Sentence examples for joke use from inspiring English sources

If you have an inside joke, use it when it fits the situation.

Does the joke use a simple, common setting or a more absurd setting?

("What's the best doubles team?" the joke used to go. "McEnroe and anyone else").

"How do you spot a goth?" the old joke used to run.

A joke used to the make the rounds here before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

"The old joke used to be: 'How do you shut a guitar player up?

The joke used to be that the company's cars were driven exclusively by people's fathers.

"God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" is the not-very-funny joke used often by church leaders.

(The joke used to be "death and taxes". Now, in Tory-speak, it's debt and taxes).

"The joke used to be," Mr. Ware said, "that 90percentt of all church bulletin articles used to be written by A. N. Onymous".

Mr. Schiller just cracked a joke using a curse word at people who said Apple couldn't innovate anymore, and the crowd erupted in cheers.