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"jokey" Definitions
  1. funny; making people laugh

373 Sentences With "jokey"

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"My style is irregular: scatter-brained, spasmodic, jokey—necessarily jokey because I have to justify the unjustifiable by saying that I didn't mean it seriously," he writes.
This was my attempt at formalism, in a jokey way.
Please note their fun and jokey demeanour around each other.
The second credits scene is a jokey reference to Aquaman.
It's quite jokey, quite fun, as I say, very visual.
Something here of high class mitigates the work's prior jokey flimsiness.
Despite its jokey-sounding premise, this is an achingly sincere book.
Before we get all jokey, I wanted to bring this here.
They'd endlessly trade jokey selfies and video clips instead of typing.
Male students who were drugged tended to have more jokey answers.
Tis is normally applied, however, to substantive policy speeches—not jokey skits.
Might I recommend Crafting with Cat Hair as a jokey stocking stuffer?
Appropriately, the show plays along with a canny, jokey sense of vanity.
Twitter is fun, it's jokey, but it's also where careers are built.
"Feud" has its flaws—a jokey song cue here, blunt exposition there.
Their most recent property purchase, however, may have actually secured those jokey titles.
Don't, for the love of all things sacred, go down the jokey route.
Whether that was in a "jokey" way or not was beside the point.
Instead, we flirted over email—long, performatively casual, even more performatively jokey emails.
It was jokey, but the underlying message had an edge: We've spotted you.
Another faux pas: using the captions as a place to add jokey commentary.
It pops up all the time on social media and in jokey message exchanges.
This is far better than committing your entire library to a jokey meme app.
Sometimes it was jokey talk, the kind he was having with the sushi chef.
Smith bounded onto the stage to applause, and some jokey shouting of his name.
"You're good at other things," he'll say, usually with a jokey sexual double entendre.
While HBO issued a jokey apology, we never got to the bottom of it.
Yeah, I'm really curious about that, because the article really does have a jokey tone.
All in all, what started as a jokey complaint had a happy ending all round.
So, that sort of jokey, cynical/LOL nothing matters, that sort of philosophy ... OD: Right.
It was as if I heard his jokey, self-deprecating voice from beyond the grave.
Including tolerating all the "I just meant it to be funny" jokey kind of groping.
Nukey McNukeface comes to mind, but submitting a jokey name might not be the smartest move.
The Wyoming Police Department caused a stir on Twitter on Thursday with a jokey 420 tweet.
Greenland's market value, according to a jokey valuation cooked up by FT Alphaville, is $1.1 trillion.
As Eddie grapples with the symbiote infection, he parades through jokey sequences filled with physical comedy.
Then, with Midge being Midge, she starts to do a bit and gives jokey radio announcements.
At his clothes shop in central Pau, people can buy boxer shorts with jokey Occitan slogans.
Also, his Uncle Drake who gifted him with that chain is all jokey about those vocals.
Venmo, it seems, has reduced even our most serious emotional and financial transactions into something jokey.
I remember the halcyon days of the internet when jokey Tinder profiles elicited a genuine chuckle.
But the major heteronyms he used in his mature work were more than jokey code names.
" Keep your tone light, and maybe add a jokey, "So, you know, what else ya got?
And yes, it's jokey and she takes it with good humor but also: come on man.
"It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
It was supposed to humiliate them in a jokey way to make them perform better in future.
Not just by the titles (podcasts often use jokey or obscure episode titles) but by the content.
Clothing that capitalizes on the "ugly Christmas sweater" trope by adding exaggerated jokey details, like drunk elves.
Ant-Man and the Wasp isn't as jokey as Deadpool, but it approximates a light comic tone.
The impressively ageless Stamos won the segment with a jokey gem about how he preserved his looks.
A jokey photo on her Snapchat that also happens to be empowering for a lot of women.
Paulsen speaks with Yakko's brisk cadence, his voice only slightly lower, his jokey asides just as sharp.
"If you are writing a letter to a business associate, skip anything jokey or cutesy," says Wade.
A personality test from ShindanMaker — a jokey Japanese quiz website — is currently making the rounds on Twitter.
The creative team worked hard to make sure these onstage social media moments weren't jokey or awkward.
In the new clip, Henry starts by mentioning a female, music notes, and a fun, jokey attitude.
It is jokey in its name and very Julia, with her famous love of cocktail-hour snacks.
Mr. Echols was gracious and jokey with his fans, but the social interaction seemed to drain him.
Per his Twitter, he now deals in psychojazz, another new jokey genre that he's just recently invented.
A jokey name you use sometimes just to show how at ease you are with the 'erb.
Guinness's style complemented Deadpool's sarcastic tone, as there was a jokey, almost friendly aspect to the comic.
Asked how a New York publishing party compared to a Hollywood party, Kemper was thoughtful (and jokey).
Why go with a jokey title like "I Think We're Alone Now" for such a dark movie?
At the end of last year, the British singer tweeted the following announcement in his trademark, jokey fashion.
Now I think that song seems a bit jokey, but right there I knew I was onto something.
Grande, 25, shared her self-care advice when responding to a fan's jokey tweet inquiring about her therapist.
Mateusz Mach and Piotr Polański wanted to create an app to send jokey hand signs to each other.
One post describing Beck on a student website make jokey references to the "slags" he'd had sex with.
Not too much, because then it would be too jokey and the survival part would kind of ruined.
Think of it as a jokey marriage manual for listeners with a patience for the tongue in cheek.
James Cleveland's hand behind her back while she sings; a jokey glance from Callas as she walks backstage.
She paints narrative fantasies that look bumptiously jokey at first, but reveal worlds of nuanced thought and feeling.
While he was there, a jokey group chat and a popular meme inspired an idea for a business venture.
Some of them have sparked elaborate theories, and some are just little jokey illustrations of ideas from the episode.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Forget your sexy nurse or jokey meme costumes this Halloween season.
Come for the jokey news round-up, stay for the touching goodbye to all of Hicks' White House besties.
Dancers can be sparse on the floor, self-conscious and jokey, at least until the Fuzzy Nipples kick in.
"Honest to God, I really hate that hokey-jokey Hey-us-Southerners-aren't-we-cute stuff," she told me.
That tone has gotten the sometimes-too-jokey Marvel in trouble before, but it's also right where Waititi lives.
As a concept it's pretty out-there, but I think it goes a little deeper than this jokey video.
In 2004 and 2005, the brewer told a jokey mini story about a donkey dreaming of joining the team.
Their newfound, jokey rapport, aided by Moore's sobriety, is a real pleasure to watch in action throughout the episode.
It reflects the personalities of the people who work here: wildly enthusiastic about language, jokey, friendly, but nobody's fool.
He charmed readers with jokey, conspiratorial comments and asterisked asides in narrative panels, often referring them to previous issues.
The book is peppered with jokey lists that try to nail both the indignities and the advantages of midlife.
