joke
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The joke is whether the majority of players are talking about the Dodgers or the Rams during practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
People sometimes joke online about whether you grew up in an “appetizers and drinks” family or an “entrées and water” family.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
A perfectly normal joke becomes, in the retelling inside your own head, a terrible mistake.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Friends joke that he’s such an expert at navigating the platform that YouTube’s management would benefit from a tutorial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It must be a joke, and nothing could please Father better than a scriptural joke.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The jokes are less funny because they don’t occur within the film’s natural rhythm.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
“She would always crack jokes that made everyone laugh. She’d see someone sad, and she would do everything she could to make them laugh, make them happy, make them feel better.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
There were few jokes - and in stark contrast to his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer's speech last year, he did not mention Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch once.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Gossip has whipsawed through Penn State group chats and become the butt of comment-section jokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Their jokes get worse and worse, but everyone just laughs harder and harder.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
“Oh, my God,” Zlatan joked when he learned that he’d done it on purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"This is me with men all the time," joked comedian Joanne McNally, who hadn't voted for Grant.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I’m a poor, humble man who wants peace,” Papi joked in Spanish as I interpreted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"I like the fact that it is 'human crow meets golf caddy meets the Artful Dodger'. We're pretty happy with it," she joked about this year's outfits.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“All that’s missing is Jonny Lott jumping out of a Jag and forgetting his lines,” joked Rio.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
He says some of the projections by the stay side are all "doom and gloom", joking that the only possible negative they failed to include is "a large asteroid hitting Canada".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He renamed the company Martin Defense Group after himself, joking that it would simplify his future takeover of Lockheed Martin.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Laura Dern and Greta Gerwig laughed together by the entrance while Samuel L. Jackson plopped down on a curved bench, joking, “Hey, look what I did!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I was joking around, but people here take it absolutely serious.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“For a contest that’s supposed to be for students, it sounds like we cheated,” Brooklyn said, only half joking.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
