He connects stuff up – words, jokes, memories, opinions – very, very quickly, as quickly as if he were in the grip of madness.
They may appear to be mere words – jokes or slips of the tongue; but they set the parameters and the tone of the debate.
Finnegans Wake, a torrent of words, jokes, literary references, scraps of songs, place names and puns in several languages, has a reputation in Ireland much like Proust's À La Recherche du Temps Perdu – much picked up, much put down again.
That's a funny use of the word "joke" — funny strange, not funny amusing, as that joke was not.
"So, I wrote a two-word joke which was: 'Dwarf shortage'.
That's a funny use of the word "joke"—funny strange, not funny amusing, as that joke was not.
Carr, who was promoting of his greatest hits tour, told viewers he had once come up with a two-word joke.
During a two-hour interview here, she talked about whether she missed Washington ("a little"); explained, in short phrases, her positions on firearms; and made a sly one-word joke ("wasteland") about one of her least favorite places.
"When Olof scores two against you, you think you're having o laff," (geddit?) was his Wildean sign-off, which might have benefited from the word "Joke" in big letters appearing on our screens.
Ofcom has launched an investigation into the comedian's comments, made on the show during a promotion of his Greatest Hits tour, in a gag to viewers about how he had once come up with a two-word joke.
