Sentence examples for half the joke from inspiring English sources

That's half the joke; Asian guys trying to be cool like black guys".

To remake Twenty Twelve after the Olympics had passed off so successfully would be to lose half the joke.

Half the joke is that Ester pronounces the name Mam-may, and pretty much everyone in the audience knows that David Mamet's surname rhymes with "damn it".

Olesker and Gonzalez bring the community to life in a series of flashbacks and cutaways, the fast pace of which (scene change; punchline; scene change back again) is often half the joke.

"Half the jokes were about Barbie as a bad role model for girls, and the other half were about how ugly the spokesmodel was," he said.

Ella the barmaid, "bright and pert and neat", copes with the boozers and the bores, and is the recipient of "half the confidences, half the jokes, half the leers".

I wish for captions on the TV, because everyone talks so fast that I miss half the jokes and innuendos.

If half the jokes here lean heavily on retro camp and double entendres, there remain plenty that signal Porter's considerable comic skill.

There was a parallel poll of the worst jokes at the festival, though I have to say I couldn't see much difference between these and about half the jokes in the winners' list.

President Clinton stole the show at the event, but Romano wasn't one of the many laughing: "[U]nfortunately, I didn't get half the jokes".

I remember absolutely nothing of the evening, save for the fact I missed over half the jokes because I was still laughing at the one before.