Sentences with phrase «little joke works»

This little joke works with a lot of kids, but of course, not all.

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Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

«Hard working MEN»... that says it all right there... and the mousey little women walk ten steps behind their men, not saying a damned thing... what a joke.

I'm sure that before long, we'll once again travel and trade without fear, that public services will improve, and that we will even be able to joke about the bad old dayswhen little worked, and when it seemed that no one cared.»

Corresponding leaflets depict Ed Miliband as a snooping «little brother», which must be a joke about something, but I can't quite work out what.

No joke, when I'm bored at work or just need a little distraction, I spend time browsing Piperlime.

We'll I'm a single mother of a beautiful 3 year old little girl I'm very outgoing funny I love to cut up and joke around love spending time with my mom and daughter I do volunteer work on the weekends for the haunted theatre which will open this Friday from 7to 11 I have long red hair big...

Though the humor on the show can be a little too dry at times, and some of the in - jokes are only funny if you've worked in a hospital setting before, it features sharp writing and excellent performances from its cast.

There is very little slapstick (outside of the daydreaming sequences that is), instead working for the jokes.

Note: I've known that special - effects artists have a strange sense of humor and like to put little in - jokes into their work.

Knowing a little about the work and lives of many of the artists may be good to catch the jokes, but I imagine these performances would be fun to watch without any previous knowledge.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

While the extended run time makes Wet Hot American Summer's jokes a little easier to get along with, there are still a few gags that simply don't work.

So many of the lines and performances are played awkwardly big — usually around the central joke of Leonardo adjusting to a life of little means and tons of work — that it feels more suited to a terrible sitcom with lots of mugging for the camera and canned applause from a laugh track.

So much of what actually works here comes from little looks, an occasional throwaway line in what seems to be a screenplay that left plenty of room for the two lead actors to improvise jokes to mixed effect, and the situations that are far shorter than the majority of scenes, like when the son takes his mother to the Grand Canyon after she has spent the entire trip saying she wants to see it.

It was a little bit of a blow to my ego, but everyone was joking about it, so it all worked out just fine..

They will squirm a little with the 1963 late adolescents talking and experiencing life like late adolescents; they will come to appreciate the underside of Soviet / Russian life as experienced by more - or-less ordinary people, who also tell bad Russian jokes; they will learn perhaps more than they ever knew of the way advertising works in international contexts; and will come to see how they, too, are bounced along the edges of history.

While I was working on this book, I used to make a rather lame little joke whenever I started talking about the subject matter.

Tidens Krav's jokes aren't just jokes for the sake of it, but work as little digs or niggles to the accepted systems of the artworld.