Sentence examples for sake of jokes from inspiring English sources

"All for the sake of jokes.

Jokes shouldn't be used just for the sake of jokes.

Until recently, threesomes on TV were mostly confined to the female-female-male variety, save for those that only exist for the sake of homophobic jokes.

"It's not just a joke for the sake of a joke," Mr. Conlon said.

Prefer jokes about yourself in place of humiliating another person for the sake of a joke.

But Father and Lizzie blow the whole scheme out of the water for the sake of a joke about Mama not speaking to Lizzie if she doesn't marry Mr Collins, and Father not speaking to her if she does.

For someone so young and theoretically still subject to post-adolescent peer pressure, Mr. Cera — a middle child who, when not working in Los Angeles, lives with his parents and two sisters in a Toronto suburb, Brampton — seems remarkably comfortable with the idea of making himself look like a jerk for the sake of a joke.

(But skip the first minute to spare yourself an armadillo sacrificed for the sake of a joke).

Don't just drop a joke into your speech for the sake of having a joke to tell.

("What's a Jedi warrior?" Wilton asks. So that's why McGregor was hired: for the sake of an in-joke).

In the Coen brothers' dispensable 2004 remake, the plotters feign to be rehearsing the same piece though, for the sake of a poor joke, they only have wind instruments.