Sentence examples for polite jokes from inspiring English sources

"And I get nervous telling people I'm an Episcopalian anymore!" God's Plan had a simple mission — to establish a more egalitarian society on another planet and to spread the message of God's love to unexplored solar systems — but Dom's best efforts to explain it had mostly been met with blank stares and polite jokes.

Even a polite joke can turn sour with a few curse words.

It's hard to start a polite joke while interrupting someone else's story.

In contrast to the well-spoken 23-year-old daughter of a Hampshire baronet before us, demure in leggings and a blouse, commending our applause as being "very polite" and joking about tuning her G-string, her in-song persona is something otherworldly and richly defined.

Be polite, crack some jokes, talk about topics of interest to the group and generally enjoy yourself and help others to enjoy themselves as well.

But alas for the spirit of British bulldog belligerence, the Croydon-based drama student was polite, charming and joking.

"As I always like to say, a well-armed society is a polite society," Parseghian joked.

Many politicians' jokes draw polite laughter simply because of who they are.

Tequila!" If you were straight and white you couldn't say these jokes in polite company without being censured.

Caught in the crossfire of hostile racial jokes, the most polite and community-conscious member of the group, Lena (Dickinson), finally loses her cool.

I try not to listen to him on the radio: he sounds so professional and oddly restrained, and it's strange hearing him being polite and not telling filthy jokes.