Sentence examples for on a single joke from inspiring English sources
In a sense, it was based on a single joke.
Do we take the security of the show and rest it all on a single joke and maybe blow everything?
There is a lone exception: his 1994 debut, "Clerks," is a fast, furious, and raucously funny variation on a single joke.
Structure is also dictated by the particular demands of the material to be dramatized: a revue sketch that turns on a single joke will differ in shape from a religious cycle, which may portray the whole history of humankind from the Creation to the Last Judgment.
In 1969, the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured "The Funniest Joke in the World," a documentary-style sketch based on the premise of a single joke being so funny that anyone who hears it will die from laughter.
I have my set: a single joke from The Big Joke Book.
Since we met this morning, we laughed, and I didn't tell you a single joke.
I can spend four hours trying to come up with a single joke" – his books are full of jokes – "and fail to write even one.
I doubt if there is a single joke in the whole play that fits the Japanese.
Admittedly, the latter three shows lack the element that originally gave Variety its name – the sense of not knowing what might come next – because they focus on a single discipline: joking, dancing, singing.
