Sentence examples for mild joke from inspiring English sources

Except for a mild joke pegged to his falling approval ratings, Obama mostly spared Obama during his 14-minute stand-up routine.

I have seen so many shitty things written about Gloria Steinem, just because she said a mild joke about Bernie Sanders.

"The Daily Show" won Emmys, again, but Jon Stewart's most biting remark was a mild joke at the expense of Bob Newhart.

It also includes the production's most evident update, a long and, in the end, mild joke -- Brecht would no doubt have approved of its blunt political stance -- about the unworldiness of President-elect Bush.

The magazine's dominant visual artist at the time was Peter Arno, an East Coast aristocrat, who, in his covers, portrayed the Depression, when he portrayed it at all, as a mild joke.

In his monologue on Thursday, delivered without any sign of stress or unease, Mr. Letterman made a mild joke about Roman Polanski and his arrest in Switzerland on decades-old charges of fleeing the United States after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor.

During their own short speeches they gave outsize laughs at each other's mild jokes and even mimed what the other was saying.

When some actors cracked a few mild jokes about Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev at Russia's equivalent of the Academy Awards in March, they were expunged from the telecast.

The cast is energetic; the direction, by Joe Brancato, is solid; and the insight, that this odd couple is not really all that odd, that grumps are actually faded whippersnappers, simmers below the mild jokes.

Jon Stewart traded mild jokes with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who could not believe that the viewer's choice award, which included "not a single black artists -- and we invented this music!" (Linkin Park won the award).

And these are not the sort of pseudo-reviews – mild jokes about a performer's ego or CV – that are cracked at theatre awards ceremonies to prove what good sports the stars are.