Sentence examples for pointed jokes from inspiring English sources
Mr. O'Brien on Wednesday began turning to more pointed jokes about Mr. Leno in his monologue, though the most ferocious attacks came from a seeming bystander, Mr. Letterman.
Whereas last night Mr. Obama often smiled, strangely, at Mitt Romney's pointed jokes without responding in kind, today the president figured out how to mock in return.
The New York Times praised his "satirically pointed" jokes, but wondered if the host didn't risk becoming a "Ricky Gervais tribute band dutifully smashing his guitar on cue".
Others are making pointed jokes that it will be the year '2067' and Captain Marvel and black-led superhero movie, Black Panther, will still be delayed to make room for white, male-led films.
Referring to the pointed jokes made this week by Mr. O'Brien and David Letterman of CBS, Mr. Ebersol said it was "chicken-hearted and gutless to blame a guy you couldn't beat in the ratings".
Others are pointed jokes, like Josephine Meckseper's digital print of an oil rig floating in water that fills the rotunda's base — a reference, perhaps, to the Guggenheim's involvement with Abu Dhabi, where a branch of the museum is scheduled to open in 2013.
Maybe a pointed joke would help?
There is a pointed joke making the rounds of Palestinian politicians here.
"I tend to find casual antisemitism like that more disturbing than a pointed joke, even a failed attempt at one.
Like Loudon Wainwright III, he puts his bitterness in the foreground, usually in the service of a pointed joke with a lefty edge.
The crowd, which had been rustling, burst into warm laughter at a pointed joke intended to remind them of Mr. Huckabee's earnest underdog campaign.
