Sentences with phrase «jokes work»

The reason I have written so little is that it's so damn hard to make jokes work.
I would listen to comedy at least an hour a night all through my youth and got very interested in how jokes worked, and what they were.
But for some strange reason, they are so earnest in this film that these otherwise lame jokes work here.
This little joke works with a lot of kids, but of course, not all.
You need a game development simulation game to make this particular joke work.
The performances were nice (Colin Farrel, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes) and it was wonderful to see the great Belgium city of Bruges on screen, but the plot was a retread, the characters were half - baked and only one out of every 10 jokes worked for me.
Marvel seems to think jokes work best when you run them into the ground.
Some of the crazy hijinks and shock jokes work, some do not.
I will be there opening night, but hopefully they are expanding the possibilities to entertain here, not relying on the exact jokes worked a mere 3 years ago.
As a fan of the show, he knows which jokes work well.
The film's high - density array of insults, references, and jokes works because its target audience — comic book fans especially — has a love for the drama, visuals, and fantasy of superheroes.
The reason that joke works is because we recognize the uncomfortable truth that God seldom answers prayers according to our requirements and expectations.
Vonnegut: Yeah, I can tell when a joke works.
First the NSA came for, well, jeez pretty much everybody's data at this point, and I said nothing because wait how does this joke work
The jokes all work and just like John and myself... (Two Jews On Film), I bet you will give this film... a very high bagel score.
Too few of the jokes work and the plot meanders without direction.
The jokes work, the characters work, and it moves like a freight train.
Some jokes worked great others not so.
But where they do take the jokes work for the most part.
Even more importantly, there would be less of a problem if the movie possessed even a minimal idea of what makes a joke work.
Steve Martin is an inspired casting choice, the jokes work and there is a well - written story tying it all together.
The joke works, in part, because all of these men likely deserve at least one of those outcomes.
This genre has needed deconstruction for so long that almost every joke works.
Of course, not all of the jokes work, and some of the gags fall very flat.
To make the joke work, Romanian actors go through their»80s paces, touching on all of the then - standard tropes and techniques.
Occasionally the joke works (watching a frazzled Jon Lovitz get turned into Hitler takes a loooooooooong setup, but the payoff is great), but more often than not you're left either disgusted with a person getting splashed in the face with cow mucus or confused with why a squirrel - selling Cathy Bates would send travellers to their doom.
Not every joke works, to be sure, but they come along with such zingy regularity that it doesn't much matter.
Not every joke works, and the toilet humor is totally unnecessary, but there's a lot of great material.
Whether or not those jokes work is an entirely different matter.
Father Figures may be largely unfunny, in that few of its jokes work and they are given a vast, 113 - minute expanse in which to not work, but at least Ed Helms isn't playing another...
Father Figures may be largely unfunny, in that few of its jokes work and they are given a vast, 113 - minute expanse in which to not work, but at least Ed Helms isn't playing another aggressively striving, eager - to - please passive - aggressive dork.
In fact, it's hard to imagine any of the jokes working at all without such a good cast, because while Seth Rogen is resigned to his usual shtick (though he does it well), Rose Byrne and Zac Efron deliver some really funny performances.
Your kids won't get most of the references, I'm sure, but more than half the jokes work on a pie - to - the - face silliness that it won't matter whose face gets pied.
It's an ironic target considering the fact that Keaton, Norton and Stone have all performed in comic book movies but because of that subtle irony, the jokes work even better.
It was weird in a perfect way, and just enough Pumpkins to make the joke work without overselling it.
Did this joke work?
So would i, theres alot of people from NZ and AU who cant even play ANY Halo games now, since 343 took over there matchmaking does nt work with certain Internet providers apparently due to some IP address problems, Still hasnt been fixed or even answered, I do nt even want to buy Anniversary because i wont be able to play coop, I think it will still be the same when halo 4 comes out, 343 are a joke
The most significant creative misstep since Tobey Maguire's evil dance in Spider - Man 3 (which was so bad, it warped the very concept of time to make this joke work).
When the jokes work, people smile.
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