Sentence examples for dire joke from inspiring English sources

A dire joke to lift spirits and tickle ribs "On a sports related topic: What's brown, lives in a tree and can't sing?" chortles Jonathon Martin.

Long after the Californian sun rose, the Oscar winners and losers were waking up after a night of loud applause and louder frocks, hilarious acceptance speeches and dire jokes.

Via email, a friend joked about how dire London's dating situation must be if I was forced to resort to such drastic measures ("for 'work', sure").

So a newly authoritative and assured Nick Clegg delivered a well-crafted speech (although the jokes are still dire) that laid out an unapologetic account of the past and a bold plan for the future.

The pages jump with verbal jokes and tricks and dire half-rhymed puns ("toque of the devil"—he has to manoeuvre the junkie daughter into an unlikely hat to get that one in).

A low point was reached with a dire Horrible Histories sketch filled with endless jokes about the Bard's surname, culminating in references to "William Shopping-Trolley".

Among the symptoms: coughing, vomiting, gagging, falling down while hallucinating and smiling in the midst of dire situations, as if at some torturous private joke.

Cultural attitudes are different, too: Barack Obama joked publicly in 2009 that his dire bowling skills suited him for the "special Olympics".But attitudes can change swiftly.

The joke was on him, a reference to the dire comments he made after he made another throwing error on Wednesday night.

It doesn't make jokes or lift your spirits when things are dire.

Frontman Dave 1's perma-grinning geekiness is part of the joke, subverting slick pastiches such as Bonafied Love, which samples Dire Straits's Money for Nothing.