Sentences with phrase «exploited as a joke»
This is now exploited as a joke - which is defense mechanism in full force.
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In his book, Provine suggests that feigned tickling can be thought of as the original joke, the first deliberate behavior designed to exploit the tickling - laughter circuit.
A subplot involving Wendie McLendon - Covey as a cynical mom and Ellie Kemper as a ninny newlywed gets short shrift, and the wonderful Melissa McCarthy gets mostly jokes that exploit her girth.
The latest «effort» from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, is yet another bottom - feeding cash - grab that exploits current events, ridicules pop culture icons and compromises the integrity of the zeitgeist itself in order to create, oh, one - quarter to one - half of a funny joke within the shortest possible time frame that qualifies as a theatrical release.
The whispering crime fighter was an undisputed crowd - pleaser, but would a solo movie centered around his exploits suffer as it stretched familiar jokes over the course of two - hour spinoff?