The best sitcoms are jokey, yes, but full of character truth that sustains the jokes across episodes and seasons.
Sen. Brian Schatz, the Democrat from Hawaii, is well-known for a jokey Twitter feed popular with the #Resistance.
But even that rationale doesn't quite explain the bizarre new economy of artsy, cutesy, jokey, meme-inspired coronavirus merchandise.
And yet the Asian salad is often the one that comes with a winky, jokey name: Oriental Chop Chop.
The Flash's upbeat, jokey energy formed a great contrast with Wayne's deadpan cynicism, and the exchange was genuinely amusing.
In one "Modern Family" episode, weed supplies the jokey premise in which two strait-laced characters finally let loose.
As often happens in creative mediums, the constraint spurred creativity, and Twitter became a fast-moving, newsy, jokey, weirdo playground.
It is less jokey than his typical tenor, and there is far more self-congratulating, upper-class complacency than usual.
In the book, it was written as more jokey, and I was worried that the jokiness would obscure the emotions.
Amanda's jokey answer echoes what artist LaChapelle said when asked why the final version differed from the one he shot.
Beyonce went over to Sanaa who brushed off any insinuation of inappropriate conduct and then gave her a jokey bite.
Remember March 2016, when he tweeted two jokey "hints" about Luke Skywalker's relationship to John Boyega and Daisy Ridley's characters?
It was "the era of permanent smirk, the knocking chuckle, of jokey ambivalence as a way of life," they wrote.
Houser has a friendly and jokey demeanor, but also the flintiness of someone who's spent too much time in kitchens.
Looking elegant in a red sequined gown, the 36-year-old superstar offered a jokey explanation for her trim physique.
Mr. O'Malley had thought up the petition as a jokey protest, he explained in an article in The Daily Telegraph.
With much of the gym's makeup consisting of black and Brazilian fighters, the team's jokey moniker as the Blackzilians stuck.
Despite the clear jokey nature of their tweets, they also receive endless serious questions about idols' sexualities and relationship statuses.
Because he had been lovely and jokey and cuddly with me, but he was hardly a romantic figure to me.
Her novel's title may sound jokey, but her book is dead serious about the losses entailed in a marriage's undermining.
The great thing about casting Jason is, any jokey perception that people have of Aquaman goes right out the window.
I was flattered to become part of his friend group; he was jokey and extroverted and fun to be around.
These are the kind of clues — the ones that look almost like jokey, throwaway asides — that Rowling does best.  5.
Maney is the sidekick: jokey, annoying, troubled by his conscience and haunted by the memory of men he has killed.
" And I'm just like, "Nope" — being kind of jokey about it, but really I'm like, "I'm not here to joke around!
I like getting serious and emotional in my music while I prefer staying light hearted and jokey in my stand-up.
Before you make jokey comments about jock stereotypes, recognize that privileged prep-school, East Coast white boys did not invent lacrosse.
Growing up knowing some skaters, I feel like there was always this jokey, flipping-the-bird attitude to the skate world.
Resuta said she had a brief, jokey exchange with him when he suddenly messaged her asking her for her Venmo account.
Man, the idea of plugging those jokey little player-piano covers of pop hits into the background remains hilarious to me.
Views, which is 20 tracks deep, is decidedly less jokey, opening with the most appropriately Drake-ish track of all time.
Cruz acknowledged them with a jokey nod to the New York delegation, but other states, including California, were doing their fair share.
That's a far cry from the standard jokey line from commentary that the Reigns-hating crowds are just having fun being contrary.
It's always cute when when people taking away healthcare and supporting Muslim bans make jokey jokes 😍😍😍☺️☺️☺️.
One of the Guys Who Killed the Dog in John Wick), the same jokey needle drops (one involving a song from Annie).
"When you feel bad about something, it helps to hash things out, and we tend to get a little jokey," Sussamn says.
While they were comically jokey, it opens up the conversation in a way that maybe just watching a video [on consent] wouldn't.
His jokey manner was appealing enough to Londoners that he was elected mayor twice (although admittedly he was running against Ken Livingstone).
The longer Tig spends at home, the more difficult it is to dismiss the darkest moments of her past in jokey asides.
That Sophia is here pronounced to rhyme with Mariah (Carey) may be interpreted as a jokey allusion to Ms. Wang's powerful soprano.
But then everything in the show can be interpreted as a jokey allusion, especially when Tom's servant, Partridge (Rene Ruiz), is around.
Costa replied in what has been described as a "jokey" way, though precisely how good the joke was remains shrouded in mystery.
The author's Twitter presence is a post-post-post-ironic blend of jokey homoerotic photos of bodybuilders and boorish far-right memes.
But after election results showed that Mr. Jammeh had lost, he suddenly conceded in a polite, jokey phone call to Mr. Barrow.
Possible, basically, only in the 1980s, after the movements had more or less subsided and capitalism and jokey white paternalism ran wild.
It's their life, and from the outside it may seem like a bit of a jokey thing… but really it touches people.
But it's not hard to see how the game managed to rocket past its jokey $66,666 fundraising target on Kickstarter, eventually nabbing $182,642.
Remember earlier this year, when John Boyega and Mark Hamill were gleefully trolling Star Wars fans by tweeting jokey "spoilers" at each other?
"William was in a jokey, wonderful mood at the party," a royal wedding guest tells PEOPLE of Harry's best man and older brother.
Lee's jokey hyperbolic carnival barker prose, alliterative and infectious, also helped give the Marvel line a comfortable cohesion that made them fan favorites.
In 2012, Lindy West famously put together a bunch of theories—some jokey, some serious—for why women love watching Law & Order: SVU.
Ms. Theron vamps and sneers, Joel Edgerton struts and blusters, and everyone works hard to sustain a mood of jokey, wised-up menace.
Winterson seems to know she's boxed herself into a facile and jokey situation, and she's decided to shoot herself out of the corner.
In short, these terms described the jokey fatalism with which straight women began to apply to the idea of having sex with men.
There's a knowing, jokey bravado to the band's image and album titles and artwork that belies the self-loathing inherent in their songs.
We have a feeling that next May 5, there won't be any inflatable slides or jokey ID cards in sight at Hennessey's bar.
The people Eight hangs out with are more haircuts than characters, and the strange, jokey tone those scenes adopt never quite played for me.
He's got this kind of jokey way about him, and I think he was just saying that to — or I was just saying that.
Sombra is a hacker, so Blizzard had prepared a jokey "year in review" video that she would disrupt for her first appearance on camera.
And also not immediate, to not have jokey jokes, but to have the humor be more subdued and a little more left of field.
The jokey central conceit is stretched too thin, but it allows Ms. Aidem to have an infectiously fine time as an arch self dramatizer.
He presents the jokey, bored sadism of a group of ex-Abu Ghraib military personnel as they casually torment some poor sap in California.
