Sentence examples for range of jokes from inspiring English sources
It therefore came as a surprise that host Chris Rock introduced the star amidst a range of jokes aimed at an industry that often excludes actors of colour.
That's what we found with Goodness Gracious Me - it was as if someone had opened a door on to a whole new range of jokes that had never been made before".
According to Matt Groening, this was because "With Homer, there's just a wider range of jokes you can do.
Listen to the verbal range of a joke off his first and best album, "Medium Energy" poking fun at a party invitation he received that lists the time as "9-?" He begins to describe the invitation with rhythmic quickness, his mouth close to the microphone.
For close to two hours, Dunham had loosed a big stew of jokes, ranging from goofy to racist and homophobic, but which — delivered by puppets, with Dunham making disapproving faces — managed to feel almost wholesome, and even a little square.
But before the headliner, Avitable, the night's master of ceremonies and first on stage, runs through a series of jokes ranging from auto-correcting texts to LegoLand to the state of Alabama and the petite girls.
Mr. Kunitz said the show's humor appealed to a broad range of ages; the ribald jokes go over children's heads, he said.
To be within range of Nasrallah's rockets?' " he joked bleakly, referring to Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group that fired thousands of Katyusha-type rockets into northern Israel in 2006 when they fought a 34-day war.
He was able to test his jokes on a range of audiences, and the exhaustive schedule and other media commitments influenced the toned-down set for his newest broadcast.
Leaders in the party came under intense scrutiny this year after secret recordings revealed a range of explicitly sexist banter, including crude jokes by Mr. da Silva, the former president, about top female party members.
In The Economist last winter, Gady Epstein explained why "aeons of Chinese footballing ineptitude" have made it "a painful national joke" with the range of explanations that "lead back to the same conclusion: the root cause is the system".
