Sentence examples for joke barely from inspiring English sources

After a ghastly pause, he stammers and makes a deadpan joke, barely retrieving the situation.

Maybe it's that the theater is in California and not right across the street from where "The Producers" takes place; maybe it's that the Los Angeles audience doesn't get the references to Off Broadway, or that when an exhausted Max suggests a sexless role-play game to one of his randy little old ladies -- "How about the Jewish princess and her husband?" -- the joke barely registers.

As always it was a bawdy and blue affair, with lots of very crass humor at everyone's expense, plenty of bleeping to get past the censors, and plenty of jokes barely on the right side of offensive.

"Jokes barely different from McGill's could casually be uttered between the murders in Shakespeare's tragedies," wrote George Orwell in an essay entirely devoted to the artist and his cards.

You should have bought a flat back then!" he said, in an awkward attempt to include me in some kind of property in-joke, barely able to disguise his incredulity, and the look in his eyes that said he thought I was a total dick for missing the boat in the days when house prices in East London still made even the vaguest kind of sense.

It's a little comic book full of short gags...B.Kliban's sense of humor is sort of Dadaist and a lot of his jokes barely make sense.

And I listened to both the male piano player and a female server at the microphone crack what passed for jokes (just barely).

That the current system is a joke is barely arguable: wealthy growers are paid even in good years, and may receive drought aid when there's no drought.

Immigration enforcement officers referred to that administrative order as "a joke" which barely impacted government policy toward deportations.

In turn, be wary of any date who expects a laugh when he or she cracks a joke but barely blinks when you offer one of your own.

Even Marty Markowitz's jokes could barely elicit a smile.