But every so often, even in the midst of a jokey anecdote, Ms. Mulligan's Woman stretches her long neck and tilts her chin upward.
Jeremy Couillard's project is a jokey portal to the afterlife, in which you rise from a cartoon cadaver and ascend through colorful, heavenly tubes.
A year later, I wrote a jokey story in the form of a letter ("Dear Harvey") about missing Weinstein in that year's Oscar race.
He dropped out of school not long afterward, working on construction crews while self-producing rap music under the jokey childhood nickname Sun Diego.
It began with a jokey Instagram photo of Al Roker, the television personality, getting a little shuteye during a recent night at the opera.
But they were middle-aged now, self-consciously aware, as they performed their jokey girlishness, of the heavy shelves of bosom under their nightdresses.
People plied me with tea, biscuits and sandwiches, took me on tractor rides and to the bingo and made a few jokey marriage proposals.
Following the good news, Woodley tweeted this jokey message: Loads of celebs are thrilled that the environmental and cultural damage is now off the table.
You share something that spurs a swath of jokey comment threads with friends or send earnest condolences to a buddy who lost a loved one.
On Thursday, Kardashian's sister Kylie Jenner took to her website and app to post a jokey Q&A with her two dogs, Norman and Bambi.
What it says about the future: Again, internet culture is now a jokey trope worth wrapping even the most mainstream and crowd-friendly movies around.
They look a lot more like normal sunglasses, compared to the jokey, bubbly V1s, so they could appeal to a more mature and fashionable audience.
The plot consists of bits: a fiery slugfest, a pause for bonding, a quick weep, and a patch of jokey repartee, before the slugging returns.
On the flip side, his jokey patois and fiery temper tantrums left some wondering whether he was inflamed with rage or just pulling your leg.
Greg comes off as simply incompetent as he flatly fumbles through a scene from "Waiting for Godot," one of the movie's first jokey meta-moments.
Thanks to a series of lucky breaks, its jokey abbreviation, "OK" survived — and even ended up being (arguably) the first word spoken on the moon.
For anyone who still thinks of Stern as a jokey voyeur, overgrown teenager and smutmeister, he would like you to know how much he's evolved.
He has a natural stage presence and a mellow baritone voice, and he's charming when Mr. Keating delivers jokey, improv-style asides to his students.
A jokey session with Cash, and duets from the first episode of Cash's television series, show what happens when two lifelong mavericks try to harmonize.
They've parodied the jokey, weirdly sexual way brands talk on Twitter to the point where the social media platform dinged them for violating Twitter rules.
According to a 2014 study in the BMJ's sort-of jokey annual Christmas issue, the vast majority of us get the answer to this question wrong.
One of my drinking buddies did not realize how the Shame worked and screamed "Shame!" during what was meant to be her own (jokey) public humiliation.
While Jax seemingly still made the donation, the jokey, "Oh, he's so nervous!" mini plot does take away from the genuinely touching IVF manner at hand.
It's possible this is a jokey note written by one of her friends, and the model hid the name to play with us and prompt speculation.
Ofili put a bushy Afro on one of the figures, and added a few other jokey touches, and Doig took it back and added some more.
A jokey news package featuring Fake Tucker Carlson and Fake Jeanine Pirro is just as overrun with half-truths and outright lies as the real thing.
Is it hard to get people to come with you from the sort of jokey part of your act to an earnest love song about heartbreak?
The vamp is insistently jaunty, the rhymes are delivered with a jokey cadence and there are melodic interludes, but the recurring subject is serious: gun violence.
No longer is the site characterized by very earnest CV updates and people endorsing jokey skills like "weight gain" and "vole herding" on their friends' profiles.
Initially, the ad, first bought in 1981, was a jokey bit of self-promotion, and subsequently a tease for "Chief Zabu" when it was in production.
The cosmonauts are in many ways drawn just like American movie heroes: reserved but relatable, jokey but skilled, capable of containing their emotions even when death approaches.
Created by Victor Fresco, "Santa Clarita Diet" has a jokey, sitcom-style quality to it, even with the occasionally grisly image of projectile vomiting or exposed entrails.
In a primary contest where the tension seems to tick up with each passing day, the scene on banks of the Congaree River was loose and jokey.
The jokes are too jokey: Of the "nitpicky" complaints, this is the most nitpicky, in that plenty of fans don't like The Last Jedi's sense of humor.
Given how lively and jokey Far From Home is, it may be that the next Spider-Man movie will largely play off his outing as a joke.
Despite the eclectic tracks, Seinfeld detractors pointed to the jokey name, production style, and amateur music videos that accompanied his most popular tracks as undercutting the sound.
For the rest of us, it's an endless stream of jokey advertising, a river of safe, chummy craic flowing out onto the vast sea of corporate synergy.
Hill says the question was not supposed to be hard-hitting journalism -- just a jokey, fun question in a lighthearted interview about the NBA All-Star game.
Jokey messages on coffee mugs and T-shirts reinforce the notion that the best cure for the demands of our children is a generous glass of chardonnay.
Fox has released a jokey new teaser for the (untitled) sequel to Deadpool, the studio's antihero superhero hit of 2016, and it even includes some actual footage.
The jokey connection between the movie lines and the professionals saying them is fairly clear and you won't have much trouble figuring the rest of them out.
There's the casual, knowing rapport with listeners; the baggy, multihour shows, which double as news digests; the moralizing monologues that transition seamlessly into jokey rants and asides.
The recipients imagine us — in those precious few minutes between digital notifications — perusing the rows of cards, carefully selecting the inside-jokey message just right for them.
When Daniel Rom Kristiansen, a 14-year-old student in northern Denmark, was given a homework assignment on World War II, his father had a jokey suggestion.
Sartori's God is male, jokey and, in Frederika Randall's translation, fairly hokey, with a colloquial diction out of the 1950s and a propensity to wink and nudge.
They are built around jokey comic relief and mindless violent conflict, as well as simple character relationships in which recognizable adult characteristics or responsibilities are entirely absent.
The idea of using dogs to detect C. diff seems to have appeared first in the somewhat jokey (but still scientific) Christmas edition of the BMJ in 2012.
He understands that alternating between testing and tightening those bonds is ultimately more important than putting his own jokey spin on every aspect of his show's science fiction.
Journalist Meagan Day posted about her delivery misadventures this week when an order for jokey felt sauna hats with the word "oligarch" printed in Russian finally got delivered.
Ali often threatened to strip off Cosell's toupee du jour, and in their jokey back-and-forth, each man said the other would have been nothing without him.
A stripped down "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey" is transformed into a jokey campfire sing-along with Lennon adopting a Dylanesque drawl.
Jeremy Meeks and Postmates sure know how to market well -- they turned a one-off jokey endorsement from Bella Hadid into a full-on campaign with Amber Rose.
Affable, jokey, and armed with numbers and statistics, Yang has managed to make all four Democratic debates, a feat that plenty of established candidates have failed to accomplish.
