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Connaughton was shell-shocked: his hero had been reduced from White House material to national joke in two weeks.
At the same time, the stresses in the women's lives are played for comedy (and sometimes as an attempt to get two laughs out of one joke — in two episodes early in the series, two different characters are caught outside naked, one in her full birthday suit and one in his birthday pants).
We joke in two different languages, and on occasion we accidentally concoct some witty cross-language puns.
This joke works because you have to interpret the joke in two ways, and the brain is temporarily confused by its inability to draw on usual experience.
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At some level the speakers all deserve a pass on being judged by these private remarks; is anyone among us innocent of having expressed an impure, inappropriate, even racist or sexist remark while thinking ourselves securely among friends, or uttered a joke in one social group that we would never think of uttering in another?
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Turning to the Prime Minister, he joked: "In two years, you have gone from David Cameron to David Brent.
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