Sentence examples for joking apart from inspiring English sources

It can be overwhelming, it can be tempting to just pursue the "woodland celebrities" and, joking apart, it can be hard to see the species for the trees.

But joking apart, these are the visitors who can help Croatia's tourism -- a vital support for a new government that has discovered since succeeding the nationalist regime of the late Franjo Tudjman that Croatia is heavily in debt and its economy a shambles.

Joking apart, we didn't take Salford lightly.

Joking apart, isn't García just a man of his time?

Joking apart, part of me empathises with Cowell's lifelong scorn for "musical snobs".

Joking apart, the old system trundled along just fine, so why change it?

It's the longest-standing joke apart from Mornington Crescent, and it's all made up by readers.

I wish I had much more space to take jokes apart, look at their cogs and springs, work out what makes them tick.

As another commenter under my Jimmy Carr review had it: "Taking jokes apart, are we?! Oh, you must be fun at parties…" So where – apart from very low down most people's invitation list – does this leave comedy critics?

She has one excellent gag line, after Dorothy disclaims witchy status: pointing at Toto, Glinda inquires, "Well, is that the witch?" This joke apart, she spends the scene looking generally benevolent and loving and rather too heavily powdered.

Here's a selection of comments about the Edinburgh show: "Breathtaking… Fleet street's very own angel of vengeance" (Guardian); "Scabrous and highly entertaining... a demolition job with jokes" (Independent); "Peppiatt has charm, wit and an ear for comedy – and, jokes apart, this is an important show" (Telegraph).