Sentence examples for set a joke from inspiring English sources
Early in each set, a joke doesn't get what it deserves, because this audience is so young, and so new to the world.
If you suddenly remember it's only there to set up a joke you cut in draft two, it's worth a lot less.
In one segment, broadcast in January and subtitled by Sam Heller, a researcher and blogger based in Qatar, the satirist even used news of the investigation to set up a joke.
Up until that point, the "Killing Eve" star's monologue set a different tone, with jokes about disapproving Asian mothers and remedies for Asian flush ― making Asians feel seen for perhaps the first time during a major award show.
Why a white woman's discrimination lawsuit against the Getty is no joke and could set a precedent.
I have my set: a single joke from The Big Joke Book.
Rahman begins his set with a joke that's the comedy equivalent of shooting a burning arrow into a rotting building; stunned silence gives way to blushing chortles as the edifice of political hypocrisy takes a very necessary direct hit.
Before introducing the next comedian, Avitable finishes his 10-minute set with a joke about how he wants to replace the n-word with a better n-word: "Nintendo".
("Unless I'm trying to catch a plane," he joked, "then I set an alarm").
Here's what she had to say: "The petition was set up as a joke, to make fun of that Kanye one last year which received 130,000 signatures, and reduced someone who's been a constant innovator in music over the last decade to ' talentless'.
Like everything Stephen Colbert does on television, it's set up as a joke.
