Sentence examples for make a joke at from inspiring English sources

Mr. Huntsman even seemed to make a joke at his own expense.

When I was a kid, it was impolite to make a joke at the expense of somebody else.

The point of including the announcement was to make a joke at Ed Miliband's expense, about King John.

If Mr. Obama was tempted to make a joke at the Secret Service's expense given the prostitution scandal in Colombia, he resisted the urge.

He was smart company, a big personality intensely interested in current events, who could puff himself up, but just as easily make a joke at his own expense.

Senator Edwards used his Spanish to make a joke at Mr. Bush's expense -- perhaps inspired by another race, the recall in California in which the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor.

In one of those last autobiographical stories, Munro makes a joke at her own expense.

Sometimes he does this to indicate the character's attempt at levity — Guru Pitka making a joke at someone else's expense rather than Mr. Myers making a joke at Guru Pitka's — but the distinction hardly matters.

The singer branded Clarkson "homophobic" and "pig ugly" after the presenter made a joke at his expense.

Was my mother making a joke at my expense, naming me Ohbe Blank, as in "Oh be blank"?

Madonna, who holds the title, tried to pay Mr. Gervais back after he made a joke at her expense based on her old hit "Like a Virgin".