Sentence examples for explains a joke from inspiring English sources
He knows exactly when to cut something off, and he never explains a joke.
Hurley and his crew cross the road to not just explain a joke, but explain all jokes.
Of course, to verbally describe a cartoon is to explain a joke, defuse it, ruin it.
(You can almost hear the rush of deflation when someone pauses to explain a joke).
Trying to explain a joke has long been considered a paradigm of pedantic futility.
As Charlie Brooker wrote this week, if you explain a joke you spoil it.
They say that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: The frog dies in the process.
And the mayor, not for the first time, found himself explaining a joke he had made on a sensitive matter.
But when someone doesn't get the joke or feels offended by it, it's a lose-lose situation, because you can't explain a joke.
Situating Kafka in history can have the unfortunate quality of explaining a joke: even if it doesn't spoil the effect, it still seems mostly beside the point.
