Sentence examples for jokes work from inspiring English sources

But that's not how jokes work.

He began to learn how jokes work.

But few old jokes work now.

Jokes work to defuse and distract, she has found.

But not all comedians can make rape jokes work.

O.K., so not all the jokes work, and the plot limps a little toward the end.

Jokes worked.

Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio wrote Doloras (1845; "Sufferings"), Pequeños poemas (1871; "Little Poems"), and Humoradas (1886; "Pleasant Jokes"), works that attempted to establish a poetry of ideas.

He also likes a good razz; some of the jokes worked (the one that ended "and an armored car ride to safety when the revolution comes," for example), and others made everybody cringe.

But that's not really how delivery and receipt of jokes works.

While some of Glover's jokes worked, I noticed how uncomfortable he seemed in front of the crowd.