Jokes Vocabulary
Parody = when you imitate someone.
Sentence – Thus language begins to parody itself, and so does literature, as Joyce shows in the Ithaca section of Ulysses.
Satire = ridicule or mock / make fun of someone.
Sentence – One genre it mostly ignores is satire and humor.
Visual humor = comedy that doesn’t rely on words.
Sentence – While the dialogue is interesting despite being slightly fractured, the movie also has a lot of visual humor.
Slapstick = visual humor, usually falling, hitting, knocking things.
Sentence – It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
Stand up comedy = comics telling jokes on stage.
Sentence – Whether you like stand up comedy, musicals or live music then you will be sure to find a suitable show for you both
Observational comedy = giving a fun twist to everyday life routines.
Sentence – Foxworthy has plenty of other material, most of it observational humor about family life.
Sitcoms = Situational Comedy (e.g Friends, Big Bang Theory)
Sentence – Other cartoons are lifeless; plenty of sitcoms offer droll toddlers and clever menials, bringing down their betters with disparaging asides.
Wit = comedy that uses a play on words or a ‘pun’.
Sentence – There was little wit or joy in the Ellen Tracy show.
Crack a joke = to tell a joke.
Sentence – When he cracks a joke or whatever he does in front of the class, he just turn round and laugh.
Get the joke / See the joke = understand it.
Sentence – It wasn’t that I didn’t get the joke – I just didn’t think it was funny.
Take a joke = to be able to laugh at a joke against yourself.
Sentence – He who plays a trick must be prepared to take a joke.
Do something as a joke = notdo it seriously.
Sentence – He seemed to regard the whole thing as a joke.
Raise a smile = made someone laugh.
Sentence – His Curmudgeon column which ran for many years in the Sunday Independent was required reading and was always guaranteed to raise a smile, he said.
That’s no joke = serious or difficult.
Sentence – This project is my dream project and not a joke, the boss shouted at his team.
Laugh-out-loud = extremely funny.
Sentence – Millions shake their heads at the symmetry and laugh out loud.
A barrel of laughs = it was a lot of fun.
Sentence – He’s never been a barrel of laughs, but he is a competitive furnace, and that has rubbed off.
To laugh all the way to the bank = to make a lot of money.
Sentence – The beautiful people issue sells out, and the publishers laugh all the way to the bank.
To laugh something off = to laugh about it / not worry about it.
Sentence – Shane Spencer has heard that sort of talk and laughs it off.
To have a good/twisted/dry/dark sense of humor = your ability to understand funny things.
Sentence – The poker face gives way to a great sense of humor.
A laughing stock= a person that everyone laughs at because they have done something stupid.
Sentence – Because of this Dick becomes the laughing stock of the news world.
the butt of the joke = The target of a joke; the person or subject being mocked or ridiculed.
Sentence – the bush administration was the butt of a joke told to the group the previous day by california lt . gov . cruz bustamante.
