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Jokes aren't funny? Macleans.ca That's what we remember. The one-liners are almost irrelevant. They're not totally irrelevant, but they're really like punctuation; a comedy needs jokes because otherwise we won't be in the mood to laugh. Jokes are like the warm-up. |
Leaf it to comic to joke This is South Wales ONE of the masters of the one-liner, Stewart Francis gets straight to the point at Swansea's Grand Theatre tomorrow, with his modestly titled new show, Outstanding In His Field. But lest you suspect his time supporting Ricky Gervais on his Science tour ... |
PERSON: Did you hear the one about... Barrow Journal True to world class yarn weaver form, once CH was out of the shoot with one story, there ensued a seemingly endless reel of stories, jokes, and anecdotes punctuated by the intermittent one liner. So long as there wasn'ta dry eye in the house when he'd ... |
Mighty Wind of British Laughs New York Times It wasn't until the joke about passing gas that I realized that Richard Bean's riotous crowd-pleaser “One Man, Two Guvnors” is an awfully smart show. To be clear: It's not a particularly thoughtful take on flatulence, but when James Corden's Francis ... |
Readers' Revenge: Your Most Cowardly Moment Grantland (blog) While we usually just followed the typical chants and school fight songs, every now and then we would come up with a clever chant or solid one-liner that impressed or amused the upperclassmen. One night, we were playing our neighboring city rival and ... |
 The Arts Desk | Tom Allen's Society, Udderbelly Festival London The Arts Desk As ever, the line-up of performers is extensive: last night comic Tom Allen performed his chat show with the help of a few comedy guests. Allen is a likeable presence on stage and gave the audience 15 minutes of stand-up, with jokes old and new, ... |
 Country Weekly | On Her 30th Anniversary Barbara Mandrell's As Busy As Ever (1997) Country Weekly Ken had been working on a chain of restaurants they're opening, while Barbara, after making decisions about her new line of jewelry, wrapped up her traditional end-of-the-day task—writing to whichever children are away from home at the moment. |
P for popularity, in just 140 characters Hindustan Times Copy-paste any funny one-liner that you come across on the Net and tweet it as if it's yours. You can copy others' tweets too – in fact, you should. Copying tweets is like taking bribes in India – that's how the economy has survived till now. |
 The Guardian | Look who's laughing at the White House correspondents' dinner The Guardian In our land, the president not only carries the nuclear codes, guides social and economic policy, upholds the constitution, wages war and presides over matters of state, once or twice a year he has to deliver one-liners for big laffs from media elites ... Obama Wows the Crowd at 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner |
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? UM Maneater All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. - Thomas Jefferson By Bo Mahr The problem with political jokes is that they get elected. Nearly everyone has a cynical one-liner about politics laying around. |
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