Sentence examples for extended jokes from inspiring English sources

Your body pulled all sorts of tricks on you when you turned sixty, and now he was seventy-four, so those tricks were less like pranks and more like extended jokes.

She added that people use the apps to share stories, as well as "extended jokes and ideas and theories and all this stuff I miss about talking to my friends from my college days, before life got crazy".

As one academy curtsied before another, therefore, literary history began one of its extended jokes: the first 20 years of the Nobel Prize.

This local rapper is a hard-core formalist: on "All of the Above" (Coup d'État), he builds rhymes from extended jokes and unexpected tricks.

I worry that the service will descend into a ratings site for extended jokes, rather than quality poetry (and that appears to be happening already), because that's what people tend to rate higher.

Some (like Katie) appear sharper than others, others dumber (Linda), but they're all punch lines in an overly extended joke.

Lars von Trier – him of the genital mutilation (Antichrist) and the extended disability joke (The Idiots) – knows how to push our buttons.

I hesitate to offer further description, since any attempt to characterize this film in conventional terms — as a father-daughter story, a feminist satire of corporate behavior, a fable of global capitalism, an extended practical joke — would be woefully insufficient.

Reluctantly, Wakefield took to the mound — and within a few short years, as if by some kind of extended practical joke, there he was on national television in 1992, the rookie ace, in young Charlie Zink's living room, winning two games in the playoffs.

Reluctantly, Wakefield took to the mound and within a few short years, as if by some kind of extended practical joke, there he was on national television in 1992, the rookie ace, in young Charlie Zink's living room, winning two games in the playoffs.

In what is actually no more than an extended "boner joke," the ad is well produced, has an homage to the Tubes song "What Do You Want From Life?" and is nothing short of hilarious.