The two brothers have a private joke in which they call Zoya, the book's sexual standard-bearer, "the Americas".
There's an old police joke in which a constable injured in a riot staggers back through the ranks for treatment.
She calls the statues "a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and replaced by Mickey Mouse".
Unless they're like the little boy in the joke, in which case they'll take one look at the plate and scream, "Aaaaaeeeeeehhhh!
There was an old joke in which a man said that when he died he hoped to be buried in Chicago, so that he could continue to vote.
In a wonderfully choreographed bit, a member of the Order of Malta, a religious group, tells a joke in which the Virgin Mary is the (mild) punch line.
There is a tart running joke in which the main character, a pompous poet called Jesper Humlin, cannot move for friends and rivals writing crime fiction for profit.
He then quotes an old joke in which a little boy says: Somewhere, underneath all that horse manure, "there has to be a pony".
Sean Penn is refusing to apologise for a controversial Oscars joke in which he joked about Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu's immigrant status.
Unless, of course, his recruitment to Today was an elaborate April Fool's joke, in which case this blog will be rather shorter than I anticipated.
The opposite of the quiet, contemplative activity ornithology is supposed to be, this may well be the joke, in which case it's the only one.
