Sentence examples for joke is over from inspiring English sources

Krol's joke is over his narrator's head, which is cheating.

"It looks cheap, and the joke is over in about four seconds," Ms. Foster said coolly, running her hand over the car-shaped bed's plush red taillights.

To which the man replied, "In the morning, the boarders, one by one, will go into the bathroom, and will come rushing out, exclaiming, 'There's a horse in the bathroom!' I want to be able to say, 'Yes, I know.' ☝ Gunfy, in his "Laughter Considered as a Joint Disease," holds that the letter "W" is not essential to the beginning of a joke, so long as it comes in somewhere before the joke is over.

Everything we watch these days is an ironic throwback to something else, and the joke is over.

Every sequel that came out for every other movie, it was like: 'Oh my God, are you kidding me?' Then my joke was over, because he did the movie.

"Then the joke was over, the ritual complete.

"The time for jokes is over," he said.

But he was clearly the best player at the silly "Match Game"; contestants were always choosing him as their foxhole teammate — when it came right down to it, the jokes were over and it was time to win some money.

This left me with doubts - maybe there aren't enough bits that are really funny, maybe the jokes are over-complicated and sound more like crossword clues than gags.

Pretend not to get their jokes, be over-protective, even monopolize their time.

"But after Katrina, the joke was over, really.