Sentence examples for proper joke from inspiring English sources
Occasionally we come up with a proper joke by accident and we almost apologise.
For a proper joke, it was hard to beat Cameron's claim that he would have really liked to attend the BBC debate, but that it was unfortunate that he had not been invited.
Add in the fact that no comedian with 30 years in the business can ever truly be without material, and £5 for an hour in a small room with Skinner as he meanders from thought to thought via the odd jibe at an audience member and even the occasional proper joke looks like a bit of a bargain.
They're not proper jokes".
Tell us a joke NF You stop hearing proper jokes when you're a comedian.
It may be the nature of online polls that puns win out over proper jokes.
Expect more incisive analysis of where the country is going so spectacularly wrong, accessorised as always with colourful imagery and lots and lots of proper jokes.
He has quite a classical approach to stand-up: there are no confessions of personal foibles or attempts at hard-hitting satire, just acres of proper jokes of the kind that won't date.
That has more to do with the vagaries of fashion than any change in the quality of what he's put out: Parsons has been a consistently strong exposer of bullshit and a plain-speaking truth-teller through his entire career, and always services the polemical side of his stand-up with plenty of proper jokes.
"I am retiring from swimming and starting a proper job," he joked.