Almost as hurtful is the courtroom scene in which jokey discussions between Nicole and Charlie are quoted by their lawyers as evidence of their unfitness to be parents.
Things pick up significantly with Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson's jokey-but-then-really-serious modern dance, and from there on out, everything is a lot of fun.
The campaigns appear to be a jokey way of getting people to admit to authorities that they are in possession of meth, presumably so they can be arrested.
" But when she found herself speaking with a 15-year-old, she intuitively began posing questions "in a more jokey way," she said, "just to get him laughing.
But that's far too jokey a way to introduce a blurb about a moment so grave that "Argestes" uses multiple reaction shots to underline how grave it is.
An example of jokey static art is Eric Yahnker's, who creates visual puns oftentimes in the form of title-as-punchline, or by just meme-ifying an image.
But it doesn't feel in-jokey in an impenetrable way; I think that if I wanted to make a character and join in, I'd find my bearings quickly.
More than 20,28 people have RSVP'd to ambush Nevada's famed Area 33 this September, an affair whose jokey premise is so deadpan, it's has gained some serious mainstream attention.
Tori Spelling's 2015 Benihana incident warranted a jokey spin, despite the fact that I, as an entertainment journalist, had to Google it to find out what it even was.
Team USA's goalkeeper was hit by a barrage of boos during the soccer, along with chants of "Zika" following her jokey tweets about the virus ahead of the games.
But that being said, even the stuff that's 'negative' or jokey, in a sense, there is still some sort of therapeutic medicine in the tattoos, which is just fascinating.
They're funny on the surface, but there's also an underlying desperation, which is where Ralph Breaks the Internet actually begins to dig beneath the surface of its jokey premise.
Also in the mix are Lennox (Josh Duhamel), the military man from the previous movies; Jimmy (Jerrod Carmichael), Cade's jokey sidekick; and Izabella (Isabela Moner), the obligatory cute kid.
It is racist in a blithe, jokey kind of way, where nobody is supposed to take anything too seriously, and nobody is too aware of historical or cultural contexts.
Similarly, mayors have typically grinned through the jokey banter of the weigh-in before the Nathan's hot-dog-eating contest, a ceremony held at City Hall since the 1990s.
The obvious one, in the show's jokey tone, its not quite cartoonish violence, its winking evocation of the 1970s and its thematic affinity with "Inglourious Basterds," is Quentin Tarantino.
Advertising execs say the jokey atmosphere this year seems to be, in part, a reflection of the less-than-humorous news that has dominated the news cycle of late.
In a typical example, Bella begins a thread with a jokey tweet that various other accounts have copied and pasted since it first appeared on Twitter in January of 22017.
The jokey tweets have got Ramsay in trouble in the past, and this time he basically insulted anyone that has ever eaten school lunch at a public school in America.
Most audiences likely know Gwen Stacy as Peter Parker's girlfriend who (jokey spoiler alert for a decades-old comic book plot twist) tragically died despite Peter's attempt to save her.
During our mid-May phone interview from Boulder, Colorado, Morris and Dorfman were in merry spirits, tossing out memories and jokey non-sequiturs like the old friends they clearly are.
The time has come for jokey dating profiles to become a thing of the past (unless you're just a really, really funny person who happens to be looking for love).
The ASA said, despite the jokey tone, the tweet still encouraged people to "milkshake" politicians — a viral act which involves hurling a full milkshake over someone in a public place.
The sublime feeling nurtured by Rondinone's night sky paintings receives a jolt of jokey, Pop lightness with the Grands Nuages series of sky blue, cloud-shaped canvases, like "fünfundzwanzigsterjunizweitausendundfünfzehn" (2015).
She's Named After Booze—Sorta Born Belcalis Almanzar in the Highbridge neighborhood the Bronx, she adopted her more famous moniker at a young age in a jokey tribute to her sister.
Lauren Naturale, who runs Merriam-Webster's social-media accounts, says that the newly popular Twitter feed reflects the tone of the office: "wildly enthusiastic about language; jokey, friendly, but nobody's fool".
" This jokey text that seemingly was never meant for public viewing also noted that the fries are so good you should "throw all your other food in the garbage right now!
Back in February, he casually mentioned to a fan asking a jokey question that Groot, the sentient tree character who became a breakout favorite character in the first Guardians, is dead.
A Star Is Born Born Belcalis Almanzar in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, she adopted her more famous moniker at a young age in a jokey tribute to her sister.
Following online backlash over a video featuring editors at Vanity Fair's Hive discussing jokey New Year's resolutions for Hillary Clinton, the magazine issued an apology for the video yesterday, per Deadline.
Missing, however, is his typically skillful manipulation of tension, partly because his tone veers so often from jokey to reverential, from winking at the western to making a sacrament of it.
Following the much-anticipated advert being released on Thursday morning, a jokey tweet about The Simpsons anticipating the advert's theme — a dog bouncing on a trampoline — began to go viral. SHIT!
" He invited them to his home, where she met Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, who had just completed the filming of a jokey movie about their homeland called "Road to Bali.
In the booth, the two developed a quick and easy chemistry—Lu, the serious stats and tactics guy; He, the jokey, casual conversationalist—and made it through the season without complaints.
Mr. López Obrador responded with a jokey video in which he said that he was waiting for a Russian submarine full of gold and that he now goes by Andrés Manuelovich.
Jokey Facebook events like "huffing freon while listening to slipknot" have quickly become a staple of the internet, but a plan threatening Iowa's iconic crop has set off a digital arms race.
However, if he was at all serious about his jokey plan to get them through international customs with labels saying "Not A Flamethrower," some shipping delays for other buyers may be inevitable.
While we have yet to hear anything official from Queer Eye or Netflix confirming or denying the Philadelphia casting call, Twitter is already rumbling with suggestions and semi-jokey calls for nominations.
A key problem is the severe tonal shifts between the game and the TV show — the game is almost entirely adrenaline-fueled combat, while the TV show lurches between jokey and saccharine.
Beyond the timing of Trump's seemingly jokey request to uncover Clinton's emails on July 27, Mueller's team highlights other instances where Russian interference appeared to coincide with supportive gestures from Trump's campaign.
After some fussing and narrative table setting — the Commodore makes Charlie the lead man on their next assignment, creating some jokey sibling jostling — the movie settles back down to its deadly business.
It was characteristic of Mr. Mallick's scruffy charm and generosity that before his mouth and feet worked out complex equations of rhythm, he framed them with jokey analogies for the local audience.
Compared with the talkative, jokey characters in the Grill, who are ready to flambé something at the drop of a hat, the servers in the Pool are cardboard figures in tailored suits.
Nadolenco wrote back to the Brazilians with a real proposal, though he couldn't resist including the jokey promise that his friend Indiana Jones could help reclaim the emerald if his own efforts failed.
