Sentences with phrase «elaborate joke about»

Not exact matches

But then when I really thought about it, I concluded that was a pretty elaborate place to go for a practical joke, so I opted to scrap the idea altogether.

«From that small exchange about Red Vines, over the next several weeks they built up an elaborate scaffolding of jokes via text, riffs that unfolded and shifted so quickly that she sometimes had a hard time keeping up.»

From that small exchange about Red Vines, over the next several weeks they built up an elaborate scaffolding of jokes via text, riffs that unfolded and Cat Person New Yorker story debate and analysis: gender, sexism, toxic masculinity and Tinder

Sure, there were two good jokes in there (about Meryl Streep being underpaid, and a gag about John Travolta touching Idina Menzel's face), but the punchlines didn't justify such an elaborate set - up.