Sentence examples for goofy joke from inspiring English sources

Signing to Reprise, the band changed their name to the punchline of a goofy joke ("What's purple and goes buzz-buzz?") and released a single, Ain't It Hard (1966), which flopped.

It is very much not a bonfire-of-the-vanities attack on LA celeb culture, neither is it observational satire in the style of Larry David: just one great big goofy joke.

Even as she paraphrased Eddie Cochran on "The Words That Maketh Murder" and sang "What if I take my problem to the United Nations?" – a goofy joke in Cochran's Summertime Blues half a century ago and a bitter one now — an ocean away in New York the UN Security Council was debating what to do about the rebellion in Libya.

As for the name Lemony Snicket, it turns out to have been "lying around, collecting dust," having been part of a "goofy joke" among Handler and his friends that came about when he was researching right-wing groups and religious organizations for "The Basic Eight" several years ago and needed a pseudonym.

I read popular science books written by physicists, tell a goofy joke about Werner Heisenberg, and after I saw Interstellar had to buy the book that explains the physics behind the film.

Cory Arcangel makes a lot of work that seems at first like a goofy joke.

His big head packed full of good thoughts and goofy jokes.

As in "Get Out," he proves as adept with goofy jokes as in stoking fear.

(This last reference is only the first in a long line of goofy jokes).

(He is prone to goofy jokes, and his laugh, an infectious, high-pitched guffaw, is perhaps his most distinctive trait).

The film's tagline teases about finding "new meaning in work-life balance," and many of the goofy jokes hinge on petty details of the spy life.