Sentence examples for stand-up joke from inspiring English sources

That stand-up joke opened a "Seinfeld" episode in 1994: "These guys are going, 'No, I'm focusing on melon.

A Magritte painting such as the reverse mermaid [Collective Invention, 1934] is like a stand-up joke.

Schumer's comedy has come under criticism lately for what the Guardian called a "blind spot about race," and she recently apologized on Twitter for an old stand-up joke about Latino men.

It's like that old stand-up joke, "If your cat suddenly runs out of the room, you'd better get the @#! out of there too!" With over sixty films, and a range that tells us that he's "always looking for the next adventure," how does Willem Dafoe feel about the nature of film currently?

His opening stand-up jokes display as much love for wordplay as for argument.

He tells a few stand-up jokes and swaps barbs with theatergoers.

His golfing partner, Bob Iritano, smiled gamely, looking as if he was accustomed to hearing his famous friend crack stand-up jokes.

Mr. Rock's fans, who'll recognize some of his stand-up jokes in Lance's routines, are going to want a movie with the same acidulous funkiness that he brings to his stand-up, and they won't find that.

Over the course of the novel his characters' minds canvass Tolstoy, Kafka, Lee Morgan, the enduring mass entertainment appeal of certain forms of racial stereotyping (no matter how many old cartoons and movies are censored) and ill-advised stand-up jokes written in stilted, American Psychiatric Association paper-abstract format.

For now it sounds like a bland stand up joke without a punchline: "What do you call a lesbian, crossed with a straight man, crossed with a faggot, crossed with a feminist, crossed with a homophobe, crossed with a motherf...".

"Will the real Satoshi Nakamoto please stand up?" joked Mark Williams, an executive-in-residence at Boston University's business school and a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve.