Sentences with phrase «which jokes work»

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When I spoke to Hannah as part of my 2018 Big Ideas project, she referred to a famous old saying: marketers used to joke that they knew 50 percent of their ads worked, they just didn't know which 50 percent.

«Something pretty crazy happened this week,» Franco joked as he began a monologue about the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, which included the theft of sensitive data of actors who had worked on Sony films.

I take the point of the women who prefer the more gender - neutral «I'll make you fishers of persons» but he was addressing fisher men at the time, and the joke — which is delightful — doesn't really work once it has been neutered.

I gave him a joke once which never quite worked for me which was, «I got drunk last night on vodka and Red Bulls.

All jokes aside, I really do hope that this Blog wins an award, Admin and everyone else involved deserves it for all the hard work put into this forum, which goes unnoticed.

Lmao, i couldnt work that out.Dutchh league is superior to the scottish if he ment that.If he ment because of the same teams wining all the time well now it is Celtic, one team.Dutch have Ajax, PSV, Feynoord & teams like Vitesse & Alkmaar which are a million times better than the also rans in scotlands prem.It is a joke league

OK, fine, but what if your job has a private space with a locking door that's not the bathroom where you can pump for as long as you need as often as you need so that you can use your industrial strength breast pump which by some miracle you can afford so you can now fill up bag after bag of fresh healthy milk every three hours at work for six months straight and your supportive husband can drive to work and pick it up for you so you don't even have to store it in the gross community refrigerator so as to avoid the all - too - inevitable jokes about whether you're going to «whip up a milkshake for everyone» or remarks such as, «Guess we'll be just fine when the coffee creamer runs out?»

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 address — which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters at the Ram's Head Inn — was seen as «disparaging to women.»

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 speech, which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, was seen as «disparaging to women.»

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.

The article detailed Wadhams» work for then - senator George Allen of Virginia, which included deflecting the negative coverage of a bad poll by calling Larry Sabato «biased» and pollster John Zogby a «joke.»

(Through Monday that is haha:p) I had a crazy busy Monday... I started doing some exciting work over in Beverly Hills which means naturally, I will be wanting to shop on Rodeo during my lunch hour... #Oops Anyways... with hot temps still in LA, I had to start dressing for fall, but also staying cool + comfortable like how I do during the summer (seriously it's been like 90 degrees lately... no joke).

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...

It has a lot of funny jokes, many of which work with both kids and adults.

Jason Lee works for his father - in - law (Dennis Farina) at a health care supermarket, which also lead to some crazy jokes.

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).

Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.

He is not given as much to work with other than simple jokes, some of which work better than others.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

And when I speak of the jokes that work I mean primarily the ones that are spoken rather than the physical comedic stunts like falling out of a tree which is, well, honestly not funny.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg re-team after The Other Guys, a movie which understands that jokes are actually supposed to be funny, but this time they are not working with Ferrell's creative partner, Adam McKay — he was busy enriching cinema this year with the top notch The Big Short.

Rotten: Curtin and Aykroyd rely on old standbys... When that doesn't work, which mostly it doesn't, they try grossing us out with a series of revolting Remulakian childbirth jokes.

Upon its release in 1974 this low - budget work, the only film in Peckinpah's long career over which he was allowed final cut, tanked at the box office — and merely invoking its title has since become a kind of joke, whether in Michael Ritchie's 1985 film Fletch or BBC Radio's «I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue».

With the Disney - Fox merger within the works and the go back of DP to Marvel, after all it is advisable be expecting a comic story or two directed against the corporate and the way which may be unhealthy for all concerned, ignoring the truth there were habitual jokes against Disney's Frozen after all.

While in the final cut this scene was drastically reduced to mere seconds as part of a montage (which just worked in benefit of Ferrell's character), it was a great way of realizing about the amount of improvisation that was going on in the set, as the cast and the director changed lines, added jokes (there was one involving Steve Irwin) and even visual gags (i.e. Ferrell imitating the manta rays).

Sure, it's crude, episodic and half the jokes don't work, but «Christmas Vacation» may be the only modern Christmas comedy which really stands up to repeat viewings.

Even worse, this section of the film immediately follows a series of scenes involving a relationship between Ferrell and Good's characters, which really just amounts to Ferrell making a bunch of tone - deaf and unfunny racist jokes that not only don't work, but actually cross the line to discomfort.

Game Night is so absurd it's almost surreal, but between everyone committing to the premise and that trio of editors timing every joke beautifully — and that hall of fame performance by Jesse Plemons which is, not for nothing, aided by perfect timing — it works and never gets dragged down by its own concept.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

It stands out, however, in the thoroughness with which it flogs the jokes and mechanisms of the original, 20 years after they first worked.

Father Figures may be largely unfunny, in that few of its jokes work and they are given a vast, 113 - minute expanse in which to not work, but at least Ed Helms isn't playing another...

Father Figures may be largely unfunny, in that few of its jokes work and they are given a vast, 113 - minute expanse in which to not work, but at least Ed Helms isn't playing another aggressively striving, eager - to - please passive - aggressive dork.

The jokes are broad and / or corny; some of the wisecracks are funny, but there's no rhyme or reason for what lines work and which don't.»

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

Among the moments we'll be forgetting from Sunday's 90th annual Academy Awards show are a few pretty good jokes from its host, the recently canonized St. James Kimmel the Just (formerly known simply as late - night guy Jimmy Kimmel), whose easygoing talent for breaking the ice was probably the best way to get through a year in which all the real talk was about Hollywood's systemic failures as a place to work.

Nissan officials joke that the 2016 Titan has been in the works for more ten years, which is only partly true; development was delayed significantly after a deal to co-develop the Titan with Fiat Chrysler's Ram division fell apart, forcing Nissan to start again from scratch.

The man known for his work on Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, and Rise of Nations, has been with social - game publisher Zynga for a year - and - a-half, which is a long time in social games, he jokes.

- Aonuma and Miyamoto have played through BotW start to finish - the strangest thing Link can eat is «dubious food» which happens when you mess up cooking - «it's a secret» as to whether the Master Sword can break - Switch TV mode will have better resolution / sound than Wii U - Link can wear green, but it wasn't specified if this was his iconic green tunic - Link does no speak a full sentence - Link does not have a family - Breath of the Wild was the toughest Zelda game to create - companions outside of your horse include a wolf, but this was most likely referencing the wolf Link amiibo - the stamina meter can be upgraded - Link's last name is the same as Mario's according to Miyamoto, meaning it's Link Link - Link is not human - Breath of the Wild takes place after Ocarina of Time - Aonuma / Miyamoto are unsure what NX stood for, but they say it was probably for Nintendo X - you can eventually get a snowboard for a shield (this may be a joke)- you can not eat horses - the game does have big surprises - Miyamoto thinks that Pauline lives in New Donk City - Aonuma / Miyamoto say that Tingle is always happy and the devs love him - While there are multiple Links in games, it's always the same Mario in his adventures - the idea of Paper Zelda is discussed, and while the convo does seem playful, Aonuma says they're working on it.

I was joking, but I know know more about Greek and that we use it for software not the phonetic alphabet which was hanging up everywhere in the last place I worked.

Ideally you'll be using it on a wifi where you are at which should be much better or more stable but if it can work through a mobile phone I think it shows that this thing is no joke.

These later works feel like gentle jokes as well as experiments: is it a painting or a frame, or a podium on which an artwork will be presented to you?

He conjures clever labyrinths of philosophy and process to back up his work, which is yet another joke about the smoke - and - mirrors act professional artists play for their audiences.

In the late 1950s Twombly moved to Italy, and works from volume 2, which documents this period, include colorful, diagrammatic works such as Ode to Psyche (1960), featuring erotic allusions and jokes while maintaining an abstract charge.

This exhibition includes a new large - scale work entitled «Jokes on You,» featuring images of ephemera from the collections of the National Museum of American History, which was part of Rafferty's study during her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.

We have also seen a proliferation of art whose function is to deliver content of a specific, legible sort, which, if you're of a certain age, calls to mind the joke about the painter's reply when asked what his work meant: «When I want to send a message, I call Western Union.»

Known mostly for his sculptures, his tongue - in - cheek works also include photography and performance, all of which hit like visual one liners — provocative jokes that blur our perceptions of truth and reality.

Unlike his Pop Art predecessors however, whose work still retains a kind of optimistic freshness of the postwar era in which they were created, Prince's joke paintings display a sarcastic quality that is more suited to the postmodern world.

According to the artist, his work is a «hand - eye parasite that grows and grows», likening it to «The Aristocrats» joke comedians only tell to fellow professionals whose aim is not the punch - line but a middle so filthy it can barely be told; to the visions experienced in the comedown of a trip when one's eyes and synapses see multiple realities; and to puzzles to which there are no wrong answers only a myriad of solutions.

My Richard Prince work - which comes from his Nurse series and features a joke about a doctor's visit - was bought whilst I was going through a health issue, involving a surgeon's medical malpractice: he removed the wrong side, literally.

I like how his work can be serious while treating art itself as a kind of joke, which is how music can be — just for dancing and to party.