Sentences with phrase «stale jokes»

Many comedy schools advertise a funny curriculum, but in actuality they deliver the same stale jokes you've heard a dozen times before.

He is not alone either in assuming multiple guises — like Richard Prince with his stale jokes and the Marlboro man, Robert Gober with industrial sinks and pretend newspaper bundles, Jeff Koons with a ceramic poodle and an ad for rum, Josephine Pryde with a cute kid and otherwise identical auto bodies disfigured by splashes of paint, or Liz Deschenes with green screens lit from within and an unsteady pattern of white dots.

The human factor is buried beneath layers of implausible situations, unfunny slapstick and stale jokes.

There are few beats within April Blair and Kelly Bowe's screenplay that one can't see coming from miles away, as the pair place a consistent emphasis on hoary cliches and stale jokes (ie while attempting to navigate a perilous obstacle course, Megan exclaims, «somebody call my stunt double!»)

The formidable matriarch laid waste to a gang of Russian mobsters in defence of Moore Street, but should have been more concerned about the stale jokes and cartoon characters that surrounded her.

Stale jokes and cringe - inducing sight gags punctuate this creaky romantic comedy about longtime gal pals (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) jolted out...

Fatigue is the modus operandi, and — as one relentless scene of stale jokes and standard fights and fires blends into another — the end result.

Spunking hundreds of millions on Ferrari with no return in F1 (Even when they fucking win, it is because Hamilton or Mercedes mess up) while Juve have been delivering for the last 7 years is a stale joke.

If an appropriation of a joke painting is not a stale joke, nothing is.

Not exact matches

If you still can't lose the bad taste of the sequel, check out the original, in which the jokes feel less stale and Will Ferrell is still the best part of the movie.

And that my jokes have become «as stale as a bitter taste of an argument.»

Many of the jokes are stale and calculated, as though dictated by corporate committees mindful of the franchise's all - ages audience — a joke here for dad, one for mom, one for teens, one for kids.

This time when they appear on the screen, the jokes seem rather stale.

Reality - bending silliness - or even a good gross - out joke or two - would be preferable to the stale, corny jokes this movie tries to pass off as comedy.

The plot never works, the jokes are too stale to really get a laugh above the age of fifteen, and the action sequences drag on to the point of redundancy.

The jokes are stale and unimaginative — we're treated to not just one, but two instances of a Capuchin monkey urinating on characters for laughs.

But the millennial jokes quickly grow stale, along with their «what is it with these kids» setups.

Another rehashes the old premise of a boorish passerby approaching a celebrity while they're out with their family; Garlin's interminable pacing gives the joke time to go from stale to moldy to rotten.

Its strong ensemble cast, occasional good jokes, and on - point emotional moments keep the film from feeling stale or overly cliche.

The jokes are stale and the filmmaking is pedestrian.

His jokes were reasonably funny, but as with fellow stand - up David Letterman, Shandling's material was to some extent about what's funny, and why we laugh at jokes that may be stale or corny.

But over the few days since I saw the film, the jokes have faded, and all that remains is the bitter taste of stale stereotypes mined for lowbrow humor.

Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

While it is derivative at its core, the jokes and sight gags are often clever, and the writers use our familiarity with the subject matter to their advantage, applying the superhero angle to solutions for most teen problems, making a stale premise fresh with well - developed flair.

In never establishing the world or characters, the jokes seem stale and obvious.

Even the jokes about race are sanitized for your protection, though small hints of Fowler's comic touch seem to have survived the factory process without going stale.

The jokes come fast and furious, with almost all of them landing (except one gag involving an anthropomorphic penis that gets stale after two minutes).

They know the «I know you are, but what am I» jokes can get stale — but I'm sure you'll get some deep - down belly laughs out of this flick.

I understand the jokes of Monty Python and the comedies of the BBC, but I usually find the dry humor quite stale.

For instance, there's a running joke which gets stale fast in the pronunciation of the villain Dieter Von Cunth's (Val Kilmer) surname, since the «h» is silent.

When Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, makes the joke, you know it's gotten stale.

In the case of Dungeons, some of the gameplay mechanics are fresh, but the jokes are all stale and it's impossible to escape that been - there - done - that feeling.