Sentences with phrase «elaborate joke to»

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I recall trotting out this elaborate academic joke in the early seventies only to have it received gratefully as a needed service.

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.

But then I thought that was a little elaborate for what would ultimately amount to a joke.

Rennie: No Steve, once again it's time for me to go through what have to be, [as] sure any number of readers every single year [may think], which is that they will read some articles and they will say, «Was this some kind of elaborate April Fools» joke?»

Upon news of Cyrus's death, the elaborate house he lives in as well as his considerable fortune are now left to his struggling nephew and his family, broke as a joke after the death of his wife in a fire.

His incapacitation was an elaborate joke — one that took years and years to carry out.

A teaser trailer for a new, previously completely - unheard - of movie arrived on the internet yesterday, and we have to admit that we're stumped: Is Danny McBride actually starring in a bizarrely conceived, 30 - years - later sequel to Crocodile Dundee, or is this some sort of elaborate joke?

The show is everything you'd expect from Judge — the Season One finale, «Optimal Tip - to - Tip Efficiency,» contains what is arguably the funniest and most elaborate dick joke in history — but it's also his most grown - up effort to date.

The tale of an orphan kidnapped by a large - eared giant (the skillfully motion - captured Mark Rylance) has a dreamlike quality that allows Spielberg to stage some of his trippiest, borderline psychedelic imagery, along with some really elaborate CGI - assisted fart jokes.

Even Kendrick, who can sometimes project a latent too - cool - for - school vibe, is committed to the dumbness, and the result is a breezy ninety minutes of jokes intercut with elaborate song and dance numbers, all fueled by a sincere girl - power vibe.

This has to be an elaborate joke, or Ridley Scott talks too much to the press.

In spite of all this, it's also a massive crowd pleaser, filled with some ridiculously fun and elaborate song and dance routines and enough quality jokes to help the audience suffer through the less funny material (again, Wilson, mostly).

A few of the gags and lines are clunky, delivered self - consciously by the cast, but the majority of the picture creates a swirling sense of sci - fi devotion, conveyed with a heartfelt tone that makes Paul feel like an elaborate inside joke most audiences should be able to enjoy.

With the help of her dad Jupiter (Fred Ward, Corky Romano, Summer Catch), an internet millionaire who abandoned her as a baby (no joke), she embarks on an elaborate plan to deceive Mitch.

Maybe you don't want to devise an elaborate hoax for April Fools» Day (see: Google as «Topeka»), but there is another way to get in the spirit of practical jokes — reading, of course!

We have to admit that the release date has not been lost on us, but as you can purchase it on pre-order now (to get a Steam unlock code), it's an elaborate April Fool's Joke if that were the case.

Many of the late artist's raucous installations are like elaborate exercises in trolling: They appear orchestrated to provoke, conjuring the specter of an overactive macho id, preoccupied by cars, power tools, guns, pornography, dick jokes, cum jokes, pussy jokes, religious jokes, junk food, and celebrity.

Approaches to physical comedy in the show include jokes or games that use scale or the medium of the proposal, elaborate systems with humorous elements and outcomes, and working with materials in a way that produces humor in subtle ways.

The fact that her former cellmate compared it to living in Surfer's Paradise has to be an elaborate joke she's playing on A Current Affair and its viewers.