Sentence examples for joke potential from inspiring English sources

Not everyone bemoans Yiddish's joke potential.

While Robins routinely travel 65 miles on a gallon of gasoline, they are cherished as much for their joke potential as for their fuel efficiency, to wit: What do you call a Robin at the top of a hill?

Mr. Verbinski swings his stylistic flourishes, which compel him to turn most interiors into haunted houses for their joke potential, and this notion gives the movie a deliriously antic air.

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In an elegant maroon dress, joking with potential clients, Ms. Hurd, 43, brought a spark of color to the manager's office.

I also joked about potential exhumations of Benghazi, IRS, and impeachment hearings.

She said Republicans are already suffering because "even there on Fox, a quasi- or assumed conservative outlet," hosts like O'Reilly are joking about potential candidates like Palin and Trump.

Now, that, my friend, is a powerful combination," Kinky said, and made a joke about the potential for whiskey consumption.

Whittingdale also asked him why, after the media regulator ruled in April that Boyle's joke "had considerable potential to be highly offensive" and breached its broadcasting code, he failed to issue an apology.

As a rule, Aardman scripts are unabashed by puns—"You haven't eaten your primordial soup!" somebody exclaims in "Early Man"—but it's the visual treats, too homely for surrealism but too wacky to be cute, that anchor the films and transfigure the whole world, ancient and modern, into a potential joke shop.

Everything in the world becomes a potential joke, which can be fashioned crisply, neatly, with detached expertise, and then told purely, unmarred by the kind of synthetic personality ("My wife is the kind of woman who . . .") that lesser comedians attempt to inject into their routines.