Sentence examples for comic joke from inspiring English sources

It's a magic-show trick, a darkly comic joke.

Last month a storage company in New York - one of the few pro-choice states left in the country - even made a bleakly comic joke out of it.

And because his choices, which will absurdly snowball into a destiny-altering development, are so relatively minor (like agreeing to a more sophisticated friend's suggestion that he pay another student to serve as his proxy at the college's required chapel sessions), his story reads like an elaborate, blackly comic joke.

Designed by Rem Koolhaas and erected at great expense in late 2001, the Prada "epicenter," as the company refers to it, could have become a blackly comic joke, a paean to extravagance and consumerism that opened three delicate months after 9/11.

The comic joked: "This was one of the hardest roles I've ever had to prepare for.

"CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are 'consciously uncoupling,'" the 51-year-old comic joked in a statement issued by the network.

The veteran comic joked that Bernhard was "the reason for birth control," before then referring to her as a "wonderful guy".

(And the late-night comics joke and laugh and sneer).

No less than Judd Apatow's "Funny People," "This Is the End" speaks a lot of truth about the way comics joke around, or don't, in each other's company, even before people start dying.

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The recent series of high-profile crimes has led to nationwide criticism of the league and made it the butt of late-night comics' jokes.