I've heard people argue that Marion comes off as too stern, too unloving — that she's uncharitably framed as an impediment to Lady Bird's liberation, instead of a facilitator, like her jokey, understanding father.
There was apparently a jokey proposal to keep the shirt damp in its display case, but that was dismissed as being "curatorially unsound," said Janine Barchas, one of the curators of the show.
And last week, their NBC colleague Jimmy Fallon was slammed by the media and Twitterverse for his jokey, kid-glove treatment of Trump when the candidate was a guest on The Tonight Show.
For reasons that I can't quite wrap my head around, ketamine has taken on a kind of jokey atmosphere, become a carnivalesque addition to the contemporary hellscape that is the-sesh-as-life.
Yes, one of the points I try to make in the book is that we tend to talk about these guys in a slightly jokey way, when in fact they are utter scumbags.
It's shockingly difficult to obtain an oral history (pun intended) of cunnilingus imitators, but their history seems to mostly consist of those jokey tongue shaped vibrators, which have been around for a while.
But when they're bad, as in the Tennessee Williams riff "The Method Gun," they're smug and in-jokey, like a table full of popular kids who won't let you put your tray down.
That's the premise of this Netflix comedy, directed by Charles Stone III, that raises questions about cultural appropriation and stereotyping even as it progresses with the playful feel of a jokey teen drama.
"With 'Children's Hospital' and 'Wet Hot,' having the ability to score seriously with such an absurd style of comedy really helped sell the comedy itself, rather than just writing jokey, slap-sticky queues."
He rejoined the party after the 2011 revolution and his secular critics say his position as a moderate in the party, along with his jokey manner and traditional dress, disguise more conservative beliefs.
The jokey song was well received by many Russians at the time, but angered some fans and politicians, including the Kremlin-backed head of Chechnya who said he found part of it offensive.
Certainly not the director Sam Gold, whose gloriously involving new production at the Public Theater treats Shakespeare's daunting tragedy with an easy, jokey familiarity that's usually reserved for siblings and longtime drinking buddies.
Eschewing traditional rallies, his campaign relied heavily on quirky social media posts to his millions of online followers, jokey posters, comedy gigs and winking allusions to the fictional president he portrays on screen.
At a time of national gloom, the Tories hope that Mr Johnson's ebullience will be enough to "ping off the guy-ropes of self-doubt", as he put it in his jokey acceptance speech.
This is a state of the game code that tells the program that this part is serious, and all the jokey content can't come up until afterwards, by which point the mode is removed.
The other girl in that toothpaste video, Elaine… we have a slang phrase in Hong Kong, gong zhu bing, that we use for her in a jokey way that can sound kind of derogatory.
Abdelfattah Mourou is a lawyer who has distanced himself from the more socially conservative positions of his Ennahda party in the past, has friendly relations with opponents and is known for a jokey manner.
Cue jokey headlines suggesting swimmers were training in the "wrong kind of water" — an echo of the "wrong kind of snow/rain/sunshine" excuses familiar to downtrodden commuters when Britain's weather halts the trains.
But tomatoanus, who would not reveal their real name but did say people call him "Tommy Aynie" as a jokey pseudonym, confirmed my pet theory: this happened because of decisions made as a teenager.
By now, there are dozens of jokey Medium release notes, and you can read the highlights here, which include an Encyclopedia Brown mystery part 1 and 2, a limerick, a Westworld script, and more.
French President Emmanuel Macron calling Brexit campaigners liars and a jokey social media posting by Tusk about May not being allowed to "cherry pick" EU market access were "not helpful", one EU official said.
Josh was in a jokey mood Friday at LAX when our photog asked about allegations that he -- along with Mark Wahlberg and WWE star Roman Reigns -- scored steroids from now-imprisoned dealer, Richard Rodriguez.
The chef, Lee Desrosiers, 33, serves the Hell Chicken — a jokey name that stuck — only on Sunday evenings, when he fires up a customized wood-burning grill in a parking space behind the bar.
He and Spaniard Sainz, still only 24 but on his third Formula One team after Toro Rosso and Renault, get on remarkably well while Norris has also cultivated a jokey image on social media.
I mean, there have been jokey coffee table books or some sort of ancient, obscure references, but there was really so little for what became, to me, such a large part of human experience.
The subsequent hearing attracted national attention, with reporters cramming into the Brattleboro town hall, and, in the opinion of most, the jokey, convivial local fellow came off far better than the stuffy, irascible Englishman.
The sentiment has even spilled into Inauguration Day observations: When Melania handed Michelle Obama a blue Tiffany's box that morning, the jokey speculation was that it didn't contain a gift but a "HELP ME" note.
Mr Tarantino's film is entertaining, of course, in its rambling, jokey way, but it doesn't have much to say except that things often work out better in the movies than they do in real life.
One year, the day was celebrated with a jokey "attack ad" condemning May the Fourth from the perspective of the Empire, while another year saw R2-D2 teaming up with NASA to spread the message.
Since its inception, the Satanic Temple has inspired knee-jerk reactions of outrage from the Christian right and frequently been derided as trolls and jokey stuntmen, yet many of its campaigns have had real results.
I believe we have a combustible political metaphor on our hands here, which — given the current international situation — is a little queasy-making, as are Jerry's jokey references to launching "rockets" into the American market.
Instagram's restrictive content policies regarding nudity and sexuality have affected sex workers, queers, artists, and even journalists, censoring sexy pics and jokey dildo selfies alike in the name of building a profitable, child-friendly platform.
As he turns around to walk home through the searing haze in the air, he suddenly becomes DJ Shadow again—not the modest, jokey Josh Davis, but the enigmatic legend, crate-digger, and sample explorer.
During the week before the election and the week of the inauguration, Barrel, a saloon in Washington, converted its basement into a jokey, for-profit Trump-themed pop-up, with drinks like the Moscow Mole.
As a jokey Facebook event, "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" captured the imagination of the world, with millions of users pledging to invade the highly classified military base on September 20.
"Bend the knee" then becomes not just a jokey phrase, but a political strategy—and a dubious one, because you can't really build a coalition of egalitarian politics by browbeating a key segment of that coalition.
After I finished solving, I wished that something had been done with the entry at 683A, CUE CARDS, because that would have made a spiffy revealer had the theme entries been clued in a jokey way.
But when he opens his mouth — after a wordless trick involving a bowl of apples that vibrates when he nears, much like a fruit-based theremin — he is toothy and jokey, charisma-proof, but somehow likable.
The tone in this section is often light and jokey: "Rolling a ball of poo is not quite as easy as it may seem to all of you who have never tried it," the authors note.
By contrast, congressional candidate Krystal Ball became the subject of scandal after appearing, fully clothed, in a photo from a costume party in which a dildo was involved as a jokey prop in her husband's attire.
A telling nugget of gossip was that while conservative politician George Osborne was always wooden in front of the cameras, those who knew him off-stage always spoke of him as actually very charming—jokey and interested.
