Sentences with phrase «of joke on»

No - one will ever again, John Cooper QC says, have to go through what Paul Chambers went through as a result of a joke on twitter

I passed another sad sort of joke on to Haeberli, this one told to me by Thompson.

They are kind of a joke on those classical works but they looked so great next to them.»

No really, is this some sort of joke on the movie going public?

But the astronomical flashback isn't without a measure of wit as well; the sheer scope of it is a kind of joke on the impossibility of storytelling.

The movie is such a massive decline that it must be some kind of joke on the part of any combination of director Paul Weitz (perhaps a subversive plan to kill a franchise he was not a fan of with his first (and let us hope only) entry), writers John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey (the former, maybe, enjoying steady work with the series after the success of the first movie; the latter possibly assuming he could coast on the coattails of his partner), and / or the cast (if we go with the hypothetical assault on the audience's sense of dignity, no doubt laughing themselves silly at the sight of the paycheck).

The loyalty of iPhone users has been the butt of the joke on tech blogs and in dinnertime conversations for years.

They say it increases potency and if you mention that you're eating celery here people will make a lot of jokes on you...

In the history of boxing's heavyweight division, never has a fighter fallen faster, and farther, than did Liston in the 15 months it took Ali to reduce him from being the man known as the fiercest alive to being the butt of jokes on TV talk shows.

Subjected to the cruel lottery of a penalty shoot - out after settling for a stalemate at the end of normal time, new Arsenal man Granit Xhaka fluffed his penalty to send Switzerland out of the Euros and eventually became the centre of all jokes on social media.

The tweet made him the butt of jokes on Twitter for the rest of the day.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, brandished his trademark dry wit, questioning why if Republican state Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer's Western New York district is the birthplace of Jell - O, yogurt was voted the state snack in 2014 — a reference to the infamous nearly hourlong debate over that simple distinction which became the butt of jokes on «The Daily Show.»

This dress has been the subject of jokes on the Internet for several months, but users have not been able to decide what is was looking like — the starfish Patrick from the animated series «Sponge Bob» or the loofah bath.

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

Recently, I made the mistake of joking on Twitter about the possibility of a Team Peeta vs. Team Gale dynamic, referring to the two young men who hold special places in the heart of Katniss Everdeen, the 16 - year - old heroine of «The Hunger Games.»

Knack was critically and commericially panned by critcis and fans, scored less than 60 on Metacritic and was the butt of jokes on Youtube.

But despite being the butt of jokes on the internet and its less - than desirable sales figures, the Wii U actually boasts a really impressive library of games.

El Nino simply became the butt of jokes on Leno and Letterman.

Not exact matches

Dickerson filtered out the jokes (chuckles to the wit who suggested Lord of the Flies) and posted the results on his blog.

You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job.

Wolf responded to Haberman on Twitter, saying that her jokes weren't critical of Sanders» appearance.

That's like being sort - of dead,» TV show host John Oliver later joked on «Last Week Tonight.»

Meyers» friend Amy Poehler even got in on the mix, taking over a bit in which he would say the setup of a joke and a woman in the audience would do the punch line.

Asked by TechCrunch senior writer Jordan Crook what types of technology he hoped to see implemented on the court in the future, Curry joked, «One would be to just help me dunk more.»

Emma Stone won best actress for the musical, and «Manchester by the Sea» star Casey Affleck was named best actor on a night where U.S. President Donald Trump was the butt of numerous jokes, capping a Hollywood awards season marked by fiery protests at his policies.

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).

James has famously struggled with thinning hair on top of his head, even joking about it on social media as far as back as 2011.

There's plenty of communication taking place on our company chat app, but from what I can see, it's mostly just witty banter and in - jokes.

Prince Harry, Kate Middleton, and Prince William share a joke on the set used to depict Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter Films during the Inauguration Of Warner Bros..

«Melania Trump with a breakfast dish of diamonds on the cover of Vanity Fair Mexico looks like joke,» wrote one user in Spanish.

He referenced the infamous moment when he had made Justin cry on the show, and Selena joked «that makes two of us.»

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

Don't worry, I've pre-written at least 52 possible versions of what could happen and contracted a ghost - tweeter to shoot off some snarky jokes on my behalf.

That joke put smiles on people's faces and reminded them of Virgin's sense of adventure — in many ways, it was more effective than a series of glossy ads.

After that, my date prep sheet lands in my inbox, which has the results of a quick Internet / Facebook search of Lily's imprint, info on tonight's venue (a divey - but - not - too - divey bar that's just far enough away from my apartment that it doesn't look like I'm trying to get her to come home with me), and finally some conversation fodder and jokes.

The moral of this story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be on you.

Now, before you question whether I am a victim of the stress entrepreneurship took on my mental health — which, jokes aside, is a real, largely unaddressed problem for professionals today — let me assure you: There was a method to my madness.

The state didn't vote for him in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.

We joke about it, but we wanted to work on something that would make us jump out of bed in the morning for the next 10 years or more.

In the interests of smooth sailing, even seasoned veterans will accept superficial assurances and smiles instead of concrete answers, and will then go on to confuse good manners, pleasantries, and bad jokes with real agreement.

The goal of putting people on Mars is no joke.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

Clooney also joked with the AP and said he used to clean his own vomit off his tuxedos, presumably after too many adult beverages at functions in Tinseltown, but now he still has vomit on his tuxedos because of the babies.

And just to give you an idea of her fitness progression — she put on 14 pounds of muscle for her role as Wonder Woman, so her transformation is no joke.

«I've made billionaires of dollars of failures at Amazon.com,» Bezos says, joking that it could be like «a root canal with no anesthesia» if he tried to dwell on them.

Protectionists, meanwhile, think relying on foreign owners of local companies to act in Canada's best interests is a joke.

Musk made light of the company's financial situation on April 1, joking in a tweet that Tesla had gone bankrupt.

The chatbot is at least a bit convincing with some of its jokes because humans tell bad jokes on Twitter all day.

FEB. 3: Visits Jon Stewart's The Daily Show on Comedy Central and jokes he plans to send a plague of locusts to New York's ritzy Upper East Side, whose residents complained of slow snow removal.

It disappeared faster than a bad Fall sitcom, leaving me to wonder why the only place I ever saw a pair were on my doctor as he conducted my appointments, complete with a note - taker on the other side of the connection (so many... jokes... can't pick... just one).