Sentences with phrase «jokes on stage»

I would be embarrassed if I heard an amateur comedian tell some of these jokes on stage.

Eric Jackson, a former PayPal executive, joked on stage at a conference about what it's like to be a libertarian - leaning conservative in Silicon Valley.

Sure, it's still a black - tie affair, but unlike the Oscars, celebrities mill around during commercials, joke on stage and give the whole ceremony a looser, more laid - back vibe — this year Questlove even DJ'd live onstage instead of having an orchestra provide the soundtrack.

Donald Glover, who won two Emmys including best comedy actor for his FX show «Atlanta,» joked on stage, «I want to thank Trump for making black people number one on the most oppressed list, he's the reason I «m up here I think.»

«Saturday Night Live» cast member Sasheer Zamata tells as joke on stage as she hosts the SXSW Film Awards ceremony Tuesday, March 14, 2017 © Photo by Matt Carey.

«I love Elisabeth Moss, I call her my favorite slut,» Ann joked on stage, before clarifying she meant «in the show».

Streep joked on stage, speculating on the public's response to her latest win.

Check out the awesome talk and watch John's face light up with glee as he does a LITERAL dad joke on stage.

Total - Warhammer, I guess it'll be all over Reddit today after this was joked on stage.

Google's president of engineering Dave Burke joked on stage about the negative reaction to the volume controls introduced with Lollipop, and that's a major understatement.

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Her charismatic appearance on stage not only gave the dad - joke peppered event a little more oomph, but it also underscored a bigger conversation we've been having in the tech industry about diversity, strong role models and which companies have been taking a leadership position in that area.

They don't try to «keep people interested» by telling needless stories, making jokes, or doing a dog and pony show up on stage.

Kind of like taking a flag and shoving it down every other counties throat because in a nations own diluted mind they think they are the best, when on the world stage they are looked at like a joke.

In comedy, the humour always flows organically out of the persona on stage, so preachers shouldn't worry about trying to fit in jokes.

But they would forget all about it when the next speaker bounded up on stage and started off with a witty joke about falling asleep in the padded pews during long, meandering, pointless stories from untrained preachers.

As we all know, Scottish football is a joke, but it's nice to see a talented footballer not insisting on Champions League football, leastwise not in the group stage.

But it's a joke to put it down on him or to imagine that someone else can at this stage of the proceedings do anything.

That was one joke told on stage by comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan.

Skelos, who was seated on stage along with Silver, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and AG Eric Schneiderman, seemed to enjoy the joke — or at least faked it well, laughing quite heartily.

How did a Chinese immigrant who once studied neurotransmitters in fruit flies wind up on stage telling jokes at the expense of the second - highest ranking U.S. official?

Wacky, prop - laden comedian Gallagher rollerskates on stage, waxes philosophically about shoes and then jokes about coming of age in the sixties.

Cracking jokes, gamely putting on a pirate costume and even doing shots of whiskey on stage, Heughan seemed far from the shackles of his character but just as appealing to fans.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

These self - conscious doubts about the value of marks on paper are in considerable contrast to the self - congratulatory tone, typical of a Coen Brothers film - the sense that the audience is being permitted, at a relatively late stage, to admire a dense web of private jokes.

There are some flourishes that nod to the genre Spy is satirizing, and the requisite action setpieces are staged capably enough, but usually with a clear focus on jokes over visual refinement.

I can't believe something would come between us,» Chris Evans joked when joined Feige on stage.

Bernardo is a very charming presence on stage, joking how she had to have a glass of red wine with her to calm her nerves.

Daniel Mecca, The Film Stage Too often the filmmakers rely on lowest - common - denominator prison rape jokes and lazy plotting to allow for action - comedy set pieces, resulting in a poorly - constructed scene at a White Supremacist stronghold and a sloppy third act that feels like an afterthought.

Somewhat amusingly, Oscar writers were so sure that «You Haven't Seen the Last of Me» would be nominated, that they were actually planning a joke involving host James Franco appearing on stage dressed as Cher.

Provided you don't get too blootered, report back early to the BFI Southbank on Saturday and Sunday (August 14 and 15) for a two - day smorgasbord of exclusive clips, blockbuster previews, on - stage Q&A s, surprise appearances, screenings, Kim Newman's Bastard - Hard Movie Quiz, host Chris Hewitt's bad jokes, and tons of spot prizes that are in no way just the old tat lying around the office.

A recurring joke on the Beverly Hilton stage featuring Margaret Cho as a stern North Korean military officer prompted unease on Twitter, with some calling it crass and unfunny.

Daniel Day - Lewis jokes around on stage during a special screening of his new movie Phantom Thread on Saturday afternoon (January 27) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Unsurprisingly, the Comic - Con crowd lost its collective Bantha poodoo at seeing the trio together on the stage, trading banter and making self - deprecating jokes.

Harrison Ford, who was on hand to present the «Hollywood Producer Award» to the team from Blade Runner 2049, received a standing ovation when he took the stage, even after host Corden joked that Ford couldn't stay for long because his private jet was parked out in the middle of the street.

There's a dark, implicit joke here in people who only act fierce on stage being forced to really harness that aggression off of it.

Welcoming the audience, Fry paid tribute to Dame Helen joking that the actress - who has played the Queen on stage and screen - has «this year brought her grandson along.

Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan joke around on stage at the Black Panther press junket on Tuesday (January 30) at the Montage Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, Calif..

Read on... Visually inventive director Nicholas Stoller, working with talented newbie screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, stages an impressive bacchanal, filled with pranks, debauchery, slapstick violence and repeated jokes about smoking pot and penis size.

«Most of the jokes that might have seemed jolly fun on stage now appear obvious and even flat.

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).

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) may sound like a one - joke contrivance — a rich, generous, arts - loving heiress in 1940s New York City gives private recitals to a select group of high society insiders who never let on to the oblivious woman that she is quite possibly the worst singer to ever trod a stage — but it is both a true story and an unexpectedly tender, touching movie.

Joe Quesada, Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment joined Gregg on stage, and they joked about how the character Coulson was «missing» from Thor 2 and Cap 2.

Kinda reminds me of the old Seinfeld joke, about going to a «Comedy Conference for Aspiring Comedians», going up on stage, and putting up two words up in big huge bold letters: JUST WORK.

While Kimmel may have offered the prizes as a joke about the length of acceptance speeches, he went to the trouble of bringing a real jet ski on stage and even roped in Dame Helen Mirren as a way to show off the prize like one of Barker's Beauties.

Crisp cold combatted by cosy wine taverns, festive carollers on wooden stages, wizened elderly Germans sharing a hot chocolate and a joke, Christmas markets are for kids, aged one to ninety - two.

Apparently, he was a mess before he went on stage to perform his magic tricks and wonderful jokes — but you'd never have guessed it!

«I think I broke my record for not telling any jokes or speaking on stage,» Fadem told me the week after the performance in a phone interview.

That wasn't a joke when I said on stage that people on the team were playing with that thing and spending shitloads of money.

Somewhat pointlessly, they also store all the stickers you've ever sent on Facebook (I have no idea why they do this, it's just a joke at this stage) pic.twitter.com/4F 5sExbynf

This was Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference and here's Craig Federighi dropping pot jokes to introduce the newest «latest greatest tech thing ever» on stage.