Sentence examples for joke shape from inspiring English sources

This structure of a pipe + negating statement is exactly analogous to the classic joke shape: set-up + punchline.

The 82-year-old jokester's shout-outs when Black Rod enters are part of that insane ritual – not exactly Wildean wit, but anything remotely joke-shaped cracks up the Commons.

One wonders if it was Crace's idea of a joke to shape the relationship between Lix and Freda around the most anticlimactic passage in the novel, the prospective kidnapping of a corporate fat cat.

Slovenes joke that the shape of the country looks like a chicken fleeing east, but they actually stood their ground and won a 10-day war for independence in 1991 against demoralized troops from the Yugoslav Army.

Tonight, she teaches us Danish, jokes about her shape, size and practicality ("The only time I've ever found high heels useful is when I was checking my children's hair for nits") and shares globetrotting tales from her travel broadcasts for the BBC.

This is a sort of joke — puppets in the shape of hands, controlled by puppeteers' hands — and also a serious comment on the heart of the story: manipulation.

Structure is also dictated by the particular demands of the material to be dramatized: a revue sketch that turns on a single joke will differ in shape from a religious cycle, which may portray the whole history of humankind from the Creation to the Last Judgment.

His tweets lost the shape of jokes, unless you count "not!" as a kicker.

In May 2013, China attempted to censor jokes about its phallic shape.

When someone wants to tell you a shocking fact, it's often easier for you to take in that information in the shape of jokes.

Eventually, expensive outside broadcasts were swapped for jokes about thingy-shaped turnips and the rest is history-based comedy.