Sentences with phrase «own jokes about»

The billionaire said SpaceX is on track to send his Mars - intended rocket on short trips by 2019, but joked about potentially missing the timeline.

He makes jokes about being too orange and about his hair.

Kim apparently tried to downplay the underlying tension between the two by joking about how many years it took for him to visit South Korea despite the very thin demarcation line between them.

One of the most pronounced reactions, though, came when Meyers did a joke about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime film producer who sparked the reckoning over sexual harassment after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed three decades of allegations against him.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

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.

It's easy to joke about the coffee chain's awkward racial awareness campaign, but it's having an impact

For a long time, many felt James» famous headband was slowly migrating to hide his moving hairline, something Barkley joked about in 2012.

That feud included Hannity calling Kimmel a racist, pervert, and «Harvey Weinstein Jr.,» while Kimmel ultimately drew criticism and apologized for making what many saw as a homophobic joke about Hannity's apparent love for Trump.

We like to joke about the flu.

It's a hoary old stereotype that women take longer to get ready than men, but there are several reasons it might be true that have nothing to do with outmoded jokes about complicated hair care or excessive vanity.

Just like the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall, practice and hard work are important.

You've heard the joke about surviving another meeting that could've been an email, right?

Every time he came by, he'd gesture at the box and crack a new joke about how odd it was that I enjoyed fishing.

«We joke about negotiating,» he says.

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Based on the fact that among his first words upon being pulled from his landing capsule was a joke about the weather («The air feels great out here.

His peers would exchange surreptitious looks and make thinly veiled jokes about who wears the pants, what colour his purse was, etcetera.

CEO Travis Kalanick joked about how desirable he is to women, thanks to Uber's success.

The rape case drew national attention after the accused and their friends joked about the incident and showed a galling sense of impunity over social media.

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.

The voicebot, developed by Amazon and now so popular that they make commercials joking about which spouse gets to talk to her, is everywhere.

She jokes about «desperation» being her only true technique.

It's «equal pay day,» and that means it's the annual day we ladies all joke about how we can't wait for year 2059 — the year pay is actually expected to be roughly equal for women and men.

He jokes about his teenage days as a juggler and hanging out in onesie pajamas as an adult.

Ellison, who before the crash, was known to brag about playing tennis on company time, and was so seldom at the office that, when he was spotted, employees joked about «Elvis sightings,» was shaken to the core.

Tech insiders like to joke about how a startup hasn't really gone under until its founder or CEO writes about their experience on Medium.

I know the jokes about «not trying this at home,» but I tried it with my son, Jack, who was 6 at the time.

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

In practice, «Far Cry 5» is a ham - fisted mess of American stereotypes and wink - wink, nudge - nudge jokes about gun violence.

It feels like the wrong time to make this joke about an AR - 15 considering that's the gun that was used in the Parkland shooting:

Faber gave the stationery to his kids» preschool, something he jokes about now that those pricey lessons are behind him.

In his «Weirdo» set, Glover jokes about a 2010 internet campaign that wanted to see him cast as Peter Parker in the then - upcoming «Spider - Man» reboot.

For example, a campaign for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 might target fans already tweeting about the series, users who've tweeted aboutDivergent or, hypothetically, anybody making a joke about volunteering as tribute and having the odds ever in their favor.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

Back in 1983, Lee Nilsson was appearing in The Globe and Mail wearing a straw - coloured Stetson and joking about the family's new live - by - satellite auction business.

We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.

The Queen made a joke about President Trump when a helicopter interrupted her conversation with Sir David Attenborough in the Buckingham Palace garden.

It's like that old joke about outrunning the bear, or else that Henny Youngman line where he's asked how his wife is and replies, «Compared to what?»

Google made several jokes about Apple and the iPhones at its event to show off the new Pixel 2.

«He often jokes about killing drug dealers... He'll say, «You know the Chinese and Filipinos don't have a drug problem.

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

When one of the hosts made a joke about Notre Dame, Finebaum then turned it back to the Wolverines and unleashed on Michigan and its fans for having a sense of entitlement that he believes became worse when the school hired Jim Harbaugh.

Onstage, Shipp doles out the biographical details in concentrated chunks, leavening the drama with jokes about the Nintendo Wii and the repeated exhortation, «Don't be average.»

Competing with Amazon is something that most ecommerce retailers joke about.

The most successful ads, he says, have been those with a more DIY approach — like a video of a guy walking through a warehouse, dropping f - bombs and cracking jokes about his no - nonsense shaving products.

(It's like the old joke about how a mule is what you get when you try to design a horse by committee.)

At another point, Kim appeared to go off script again joking about the famous cold noodles he had brought in from Pyongyang, which is «far.»

It's exactly like the old joke about the guy who is searching for his lost keys under the nearest street lamp: not because that's where he thinks he lost them but because the light is so much better there.