She opened the show with a monologue, poking a bunch of fun at herself, and eventually looping it into a larger, jokey song where she sang about wanting to have her first adult scandal ala Justin Bieber.
Faced with telling a story in a world where half the characters are random cannon fodder, action games often retreat into jokey absurdism or cynical meta-commentaries, or attempt serious stories that are undercut by their mechanics.
Facing a crowd of about 70,000 people (not to mention the other acts on the lineup), they shrugged off the jokey label immediately attached to the festival — "Oldchella" — and placed their music in the here and now.
At a meet-and-greet reception for faculty members in early January, Andrew Hamilton, New York University's energetic new president, told a jokey story on the theme of how warmly he had been welcomed to the city.
"Saturday Night Live" cast members Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson did a jokey song and dance number titled "We Solved It." "This year's Emmy Awards has the most diverse group of nominees in Emmy history," Thompson said.
There are some jokey parts, some weepy bits, a sexy moment and a few fine displays of anger from Louis-Dreyfus, but they're all just thrown together like salted nuts and cheap candies in a snack mix.
What's interesting about Ragnarok, though, is that even its across-the-board criticisms — that it's a little too jokey and doesn't carry a lot of emotional heft — don't seem enough to push it in to "rotten" territory.
It's a jokey afterthought following a sprawling conversation on Chambers, her brand-new Netflix show bound for infamy; the magic of working with Miss Mia Wallace herself, Uma Thurman; and the creepy magnetism of Tony Goldwyn's Ben LeFevre.
The superstar singer is expected to testify in a civil case filed by a Denver disc jokey who claims he lost his job after Swift accused him of groping her backstage at one of her concerts in 2013.
A woman is found dead at the midpoint of the Channel Tunnel, and cops from both countries — the socially inept French detective Elise Wasserman (Clémence Poésy) and her jokey British counterpart, Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) — are called in.
To its credit, the store never really compromised its mission—it doesn't stock jokey coffee-table books, it doesn't display three dozen copies of Adele's 25, and it hasn't opened an in-store cafe like Rough Trade has.
In a typically jovial acceptance speech that would have sounded alarm bells to his many detractors — who feel his jokey demeanor masks a fundamental lack of seriousness and unfitness to lead — Johnson acknowledged the widespread reservations about his victory.
Just days after a record release show at Brooklyn's Union Pool, during which he offset the gravity of his music with spirited jokey banter between songs, Amos was off to the West Coast for Holy Sons and Om shows.
LONDON (Reuters) - Nick Kyrgios teases that it was "love at first sight" when he met Andy Murray but the jokey banter will stop when the Australian takes aim at the world number two and Wimbledon title favorite on Monday.
And he does seem to be genuinely interested in the creature—back in 2006, he was involved in a fairly jokey "hunt" for the monster that was written up as an "Amazon Short" by a journalist named Don Barone.
Parents mine kiddy confusion and babyish impertinence for jokey tweets and Facebook posts; they record sonograms and first steps for squee-ful sharing on Instagram and YouTube; they monitor each other's online parenting and offer advice, solicited and otherwise.
Five dollars will gain you access to the curious new National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened in February, but is already home to more than 10,000 bobbleheads, the jokey plastic figurines with oversize, spring-loaded heads.
But as their musicians move further into the mainstream—with A.G. Cook taking over as Charli XCX's creative director, and Danny L. Harle working with Carly Rae Jepsen—the label's jokey stance feels more and more indistinguishable from reality.
But the writers make it all too broad and jokey, starting with the nondescript team of workers (among them "Community's" Danny Pudi) that Emily inherits, who fear losing their jobs if they don't create a killer anti-super-villain app soon.
The furthest she's strayed from the lewd, jokey style of her early records, the album is a knife-sharp document of the years after Sheezus, a period of deep depression and isolation that coincided with the dissolution of Allen's marriage.
At some point in the not-so-distant past, April Fools was about pranks and hoaxes, but given that we apparently have enough of those on the web, the day has somehow morphed into a celebration of random jokey things.
We're told her team doesn't really get why she was accused of being pro-Israel, or why the promoters felt her jokey tweet was anything but that -- since it seems pretty clear she had no clue what the initial tweet meant.
In "Fooling With Your Hair" (1985), the top half consists of images vignetted within sourly colored ovals: two '50s-style designer lamps and two gnarly, Giacometti-style sculptures — a portrait bust and a jokey figure of a woman with prominent breasts.
That jokey assertion can be easily tested at the Musée d'Orsay by taking in the outstanding Picasso Blue and Rose exhibition and then ambling up a floor to see Schnabel's conceptually pointless, self-curated Orsay through the Eyes of Julian Schnabel.
We have an innate aesthetic that appeals to us—which is hard to describe but which often involves clean lines, the right visual balance of colors and geometries, quality in construction, and the absence of anything superfluous or jokey/kitschy.
Yet where the original film (based on Brian Garfield's 1972 anti-vigilantism novel) was a brutal psychological study of a bereaved man using random violence almost as a form of therapy, the tone here veers from rah-rah to jokey.
This set, most of it previously released, includes the original hourlong show plus extensive outtakes, including the full-length small-stage performances and audio rehearsals with the top Los Angeles musicians known as the Wrecking Crew — sometimes jokey, sometimes vociferous.
Cairo Journal CAIRO — Wherever it is played, roller derby, the skating contact sport that is enjoying a global revival powered by women, prides itself on a quirky subculture and jokey jargon — strange outfits, bawdy nicknames and players who wear makeup.
Do a few jokey neon signs like "My Name as Though it were Written on the Surface of the Moon" (1968) excuse the mannered aggression of a drawing that asks us to meditate on the words "Shit and Die" (1985)?
The skyscraper motif dominates, by turn lumbering, in the heavy wood furniture forms of Frankl; amateurish, in a silver folding screen by Deskey; and jokey, in a cut-metal chair designed for Macy's by the eminent lamp designer Walter von Nessen.
Danish Father and Son Team Up on Homework and Turn In a German Warplane A homework assignment on World War II, and a father's jokey suggestion, led to the discovery of a fighter plane thought to have crashed in 1944.
On big news weeks, we sometimes do jokey little intros to these pieces like, "LOL, sure is a lot happening outside of book stuff right now, haha!" but friends, here's the problem: Every week is a big news week now.
People magazine's newly anointed Sexiest Man Alive might be a great marketing hook (and he even sings), but Maui's arrival shifts the movie onto a different track -- from a young girl's emotional coming-of-age story to something more broad and jokey.
Uber hasn't officially responded to the news that Apple has invested $1 billion in its Chinese rival, but a jokey tweet by the U.S. taxi app's boss about his girlfriend shows he is at least ready to make light of the situation.
