Sentence examples for specific joke from inspiring English sources

Mr. Provine, who has recorded hundreds of episodes of people laughing, says that some 90percentt of our laughter is not the direct result of a specific joke.

I'm forever trying (fail again! fail better!) to rise to Newman's challenge and articulate what precisely makes a comic or a specific joke special, or awful.

On Wednesday Pandora will add 10,000 clips by more than 700 comedians to its archive, and allow users to sort through them in the same way they do the site's music: by picking a starting place — a comedian, type of comedy or even a specific joke — and then letting Pandora send a stream of similar material chosen by analyzing his or her taste.

I don't recall the specific joke, but it made me smile and calmed me down enough that I could eat my lunch.

The name was meant to be sort of goofy and vague rather than a specific joke on the irony of a cassette label named after something high definition.

"Right now the flavor of the week is making specific jokes about Donald Trump and pussies," Garment says.

Titled "Burning Annie," the film is a soup-to-nuts homage that makes references not just to the original's story, characters and tone, but also to specific jokes and shots, including a straight-into-the-camera narration.

We may make culturally specific jokes that don't land or, even more often, my father will use a phrase I don't know.

She added "In many ways, my job was to create situations where the board guys could be funny, to create a situation that could be funny, and let them go for the actual, specific jokes".

For example, returning to the first example you used, or returning to the themes or even the specific jokes or phrases you began your speech with can give a nice feeling of "closing the circle" to your speech.

Puns, sarcasm, irony and culture-specific jokes are an interpreter's nightmare.