Sentences with phrase «funnier than the joke»

Nothing is funnier than a joke about punching children, am I right, pastor?

(This reaction is generally funnier than the joke that preceded it.)

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Joan Rivers was more than just another funny face, one that she joked she'd someday donate to Tupperware.

There is a funny joke that tends to circulate among those who are more than a little beauty - obsessed: The moment we're running late is the moment we attempt a complicated eye look with liquid eyeliner.

Second: No, joking that Menzel is closer to the Super Bowl — because she's singing the anthem — than Johnny Manziel is not funny.

Angela Eagle seemed to find this funnier than anyone else in the chamber, laughing longer and louder than the joke deserved.

The funny thing is she's actually lost weight with her pregnancy, due to illness and her occupation, rather than gaining weight so joke's on them!

It means they have no problems with language and their mentality is already more Western than Russian — don't worry, they will laugh at your jokes (if the jokes are funny, of course).

The best, funniest April Fools Day 2017 pranks on the web — check out everything from fake foods to Google's pretend apps Researchers scoured the web and examined more than 1,000 jokes (including ones from Tommy Cooper, pictured) before whittling them down to a final 50 on

The 31 funniest one line jokes to cheer you up after the US election result Public health experts estimate that the average UK adult consumes 200 - 300 more calories than they need on a daily basis, which they warn can lead to

Even the writers know that their jokes stink, but rather than coming up with a funnier one, they stick with the bad joke and add the trumpet in a self - deprecating, see - we're - in - on - the - joke kind of way.

Touted as a love story, the suggestion itself is a sentiment funnier than 90 % of all the jokes in «Django Unchained» because its dispassionate approach has nary a feeling.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

Yet the execution isn't as funny as it sounds, with the film more concerned with fart jokes than edgy political satire.

Sadly, Bedlam seems to think it is genuinely funny, rather than the actual joke, so some of the humour falls a bit flat in assuming that people want to play the game in the first place.

Full of ideas that are usually more clever than funny — e.g., the running joke satirizing lack of communication between men and women by having the characters speak jibberish, generic phrases, or different languages — but it should prove interesting and inventive enough to keep smart people watching to the end.

Smith seems to be lampooning that motivation more than endorsing it, but as with so much of the rest of the film, the jokes just aren't funny.

With funnier jokes, better animation and more inspired references, this entertaining sequel is considerably superior to the first movie, boasting also a sweet message about love transcending all differences and characters much more charismatic now than ever before.

These guys an be very funny and they go above and beyond to sell their zany jokes and larger - than - life characters, best typified with Hefferman (Sky High).

This movie is a mixed bag on one side is Kevin Hart mostly improvising which give most of, if not all of the film's funny dialogue, he also shares good chemistry with Ice Cube, on the other side the scripted jokes, are most of the time well lame, this fun to watch now than most of the movies are ****

The visual style of the film impresses, it's just that the jokes never quite catch fire like they should — they are more funny in the mind than in the gut.

I can't imagine that May Pols» real life experience was this tangled up in the shenanigans of a live - in boyfriend, stoner roommates and post-pregnancy action (seriously, there are more cougar jokes here than in Cougar Town), but then this is a sitcom, not a reality show, and Elfman is funny and sexy even when she's going into labor.

and the jokes don't get any funnier than that; Down with Love makes so many miscalculations about its cast and premise that its theatrical release concurrent with The Matrix Reloaded doesn't seem so much «counter-programming» as «hide the evidence.»

It's certainly not unentertaining and is actually quite funny (it certainly has a better ratio of jokes to not - jokes than the more recent Marvel movies).

And when I speak of the jokes that work I mean primarily the ones that are spoken rather than the physical comedic stunts like falling out of a tree which is, well, honestly not funny.

Not much more than an in - joke between the actors, this film is amiable but never funny.

prove only slightly funnier than the piss, shit, puke and fart jokes that surround them.

Another modern «comic» who rather than making clever and funny jokes spends their time taking mean spirited shots at other people.

Add to that a script full of successful jokes and memorable scenes like Billy's hilarious dodgeball game on his first day of school, and you've got a movie that's funnier than it should be.

Coogan, generously, is happy to play straight man, and gives the best lines and jokes to his co-star, who's looser and funnier than we've seen her in a long time.

The emphasis on food also lead to some scenes which simply misfire - a recurring joke about Oliver's father's coddle - is more disgusting than it is funny.

The Buzz: As with every other Murphy comedy released since... oh... 1985, the jokes are broad and offensive more often than actually funny — but Murphy's nothing if not an old pro, and you can count on his delivery being good for at least a handful of chuckles.

A few jokes about a torture room might cause some parental squirming but taken as a whole, Minions is a much smarter and funnier film than most would expect.

Despite all his funny jokes, he ends up being more than the comedic relief.

Not that you'd really want it any other way, as you know you're going to get more jokes per minute than nearly any other comedy out there, and one of the funnier deadpan comedic actors in Leslie Nielsen (Nuts, Soul Man).

Luckily, the opening scene is brief despite being clunky, and it passes into a sweeter, genuinely funny film that's more interested in the people telling the jokes than the jokes themselves.

The film's opening sequence is perhaps the funniest stoner - related prank in the history of movies, but it takes a lot more than just one joke to develop a solid comedy.

The film is a good half hour longer than its prequel, meaning there's more opportunities for jokes even if a good hour of the film isn't particularly funny, but having an hour of your comedy not work is never a good thing.

While it is true there's more than one way to be funny, Deadpool 2 is not particularly so, and it contains some of the sort of material that should have been rubbed out of cinema by 2018 (a prison rape joke in a studio film isn't «politically incorrect» so much as it is tasteless).

Ironically, we can understand more often than not as to why Brooks» jokes aren't really funny to them, since they aren't very funny to us, the ones that actually get the joke, either.

It certainly doesn't seem all that clever, and most of the jokes are pretty juvenile, but it's a heck of a lot funnier than the first trailer we saw.

There's a scene where Pincus goes off on politically incorrect riff on the Chinese that really isn't funny, but because Gwen thinks he's joking, and laughs, it becomes a far more disarming scene than it might have been.

The jokes were definitely funny, but it felt like writers / directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore had taken the time to come up with tangible situations and worthwhile conflicts rather than going generic and loading up on filthy language.

Furthermore, the carnival of 1960's - era jokes, all are cued by an endless soundtrack of overplayed songs from the era, are the easy, low - hanging fruit that were more funny in the «Austin Powers» series than here.

It's never shocking, never anything more than a chuckle's worth of funny as it struggles to mine some laughs out of how obnoxious the French are (and isn't the mocker unable to let a mediocre joke die the more obnoxious?)

In contrast to the first Deadpool, from which I remember the lame Rosie O'Donnell joke more than anything actually funny, the sequel's whiffs are less memorable than its hits.

Some of the jokes are just plain unsettling (there's a running joke about «child molesterers» — not a typo — that comes across as more unpleasant than amusing), but for every awkward and squirmy wisecrack there's a comedy goldmine (the cameo by Waititi as a local preacher is one of the funniest scenes in years).

The joke relies on how funny these two actors are, rather than the crutch of how vindictive women are with each other.

is genuinely funny, with Gosling displaying flawless comic timing among his myriad abilities, and superbly acted by all; and it deserves attention for the way it takes its potentially one - joke idea into a more interesting and thoughtful direction than anticipated.

After raising toast after toast to a new lifestyle of celibacy — with drink after drink accompanying it (Setting up the joke, in this case, is actually funnier than the payoff)-- her protestations are for naught, and she awakes the next morning to find herself naked in bed with the man (Joel McHale) who just recently fired her.