He describes an imaginary scene in the pre-match locker room where Russia's players are smoking a hookah pipe, watching YouTube videos, and texting girls they met in a nightclub the day before, a jokey reference to real-life off-pitch scandals.
"The alt-lite have been a bridge for a lot of people into extremely far-right reactionary politics, who started out just trolling and being ironic and in-jokey, thinking anyone who said they were fascists was just a PC libtard," Nagle said.
With this film, he's back on the comparatively safe ground of Pixar principles: a lively celebrity cast, a fast-moving adventure full of chases and jokey repartee, and a basic humanism that persists even when none of the significant characters are human.
This is good news: That story has everything: Justin Timberlake begging to be on a Foo Fighters album, dudes in their 30s and 40s getting drunk outside when they could just as easily go to a bar, some jokey arrogance from Dave Grohl.
" Part of his appeal lay in the fact that it was never entirely clear whether Reynolds was playing to his strengths or riffing on them; indeed, Pauline Kael once described him as having an "insider's jokey contempt for the whole entertainment business.
James Cleveland's hand behind her back while she sings; a jokey glance from Callas as she walks backstage; blurry fragments of Bellini's "Norma"; the charmingly fervent testimonials from young gays waiting hours outside for tickets for her return to the Met in 1965.
The D.J.s and producers Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart, who perform as the Chainsmokers, have transcended their origins in trend-hopping novelty fare (like their first hit, the jokey 2014 track "#Selfie") to become a near-unstoppable force on the pop charts.
Noel Gay's music hall-flavored show from 1937 became an unexpected Broadway smash when it was presented in 1986 — in a production starring Robert Lindsay as one 'elluva jokey bloke who learns he's the heir to an earldom — and ran for three years.
While "shitposting" is a common thread in far-right online culture — meme-ing racism and anti-Semitism is how white supremacists hope to spread their ideology — jokey characteristics of the manifesto are in line with similar language used in older far-right groups as well.
Eminem helped things along, also responding, "girl you know it&aposs true..." Nicki Minaj Says New Album &aposQueen&apos Is Inspired by Princess Diana So while that appears to have been more on the jokey side, the two have kept up the public flirtation.
There's nothing all that strange about it, really: the names are unfamiliar and some of the jokey bits are mystifying if you lack the cultural context, but NJPW gets to the elemental appeal of wrestling through pyrotechnical physical storytelling and a complete lack of guile.
Known for a jokey public persona and mop of unkempt blonde hair, Johnson became a popular national figure during eight years as London mayor, and used his charm to aid the Leave cause after deciding only late in the day to push for Brexit.
But when the same performers returned with a set of jokey Puccini salon songs, it was as if a ray of sunshine suddenly energized those in the audience, who giggled at the text's silly puns and audibly sighed at the quotations from familiar arias.
No. The characters have concerns — they have lives that are very complicated, and problems that are very serious, and I think they treat themselves and their own interests, humorously but also seriously, and I don't think it's their predilection to focus on the jokey side.
Weeks of hype videos and buzz for Asuka coincided with Emma appearing on television to job to others and get run down by the announcers culminated in jokey Emma, bad Emma, jobber Emma getting at least as much from the feared Asuka as vice versa.
Spoken with jokey reassurance, this disclaimer is delivered in the opening moments of "Returning to Reims," an all-too timely rumination on working-class disaffection and nationalist politics from the German director Thomas Ostermeier, which opened on Sunday at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
Still, I'd give the slim edge to Waititi, who won the Writers Guild Award in this category and whose performance in his own movie — as a jokey Adolf Hitler, no less — only lends him further star power that should put him over the top.
"Our secular age is shot through with fundamental existential uncertainty and angst, and this makes it difficult to stand firm," writes the erudite Mr. Brinkmann, who, compared with his profane and jokey American colleagues, is the Max von Sydow character in this Woody Allen movie.
One sunny afternoon I drove down Sunset Boulevard to an about-to-be-leveled Spanish Colonial Revival villa in the hills, where nearly two dozen artists had larded the walls, garage, bathrooms, and even the drained pool with childlike paintings and one-note jokey sculptures.
It was largely a positive, in-jokey night, where everyone preached equality, mocked figures like Harvey Weinstein, and celebrated an end to a toxic culture, all while refusing to acknowledge the directorial skills of Greta Gerwig, whose debut feature Lady Bird won Best Musical or Comedy.
"In my head of being a 24-year-old who doesn't know fuck to do, I'm like, 'Let's make up a note because we don't have computers in the house, and they'll never think it's us," Farley continued in a jokey voice, mocking her youthful naïveté.
Even before Chi-Raq was released in 2015, it generated controversy for its title (a seemingly glib, jokey comparison of a major American city to a bombed-out war zone) and for what some perceived as an unserious, possibly sexist response to an actual urban crisis.
Nagle argues that the "alt-lite" — a group of anti-PC, pro-free speech, cultural libertarians epitomized by the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos — use the symbol in a jokey or ironic way, but are in fact serving as "useful idiots" to the more politically serious alt-right.
The pair spend a lot of the movie in jokey comic riffing — it's obviously heavy on loose, ad-libbed dialogue — but the scenes that result play like two comics trying to be funny, rather than two characters who are inherently funny because of who they are.
In digging through tweets and other comments about this particular strain of criticism, however, I found an intriguing common thread: A lot of people who found Last Jedi too jokey also made subsequent tweets where they compared something in Last Jedi unfavorably to something in the prequel trilogy.
Kongphan's audience is so loyal and adoring (some fans have tipped him more than ten thousand dollars over time, or watched him stream for twenty-four hours straight) that his channel can resemble a benign personality cult, built around a carefully honed version of himself: engaged, jokey, ceaselessly positive.
Putting Pablo Escobar's name on several ounces of ground beef makes for an unnecessarily complicated menu, because for every Narcos stan who just wants that billionaire lifestyle, there's someone who's unsettled at the idea of turning a murderous kidnapper and narcoterrorist into a jokey name for a burger joint.
The Vixen and Asia's "Single Black Female" bit really threw the dog out of the window — their attempt to mock Cracker and Aquaria's copycat feud did not progress beyond their similar yellow dresses and, after swinging and missing at all of Ross's jokey pitches, The Vixen simply walked.
For inspiration, Ms. Tisch and Ms. Schabes spend hours a night texting each other pictures and concocting ways to add color to food: Lucky Charms cereal spilling out of a burrito (their jokey take on a breakfast burrito), s'mores with rainbow marshmallows, chocolate chip cookies with sherbet-colored chips.
A series of joyful, jokey #BigGAN posts followed on Twitter almost immediately, as a community of artists who work with code started to share the results of generating all manner of impossibilites through this technology, including visual puns, surreal clocks, dreamscapes, almost-faces, and the occasional poetic trance.
As recalled by many camp professionals, the song usually began with its now-familiar family roll call but — in possible inspiration from the 1975 film "Jaws" — inevitably turned into a jokey horror show about a shark attack, as campers added stock or improvised lines about being torn limb from limb.
