But Harris' efforts were met with lukewarm reviews, as his generally tame jokes fell flat with the star-studded audience.
Do market considerations govern Prince's choice of relatively tame jokes, in genres where the best tend to be the dirtiest?
Sororities display banners on their houses as well, but often with much tamer jokes, virtually none of which are sexually suggestive. .
Who tells the tame, dirty joke.
McDonnell began with a shout-out to Thomas Jefferson, praise for the president, and a self-deprecating joke (tame to the point of tranquilization) about how his sons were hoping he'd be quick, so that they could watch SportsCenter.
But no matter how tame the alleged rape jokes in the new series from "Damn!
At first their jokes were relatively tame.
The problem is that, under Sandberg's direction, the clients — gays, the wealthy, the elderly, mothers, Lithuanians — are one-dimensional clichés, and the jokes are too tame.
Long before she learned more about focus during her 1994-96 City Hall stint managing a staff of 600 and a construction budget of $600 million, she was, no joke, a horse tamer, which was all about focus.
There are a few amusing gags about "mixed marriages" in Hotel Transylvania 2, but the script by Sandler and Robert Smigel (the genius behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog) is surprisingly tame, with lots of selfie jokes that won't be funny in a few years.
