Sentences with phrase «upon as a joke»

It's hilarious, and should be looked upon as a joke.

As heavily depended upon as jokes are the visual effects, which are surprisingly lackluster.

The courses DO NOT prepare you unless you work side by side to gain experience to compensate the degree because the degree is looked upon as a joke and just merely «bought».

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He became a trickster and played all sorts of jokes not only upon his playmates, but upon older folk as well.

We have names for those who announce upon drawing up a chair exactly where the conversation is going and with what conclusions, just as we do for those who insult us by explaining the joke and telling it again.

Calling upon Aristotle and theological tradition, Brother William argues that if Jesus was fully human, as the creed claims, then surely he laughed (and joked?).

The disrespect he has engendered upon himself has also been reflected negatively upon the club and we are now considered within the sports hierarchy as a joke organisation, a laughing stock.

To know that the RD certification is given by this Joke of a Bureaucracy has shed a lot of light on my referrals to such as a RN health coach, — and SHAME on RDs who kowtow to this bogus misinformation and impose such upon their patients.

The jokes hit upon every elementary school kid's favourite subjects: comic books, movies about comic books, sex (but only some vague notion of sex — as if viewing a porn video through a scrambled pay - per - view feed or, for today's generation, via a slow - to - buffer WiFi connection).

Shockingly, the kind of cringe - inducing material upon which Mr. Mazer has built a career as a writer for Sacha Baron Cohen («Bruno,» «Borat,» «Da Ali G Show») doesn't work when rendered by types who could have been cast in «Notting Hill» (someone even makes a Hugh Grant joke).

The jokes, like the action sequences, are both tired and recycled, and of all the tedious dialogue, it is left to Andre Braugher to deliver the silliest line as his character, the multi-star general, says upon learning what the Silver Surfer is capable of, «He must be destroyed.»

Mr. Mom is, in parts, hilarious — most often when it's Jack coming to terms with his self - image in a role that he feels is emasculating, rather than in scenes built upon flimsy jokes about his ineptitude as a parent, or in the home environment.

For God's sake, there is literally a cabinet - style «Rampage» game in the Energyne offices that is never commented upon, a hat - tip to the «source» material that can't really count as an Easter Egg or an in - joke since it's so blatant.

Upon news of Cyrus's death, the elaborate house he lives in as well as his considerable fortune are now left to his struggling nephew and his family, broke as a joke after the death of his wife in a fire.

The story sees ne'er - do - well Billy sent back to high school as a way in which to prove his basic academic competency, and it's just a great excuse to pile joke upon joke upon joke.

Less than two weeks ago we brought to your attention the fact that Martin Freeman made a rape joke — not, as some alleged, because we wanted to «ruin his career» and bring the shrieking banshees of evil, eeeevil political correctness upon him (or something), but because an actor whom a lot of people like said something pretty dang awful, and we thought people might want to be informed.

While the film may touch upon important subjects such as body shaming, the jokes fall flat.

What it comes off as is a comedy that assumes its basic premise (and title) is funny enough to warrant not expanding upon the concept or even fleshing it out enough to throw in a few jokes within that concept.

Surely screenwriters Justin Theroux, Chris D'Arienzo (who wrote the book for the stage musical upon which the movie is based), and Allan Loeb write the moment as a joke.

Seeing as how the first joke involves Stern's Max dressed as a relic of the Seventies, and seeing as how the picture was actually released in 1995, the shipwreck is cumulatively several years past its «sell by» date (and was none too fresh upon its original release, come to think of it).

And while the film isn't without a couple good jokes (upon entering an amusement park ride called The Time Masheen, the riders are given a history lesson about how Charlie Chaplin commanded the Nazis), it's one giant mess that should be seen by as few people as possible.

Following on from the success of BBC Comedy Classroom [launched in April 2016] which saw Sarah Jayne, Samuel and Tom crowned as the future of British comedy, the «Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom with Blue Peter» competition will provide resources to teachers and call upon children aged 6 - 12 across the UK to write three funny, original and creative jokes.

Placed obtrusively upon the canvases» streaky, tonal backgrounds, his flatly painted anthropomorphic forms like a smiling face or skull often read as visual jokes - bright and somewhat laughable.

The humor in Three's Company, is primarily based on farce and overt innuendo, as many of the series» running jokes are established upon Jack's fictitious sexual orientation.

The case follows another BCCA decision handed down in 2017 against lawyer Stanley Chang Woon Foo who, upon meeting a social worker in the hallway of a Quesnel courthouse in 2013, claimed he was only joking when he said he should shoot her as she took away too many kids.