But after crying wolf throughout these years, calling everyone from saccharine pop stars to Justin Trudeau a 'white supremacist' and everyone who wasn't With Her a sexist, the real wolf eventually arrived, in the form of the openly white nationalist alt-right who hid among an online army of ironic in-jokey trolls.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed cheerful and even jokey when he took the stage today in front of journalists and media executives (at one point, he described the event as "by far the best thing" he'd done this week), he acknowledged that there are reasons for the news industry to be skeptical.
"If Dr. Joyce Brothers is the grande dame of all psychologists represented in the media, with her syndicated newspaper column and her jokey walk-ons in sitcoms and movies, then Dr. Grant ("Life is not a dress rehearsal") is the true mother of all radio shrinks," The New York Times said in 1999.
With Ransom out of the picture — and all of Harlan's other relatives being awful — Marta retains her inheritance of the estate and the film ends with her chilling on the mansion's balcony with a cup of coffee, shifting her finger just enough to reveal the goofy "My House" line on Harlan's jokey mug.
It was playful and noninvasive but still caught Beyoncé off guard," sources told the site on Tuesday — adding that Lathan, "was talking to JAY-Z in a way that made Beyoncé uncomfortable" leading the mother of three to confront Lathan, who "brushed off any insinuation of inappropriate conduct and then gave her a jokey bite.
And while it's not clear how true-to-life that particular customer user story is, with its apparently jokey reference to Domino's Pizza as the preferred food of terrorists, the general thrust of the capability request is presumably exactly what GCHQ was after at that point — which was in turn driving Endace's product development decisions.
Adams retweeted Kensington Palace's announcement of the royal engagement, and accompanying the retweet, he wrote, "She said she was just going out to get some milk..." This jokey tweet was probably actually a little bit sad for anyone who has been even more invested in the Suits romance than in Markle's IRL royal relationship.
In place of targeted messaging, the campaign's jokey messaging mocked believers' conspiratorial tone while sidestepping the substance of their critique—notably Buttigieg's less than stellar record on race, his campaign's flirtation with sock puppetry, and the prior use of a stock photo of a Kenyan woman to tout the candidate's racial justice bona fides.
Among the Israeli characters, they are Yair Hirschfeld (Daniel Oreskes, who later shows up as the foreign minister Shimon Peres), a jokey, anxious professor of economics from Haifa, and Uri Savir (an explosively animated Michael Aronov), a Foreign Ministry director who seems to see himself as a cross between Mick Jagger and James Bond.
While some of its individual elements don't always "make sense" (like why people swing guitars around like the jokey Hanna-Barbera vigilante El Kabong remains one of many open questions), the series as a whole coalesces into an abstract but sympathetic story about what it means to grow up — and one whose inscrutability demands closer attention.
With that in mind, I've understandably gone for this happy hardcore-inspired, trancey house chart topper from the post-2000 electronic duo Ultrabeat: At this juncture I need to stress something important: this isn't some snide, sneering, jokey answer that allows me to peer down and peck on provincial club culture like some class-tourist vulture.
They applauded a moment in which a bus driver pointed to a verse in a passenger's Bible to reassure those who did not speak English, as well as a jokey line about "the gayest town in Newfoundland" and an anthemic song about the career path of the first female American Airlines captain (played by Ms. Colella).
I'll spare you (and him) the jokey part and all the flourish, and say only how transcendent it was, as a super-religious, super-isolated kid, to find my universe represented on the page, to see my questions and concerns wrestled with bravely and honestly and with their weightiness leavened, again and again, by good cheer.
Thanks to some combination of his jokey dialogue, Jeffrey Dean Morgan's performance, and the other characters just watching him do his thing, he's come to feel like an enemy in a video game cut scene — where you wait and wait for the screen to say "Press X to continue" so you can finally fight the dude.
As Vox's Todd VanDerWerff pointed out in December, the criticism seemed to come from a few different angles: some felt the film was too progressive, that it was too jokey, that it was not interested in the elaborate universe of fan theories that has accreted since the original trilogy's release, or that the characters' journeys weren't exactly to their liking.
The H&M ad plays on the "your-life-but-cooler tropes" that fashion companies deploy on a regular basis, the Pantene commercial is tonally similar to a classic "Love your body"-core Dove ad (and to Verizon's "Love Calls Back" ad from June), and the Zola commercial belongs to the same heightened, jokey reality that "Jake from State Farm" does.
At the start of the two-and-a-half hour episode, the arrival of the father's casket back in Los Angeles and the rather jokey detail that his name was the symbolically fraught "Christian Shepherd" suggested that we were about to begin a requiem — not only old Doc Shepherd's but the show's, and with it all the solemn connotations of life and death and rebirth and DVD sales.
Granger Smith's "Remington" arrived a month later, featuring jokey numbers by his outsized alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr. And Mr. Bones's own band, the Raging Idiots, a jocular duo that also features his show producer Eddie Garcia, recently released its first full-length album, "The Critics Give It Five Stars," which not only made its debut atop Billboard's comedy albums chart but landed at No. 4 on the country chart.
In fact, most of his Instagram page is made up of pictures that show off his abs or his dogs or, at one point, his relationship with Miley Cyrus — we'll just gloss over that part — accompanied by jokey captions that might as well just be "LOOK AT MY CHISELED JAW" for all the use they are in making it seem like there was any other purpose for the picture.
Because Reddit's algorithm has a chronological element—posts that get a large number of votes soon after they're posted are more heavily favored—the subreddit's "high energy" posters were capable of creating "high velocity" posts (the_donald's lexicon was quickly expanding and becoming more in-jokey during this period) that could get to the top of r/all, giving them an exponentially higher visibility than they'd have on the subreddit alone.
It was a September scorcher, cloudless at noon, and Morgan was working himself into a muddled but intense emotional state—jokey, sentimental, triumphant, pissed—in order to film a climactic scene from the second-season finale of his TBS sitcom, "The Last O.G." (Season 2 premièred in April.) Morgan plays Tray Barker, a man who has returned to his old neighborhood in Brooklyn after fifteen years in prison on a drug charge.
And yet he tempers this nostalgic, almost sentimental view of his childhood by including alongside the videos jokey drawings and paintings that examine various points of perspective in his source material: One of them is a close-up, painted in Kelley's own hand, of what could only be described as the least important figure in "Watson and the Shark": a boatman from that work's background, who is seen only through the legs of a more prominent figure in the painting.
And those Europeans folks now include some rather high profile investors in London-based urban transport startup Citymapper — who have just poured $40 million into a new Series B round for its app which algorithmically knits together different transit options to help city dwellers quickly figure out how to get from A to B. Announcing the Series B in a Medium post Citymapper lauds the "great terms" it secured for the round with a jokey aside that its investors have promised "to only take buses from now on".

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