Sentence examples for first half of a joke from inspiring English sources

It's sounds like the first half of a joke: what happened when a famed Greek lute player met a post-rock drummer from Melbourne?

I was frustrated but also vaguely amused, as though I were suspended in the first half of an uncompleted joke.

The first half of the PM's joke refers to an incident now largely forgotten outside of political circles, but one that formed the basis of one of the most extraordinary and salacious trials in British political history.

When I was 12, I found them". The second half of the joke forces a radical reinterpretation of the first.

The actress, who was visibly nervous, got through the first half of her monologue with the expected "Star Wars" jokes, including a little jab at her character Jyn Erso's file transferring skills.

The first half of "Nanette" falls more within the boundaries of a traditional special, with jokes about penicillin, identity and growing up "a little bit lesbian" in conservative Tasmania.

The two most interesting features of cartoon and caricature in the first half of the 20th century were the rise of the one-line joke and of the pictorial joke without words, and the enormous diversity of styles of drawing.

MEN, the joke goes, spend the first half of their lives making money and the second making water.

"WHY stick a phone in the freezer?" sounds like the first line of a joke.

They controlled the ball for more than 22 of the 30 minutes of the first half and left cornerback Jason Sehorn joking that the defense struggled to entertain itself on the sideline.

"At first, it was kind of a joke.