.

(When you think about it, the entire response to the botched attack has been a bit of a joke. Look at the new TSA regulations: people can't move about a flight in the last hour. What, an attack can't happen in the time preceding the final hour?

And the resolution's botched rollout — when a staff member issued and then quickly retracted a fact sheet that joked about how long it will take to "fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes" — also gave opponents ready-made talking points.

Botched from the very beginning, it has now become viral, and made United Airlines and its "Friendly Skies" tagline a joke.