Sentences with phrase «into something of a joke»

In the past few years, Franco's career has turned into something of a joke: his tiresome need to provoke and his unfounded belief that he is a master of all trades means it's all too easy to forget his talent as an actor.

Not exact matches

Instead of buying into the notion that happiness is something we need to pursue out there, let's laugh at the cosmic joke: Happiness has been right here all along, patiently waiting for us.

(go ahead and joke — If you don't factor that sort of thing into your social interactions, then you are asking for something.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

And the problem of artificial photosynthesis seemed like something substantial to throw himself into — challenging enough «so [I] wouldn't be jobless in 10 or 15 years,» he jokes.

It just never seems to rise above a one - joke idea into something of more significance.

The film's plot — while not exactly unprecedented — is weak at times and sits at the back burner to these guys all trying something cool with the jokes, but I would've preferred, in light of the film like Attack the Block, for this movie to try and embed the narrative into the humour a lot more, rather than just make another The Babysitter with more comedians.

Even the film's most shocking moment, in which the party turns into a pantomime of an old and disgraceful practice, is something of a punch line — a demented joke, yes, but also an audacious one.

While the jokes about babes and weed have aged about as well as you'd expect, there's something admirable about the devil - may - care approach the fledgling members of Broken Lizard took with their first big hit, turning a $ 1.2 million movie financed by a retired investment banker into a dorm room staple.

And one of Peele's best jokes is how he turns her parents» stately, well - appointed, safe surroundings into something ominous and loaded with menace and dread.

It's difficult not to watch an interview like that and not be reminded of that Sherlock incident from a couple years ago, wherein co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were talked into reading slash fanfic on stage — and then, of course, there's all the stories you hear about celebrities being presented with graphic fanart of themselves to sign at autograph tables (something usually intended as a joke).

This series has turned a silly joke into something more by giving the character her own playground, where her eccentricities become a part of the fun.

That one is part of a short book series, and I started writing them as a joke, which finally turned into something I really loved!

It was intended to be a tribute to my Canadian heritage on the eve of departing my homeland for an undetermined period of time, but I also joked that if something ever happened on the road and I was robbed of everything I had, I could stumble into the nearest Canadian consulate, show my tattoo, and be offered whatever assistance I needed.

A lot of impressions and previews pegged Divekick as a joke that turned into something more.

Kind of like the modern Doctor Who, it draws on an old property for nostalgia and great jokes but makes it into something that feels modern and fresh.

It can't have been easy to meld Invader Zim - style humor with self - aware gaming jokes and throw them into an atmosphere straight out of the Genesis era, and Arkedo and SEGA deserve credit for developing something that from the start feels fresh and inventive.

The joke is on urban decay: this French street artist uses humour to transform forgotten details of the city into something entirely different.