I was 16, and the pig had been a poorly-thought-through joke gift from my father.
In the meantime, Turkmen often expressed their disaffection through jokes.
Mr. Lord zips through jokes and sets alike, knowing that to tarry and admire either might ruin both.
Unfortunately, a baby also changes television comedy, forcing writers to tiptoe through jokes and babyproof their story lines.
That said, Spy never clambers on a soapbox, all the more subversive for making its points through jokes.
Many Brazilians still consider a Bolsonaro presidency a remote, even nightmarish possibility, trying to laugh off his rise through jokes.
"Egyptians are quite used to expressing themselves through jokes and humor because that was often the only way to express ourselves".
Mr. Brinkman charges his way through jokes, Biggie Smalls samples, some R-rated language, "turntablism" (by an onstage D.J. named Mr. Simmonds) and cheeky video projections.
We accompany them on raids and patrols, witness their moments of leisure, and hear their own conflicted responses to their experiences, conveyed through jokes, video diaries, poems and hip-hop freestyling.
One way to counter that sense of art only as business is through jokes, not least the one involving the cross-dresser pointing out the emperor's lack of clothes.
Mr. Wilson is frequently profane (cycling through jokes about weight, Viagra and Rogaine), smokes a pipe, carries a fish-skinning knife with a three-inch blade and dons an almost cartoonishly retro wardrobe of knee-high tube socks, bright white sneakers and "Magnum, P.I .-era P.I .-era Tom Selleckrts.
